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4,600 SUBSCRIBERS (23,000 BEADEES) DAILY Only Circulation in SaVm Guar anteed by the Audit Bureaa tt ; Circulations r FULL LEASED WIRE . DISPATCHES . SPECIAL WILLAMETTE TAL . LEY NEWS 8EBVICJS FORTY-FIRST YEAR NO. 242. FRENCH PRESSING ALONG ENTIRE LINE MAKE STEADY GAINS Advance Four Or Five Miles And Take Many Impor tant Positions BRITISH CLOSING AROUND CITY OF D0UAI NOW ' From All Points Of Western Front Comes Reports Of Continued Allied Gains London, Oct. 12. (12:55 p. m.) The Germans continue their rapid retire mi sit in toe Champagne and the French have made additional ga,lns of three to four miles at some points, according to "battle front dispatches received cere today. . The British are shoving the Germans across the Sansee canal, south of rxwai and expect to reach the outskirts of that city by tomorrow. t'aris, Oct. 12. Continuing their pro gress on the whole Cham,paj;ne front, .French troops this morning, entered the important town of Vouziers, on the western edg-3 of the Argonne forest, . the war office announced. (Last night's communique reported them within a mile and three quarters of Vouziers.) The French now hold the generaf line of the Retourne river and the oad from Pauvres (four miles north of Machault) to Vouziers. "This morning French troops enter ed Vouziers," the communique said. "We continue our progress on the whole Champagne front. We hold the general line of the Retourno and the road from Pauvres to Vouziers." ENCHICLING MOVEMENT London, Oct. 12. The British, con tinuing their encircling movement of the great coal center of Douai, have tpproaehed to within less than a mile M the city from the west, Field Mar shal Haig announced today. Douai is (practically surrounded. British troops, the statement said, now occupy Suincy, Brcbiers and Ha mcl. Suincy i less than a mile west of !uai This represents an additional ldvance of about four miles, from vest of Beaumont. Brebieres is two miles and a half southwest of Douai on the road -from Vitry-en-Aitois. Hamel at a mile west of Arleux. "Our advance north of the Sensee (Continued on page three) -.,,,, : ABE MARTIN 1 Miss Tawney Apple has teen arrested t3T clesnin' her white gloves on Sun day. Tell Binkley made a rousia' speech last night an' referred t' Ex Fresident Tilden. AMERICAN TROOPS IN STEAMER COLLISION AND MANY ARE DROWNED Loss Of Life Now Estimated At One Hundred And Fifty-Seven -Hundred Were Aboard Ill-Fated Transport. Collision Occurred During Heavy Storm And Manv Soldiers Were! Sick Below Decks.-Graphic Survivors. ....uu, ,.. v ouservBuve esn- mates early today placed the number of goldiers lost when the British steam ship Otranto, acting an American . . ' , . . transport, was gunk in collision with the Kashiuier. at 150. r.n:ln 111 f ...... ' The Otranto was dashed to nieces on the rocks of the Scottish coast ear- ly ly Sunday morning after she had been rammed by the Kashmir during a fierce ramme storm. ' Captain F. 8. Heimer, army medical eorps, unattached, whose home is at HamdcH, N. Y., arrived here today with 25.U. survivors of the crash. Three hundred and seventeen sol- dicrs, and 150 wftHibsis of tlie Otnaatos crew were rescued by a British de- stioyer, he said. , Captain TeUs Story Captain Heimer, interviewed by tho United Press, said the collision occur red at nine o'clock Sunday morning. "A raging storm was in progress," he stated, "with high seas sweeping across our decks, wnen the Kashmir hit us amidships. The coolness and calmness of the soldiers are wonderful. They jumped to 'attention' at their appointed places, awaiting commands without panic. "There were 100 sick cases below and 1 believe they were all lost. We floated an hour and a quarter after the collision. When a British destroyer drew up alongside our boys beuan to jump. There were 700 soldiers aboard, Of those left aboard many must have been lost." j Others declare there were 900 sol diers aboard Unstinted niaise in beinsr, heaped on Lieutenant Commander Cra-led von, who commanded the British de- stroyer Mously and rescued more than 200 men. Most of the soldiers on the transport were Georgia men, all casualties (prob ably meaning replacement units.; Ked Cross workers met survivors of the lost shi)) as they landed, supplying' thum with cigarettes, hot coffee and food and other necessities. Miss Jane Rider of Tucson, Ariz., a Red Cross nurse, who was aboard one of the vessels in the convov, with which the Otanto was proceeding, said to the United Press. J to, but they had little effect. Neverthe- "The first we knew of trougle to . less, soldiers declared Lieutenant Com the Otranto was when we picked up Inlander Craven kept his ship alongside SOS messages from both the Otranto and there was danger that he would and Kashmir. The storm was so bad j be smashed against the side -of the we couldn't turn, but had to put back transport. to sea. The word reaching here early today I couldn't see a thing. Then we heard j declared bedies of forty soldiers had the Otranto was trying to put lifeboats been washed ashore and that twenty over the side, with some of the men survivors had reached Islay in safety. drowning as they tried to enter." ! Islay is the point where the Otranto Miss Ruth Gibbons of Ardmore. K. was driven on the beach. another survivor, said there were number of missing. Latest reports from Belfast, she declared, said there were OOO unaccounted for, while others she had heard placed the loss at 400. Men from the 'lost ship who talked to the United Press correspondent de scribed spectacular scenes a" the Brit ish rescuing 'ship came alongside the damaged transport." . The men were told it , was every man for himself. Standing on the top deck, men began to leap aboard the destroy er, some of them as far nt twenty feet. They Were Not Scred Corporal J. J. Doherty of Brooklyn who was among those rescued, was sKca it ne was scared. 'Hell no, he said, "nothing scares'-, ., . ' r . . . . , it . (Bridgeport, Conn, had been taken Private R. S. Appleby of Knoxville, Pa., said: "Man, the weather was awful. The waves came over as the ship listed , it was difficult to stand still." Privates C. W. Allen of,Moxen, Pa., nd O. J. Holman, Boston, jumped to gether. "ouy cawi, orcarco Sergeant R. J. Donohuc of Columbus, Obio. "We knew we were doomed and didn't think of rescue. Boy! When we ne. ..i. . . ... ii .j i i air that destroyer we felt fine. I saw fifty soldiers swimming at the side-of l, SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER Stories Of Disaster Told By . . the destroyer and saw the ship cut one in two. Another, who was hanging 'to dangling ladder from the side of t0'"' . " t0 d-"th when the warship was thrown against the side of the Otrauto." i Manv ether Rtnripil nf .man haincr crushed between the tammi hin the doomed vessel were told. Other sur-' vivors told of men being washed in swirling seas from which there w; to was no returning. Corporal C. Finnegan of New York was able to grasp a rope tied to a gun aboard the destroyer. For 45 minutes he was dragged in the water behind the rescue ship, but finally was pulled aboard.' - - . V Private Will Covington, Columbus, Ga., rescued two other privates who were struggling in the water. W. J. Weidgenant of Chicago declar ed he saw ene soldier's head crushed when he was caught between the two vessels. Private J. Roman of (Philadelphia said that when the order was given to jup the men aimjily jumped without atkitig any questions, Souir landed and some missed. He was washed over the side of the destroyer twice, he declared, only to come out all right. Survivors are Cheerful All the men landed were most cheer ful and praised the efficiency of the Red Cross workers. At Belfast the sol diers were unanimous in their of Lieutenant Commander Craven, iwho commanded the destroyer and forced it eight times alongside the Otranto to take off the men. I The uldinn Mumm-nil ntinut th TTnit- Pres. correspondent, urging him to ed Press correspondent, urging him to give him the utmost praise. i He is of nerve and f nerve and iron," declar- Hubert fcaylor of Ashland, .ere are auv medals to be ... (i ed Private Kv. "if th passed out he wins them." "He refused to give up his efforts tremo measures were under coflsidera- j they found the town practically in until he couldn't take another man," tion by treasury officials. The highest tact. The enemy retired so hurriedly said another, Lieutenant H. M. Cromwell of La- mar, Colorado, added unstinted praise to these words. The Otranto's lifeboats were lower ed for the purpose of acting as fend- era between the Mously and the Otran American authorities have sent ship loaded with supplies to Islay and. British relief hi,ps also have put out. Accounts of the accident seem t agree that it was due to jamming of the Kashmir 's-steering gear and heavy ' (Continued on page four) Further Proof Secured Of German Propaganda . I of the mountain and Pacific coast area Washington,' Oct. 12. Further proof has pledged 50 per cent of its allot of Germany's pernicious work in tliis'ment, a much higher average than is coutry was made public today by re- shown elsewhere in the nation. relation of the alien property custodian I Uv,.t .iw. RnJ..i i,..;t;u .,, 1 ..... , ..ut.r... "...r..v, over because of cGrman control. Count Von Bernstorff, the German ambassador and other leader, in this country, it wag shown had arranged to get the company so as to hamper mnni-j tions output for the allies. Tl.u com- yuuy mi mi corner me marsei on, niu-, nitions supplies and while ostensibly ta- 1. : . . . . m 1 1 j m ui)j iumii.riS mr miidi xun;rs, was never t0 deliver them. The backers, who had also enginivred afforts to create munitions embareo. stood readv to spend $10,000,000 in their attempt to cripple the munition trad. ftrm o r ! f DaAjWt&Avia,ors!FREflCH ARE CLOSE . London, Oct. 1. (By .Mail.) (To the British bureau of infor- mation. A combined British and American air squadron, in a ivceut raid, set fire to a great German store of oil and petrol which in turn spread to an am- munition dump. 8ix machines on the ground were destroyed by fire and two more by direct hits. Several small hangars were burned a well as the billets of the enemy aviators. Every ma chine engaged returned safely. Shortly afterward a large stale raid was carried out by British and Australian spuadron upon another German airdrome, as a result of which three large hangers were burned and others badly damaged. The British and Australian air men next turned their attention to a neighboring station where Gorman troops were entertain ing. Swooping down in some i I 4 caaes 0 within fifty feet of the (found, the raiders did tremend ous execution among thosoldiers with their machine guns. s' LIBERTY LOAN SUCCESS DEPENDS ON PERSON'S Of LARGEST MEANS William J. Bryan Issues Ajh peal To Americans To Loan Their Money, Washington, Oet. 12. "If the Fourth Libeity Loan is to be successful," the persons of large mpans and comfortaolc circumstances must go deeper into their . i. ,, .. , . P,URLlB lllan ll"7 nav0 so rar. Tui wa tne warning sent out from the treasur department as tho cam- paign lagged todav. Facing a necessary 1 " " . :.nnnnn " . .. aycne of 00,000,000 t0 attain K. minimum ntmta nt 4lft Hftfl rtflrt minimum quota of $6,000,000 ex- speed and the receipt of larger su scriptions appears to bo tin only solu- Hons to the problm since but seven working days remain in tho allotted campaign period. Indications of a keener individual effort was evidenced in the -earlier re - ports. However, it is the view that un less those who have reaped profit out,ne l'r""un , J . o ... i. . . -. . of the war loan more monev tnau thev haw failure faces the 4th loan I It was pointed ont that there arc more buyers of small bonds and the pur chasers relatively are larger than in previous loans and thousands of thMt class of buyers have now taken their limit. Thus, officials asserted, the money must come from those who invest more than the non-taxable amount. Today's report shoves tho total to about $2,120,000,000. On, the basis of previous loans the overnight gain of $100,000,000 would indicate, success. But officials explained that tr.v Fourth Loan is so much larger than the others that pessimism instead of optimism is caused by the reports. ' There wa, one ray of sunshino in to day's telegrams, however. That came front thw west. Practically cverr section , ' wont navoe " " v ? ' ' . emiB1(t(tl are depending on house to house canvassers to bring re- suits. But even this method has not been immune from "flu." Tho local committc-j and canvassing teams hate been disrupted y the disease. Declaring that the man who loans his money to the government has the easiest war task or ail, William J. Brvan is sued the followine anneal to the nation . . . , . . i0 owr-suoscrioe tne issues "Failure of the people to respond to the call for money now," said Bryan, "wnnU h Aiuatrnna 1 wnnM onennr. age the enemy more than ft successful battle." ft rfTTi 12, 1918. TO GREAT GERMAN BASE ACROSS AISNE Cavalry Aided By Machine Guns On Automobiles Pursue Enemy SOUTHERN YANKEES ARE WINNING MANY LAURELS Berlin Announces Retreat From Champagne As "Great Victory" I By John De Gandt (United Press staff correspondent) Paris, Oct. 12. (4:25 p. m.) The FreiiA are across the Retourne river In great force and pursuing the flee ing Germans towntd Kethel be im portant enainy base on the Aisne. Cavalry and fast automobiles carry ing machine guns are harfying th Germans, who are not expected to show much resistance until they are on the opposite side of the Aisne bond. . The French have passed Quilly (mid way between Pauvres and Vouziers.) SOUTHERN YANKEES FIGHT By Lowell Mellett (United Press staff correspondent) With the British Armies in France, Oct. 12. American troops from Tenn essee and tho Carolines, fighting on the British front, have taken 3000 prisoners during the past five days of fighting. . In addition, these troops have taken between 50 and 60 guns and hundreds of machine guns and have recovered 150,000 square yards of territory since September 20. Todsy the Americans met a blasting artillery fire from German artillery across the Selle river. The enemy has fe ",e"B rlv": lae T 7 taken up strong positions on the ridge beyond the river. Whnn U a A n a!nitna nntn.AJ T,.L; When the American entered Boliain that he had no time to plunder and destroy the town. General Rawlinson, commanding the Fifth British army, with which Gener al Lewis' American division d oper ating, today telegraphed General Lew- ,ls:( Tho gallantry of your infantry and milKf l It'll a wunwru uui iiuvw initio nit- , ... ... nun It ..ill 1 1 a v iuii. -i v u un ,...(, ,nu j'ttai ure to report your suceei to Marshal Haig." Field FIGHTING 19 STUBBORN . By FrnJi J. Taylor (United Press staff correspondent) With the American First Army, Oct. 12. (Noon) The most stubborn tight in- is under way along t'no Aire river at Grand Pre and St. Juvin, where the Germans lire counter attacking in great force. To the eastward the American cen ter is progressing better. , , The (iennsns are putting up a strong machine gun, resistance from the Hois de Foret (west of the Meuse and north of Brieulles.) The enemy in their desperate strug gle to hold back the Amoricans have thrown their divisions into the fight ing without regard to order and few of them can be identified. Berlin Wins "Great Victory" Berlin, vis London, Oct. 12. Kvacu ation of the Chcniin des Dames, south of Laon, was announced by the war office in its official statement today. "On both sides of liohain, British French and American attack, were re pulsed," tho statement said. A retirement west of Douai was al so reported. "West of Douai, we witmlrcw our 1iiw. " the atatement said. "Tho ene mv. .Inwlv following, oeruoied the line 1 0f Vendin-Lc-Vioicl, uarneg and 11U- in-Lietard. "In the Champagne, General Von Eincm'ii victory over immensely su- i y. : . . - ... perinr Franco-American fore 'in a fortnight's struggle and ihanstion of " PRICE TWO CENTS n i t iraipnan . troops Ready To Aid Albes Washington, Oct. 12. That Bulgar ian troops will join the allies in atach ing Constantinople and hasten tl. eli mination of Turkey from tho war, was believed likely in diplomatic quariers here today. Bulgarian Minister Pnnarotoff, In a statement when Bulgaria surrendered, declared that Bulgaria would be friend ly to any allied moves on Turkey. Bul garia ants European Turkey which comprises a small triangle extending 100 miles to the west of Constantinople. Ad rianoplo and the Berlin-Bagdad railroad running through Constantinople would be taken from Turkvy. It is probable, however, that Bulgarian forces would be only a part of a joint allied cxpedl tion and that these prizes would not fall entirely to ono power. IANS Li Prisoners Taken Say That Country Ready To Qujt Useless Fighting. ' By Prank J. Taylor. (United Pivss Staff Correspondent.) With Tho American First Army, Sept. 19. (By Mail.) Austria's pro posal to talk over peace terms is the first official sign that the government is fed up on war and sees little hope in tho future, according to Hungarian prisoncrs-officers as well as men who were captured near Ht. Mihiol. The peoplo have wanted to quit for many months, prisoners say, but the government was hopeful of a military victory. Th0 Hungarian prisoners were not too hopeful of immediate results of Aus tria's proposals, which they thought were probably independent of Germany owing to an estrangement between the central powers. They thought Austria Hungary would be able to break away .from Germany to make peace indepen dently, if she desired to do bo. They also thought Germany would goon topple then. . Tho (frrmang, on the other hand, thought Austria had been allowed by the Germans to propose peace negotia tions. "Austria has to propose peace every so often, anyway, was the way ono Ger man expi'jsKod it, and the others gave the same idea in other words. "Austria Hungary could not make a separate peace if she wanted to," boast ed tho German officers. "We could pre vent it by force. "Wy would be better off if she did because the Austrians won't fight and we have t0 feed them and get nothing in roturn for it." "The Austrians were heartily In fa vor of anything that would bring peace, They cared nothing about whether thv allies won or whether it was the central powors. To them it meant one, thing thoy could go liack home and bo thank ful they were nlivo. What political and social change came about as the'resuli of the war meant much less to them than returning to Budapest. The Hungarians look for a speedy, fin- ihs to the war. , They thought neither the allies nor tho central powers would hold out much longer and that a peaca agreement would soon be reached. Germans Also Bee Defeat. Some German officers saw clearly they would bo defeated, as they said, by "overwhelming odds." However they thought they must resist as long as possible in the hope of an allied break. The men also looked forward- to defeat, but thought it would hi speed ier. They had no" regret for defeat, foi the most part, if It would bring peace and still let them have their country. Oermans can never understand why - (Continued on page three) the enemy, has rendered possible the smooth execution of our retirement in the Aisne bend." Arlal Fighting Be ported Rome. Oct. 12 Particularly Intense terial fighting on the Asaido plateau yesterday was reported by tat Italian war office today. ' ' ft THE WEA TILES. - OBEGOX TOMGHT And Saturday, enerally fair ex- cept unsettled, probably showers northwest portion; ' southerly winds, moderate near coast. ON TRAINS AND NEWS STANDS FIVE CENTS lAmnill limuirn ULRI'Itt I K IS DELIVERED TO SVISSf HNISTER Newspapers Of Central Em pires Disagree As To Con cessions Made. TURKEY AND AUSTRIA BOTH READY TO QUIT People Of Germany See Cer tain Defeat Ahead; Are Pleading For Peace Amssterdam, Oct. 12 Soma German papers assert th reply to President Wil son accedes fully to his demands. Oth ers declare that only far reaching ad vane r made. v Basle, Oct. 12. The National Zeltuns;. announces that eGnnany's reply to President Wilson was presented to the Swiss minister at Berlin this morning. London, Oct. 12. Austria-Hnni? arv and Turkey are expected immediately to announce acceptance of President Wil. son's armistice terms, according to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Ber lin received by way of Amsterdam. A Central News dispatch from Amst errdam says that Austria-Hungary and Turkey have informed Germany thev will accept Wilson's terms, Tli . Ttvnrau riAjlai 4V. a n 111 n. agreed on a common policy in regard to peace negotiations. Renter's agency reports that Turkey has approached President Wilson in re gard to peace negotiations, By Robert 3. Bender. ! (United Press Staff Correspondent.) Washington, Oct. 12. President Wil son's flanking movement at Germany' rear Is aecontuniing tho difficulty of the kaiser, now struggling to auve him self flom tl. peace trap he tried to spring on the allies. Reported unqunlificd acceptance by Austria and Turkey of the" president's fourteen principles for peace, leaves Germany in an extremely detieate. posi tion She must cither yield to her vas sals' demands or lose them in the opin ion of experts here. " A Riiwln iliunnlch .tnfinir thn dprman reply had been hau&d the Swiss minis--ter, greatly heightened sjoculation as to its possible contents. Today Prince Max is expected to ap pear before the reichstag and discuss Germany's reply" to President Wilson 'a Inquiries. With the German armies re treating steadily under the constant blows of Foch in the west' and with Germany ' vassnb in the east crying for peace, tho position of Max is tho most interesting of any of tU long; line of chancellors that have passed liko phantoms over the reichstag ros trum since the war broke out. Interior conditions are worso than at any time in the history of Germany. According to rcporto ' to this gowrn mont, the indications increase that Ger many is a crumbling edifice. . One of there says in part: "Even the hospitals are no longer re victualed. Thp alimentary conditions are lamentable. Bandages, etc., are ab solutely lacking. Well known physicians, state Hint the race is lost and will not bo brought back to its eld standard for many yenrs, The well known Profossor Bier reports that 'The German peoplo will cry for mercy before six months if tlwj allied bombardment of towns con tinues, and the day when this arrives no government will he able to stop th pressure of the peoplo for peace at any price. Tho peoplo have suffered too much not to succumb to this ceaselesa anguish." - - ' Austria, too, is hard pressed even more so. In addition to the constant nprising. of the oppressed nationali ties within her borders, the people or Hungary are now demanding a tepar- (Continned on page three)