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FORTY-FIRST YEAR NO. 36
SALEM, OREGON, MONDAY FEBRUARY 11 1918'
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PRESOTT IN SPEECH
TO COESS CLEARLY
SCUSSES PEACE T
Lays Down Clearly the Principles Invoked In Settlement of
World WarAnother Step In His "Open Air Diplomacy"
Program Austrian Foreign Minister's Proposals Are
Taken Up and Further Discussion of Subject Is Invited
America's Entrance Into War Shown to Have Only High
Purpose Behind It
Washington, Feb. 11. President Wil
son today openly invited Austria to
further discussion of peace with the
United States.
In a remarkable address to congress
in join session, the president laid down
the basis for such negotiations. Austria.
i it . 7
no sum, seeing ana conceding the es
sential principles involved and tho nec
essity of candidly applying them, can
ri'Mjionu io tne purpose of peace as ex
pressed by the United States with less
embarrassment than could Germany.
No peace is possible, he declared, on
German Chancellor Von Hertling's ba
sis " individual barter and concess
ion". The address was another broadside
in the president's world campaign of
"open air diplomacy."
It was an open bid to Austria and
a powerful stroke at the German militarl
ists. It aimed again to widen the wedge
between the Teuton peoples and their
junket rulers.
If the nations aro to go further in
their comparison of views, tho president
declared today, this foundation must be
adhered to:
One Every difficulty must be set
tled on Its own merits. " '"',,.T'"
Two There shall no bartering of
nations as in the congress of Vienna.
Three The voico of the people must
direct territorial settlements.
Four Full opportunity to carrv out
well defined national aspirations must
ve acKnowieagca.
On this foundation, the president de
clared --a general peace can be discussed."
tntil such a peace can be attained,
nave no cnoice but to go on."
Germany, the president said, is try
ing to arrange a peace following the
"method of the congress of Vienna."
We cannot and will not return to that.
He scathingly attacked Chancellor Von
Hertling's recent, war aims speech as
"vague, confusing and full of equivo
cal phrases."
On the other hand, Count Czernin, the
Austrian premier, he said, "seems to
see the fundamental elements of peace
with clear eyes and docs not seek to
obscure them." He expressed tho belief
that Czernin would have gone much
further in his reply to the president's
last war aims speech "if it had not
been for Austria's alliance with and
dependence upon Germany."
In the present situation America
threatens no one, the president declar
ed, but to the end of attaining the prin
ciples for which she entered tho war,
reason why he should communicate pri
vately with me. I am quite content to
do one fir ins public audience.
Beply Is Vague.
Count Von Hertling's reply is, I must
say, very, vague and very confusing. It
is run or equivocal phrases and leads it
is not clear where. But it is certainly in
a very different tone from that of Count
Czernin and apparently of an opposite
purpose. It confirms, I am sorry to say,
ratner wan removes, the unfortunate
impression made by what he had learned
of the conferences at Brest -Litovsk. His
discussion and acceptance of our gener
al principles lead him to no practical
conclusions. He refuses to apply them
to the substantiative items which must
constitute the body of any final settle
ment. He is jealous of international ac
tion and of international council. He
accepts, he says, the principle of public
diplomacy, but he appears to insist that
it bo confined, at any rate in this case,
to generalities and that the several par
ticular questions of territory and sov
ereignty, tne several questions upon
wnose settlement must depend, the ac
ceptance of peace by the twenty three
states now engaged in the war, must
be discussed and settled, not in general
council, but severally- by the nations
most immediately concerned by interest
or neighborhood. He agrees that the seas
should be free but looks askance to
any limitation to the freedom by the
international action in tho interest of
the common order. He would without re-
sSrve be glad to see economic barriers
removed between nation and nation for
that could in no way impede the ambi
tions of the military party with whom
he seems constrained to keep on terms.
Neither does he raise objection to a lim
itation of Armaments. That matter will
be settled of itself, he thinks, by the
economic conditions which must follow
the war. But the German colonies, he
demands, must bo returned without de
bate. He will discuss with no one but
the representatives of Russia what dis
position shall be made of the peoples
and the lands of the Baltic provinces;
with no one but the government of
France the "conditions" under which
French territory shall be evacuated:
and only with Austria what shall be
done with Poland. In the determination
of all questions affecting the Balkan
states he defers, as I understand him, to
Austria and Turkey; and with regard
to the agreement to be entered into con
cerning the non-Turkish people of the
present Ottoman empire, to the Turkish
authorities themselves. After a settle
mnnr. nil nronnrL effected in this fash-
the United States is "rapidly mobiliz-1 i0n, by individual barter and concession,
ing its resources." is "sending its army ne would have no objection, if I cor
to the fighting front," and puttinsr I roctW intornret hia statement, to a lea
gue of nations which would undertake
to hold the new balance of power steady
TUSCANIA DEATH LIST
NOT YET COMPLETED
FROM OFFICIAL LISTS
Oregonians Not Yet Reported
Among Survivors May
Come In Later Lists
Washington, Feb. 11. This govern
ment is still unable to announce the
Tuscania death list today.
United Press figures based on a care
ful checking of announced survivors,
against the ship's roster, showed 342
still unaccounted for is official cables
thus far compiled. "
tr j i- t ' . .
war ueuui'imciit reports snow no
change in the original statement that
113 American officers and soldiers are
believed to have lost their lives when
the vessel was torpedoed.
I lie line discipline of the men and
the efficient handling of a difficult
situation by those in command, contrib
uted to account for these relatively
slight casualties' Secretary of War
Baker declared.
Names of additional Oregon men will
possibly be received when additional
lists of survivors are sent from England.
The work of checking will be resumed
today.
utter Missing Troopers
On this basis other Oregon men still
unaccounted for include:
Peter A. Agrcn, Jewell. J
Harry G. Bates, Baker.
Sidney W. Bernitt, Marshfield.
George N. Bjork, St. Helens.
Vernor G. Brauland, Colton.
Edwin J. Burgess, Noti.
Hallie M. HoHelton, Coburg.
Hand M. Erickson, rseaverton,
Elmer H. Houston, Held.
Carl V. Jacobson, Elk City ,
Gus Johnson, Reedsport.
Clarence A. Knott, Rainier.
John A. Laakkc, Astoria.
Walter T. Larson, Warren.
Bulger Theodore E. Lewton, Forest
Grove.
George Montray, Grandview.
Henry C. Murphy, Wallowa.
Riley F. Murray, Eugene.
Wilber S. Nutt, Spring Valley.
Edward F. Parker, Grants Pass.
James L. Pierce, Croswcll.
Roy E. Powelson, Mill City.
Joe R. Redfiold, Glendale.
Archie D. Roborts, Salem.
Lester L, Smith, Galice.
Elvin O. Stevens, Springfield.
Percy A. Stephens, Bend.
Corporal Terry Tuttle, Elgin.
Curtis W. Wilson, Salem.
Many Oregonians Safe.
GERMANY MAY PURCHASE
PEACE WITH RUMANIA
BY GIVING SLICE OF RUSSIA
By Lowell Mellett
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
London, Feb. ll.-4-lTow Rumania will
accept the reported Teutonic ultimatum,
which was to havt expired yesterday,
was the question that occupied British
officialdom today. ;
Latest reports from provisional cap
ital or J assy were that no new cabinet
has been found to succeed Premier Bra
tiano's ministry, which resigned Friday
arter a rapid succession of meetings.
The ultimatum, which is said to have
been issued by Field Marshal Van
Maekensen on Wednesday, provided
that Rumania must begin peace nego
tiations within four days. Meantime, the
armistice providing a cessation of hos
tilities between Rumania and the cen
tral powers has expired.
Germany's anxiety to effect a perm
anent peace with Rumania is shown
in its reputed offer of a gonerous slice
of Russian Bessarabia, as an induce
ment for the Rumanians' abandonment
of their desire to extend their territory
westward at the expense of Austria.
This was accepted here as meaning the
central powers would forcibly seize this
territorial bait from tho Russian Bolshe-viki.
Second only to ' the Rumanian situa
tion in interest was the Ukraine-Teuton
peace pact. There was Bome speculation
in official circles here as to whether the
central powors would obtain large sup-,
plies of foodstuffs from the Ukraine
republic they anticipated. Latest reports
here indicated that country had but a
ten per cent surplus of wheat.
Berlin dispatches received via Cop
e'nhagon today dilated on the economic
advantages of the Ukraine treaty.
They declared that "indemnities and
d .nages caused by military measures"
would be "abandoned" and that war
prisoners would be permitted to "re-
-turn or remain."
The pact, they said, provided for im
mediate resumption of economic con
nections and mutual exchange of sur
plus of the moat important agricultural'
and industrial products before July 31.
Quantities, qualities and prices will be
fixed by a special commission of ex
change, partly through government offi
cers and partly through free sale.
.The old Russo-Austrian frontier will
be the new Austro-Ukraine frontier, it
was declared. The northern boundary
of Ukraine will extend from Tarnogorod
(about 100 miles south of Lublin, Po
land) through Bilgaraj, Sxvezbrozsyu,
Sarnaki, Melnik, Wysekolitovsk, Kara
ienzlitovsk, Pruschany to Wydonows
chojez. 1
The details of the frontier, it Is re
ported, wiHrJie settled by a Bpecial com
mission. ' ' liiphimatic and consular re
lations will be resumed as soon as the
treaty is ratified," it was said.
Mother of Wounded
Boy Will Send Another
;
San Jose, Cal., Fob. 11. "I
have another son, Charles, and
he is ready to go now," was the
answer today of Mrs. Antone
Chavez to the news that her son
Frank had been wounded by a
German bullet in France and his
brother George was a Tuscania
survivor.
"My husband and I may be
sfc alone but we do not mind be-
. cause we know they fight glad-
ly for us. We pray America shall
win and win soon and that our
boys will come home to us." .
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SEARCH RIVER FOR BODY
' Portland, Or., fob. II.' GTaJpplers
are today searching the river for the
body of Lieutonant O. It. TwohV, sta
tioned at Vancouver barracks, who is
WI Remain In France
With Body of Her Son
By W. S. Torrest
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Paris, Jan. 15. (By Mail). Mrs.
Beverly Macmonigal of San Francisco
has docided to pass the remainder of her
days in France in memory of her son.
the late Sergeant Douglas Macmonigal
of the Lafayette escadrille, whose body
lies in a soldier's rave at Thiacourt,
near Verdun. ; - -
A few days before Macmonigal was
killed in an unequal air combat on the
front, he had passed ten days leave with
his mother in PariB. She came to Paris
to be near him and the two had planned
to spend every possiblo day of future
leaves together.
A few days ago Mrs. Macmonigal re
ceived from the French authorities the
war cross with palm, won by her son
and which was accompanied by the fol-
FIVE AMERICANS
WERE KILLED III
A PATROL BATTLE
Four Others Were Taken
Prisoners by Germans
During Fight
FOURTEEN AMERICANS
WERE ON PATROL DUTY
Germans Make Sudden Attack
Afterward Making Rush
For Own Trenches
Bit. T ii J it
ine ronmua survivors, as iar as an-'ni Anrna,i rru j-
nounced are: flnnrt; ,t . t,Mi,.4 o..
Edward, T. Beletski, 908 Capitol Ave. ' Z -when t 1,
believed to hav fallen into the river ! lowing citation:
"Macmonigal (Douglas), vounar Am
erican pilot, full of audaee and courage
Frank L. Clark, 449 East Twenty-Sec-
coat remained on the houseboat.
Twohy waa formerly en attorney at
' Butte.
September 24, met, with eight enemy
airplanes attempting to survey our lines.
He attacked them with resolution. Fell
in course of combat."
"our whole strength into this war of
emancipation."
"And all the time she is quito ready"
lie added, "to be shown that the set
tlements she has suggested are not the
'lest or the most enduring. They are
nly her provisional sketch of principles
ud the way they should be applied."
America's force, he concluded, "is
t menace to no nation or people. It
will never be used in aggression or ag
grandizement. It springs out of freedom
aud is for the sarvice of freedom."
Text of Address.
AVashington, Feb. 1L The president's
speech follows:
Gentlemen of the Congress:
On the eighth day of January I had an(i iustice no mere peace of Bhreds
the honor of addressing you on the ob-'alui patches. It is possible that Count
against external disturbance
Not Sound Basis for Peace.
It must be tvident to everyone who
understands what this war has wrought
in the opinion and temper of the world,
that no general peace, no peace worth
the infinite sacrifices of these years
of tragical suffering, can possibly be
arrived at in any such fashion. The
method the German chancellor proposes
is the method of the congress of ien-
na. We cannot and will' not return to
that. What is at stake now is the peace
of the world. What we are striving for
is a new international order, based on
broad and universal principles of right
jects of the war as our people conceive
them. '
The prime minister of Great Britain
Von Hertling does not see that, does
not srasp it. is in fact living in nis
thought in a world dead and gonef Has
had spoken in similar terms on the fifth : ha utterly f orcot the reichstag resolu-
of January. To these addresses the Ger-tons cf he nineteenth of July or does
man chancellor replied on the twenty-! he deliberately ignore them! They spoke
fourth and Courit Czernin, for Austria, j Gf .the conditions of a general peace,
on the same day. It is gratifying to ! E0t of national aggrandizement or of ar-
have our desire so promptly realized
that all exchanges of view on this great
matter "should be made in the hearing
of all the world.
Count Czernin 's reply, which is direc
rangements between state and state. The
peaee of the world depends- upon tho
just settlement of each of the several
problems to which I adverted in my re
pent address to the congress. I, of
ted chiefly to mw own address on thejconrSe, do not mean that the peace of
eighth of January, is uttered in a veryitne worJ depends upon the acceptance
friendly tone. He finds in my statement ! 0f any particular set of suggestions as
a sufficiently encouraging- approach to't0 the way in which those problems are
the views of his own government to jus-jt0 be dealt with. I mean only that these
tify him in believing that it furnishes ' problems each and all affect the whole
a basis for a more detailed diwrwion j WOrld; that unless they are dealt with
of purposes by the two governments. He in a-spirit of unselfish and unbiased
is represented to have intimated that justiee, with a view to the wishes, the
the views he was expressing had been I uatUral connections, the racial aspira
commur.icated to me beforehand, andjtions, the security and the peace of
that I was aware of them at the timejmind of the peoples involved, no per
he was uttering them; btit in. this Ilmanent peace will have been attained,
am sure he was misunderstood. I had j They cannot be discussed separately
received no intimation of what he in I
tended to say. There was, of course, no i (Continued on pmje three)
j (Continued on page six.)
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By J. W. Pegler
(United Press staff correspondent)
With the American Armies in France
Feb. 10 (Delayed) A Texas Sammy
was the hero of Friday's patrol battle
in which five Americans were killed
and four captured, it was learned to
day.
The Texan remained in No Man's
Land after tho encounter, ministering
w two wounded comrades.
Aftor ten minutes of impromntu
first aid work, the Texan left a badly
wounded Sammy in charge of another
wounded man, who was trying to
staunch tho flow of blood from the ser
iously wounded lad's hurts-
Making his way back to the Ameri
can trench, the Texan filled his can
toon with water and returned to- his
comrades. I
Ho found the man who had been ser
iously wounaod lying dead in the arms
of the other, who was crying:
'tor Hod's sake Buddy, don t die
tonight! Let's get another crack at the
dirty boches. "
Tho Toxan brought both the wound
ed man and the doa soldier back to
the American lines.
The full story of how the American
patrol fought against death - in the
darkness among the wire entanglo-
montsj was learned today when surviv
ors were able to talk after fumes had
departed from thoir lungs in tho base
hospital.
Thoy told how fourteen Sammies
sfartcd crawling out through the dow
sprinkled weeds and grasses between'
wires at 0 oi'clock in the evening and
inspected the . wires until eight. Then
the sergeant leading the patrol whis-
BOLSHEVIKI HAS
WITHDRAWN FROM
WAR DEFINITELY
All Troops Are Ordered De-
Eioaofized and War Oper
ations Concluded
KAISER STILL FIRM
FOR PEACE BY VICTORY
German Newspapers Assert
Sinking of Tuscania Shows .
America's Helplessness
Amsterdam, Feb. 11. The Russian
Bolsheviki government has definitely
withdrawn from the war ordering com
plete demobilization of Russian forces
on all fronts, it was reported here to
day.
- Dispatches received from Brest-Li-tovsk
declared that Leon Trotsky Bol
shevik! foreign minister, . while refus
ing to sign a( formal peace pact, as
serted that "tho war with the central
powers is ended."
German Sunday newspapers, receiv
ed in Zurish from Stuttgart today re
ported "imminent rupturo of Russa-
Uerman peace negotiations" at Brcst-
Litvosk.
This may indicate that Trotsky, t
save Hus&ia from the threatened Gor
man invasion, and in tho face of what
evidontly amounted to an ultimatum
from the central powors, ordered com
pleto withdrawal of his country irom
tho war. .
While minor factions favors con
tinuance of the fighting, and may stilt
give tho Teutons somo trouble, through
guerilla warfare, the Bolshcviki con
trol is so overwhelming that if W
Amsterdam1 report is true, Russia ap
parently is through as a factor in th
conflict.
P!c With Victory, Bays Kaiser
Amsterdam. Feb. 11. Kaiser Wil-
helm, in commenting on the peace pact
with Ukraine, declared that "a Ger
man victory must first be recognia
d ' ' before Germany can live in f rien J
shin with other countries.
Tho kaiser's statement was made ini
a telegram to the Burgomaster of
(Continued on page six)
(Continued on page four)
PEACE MUST BE MADE
BY CENTRAL POWERS SOON
OR PEOPLE WILL FORCE IT
of Population Have Finally
Become Unendurable
Conditions With the Masses TTLmS
lowers automatically aligned themselv
es with tho government. Like rats in
I a corner, they meant to fight,
judging frarn what everyone- fresh,
from Germany is saving, the allies are
William Philip Siinms, United PresB w on the riKht track, in that they
staff correspondent, -who has been on wm oniy continue the war until the
the battle fronts in Europe since the German war party gives up its ambi-
war began, was recently assigned to tiong for worl(l conquest, when they
mato a personal Investigation of the aro reJuy ta make an cquiUible peace
actual state of affairs in the caitral
empires through the best possible
sources of accurate Information. His'
report, cabled from Zurich, Switzer
land, nrlll appear in the Capital Jour
nal in four dispatches of which the
following is th first.
UNDER THE SHADOW OF THE SPIKED HELMET
. NO. 4.
By William Philip Simms
( United Press staff correspondent)
(Copyrighted 1918 by the United Press
etai'f)
Zurich, Switzerland, Feb. 11. - An
ominous unrest is growing daily
throughout the central empires.
Uemiany and Austria must have
peace or go under. The people of both
countries demand.
If tho allies stand pat on the Wil-
sonian program and make a stone wall
of the western front, the end of the
war is in sight.
This sums up the situation, as seen
from here, at this time.
It docsn t mean that Germany is on
tho brink of a revolution. But it does
mean the people are tired of war and
opposed to the Pan-German policy of
conquest-
They arc angry over the privations
at homel and tho losses of men folk at
the front. At the same time they bc-
love President nilson is sincere in his
statement of war aims.
There is no doubt that the masses
of the people are going to see the light-
Only tho diplomatic blunders of the
allies have kept them bound to the war I
party this long- It begins t' look like th' oldest m-
For instance, Philip Scheidemnaa habitant would have t' drop in- oia
ighteen months ago threatened some- time winters an' talk about th' days
thing little short of a revolution nn- when th' sky wus so full o' wild pig-
ess the -junkers changed their tone. 'eons you had f carry a lantern, ooma
Shortly after this the allies Published folks are better off in a the-ater than
aa intimation they would not stop un-J they are at home.
(Continued on page four)
Abe Martin