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Newspaper Page TextTODAY'S "EP out; Ev' 1 4,400 SUBSCRIBERS (22,000 EEADEBS) DAILY Only Circulation Is Salem. Guar anteed by the Autttt Bureau of Circulations. FULL LEASED WIRE DISPA.XCHE3 SPECIAL WILLAMETTE VAL LEY NEWS BEBVIOE fiTI Oregon: Tonight and Sunday rain, colder, east por tion tonight; strong B 0 u t h casterly winds. V, ppTrn rTTTTTv ri-px-rrpc! ON TRAINS AND NEWS XUjLi 1WU UiiN J.O STANDS FIVE CENTS FORTIETH YEAR NO. 286 SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1917 mm muMjm ..;?ni i nj o mm n Fierce German Counter Attacks Are Thrown Back and Mangled Slain by Thousands Cover Battlefield As Each Successive Wave of Attackers Melts AwayBerlin Reports Capture of Several Positions But General Haig Says Attacks Have All Been of Local Nature Positions In Main Remain Unchanged Germany today claimed great gains and four thousand prison ers in powerful counter thrusts against the British lines around Cambrai. Field Marshal Haig's report stated the enemy had not attempted to renew his attacks in this section last night, indi cating that too fighting describ ed by the Berlin statement may have occurred yesterday. United Press dispatches from the British front dotailed fail ure of a double blow aimed by the Germans against the Cam brai line and declared the bat tle was continuing. The Berlin official statement claimed re-capture of Gonnelieu and Villerjj Guislain on the southern flank of the British line of advance. To tho north the Teutonic war office also de clared the British lino has been thrown back. . jc sj( jt jc sf jjt 5c )Ji $fc sfc jfs sfc By William Philip Starry) (United Press Staff Correspondent) With the British Armies in France, Due. 1. Terrific fighting has marked British resistance to a strong attack launched by Crown Prince Rupprccht along a nine mile front of General Byng's line near Cambrai. At one time the Germans forced the British back two miles. As this dispatch is cabled the Ger mans advance does not stand at more than 2500 yards, They were thrown back from their furthermost gains with bloody losses. Gouzeacourt, which was overrun by the Germans had been cleared of tho enemy this afternoon The streets were paved with German dead. The ruins of houses blasted by British guns in driving off the enemy, were testooned with corpses. German machine guns, sabres and other war equipment littered tho streets to be kicked under foot when the ground was retaken The heaviest fighting in a double - l)low which was launched by Bupprecht against the British lines occurred yes terday. But the battle was (.till on to day, its fury little diminished. : Use Five Divisions. Five German divisions (Probablj about 50,000 men) were thrown against the British line in the northern attack launched by Prince Bupprecht. These divisions centered their attack along a five mile front. That their first day 's efforts failed was due to the Spartan courage of the British Tommies, who contested every inch of ground. The first rush of the Germans swept the British out of Laleau wood, Lavac querie, Gunuelieu, Villers Guislairi and Gauzeaucourt. This represented an ad vance of two miles from their starting point, the fighting centering directly south of Cambrai. The enemy had made this gain by 10 o'clock. Around 3 o'clock in the the afternoon the British launched their counter thrust. Germans Driven Back. The tanks- were called upon. They came lumbering from their concealed positions just back of the fighting lines. They "rolled over the uptoru trenches, spitting fire and lead. The British in fantry followed them. Artillery fire poured in upon the Germans in Gouzeau court. The British swept over ground cover ed with the bodies of men vainly sacri ficed in trying to restore the prestige of the "Bavarian crown prince an;1, on into Gouzeaueourt. Then they retook La vaequeries, Gauche wood and moved to the west and recaptured Villers Guis laiu. This thrust threw the Germans back to within 2500 yards of where they were at the "kictc-off " in the morning. Their net advance was no more than this, at its deepest point. Attack In Shifted. With the repulse of the first assault, the Germans shifted their attack and delivered the second assault of their double blow. Fresh enemy troops poured out ; against Bourlon wood. The thrust was swung from south of Cambrai tp the west. The British were hard pres.d, but ther held like a stone wall. To the west' of the wood the Germans reached a, snjar fotory on the Kapaume-Carcbra! ! f rom its present site to a location across J -load, but held it only a short time. A the street." sharp British counter attack and they were thrown back to their starting point. Cling to Field or Siorrors. British troops holding ground between Mouvres and Bourlon today aro cling ing to a field of horrors. The ground is littered with German tiead. The British are "dug in" amidst shattered human bodies aud broken implements of war. A great German wave moved across this ground in a counter attack against the British last night. The wave receded to leave bjhind a quivering foam lit erally composed of strips of flesh, bits of bodies, uniforms, metal and cloth. Using their old methods, the Ger mans charged full into the British ma chine gun positions in densely packed masses. Into the wall of humanity the machine guns poured a steady fire. British artillery far behind, accurate ly caught the wall with heavy shells. They exploded, tearing to pieces the sections of the German line that still stood iii the face of the tearing of the Machine guns. - The advancing wall melted away. Ex ploding shells flung bits of what had been human beings over the field.' Ma chine gun .fire continued to slice holes into the quivering column. Then the pitiful remnants turned and dissolved m flight. This was only one of tho numerous almost continuous German counter : tacks. All were heavy. Crown Prince Bupprecht evidently had determined on every effort by massing of every avail able man, to regain some, if not all of tho ground newly won by the British. German Slopes Lost. He hopes for some blow which will regain the prestige German arms have lost. It is evident from the attitude of German prisoners that Byng drive was the hardest blow struck German morale since the French drove the Ger man crown prince back from Verdun in February, 1916. ' A great German attack around Grain court cost countless dead for every few yards of gain and that gain did not hold in the face of an instantaneous British infantry counter blow. The Prussian artillery throughout the while Cambrai sector is laying down (Continued on, page three). FIRST REAt SESSION fkets at Versailles Where Kaiser's Grandfather Was Proclaimed Emperor By Lowell Mellett (United Press Staf Correspondent) Versailles, France, Dec. 1. In the city where, in 1871, Wilhelm I. was pro claimed emperor of a United Germany, fighting his grandson met in coufer ference today. ' The allies' supreme war council open ed its all important sessions at 10 o 'clock. Premier Clemeuceau of France presided. The delegates were brought from Paris by electric train. Colonel House and General Bliss, the two Amer ican delegates, were accompanied by their aides. No time is to be wasted by the su preme council inr attacking the prob lems before it. The way has largely been cleared by the work of the inter-allied conference in Paris, so that the com missioners today met practically with their decision on many important points of policy completely determined upon. No announcement of these conclusions has yet been made. The bulky interallied conference, with its multitude of committees is now to be succeeded bv the more compaet organization of the war council. A great ' many minor officials assembled in Par.a for the preliminarv conference had left today. General Pershing, who was pre sent at the conference has departed. A portable school is the latest thing in Jvlamath rails, "Ihis unusual novation," as the Herald phrases it, "will occur here during the next few davs, when the Shippington school, while still in session, will be moved SOME OF THE BOYS HAD TWO THANKSGIVINGS Plenty of Turkey and Goodies Lett iumed Over to Boys In Trenches By J. W. Pegler (United Press Staff Correspondent) American Field Headquarters, France, Dec. 1. At least one group of troops in front line trenches got their Thanks giving Day spread. They were American engineers. When the fighting men there had turkey and trimmings was still un settled today. Back behind the lines, however, the heroes of the first battalion of Amer ican fighting forces to do trench duty got a double Thanksgiving Day din ner a dinner on Friday that was an exact duplicate of Thursday's spread. Thursday night, when tho divisional quartermaster viewed .the wreckage of food supplies through Thursday's on slaught of appetites, he found a large supply of turkeys, cranberry sauce and apple pie still remaining. It wasn 't enough for the whole American expedi tionary army, .but it was enough to re ward the heroes of tho first detachment who did trench duty including the twelve men decorated with the French war cross for bravery in the trenches raid of November 2. The surplus was therefore turned over to their eommis saries and the heroes icassea again joyously on Friday. The American engineers who had their Thanksgiving dinner in tho trenches are doing a valuable work on the American sector. It is their job to carry out routine construction, tp board up trenches and other works. Almost nightly they accomplish valuable work near the front lines and some times under cover of darkness extend and repair entanglements on No Man's Land. The American front continued nor mally quiet today. EVIDENCE ISALL IN INDESMLESML GOES J1Y TONIGHT Insanity "Experts" Contradict Each Other, But They Will Decide It BOTH SIDES BEST. Miueola, L. I., Dec. 1. Both state and defense rested in the trial of Mrs. Bianca DpSaulles shortly before noon today, and the fate of the Chilean beauty who killed her American hus- band will be in the hands of the jury tonight. By Hugh BaiUie (United Press Staff Correspondent) Mineola, L. I.," Dec. 1. Around a darkened line that shows oft an X-ray photograph of the skull of Mrs. Biauca DoSaulles, will wage the fight for tho life of the'young Chilean heiress today. Experts for the state testified that Mrs. DeSaulles was perfectly sano when she shot and killed her husband after he had refused to give her their sou. The dark spot on the X-ray plate which physicians for the defense haw termed a fracture of the skull, is de clared ty experts for the state to be merely the ' ' baby spot ' ' the last por tion of Mrs. DeSaulles skull to close when she was a child. The case may turn on the battle be tween the insanity experts. Three alienists remain to be callea by tho state. They will answer a hypo thetical question, hurriedly prepared by District Attorney Weeks after he had ascertained there was no state evidence in the ouerv read by the defense. This question, according to weens, will not be long. All the state experts will be in court when it is read and It will not be re neated. There will be cross examination of these witnesses. A short time will be eiven the opposing attorneys to . sum uo their cases and the eourt expects to consume o minutes m giving a Euaigc to the jury. Strong possibility that the case may go to the jury tonight appeared today before eourt convened wnen iisirici At torney Weeks announced that he would nut three witnesses on the stand in re buttal and then read the hypothetical question to the state's alienists. He said he would try to conclude the case so as to begin his argument late this afternoon. Alienists for the state, appearing as dhe last witnesses, flatly contradicted tho claim of experts for the defense that Mrs. DeSaulles was not responsi ble when she shot and killed John De Saul'.es, when he refused to give her their five year old son. They declared their examinations showed no trace of m-Unsanitv. that she know the nature ot her act and knew that it was wrong, Court adjourned until 3 o'clock im- mediately both sides had rested and the closing arguments were to be mada (Continued on page thre) CONGRESS WILL MEET ON NEXT MOFIDAY; KESSAGE0I1 TUESDAY Many Important Matters Will Come Before Session About to Convene 3fC 3C 3c Sc jfc sjc jfC 3(6 S(S 9fC 3jt FEB SIDE NT ' S MESSAGE. Washington, Dec. 1. Follow ing announcement from the White House that the president Wiill deliver his message to con gress at 12:30 Tuesday afternoon house and. senate leaders made arrangements for ft joint ses sion. The mesage is not yet com pleted. Congressmen professed to be without information as to the president 's recommendations for legislation. , sis Washington, Dec. 1. Congress will meet Monday primed to ask officials running the war a number of questions about war policies, war loans passed last session and future war measures. Congressmen ariving today stated their constituents asked the same questions of them. ' They will also try to find out what steps have been taken to insure pay ment of the money loaned to Russia, why pneumonia and other ailments are prevalent among men in cantonments and about the Lansing-Ishii agreemnt on China. These and the old issues of suffrage, prohibition, conservation, appropria tions, taxes, censorship, free press and (Continued on page three) RUMANIA IS TOLD THAT AMERICA VILL PROTECT IflTERESTS Presides! Wilson Sends Mes sage of Good Will to Japan As Well Washington, Dec. 1. To encourage Bumania, now in difficult position be cause of Eussia's defection, President Wilson today messaged the Rumanian king promise of support now, at tho peace table and after the war. At the saino time President Wilson sent the Japanese Emperor a message declaring the result of Viscount Ishii's visit would bo "as happy and as per- nianen t as the enduring friendship of the peoples of the United States and mtUPH nt thrt l.tl,l.-n Ntfltoa an Japan." 'The people of the United States" said President Wilson, "have watched with feelings of warmest sympathy and admiration the courageous struggle of your majesty and the people of Bumania to preserve from the domination of Ger man militarism their national integrity and Ireedom. Hie government ot the United States is determined to continue to assist Bumania in the struggle. "At the same time, I wish to as sure your majesty that the United States will support Bumania after the war to the best of its ability and that any final negotiations for peace it will use its constant efforts to see to it that the integrity of Bumania as a tjnntimiad on page sev Abe Martin Miss Fawn Lippincut gave a watch party t see 3-ctnt postage come in. Some folks are j?st fine ever' way 'eept they wont piy ther bills. MAKE AGREEMENT TO ACT III UNITY Norway, Sweden and Den mark Will Roain Neutral So They Say Christiania, Dec. 1. Norway, Sweden and Denmark have entered a new agree, ment to observe the "utmost neutral ity." - An official statement today announc ed this result of the conference of the Scandinavian kings and statesmen which has been in progress here. .The conference, according to an nouncement, agreed on "Scandinavian harmony and mutual confidence, regard less of the length of the war. each nation to observe the utmost neutral ity and all to assist each other be exchange of merchandise." ' The announcement of the results of the conference is in line with forecasts of matters which were to be discussed, as announced by the United Press early this week. The Scandinanian powers, having entered into an agreement to act in unity on all matters during the war, the conference was called to clear away questions that had arisen during the last few months, with the result ant, rcpledging of unity of action, Kumor la Denied. Copenhagen, Denmark, Dec. 1. The Danish foreign office today authorized the United Press to deny "fantastio rumors" that the Christiania confer ence of Scandinavian monarchs and prime ministers was caused by an al leged German threat to seize a base in Denmark if Norway grants a base to the allies. The story referred to was printed by an American press association on Wed nesday. sc jjc - ' sjc sjc )jc jc i6 CHAIRMAN HTJBLEY TELLS OF SHIPPING FACILITIES , Washington, Uec. 1. The , American communication .line r to the expeditionary forces' in .. France . today consists of 582 cargo ships aggregating 3,721, 806 tons, Chairman Hurley cf tho shipping board reported to Senator Hitchcock of Nebras- , ka. These figures and a com- prchensive report on tho ship- Eing situation wero obtained y Hitchcock for use in con- gress. The tonnage given would Bupport about 370,000 American troops in France. SHOT WIFE KTLLTD HIMSELF Camas. Wash., Dec. 1. Samuel C Whitmoyer is dead and his wife is ser iously injured here today, as tho re sult of the wire s rctusal to dismiss A divorce suit against him. Tho two started to quurrol when Mrs. Whitmcyer announced she was going . , ' . vhit.mevpr flrTw . ..... revolver and shot his wife twice thon killed himself, according to tneir daughter, who was in the room. ENGLAND HOPES THAT AMERICA WILL NOT MISCONSTRUE LETTER Former Ambassador Gerard Gives His Views On Lans downe Letter London, Dec. 1. England fervently hopes America is not misled by - the Marquis of Lansdowne'B letter. Appre hension lest the viewpoint taken by tho statesman be mistakenly attribut ed as that of a majority of English men was foremost in the editorial com ment today. Publication qr Land)wne s views has created a bitter whirlwind of dis pute. Supporters pro and con are botn quoting President Wilson freely in eign minister's views. The anti-Lansdowno adherents in sist the principles enumerated are ut terly opposed, to tho Wilsonian view point, while s-upporters of the "no knock out" idet declare it is the es sence of tho Aemricaa president's poli cies. Most of the press agreed with Bona Law today, that publication of the let ter was "a national misfortune."' Bonar Law's speech denouncing Lansdowne's letter was prominently displayed bv all newspapers, particu larly emphasis is being laid on tne , chancellor of the exchequer's declara- tinn- "The letter is based on an assum'p-Ithat Germany be not annihilated. He tion and a strange assumption that! so declared in a statement published 'because- the Germans say they aro here today. He did assert, however, ready to have a pat of nations and 3 ithat "we must teach Germany that talk about disarmament tncreiore, peace is possible. "We are told there has been a great change in German feeling. I believe there baa grown up a considerable dis- fellSSil 1EP0H1S. AGAIliSTDEPCIiTATIOIl OF BISBEE MINERS Secretary Wilson and Col leagues Find In Favor of 1. W. W. Disturbers San Francisco Dec. 1. Eecommenda- tions that the attorney general and the interstate commerce commission inves tigate the Bisbeo, Ariz., deportations of last July and that President Wilson urge congiess to pass legislation mak ing such deportations punishable under federal criminal statutes ,are contained in the report on the deportation by the federal mediation commission to Pros' ident Wilson, made public here today. The commission recently completed several weeks investigation of the de portation of approximately 1200 niiners from the vicinity of Bisbec, Ariz., Sec retary of Labor Wilson signed the re- portjis chairman. In the findings of fact the report set forth that none of the evidence Bhow- the deportations either legal or jus tified. Further the commission found that while a shoriff and posse were rounding up the miners the telephone wires were interfered with and a cen sorship was established so that no news could reach tho outside world. It is this phase which is to be laid before the interstate commerce commission. After the deportations men attempt ing to return for examination under the draft wero arrested and interfered with in answering the carts of the draft board, the commission found, and it asks the president to lay all evidence indicating -obstruction of the draft, before the attorney gVneral. Where Arizona stato laws were vio lated, the. commission asks prosecutions be commenced by state authorities. Reviewing the events which culmin ated on the morning of July 12, with the roundup of the striking miners, the commission declares the miners orig inally struck without sufficient cause and that this was due, to a lack ot machinery for peaceablo adjustment of their demands. The machinery for set tling future disputes has been supplied. the commission said. . The deportation was arranged at a meeting on the night of July 11 when the manegers anl officials of the cop per companies were present and from July 12 until late in August, the re port declares, a body of men amount ing to a vigilance committee "usurped" tho power of the local courts. The result of tho deportations, the commission comments, has been to be distub labor throughout the United States and even in foreign countries and to hindor the government's efforts to organize the country for war. The commission, discussing the de portations, said in part: "These events have. been the basis of an attempt to affect adversely pub lic opinion among some of the peoplo of the allies. Their memory still embarras ses the establishment of industrial peace pthroughout tho country for the period j of tho war, and it, is indispensable to obtain and maintain industrial peace u the war is to be broucht to the quick est possible successful conclusion anu . ... . , . j (Continued on page three) content in Germany with the present system, but what is its basis? It is a feeling that the military system is not giving expected results." Bonar Law continued emphasizing that peace now would merely mean continuance in power in Germany of the men who wero responsible for the war; would mean that any pact of na tions would b useless ;sinco If.icrei would bo no force to punish violators of tho agreement, and that a decisive military victory for tho allies, plus the growing sontinufit iiiisconfcut in Germany was tho only way in which the war could be ended. The Evening News, one of Ncrth cliffe's papers, dubbed Lansdowne ''the marquis of handsup and bit terly denounced his message. The. Globe referred to the marquis' pronounciamento as a stab in the back, comparing him to Caillaux in FranM. Tho Westminster uazcqto Dcuevea (that powerful interests were behind Lansdowne. The Star defended tho lot tor as likely at least to. cause discus sion out of which might arise some concreto fax-t of value. The Evening Standard likewise in terpreted it not as a slogan of pacifism Gerard Gives Views New York. Dec. 1. James W. Ge rard, former American ambassador to ' .... . . .1 L. IGermany, agrees with that part 6l Jhe IMaraiiis of Lansdowne's letter siT-.ii? :ne war ior conquest w mrl that wanton wroncs. like the in vasion of Belgium and the murders of (Continued on page four.) - II0MJ1IC! EST HELP RUSSIA IS 1 11 QUEST! 0 1 By Having Allies Ee-Ste War Aims Plainly Says MaMakcff MUST HELP DEFEAT THE BOLSIIEVTKI PROGRAII American Delegation la France Recommends Com plete Sympathy EUMOE KEBENSKY AEBEST. New York, Dec. 1. Eeport of the arrest of Premier Keren sky of KusMsia, at Vladimir, was carried in a Haparanda dis patch printed today by the New York Times. Yesterday's dispatches doclar ed Kerensky was safely in hid ing in Finland. By Lowell Mellett (United Press Staff Correspondent) Paris, Dec. 1. America's greatest aid to Bussia now would be to assume lead ership in movement for the allies to ro-stato thoir war aims in simple, un mistakable language, in the opinion of Bussia 's envoy at the inter-aiiiea con ference. That Colonel House and the American mission back suoh a form of aid to tha struggling democracy was stated on th highest authority today. M. Maklattori, wnom rremier ii.enen sky "appointed anassador to,; ranee, mid who sits bv courtesy In the inter allied conference as Russia's unofficial renrosentative. told the United Press to day he was hopeful of the conference approving such a p'an of support and ot ro-stating the allied aims. How cau America best neip rxus- ia1" ha reiteratod, answering The un ited Press correspondent's question. "First of all by helping tne oiner allic3 in thoir military work. It is im possible for America to assist Bussia in a military way at the present time. "Second, America snouia suppuii. Eussia's sane elements in ineir eii ,l,fiBt. Kolshcviki propaganda which asserts this is an 'imperialist war.' This could best be effected by re-Btating m unmistakabla language the exact aims of America and of the allies. "Third, when Kussia estaDUBnes government, that America resume na splendid material assistance heretofore given us. "The second suggestion I have given is tho most important of all becauso Russia will listen to Amerrea. bhe knows America's unselfish purposes. From highest sources today the Unit ed Press learned that after several con ferences between M. Maklakoff ana members of the American mission, the delegates from tho United States sym pathizes with Maklakoff 's suggestions. They will probably give firm snpport to liis plans when the mtcr-allied con- j j;a..iuan(i fVipm. United Press dispatches yesterday summed up the general view of the Am erican delegation on the whole Russian, problem asgone of complete VVr with tho Russian people's efforts to stra gnten out their own affairs and to achieve- full benefit of thoir democ racy. - PKO-GEEMAN POWER WANES By Joseph Shaplen (United Press Staff Correspondent) Stockholm, Dec. 1. Russian provinces are on the brink of an anti-Bolsheviki BolBheviki commissaries are resigning apprehensive of their own safety. Trotsky, Lenine and others of th E-lsheviki ring in Petrograd are wildly striving by merciless persecution of ele ments opposed to them, to reach a sep arate peace with Germany before the, dt A8 separate peace would mean the beginning of a Russia-wide civi war. Such was the story brought here to day by a minamilist courier, direct f rom Hetold the United Press that the Russian nation is rising to stamp out the Bolshevik!. . . The Bolsheviki commissaries rRin, Miliutin, Tarn, Lunacharsky, Mrs. ho laxai and others have formally resign ed in protest against excesses of the Maximalist government. The assert, u. view of the Bolsheviki leaders' viola tions of life, of Kbcrty nd of freedom of the press and speech, the nation is being stung to fury. Manv provinces are almost ready to oust the Bolsheviki by force. The courier asserted that Lenine,. Trotsky and their ministers, Kamcnen ef f and Zinovief f, now formed a virtual quadrumvirate of control. They are des perately seeking to main that power (Continued on page three)