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Stupendous Propaganda
German War Party Is
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FRENCH, ENGLISH AND
AMERICANS CONFIDENT
American Soldiers and French
In Recent Successful Raid
In Trenches
By William Phillip Simms
(United Press staff correspondent)
With the British Armies in the Field
Feb. 25: German war party propagan
dists have bungled the job and over
cooked the pudding.
A careful study of today's situation
on the west front reveals the most stu
jionflous propaganda drive tho Prus
sians have ever attempted and for the
'biggest stakes, is a total failure.
Despite utilization of every method
to create a state of terror among troops
and civilians, to increase the tension
and prolong the nerve strain before
the offensive, their methods have re
sulted in a fiasco. Troops and civilians
are chuckling over the" "hob-goblin. "
The British .staff expects the Ger
mans will put up a stiff fight, but re
ceive a drubbing. Indications aro that
the Germana troops themselves" are
gradually acquiring a cold sweat. Some
prisoners admit they do not believe
iho Prussian plans will succeed, al
though they will mijke mincemeat of
their own troops,
French civilians openly doubt an of
fensive will be launched, asking "why
9 much hullabaloo f" (The soldiers
slirr.g their shoulders, stiying: "Let it
come. ' '
Confirming reports of food condi
tions in Germany, prisoners say that
not only civilians an3 non-combatants,
but line troops not actually slated for
the push are now on reduced rations.
AMERICANS TAKE OFFICERS
By Fred S. Ferguson
(United Press staff correspondent)
With the American Army in France,
. ) Feb. 24. ( Delayed) American
droops in. a raiding party with the
French on tho Chemin Des Dames see
tor Saturday captured two German of
ficers, 20 men and one machine gun.
There were no American casualties.
The news spread quickly along the
American front and developed a keen
icompeitifive spirit among the men.
... The bocho artillery got the range of
a village late Saturday afternoon and
shelled it vigorously. The streets were
full of officers and men.
With the arrival of tho first shell
jjhey vanished into dugouts and ditches
On officer found he had jumped on
the exposed side of a ditch. When a
shell exploded near him, he scurried
into a house and signalled tho Ameri
can guns.
The Yankee artillery began pound inj
the Germans who ceased firing. Tele
phone service between the trenches
and the rear most positions was sus
pended today and only couriers used in
an effort to get a message back as
'quickly as possible under the most dif
ficult conditions. 4
Men from rest camps at all points
were rushed to tho front in motor
p. (Continued on page three)
Abe Martin
You don't hear any school children
kmxkia' Dr. Garfield. It used t' be that
a feller tried t ' git on th ' police force
after ever 'thing else failed, but t'day
th' sdvertisin' game seems t' lok th'
easiest.
UPRISING IN SPAIN IS PLAN
OF GERMANYJTO ATTACK
ALLIED ARMIES IN REAR
py Activities of Teutons Dur-
mff PrnorpQ nf War Is
Reviewed
By Robert J. Bender
(United Press staff correspondent)
Washington, Feb. 25 Germany has
launched a determined effort to bring
about an uprising in Spain and if pos
sible swing Alfonso's army to the side
of the Teutons.
With Russia's army eliminated from
his own backdoor, the kaiser would
like nothing better than to create a
dangerous situation at the rear of the
allied forces in France.
Recently the United Press presented
an authoritative review of the Spanish
situation its difficulties and serious
aspects and today the American mili
tary authorities! havei permitted! the
printing of an open propaganda letter
now being distributed in the Spanish
army by the Germans. In addition, Ger
(man agents are throwing all tho insid
ious poison of their influence to cre
ate a break between the Germanophile
Spanish army and the Spanish mer
chants who have a whole-some respect
for the American embargo.
The now German move follows her
unsuccessful efforts to bring about a
revolution in India and Ireland ear
lier in the war, added details of which
came to light today. They further in
dicate the methods the German agents!
mav be using to gain her ends in Spain
1 The justice department has made
public, two letters showing that Alex
ander Berkman and Emma Goldman
"were apparently cooperating with
German spies in foreign countries" to
stir up rebellion in India.
At the same time the United Press
received a copy of a letter showing
that John Dovoy, 'of New York, for
mer editor of tno now suppressea
''Gaelic-American" was "the directing
agency in the attempted shipment ot
German supplies to the Sinn Feiners
in Inland before .the arrest ot Roger
Casement. ' "
"The request (for arms) was made
from Dublin and we transmittedd it
(to Germany) from here," Devoy
wrolo in his letter, which was found on
tho premises of Lawrence DcLacey, at
tho time of the latter's arrest in Cali
fornia and conviction for conspiring
to free the German Consul Bopp, in
terned at San Francisco.
'The betrayal of tho information
about the shipload of arms by Wil
son's men (the president's) enabled
the Eno-lish to catch the vessel," De-
vov continued. "There is no uouot
RUSSIAN FACTIOUS
ARE BADLY DIVIDED
ON GERMAN PEACE
fan-Soviets Accept Terms by
"Majority of Only Fifteen
lii Committee
By J. W. T. Mason
(Written for the United Press)
New York, Fob. 25 The Russian
pnn-soviets' acceptance of Germany's
latest peace terms by a majority of
only 15 out of a total executive com
mittee 's membership of 237 strongly
indicates that a paper peace at this
time will net permanently adjust the
east front situation.
As soon as Germany s intention or
crushing Russia by a new diplomatic
offensive is realized by the masses of
Russia, thcro is a strong possibility of
another revolutionary movement. Von
Hindenburg can only hold the Russians
to his terms by making Russia a con
quered province and thus limiting tne
number of cast front troops available
for the west.
The new offensive of German mili
tarist diplomats has for its object the
cEfmi nation tof thd Bolsheviki from
any participation in the self determi
nation of Poland and the Uaiue prov
inces. This policy does not necessarily
entail annexation of western Russia
to Germany. Even the German militar
ists aro learning that too much ruth
lessness doesn't pay. But by making
Germany responsible for the fate of
western Russia, Von Hindenburg wants
to turn Poland and the Baltic provinc
es into vassal states of the Hohcnzol
leros probably with self government
under direction of German princelings.
This would give Germany control of
the trade of this vast region. j
Russia is thus facing new issue of
self preservation with Ukraine large
ly cutting off Russia's former com-,
plf te access if the Black sea and with;
tho Finnish coast line no longer in Rus-
sia's possession, the severance of the
'Balkan provinces would cut Russia's
water outlets very nearly to the point
of extinction.
Russia would become almost an in-
land power.
about this. They got in the raid on
Von Igel's.office a note of mine the
transcript of a message received in
cipher from Dublin and ' wirelessed to
Berlin the day before (April 17, 1917).
It was at once given the English, and
they sent out their patrol boats and
caught the ship."
Devoy further describes how Berlin
ordered him to deal directly with tho
Germans in America in engineering the
rebellion.
The letters made public by the jus
tice department ' involving Berkman
and Enuna Goldman were from Har
Dyal, now in Borlin trying to organize
a Hindu revolution in close collabora
tion with the German foreign office.
He asks Berkman to send aid for the
movement and supplies a code for cabl
ing purposes. In Spain the Germans
are using .their usual methods to swing
to their side the Spanish troops and
perhaps incidentally establish a "sta
ble government and a competent au
thority in command."
selecting as his subject the conduct
of the Spanish troops in recent labor
disturbances, the author of a circular
distributed among the troops and sign
ed "a German admirer of the Spanish
army, ' ' speaks in glowing terms or the
Spaniard.
I have Tilways held," the circular
states, "that the Spanish officers,
lacked but one thing to make them the
equals of the best officers in ho Ger-
(Continued on page three)
TRADE COMMISSION
FILES CHARGES AGAINST
THIRTY-EIGHTCONCERNS
Unfair Methods of Competi
tion Are Alleged Against
Paint and Varnis Co.
Washington, Feb. 25. The federal
trade commission today filed complaints
against thirty eight concerns alleging
unfair methods of competition. This was
the largest group of complaints ever
issued by the commission.
The firms are charged with "stifling
and suppressing competition through j water. Ropes which had been carried
lavish entertainment of competitors' falong were fastened to the ship and
employes, secret payment of money" to then run out to vessels standing by.
employes of customers who might other-' Lifebelts were hauled . aboard the
wise buy goods from competing firms wreck and placed on the survivors, most
and in one instance adulteration of com- of whom wero unablo at this time to
petitors goods. stand alone. Some were practically un-
The firms are the Gliden Varnish com- conscious,
pany, Cleveland, charged with "sys- These relics of what had been a ship
tematically and on a large scale giving load of happy humanity wore transfer-
continued on page six)
ONLY FORTY-FOUR
SHOES TAKEN
FROM FLORIZEL
One Hucdred and Two lives
Lost When Vessel
Struck Rocks
HEROIC SAILORS FIGHT
FOR LIFE IN BREAKERS
Belief That Treachery In Crew
W as Responsible For Cape
Race Disaster
St. John, N. S., Feb. 25. Early today
forty 'four survivors had been taken off
the wrecked steamship Florizel which
went on the rocks at Broad Cove, near
Capo Race Sunday. They included Cap
tain Martin and the first officer.
The survivors were placed aboard a
train for St. John and are expected hero
late this afternoon.
One hundred and two persons have
Perished from among the passengers and
crew of the ship, aecordine to word re
ceived here. This places the death list
higher than statements made by the
owning company the Red Cross line
which stated that 136 were aboard the
Florizel. -
Scenes of indescribable heroism in the
face of odds which seemed insurmount
able took place as hardy New Found
land seamen stoically donned lifebelts,
piled into puny dories and battled with
the mountainous waves of the angry At
lantic. At dawn today they began their work
of rescue. Off the rock coast, where
waves boomed menacingly, tho gray
hulk of what was once the pride of the
Red Cross line loomed in pitiful memory
of splendor. Flitting f cirnis rose and fell
on her dock as huge waves broke over
and washed across her. -..
Boat after boat was launched in the
gray light by men who left rescue ships
to add another tale of heroism to the
romantic stories of bravery which go
hand in hand with records of shipping in
this vicinity.
Several fruitless efforts to get thru
the waves did not deter the efforts. Un
daunted, thev returned tn their work
daunted, they
' and finally succeeded in getting a foot-
mg on a portion ot the ship above the
(Continued on page three)
THE SWORD MUST BE BROKEN
WILL BUY POTATOES
TO FILL BIG ORDER
AT SEVENTY-FIVE CTS.
King's Salem Products Com
pany Will Be In Market
Soon for 100,000 Ru.
The Kings Salem Products company
with its usual energy is already prepar
ing to fill the contract awarded it by
the government for 600 tons of dehydra
ted potatoes and while, the contract was
only assured Saturday, this morning rep
resentatives of the company were sent
out to gather in the raw material. It
will require 100,000 bushels of potatoes
to fill the contract and this should pret
ty well cleau up the stock held in this
section of the valley. The price offered
is 75 cents a bushel and this will per
mit the cleaning up of what promised
to be an undesirable surplus at a fair
price. Last year's bumper crop, despite
the extra demand left nearly all sec
tions of the country oversupplied, but
after all the crop will all be used though
in some sections it will go for cattle
feed. The Kings contract is a real boost
for tho potato growers of the valley..
The company will be ready to receive
the potatoes purchased in a few days,
and work will be begun on the order
soon after, probably during the week.
The government is examining into the
merits of other of the company 's pro
ducts, and it is quite probable the en
tire output of the plant will be taken
for use by the boys across the pbnd.
AUXILIARIES RESPOND
TO APPEAL ISSUED
BY RED CROSS HEAD
Encouraging Word of In
creased Activity Cheers
Willamette Chapter '
Immediate and most gatifying re
sponse is being received at headquar
ters of the Willamette Red Cross Chap
ter to the appeal recently sent out to
the auxiliaries by Chairman H. W.
Meyers, urging each separate unjt td
raise funds and becomo self-suporting,
thus relieving the national headquar
ters and funds of the severe drain of
providing supplies for the thousands of
chapters and hundreds of thousands of
auxiliaries throughout tho nation.
' No sooner had the circular letter
been sent out by Chairman Meyers than
the Williamette Chapter auxiliaries be
gan to get busy with the result that
all of them have taken steps to put
the suggestion embodied in .the appeal
into execution. The first auxiliary to
(Continued on page three)
SALEI1 FRUIT UNION
CLOSING PRUNE POOL
SENDING OUT CHECKS
Over Million and Half Pounds
of Last Year's Crop Haa-
died by Union
The Salem Fruit Union today started
closing out the Italian prune pool, and
checks totaling $20,000 are being sent
the 110 growers represented in the pool.
The last car of Petite prunes was sold
last week, and the $15,0u0 realized 'from
this source will be distributed within
a week. This closes out last year's crop
a total of a million and a half pounds
naviug Deon disposed of by the union
during the season. This, about half of
the amount handled in a normal year.
The extremely dry weather of last sum
mer cut the erop in half.
Indications point to a successful sea
son this year. No damage has resulted
to the fruit by the cold weather of
the past few days, and as the acreage
has boon increased in the district, the
yield will probably be at least normal.
The prictes will probably be at an in
crease over those at which the last
year crop was sold. '
According to R. C. Paulus, secretary
of the Salem Fruit Union, a shortage
of labor is threatened for this year. Do
spite tho. fact that most of the work is
done by women and children, the war is
being blamed About 20,000 women and
children aro required to pick tile fruit
crop of the distinct, and tho larger part
of this army comes from Portland. The
high prices paid for labor at the ship
yards has put many of the Portland
families which usually depend on tho
fruit harvest in the summer, in "easy
street." Mr. Paulus stated, and last
year much trouble was experienced in
porsuading them to leave their homes
during the summer.
This will again be tho case this year,
and even worse labor conditions may
prevail. Mr. Paulus will confer with
tho federal employment office at Port
land in a few days in an effort to solv
the situation so far as it applied to
the growers connected with the local
fruit union. ...tu.,
SNOW DELAYS "TBAINS.
San Francisco, Feb. 25. Thousands
of tons of snow crashing the mountain
side onto tho Southern Pacific tracks
near Lakeview in the Sierras, delayed
westbound train number six, carrying
300 passengers, for 12 hours yesterday,
according to word reaching here today.
Eastbound trains also were seriously
delayed. The passengers were forced
to walk a mile through tho snow to
obtain food at a farm house.
Tho lumber dealors of Wallowa coun
ty, the Enterprise Reporter says, do not
expect a great deal of business until
aftor harvest, but after that they expect
the biggest business in ho history of
tho county.
AMERICAN NEEDS SPRING
DRIVE AT HOMCTO AID
SOLDIERS IN THE TRENCHES
There t Should Be Endless
Cham Rusffiing From
Trenches to America
By Pred 8. Ferguson,
(United Press Staff Correspondent.)
With the American Army In France,
Feb. 21. (Delayed) America needs a
spring drive at home to aiiJ her army in
putting over the punch she must do
liver against Germany.
A portion of her forces have now
completed a month in tho trenches of
the American sector. Her officers and
men are not worrying about tho Ger
mans, They are Iearninff all the tricks
of tho war game. But from the front
America seems closer to tho trenches
than tho trenches seem to Americans
at home. It is evident here that the
war must mean just as much to a vil
lage in America as to a villngo in
France. Tho only difference is that
the former is uparnd the danger of raids
and demolition.
The holding up of a freight car in
a country village of America today
may bo reflected in the front line
trenches tomorrow, where the son or
brother of some one in that village may
be standing on the fire step.
There is an endless chain running
from the trenches to pvery American
home. It runs through tho office of
General Pershing on long communica
tion lines across the Atlantic to the
seaboard.
Pershing received tho United Press
eorresonHent in his office at head
quarters, following his return from an
inspection at the front. Clear eyed,
earnest and firm, except for his uni
form the general might have appeared
to be the head of some great corpor
ation directing peaceful pursuits, as
well as the comniandor-ln-chlef,
America's greatest army, lie was
dictatinnr a ifinns of orders and cor
residence wjth swift precision Thely
PREMIER L01IHE
URGES RUSSIANS
TO ACCEPT TERMS
Tells Executive Ccmnrites
Position of Nation Abso
. lately Htpeless
OTHER LEADERS TAKE
OPPOSITION STAND
BerEs Reports Officially That
Invasion Is Proceeding
Steadily
By Joseph Shaplen
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Petrograd, Feb. 24. (Delayed)
"When the world's proletariat comes
to our aid we will renew the fight,"
Premier Lenine said today,, in urging;
the executive committee of the pan- so
viot to accept Germany's peace terms.
"Our position is hopeless," Lenins
said. "Their knees are on our cheats."
M. Martoff, leader of the Menshe
viks, opposed to Lenine, argued that by
accepting the terms Russia would be
come Germany's vassal, 1
The meeting began at 8 a. m. and con
tinued for hours. The worn, weary faces)
of the members were filled wits dis
appointment and despair as they left
the hall.
Ensign Krylenko exposed the army 'a
terrible state of disorganization.
Marine Commissary Raskolinkoff sim
ilarly told of the navy's utter lack of
preparedness, - (
Radck insisted that Russia could or
ganize a defense even if Petrograd wer
surrendered. H "" vr-
Roazonoff, a prominent BolshovikI
leader, ridiculed Lenine 's statement
that the soviet government would be
saved by signing tho German peace d
claring: ..--''
' He's a phrase-maker; an opportun
ist." Replying, Lenine said;
"Wo anprcciate the nobility of tha
proletariat of Moscow and Petrograd in
desiring to die for the revolution, but
we ere in no positicn to fight."
Berlin Official Report.
Borlin, Via London, Feb. 25. German
forces have reached Jitmoir (Zhita
mar) tho principal city of Volyhnia, 100
miles cast of Rovno and the same dis
tance west of Kieff, tha Berlin war
office announced today.
At Rovno, the statement said, tho
whole staff of tho Russian Bpecial army
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sunshine poured in through the win
dows, through which drifted ounds of
activities outside.
A flat topped desK, placed in tho
conter of tho room, is the work tabla
from which the American army is be
ing directed . From this office, in all
directions run roads, railroads, tele
graph and telephone; lines. These knit
together tho American army from ita
bane to the front.
Americans nrii ukitieeable every
where. And these, instead of asking
about tho expected Geman drive, in
quiro how things are c'n8 ttt home,
then comes the inevitable tulo of tha
endless chain supplying the army. Tha
freight congestion at homo means sup
plies going toward the seaboard are be
ing delayed. This, plus the coal short
age, is delaying the sailing of ships
and reducing the tonnago on tho seaa
It means lunher deluja.
Tho stories of drunkenness in the
American army hero are without
foundation. This fact is evidenced by
reports from the variojjs commanders,
as well us an observation of the gen
eral conduct of the men. 'fhey aro well
fed and in excellent health.
Getting into actual work in tho
trenches has heightened tho morale of
the army. There is but one army hera
in France. The boy from the corner
grocery who became a member of tha
national army will find in France tha
boy from the same grocery who en
listed, a finished soldier. The former
soon will be the same. He will not ba
known as a member of the national
(army or otherwise. Ho will be known
as a member of a closely knit fighting
unit.
Tho warring to date, popular belief
has it, has not been without mistakes.
Delay has been the causo of the army 's
troubles. The work that has been dona
however isn't an iota of what has to
bo done. The work here so far is mere-
pioneering.