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mm WEATHER 4,500 SUBSCRIBERS ' (22,000 READERS) DAILY Only Circulation la Salem Guar anteed by the Audit Bureau of . . Circulations FULL LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES SPECIAL WILLAMETTE V." LEY NEWS SERVIC 0, PRICE TWO CENTS ON TRAINS AND NJTWi KTAND8 FIVE CENTS FORTY-FIRST YEAR No SALEM, OREGON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1918 ff f". f I ' -fl- .mi I on f V: 4 PRESIDENT'S NEW DIPLOMACY HAS 1 Germany r finds Situation Created That Is Extremely Perplexing AT WAR WITH RUSSIA BUT AFRAID TO SHOOT People of Central Empire and Russia Are Rapidly Getting Beyond All Control By Robert J. Bender (United Press Staff Correspondent) Washington, Feb. 18. Eussian chaos and President' Wilson's "daylight dip lomacy " have thrown tho battling na tions of the central powers and tho re publics of old Russia into confusion and dismay. History fails to record a parallel to the situation existing today in the old world. Ukrainia, at peace with tho central powers, is at war with the Petrograd Bolsheviki. j Germany, floundering in a situation she has created by trying to effect a dominant German peace over Bussia, finds herself at war with the Bolshe viki an4 afraid to shoot. Austria, disagreeing with the German annexationist plans toward Russia, re fuses to align her soldiers in any mil itary demonstration against tho Bolshe viki, Fear lest tho Austria people sway Count Czerniu against the German junk ers, under appeal of President Wilson, gives the kaiser pause in his next step. Russia, anxious for a just peace, finds herself at war with factions in her own country. The powers, lacing possible collapse of the Bolsheviki, doesn't know with whom to dual. Tho reins of the Lenine-Trotsky re gime appear slackening. Numerous out breaks of increasing violence are oc curing. Sailors of the Russian Baltic fle.pt, first to embrace the original Petrograd revolution and then to jump to the Bol sheviki, have broken away to complete anarchy and are carrying fire and blood! through Finland. Dr. Ignatius, Finnish representative DIVIDED ENEMIES here, today said cables showed the Bai-war, a sinister picture that shows, in tic sailors are now ' ' beyond control of j stead of peaceful development of na tlio Petrograd Bolsheviki." Their iucen-tions applying their energies to creative diarism and looting are at the root of ; activities, destructive flames of social tht new reign of terror sweeping Fin land, he said. "These roving, disorganized bands of marauders have killed their officers and j Tefused to obey the orders of the Pet- rograd Bolsheviki. Thev have stripped the country bare of provisions and plun dered ruthlessly." ' And to further discredit the Bilshe- viki, officials of the Kerensky regime in Washington have issued a pamphlet for circulation among the Russian con-'this sular agents here and for guidance of this and other government officials. In speaking of the Bolsheviki these BOMB AMERICAN HOSPITAL WHILE CAROLINA KID SANG AND PICKED Great Speed of Enemy Aero Planes Overhead Caused Bombs to Miss Mark By J. W. Pegler (United Press Staff Correspondent) With The American Armies in France, Feb. 17. (Delayed;. The wounded and sick occupants of a field hospital a few kilometers behind the American trenches had been transferred to the rear today as the result of a boehe air raid. A German airplane, flying low in the light of a brilliant quarter moon Friday night, released ten bombs di rectly over the hospital. Surgeons stand ing in the yard saw trails of sparks from the burning fuses streaking toward the earth like red rockets. The airplane's velocity caused the pital building. Thev struck in a nearby I through the air. field, making enormous holes. Fragments " 1 have been " under fire m the smashed the wiudovrg . of the operating ! trenches, but 1 have never felt last rooni j night's sensations before hearing the I was visiting some soldier friends a!lla directly overhead, waiting for the Bhoit dWtance from the hospital when bo.nl.s, wondering whether they d hit the raid occurred. The wooden but in'!rcciiy on the roof. One fellow sat up which hit a door two feet from his head.:111 ,'t'1 a!,d yelled: "Go ou, drop itl from the earth: I Drop it! 'J A little Carolina kid was piiking a banjo arc! singing in a nasal whine: "My r'.other 's dead in a lonely grave, "Mr father's runned awav "My s;-ter's married a pambling mail,! And I have Tne ntrr. " Tl.o ornlncn lrnn,.!-,) .1 !. .Jin 1 Kiflfi ANARCHY NOT OF ADVANTAGE TO CENTRAL EMPIRES Former Empire of Czar Would Now Be Dangerous Enemy to Outsider If Aroused By X W. T. Mason (Written for tho United Press) New York, Feb. 18. Increased indi cations of anarchy and civil strife in Russia cannot be utilized by the Ger man militarists to their own advant age. Any attempt by the Germans to start a major offensive against Rus sia at this time would undoubtedly re sult in stimulating the Russians to bit ter resistance against interference with their internal affairs. During the anarchtie 'conditions of tho 'French revolution, the French ar mies held Europe at bay when Europe tried to take advantage of the lack of ordor within the revolutionary area. Tho Russian people are capable of sim ilar action now. Russia, ostensibly helpless before an invading force, is in reality more dangerous for the Ger mans at this time than she has been since the drive of Von Mackcnsen through Galicia. Von Ilindenburg has never encount ered a military situation resembling iu any way the now existing one along the eastern frout. Von Hindenburg's opponent in Rus sia, General Krylenko, was only an ensign a few months ago. He has no military fitness for his exalted post.He is either a strategist nor a tactician. Yet, Von Hiudenburg hesitates to at tack him and shows every indication of having been put in tho most serious quandary of the war. Tho spirit of utter and uncontroll ed freedom has been let loose in Rus- sia mm it is una spun nitti 10 Voir Ilindenburg, as the czar's arinieCJ failed to halt him. Even the sinister turn to anarchy, the opposite polo to Germany's highly specialized spirit of organization, gives Yon Hiudenburg no opening that he is eager to use. It is something new for the kaiser's militar ists, tki? unbridled freedom, and they are fearful of its high explosive possi bilities. embassy officials say: "Their internationalism is not based on the ideal of unity and cooperation of nations entitled to develop themselves along their own specific lines, but is a striving for universal removal or the world's proletariat and the raising of a merciless class struggle, "The fancy of the Bolsheviki draws, beyond the conclusion of the present revolution throughout the world." Iu this weird international tangle, President Wilson has thrust forth his appeal for a just peace squaring in general and in many details with the views of the Austrian people and adding further to- the confusion of the German junkers. How tho trend of world events is af fecting these junkers and the Austrian government will probably reveal itself week when Chancellor iteming at Berlin and Count Czernin at Vienna are. .expected to answer the president s last ' address to congress. HIS OLD BANJO dies in the hut. The captain sprang up and relighted them. The kid stopped singing momentarily, then asked: ' ' Captain, hadn 't I better keep on singing?" The captain laughed and replied: "Sure, boy, shake it up." The kid took up the song where he left off, with the sound of the airplane's motor and machine guns -rat-a-tat-tatting overhead and bombs crashed in the fitld nearby. This morning I visited the hospital where a young officer who had not yet been transferred to safety showed me the ugly, jagged fragment of a bomb which hit a door two ftot from his head. He told how he lay helpless in bed, gazing at the sky through a window and saw the livid "tracer" bullets from the airplant '9 machine guns shoot to ward the hospital. Ha heard bombs whistle earthward like the roar of shells .a even more brilliant moon eauscu the officers to fear a repetition tf the raid and. this resulted in the evacuation of the hospital. - You can 't believe everytiung yoa read tll6 StSrS. A WHIRLWIND WEEK OF WAR LEGISLATION EPXECTEDIN CONGRESS Railroad Control Bl Wl Be Followed Closely by Other Needed Legislation By I. O. Martin (United Press Staff Correspondent) Washington, Feb. 18. A whirlwind week in ending big war jobs was ahead of cougross today. - The railroad control bill was expected to clear the senate and be ready for house action by Saturday. Chairman Smith of the interstate commerce com mittee was to ask for a definite date for. a senate vote today. Close on the heels of this measure was to come the McAdoo war finance corporation bill. House action was expected early 111 the week on the daylight saving bill: the senate already having passed it. Both houses were to wind up tho 0U,- 000,000 housing bill to provide better living conditions for shipyard workers. The billion urgent deficiency bill, car rying moneys for many needs of Gener al Pershing, was to receive house appro val and follow in tho senate alter tho railroad and war finance corporation meAsures. War re-organization work will center in the senate judiciary committee, where trio uverman Dili empowering jrrcsiaeni lnjurou 41 in bombing expeditions Sat Wilson to rc-distribite the adniiuistra- urday and Sunday nights. One of the tive functions at will, will be whipped enemy planes wasreported to have been into shape. The military committee prob ably will vote again on its war cab inet bill which today apparently was deadlocked. Beep iu constructive work, the senate was prepared to pause in the near fu ture while Senator Reed's report on in vestigations into sugar and coal is pre sented to it. Tho report is deemed cer tain to assail aspects of the food and uel administrations. The price fixing bill long promisod by President Wilson and cited by,oppo sition elements as the most startlijigly drastic move yet proposed was under going its final revision in the house and senate agricultural committees. The big navy bill was to emerge from committee soon, an were the executive, legislative and judicial and the rivers and harbors budgets. Watson on Railroads Washington, Feb. 18. Government ownership of transportation and com munication lines would mean the ulti mate destruction of the republican form of government in the United States, Sen ator Watson, of Indiana, declared to the senate today, discussing the railroad control bill. Watson declared that if government ownership of railroads comes it will quickly be followed by government own ership"of telephone and telegraph linos. This would ' ' undoubtedly mean a let- (Continued on page six) SIXTEEN KILLED - Ill GEH RAID 0 V E REH L A N D Thirty-Serai Other Persons . Woimki ' Sunday Niht . Says OScid Report PORTUGESE TROOPS FIGHT ON WEST FRONT Civil War Rages In Russia With Severe Fighting At Many' Places London, Feb. 18. Sixteen perepns were killed and thirty seven injured in Sunday night's air raid over London, Lord French announced today. Of those killed, thirteen were men and three were women. German airmen, renewing their at tacks on England for the first time I since December 6, killed 27 persons and i brought down off Dover Saturdav nieht. imo aetails of Sundny's raid other than the casualties, have been received. .... - . - " Portuguese Troops In Action. London, Feb. 18. Portuguese troops have been active on the west again, Field Marshal Haig reported today. They took a few German prisoners in tho neighborhood of Neuve Chapelle. "One of our posts drove off hostile raiders near Gavrelle," he said. Several casualties were inflicted on the enemy in a patrol encounter in the Messines sector. "The enemy artillery was active south of Arras and Cambrai on the road north of S'ng -nUff in the neighborhood of Zonnebeke." " Bring Down Allied Planes. Berlin, via London, Feb. 18. "Six teen enemy airplanes and two captive balloons have been brought down' in, the last two days," the German war office announced today. "Artillery," was tho succinct report concerning operations on the west front. CIVIL WAR IN RUSSIA Ey Joseph Shaplen (United p'eas Staff Correspondent) Petrograd, Feb. 9. (Delayed) Kieff has been re-captured by Bolsheviki troops. The Radas (Ukraine) forces (Coatiaued on page three) THE HOHENZOLLERN FINGERPRINTSNO. (Result To-morrow) HOLD WEST FRONT LINE AND ALLIES WIN VICTORY CORRESPONDENT ASSERTS Germany Can Expect. Little Aid From Austria and Re soarces Are Weakening By William Pnuip Slmms (United Press Staff Correspondent) (Copyright 1918, by United Press) Berne, Feb. 17. (Delayed). Hold on the west front and the war is won. Therein is the whole story of my Swiss impressions. 'I don 't mean that peace will follow within 24 hours of Hindenburg's fiasco, but I certainly be lieve an allied peace is possible this year. Tins conclusion is un hasty. It was reached by a process tantemount to mathematical computation. From personal observation I know what the French punch is like, and what British bulldogism .is; while from my study hero 1 believe I have gained fair idea of what Germany can do. From this knowledge, 1 don t believe the Ger mans have the proverbial chance in a thousand, despite Hindenburg's strategy and Ludeudorff 's tactics. Hindeuburg can expect little or no aid from Austria. Emperor Carl's position is too wobbly to warrant sending Austrians, Hungar ians. Czechs, etc., to their slaughter on the west front. The Prussians may browbeat Austria into activity against Italy simultaneous ly with a German offensive against Franco, but this appears about all. Czer nin said in December that as Germany is fighting for Trieste, Austria might tight side by side with ticrmans on Iron tiers other than Austrian.. Ludendorff has practically re-organiz ed tho Germany army which probably comprise two hundred divisions (2, 400,000 to 3,000,000 men) when the of fensive starts if it starts. Despite the armistice agreement, the cream of the divisions from the Russian front have been drafted to the west. The older $610,0110 Taken Out In , Insurance by Ordnance Class When tho war' is over and Lieuten ant C. C. Jeremiah returns to civil life, ho may qualify as a life insurance agent- Lieutenant Jeremiah has charge of the ordnance class in the university school of commerce. Last week he re ceived a circular from the war depart ment advising that his men aro eligi 'blo to take out insurance under pro visions of the law recently passed by congress up to a maximum limit of $10,000 per man. He presented the plan to the men and that night he sent in an applica tion for $010,000 worth of insurance from the sixty five men in his class so it is easy to figure that nearly ev cry'man went tho limit. troops on the west front have been re placed by storm troops. Austria will aid with artillery and" guns captured from Italy and elsewhere. The Germans are boasting a horrible new gas. They brag that this gas has already been tried out in Italy and Cam brai. But if the information which I have is true, the allies have so need to worry much. Germany is putting up Its Wggest bluff. Dying of rot, she is trying to scare the allies by making faces. Doubt lessly she has ono punch left after wnicn nothing. The masses are thoroughly war weary. Tho election at Bautzen is a proof of this. Bautzen, an agrarian center,always was violently Pan-German and adamant against socialism. Before the recent elec tion the war party, certain of the re sult, proclaimed the outcome would Bhow the extent to which the people were backing the kaiser. A socialist was elected by a large ma jority, throwing the militarists into con sternation. Through the latter 's own de mands, the election cry was "for or against reconciliation and peace." However ,as George Archibald, Ameri can jockey, just out of Austria, said: "Don't let this Gorman peace talk fool you too much. Just give thern a winning streak and they'll insist on an nexing New York and Chicago. "On the other hand, if they pull an offensive, just givo 'em another dos6 of that Verdun stuff and they'll be eating out of your hands." GENERAL PERSiiiNG VISITS FIRST UKE Commander In Chief Inspects Trenches Held by Amer ican Soldiers By Fred S. Ferguson (United Press staff correspondent) With tho American Armies in Franco Feb. 17 (Delayed) General Pershing visited the first line trenches today, as part of a general inspection of the Am erican forces hold this sector. He found tho men in excellent condition and spirits. Their -patrol work, ho as certained is becoming rapidly more ef fective, whilo the men in the rear are anxious to take their turn in tho trenches. Pershing picked his way through tho wet, soggy trenches and emerged with the Bamo spotlessness that made him the wonder of his men in Mexico, where it was said he could go into tho dustiest places without seeming to got dusty. Where othor officers slipped and floundered in the mud, Pershing step ped gingerly along, picking his way with surefooted ness and scarcely soil ing his boots. Pershing asked a cook how the food wns. "All right," the cook replied, "ex cept wo'd like a little more variety." "What did you have for supper!" "Nothing but roast beef, mashed potatoes, bread and butter and coffee" Returning from the trenches, Per shing visited various headquarters. The bodies Inst night did their first patrolling in six nights. American pa trols reported German soldiers making repaint on their wires and trenches, but there was no encounters. There was on ly nominal artillerying. The weather continues clear and cold TransDort Victim Is Given Tribute at U. James B. Gurney, Former Student, Honored at Parade on Friday University of Oregon, Eugene, Feb. IS. An impressive ceremony was held at the university Friday afternoon, when tho whnlo battalion of some 250 men d'ew up before the administration bii'.iiing and ramo to "present arms" in honor of .lames B. Gurney, a former university freshman, who was aboard tha .raniort Tuscania when she went to the bottom OS the result of B Ger man torpedo. T'nder Colonel lender the nattanon was drawn up, the flag on the building vad of mRHt. find A token Ctf hon- or was paid to the man who gave his life to his country in tnc cause oi no mocracy. Colonel Leader addressed the formation spying but a few words: " OenUemeii. we are drawn ur here to pay an honor to one of the members nf the enllel'C who h civen his life, tho greatest sacrifice possible, to his country. Battalion, present arms: George H. Parkinson, pastor of the Methodist Kpiseopal church of Eui-'ene, and weimental ehnr!ain of the univer sity, gave tho benediction. f:urnfv wai a res: .lent of Glide. Ore gon, aad entered tho university as a freshmnn last October. He left college oon after tho Thanksgiving holidays to rnliat in tho 20th engineers, and was on board the torpedoed snip wncn sue. wont down. C1PDK WILL RBi TO VOI WITHOUT DELAY Appeal of President to Patri otism Breaks Grip of Disloyal Leaders AMERICAN FEDERATION STANDING BY WILSON Many Strikers Back to Work by Noon Others Will Re port Tomorrow New Yor, Feb. 18. The marine car penters strike is over, as a result of President-Wilson's request to the labor loaders. This afternoon T. M. Guerin, member of the National committee of the Brothorhood of Carpenters and Join ers announced that nearly every one of those that went out on strike in great er New York has reported back to the shipyards for work and that tomorrow morning would find every man in his place. "The men are willing to leave th matter In the hands of President Wil son," said Guerin this aftornoon. "X have received a report of the meeting in Brooklyn where moro than a thousand men who are on Btrike in the port of New York attended. They voted t a man to go back to work. MnUt of the men put on their working clotfrc and wore back at work at 1 o'clock, al though a few had made plans for tha rest of the day and will be back ia their places in the morning. The same will bo true in Philadelphia, Baltimora nud Washington, whore telegrams have been sent to tell the men to go back to work." President Took Action Washington, Feb. 18 While striking carpenters in eastern shipyards were re turning to work today under spur or President Wilson ,the government pre pared to launch a program that will prevent further walkouts. Tho government now and horcafter will act on the principle that no strika is justified until nil methods of adjust ment have been tried to the limit; and that any action taken contrary, to this principle will be regarded as giving aid and comfort to tho enemy. President Wilson yesterday strucJt at the heart of the trouble William Hutchcnson, head of tho carpenters and joinerB in a message demanding that he send the men back to worK ana end the strike. At the same time, President Wilson acknowledged the action of all other la bor organizations in standing loyally by the government in tho threatened crisis. "I feel it my duty," - president wired Hutchcnson, "to call your atten tion to the fact that tht srike of tha carpenters in the shipyards is in mark ed and painful contrast to the action of labor in other trades and places. The action of labor as a whole in tho carpenters walkout marks a unique paga in the history ot organizeu American workmen. AH the leaders lined up with the government against tho strike sought by Hutchcnson and forced hira to yield through the pressure of labor and" public opinion. As one final gun in tho campaign of the other trades to leave Hutchcnson to his own fate, the executive council of the American Federation of Labor last night issued a statement upholding the hands of the government in prose cuting the war. "The problem of production, inais- f Continued on page two) Abe Martin s "I must it somo spareribs fer meat less day," said Lafe Bud, t'day. Whoa some folks want t ' be real assurin they say, "Don't worry, I'll look nfttr it per sonally, myself." 11 0