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Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-02-08

VI war DdhcT tudt thc OVi man ihiii
tary command had planned a con-
centrated attack directed against
the American transports in an effort
TO prevent the American troops get
ting to France in time for taking
active part In the spring drive.
Only Few Are Lost
1t had been accepted that trans
ports would be attacked but there
was strong hope entertained that
the protection plans OF the navy de-
partment would checkmate the Ger
man efforts. And. while there was
the deepest regret over the appar-
ent loss of life In this initial sink
ing of a transport. officials pointed
out that the large number of saved
was an eloquent tribute to the ef-
fective measures that had been plan
ned to meet such attacks.
Until the complete story of the
attack reaches Washington, officials
did not care to comment on the eff
ficacy OF the convoy. 1t was accept
ed, of course, that the navy had
done its full part and that the Ger
mans had managed TO get a trans
port was accepted as simply one OF
the fortunes Of war.
Already Secretary Baker has LET
II be known that the United States
has transported overseas more
troops than Canada has sent during
the entire war period, and 1t can
hardly be expected that the enor-
nous volume of shipping now on
the seas can keep making the trips
with perfect immunity. W
Deepest sorrow everywhere was
expressed over the loss of life. II
was remarked that 1t was national
guard outfit which had suffered the
first big blow for the army on the
sea. To Michigan and Wisconsin
will go that place in history
Nation Is Shocked
The news came to Washington a.
Ia severe shock. No intimation o.
the disaster was allowed to become
known until about 10 O'Clock Tues
day night, when Secretary Bake
was hurriedly summoned to the de
Continued on page 2.)
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-02-08
AUSTRIAN CABINET
TENDERS RESIGNATION
Amsterdam, Feb. S.--Dr. Won
seydler, Austrian premier, today
rendered the resignation OF his en-
tire cabinet to Emperor Charles, ac-
eordlng to Vienna dispatches.
AMERICAN AVIATOR SHOT
DOWN Bi GERMANS

Paris, Feb. William s. Taller,
of Roslyn, l.. l., flying in the French
escadrille while awaiting an Amerl-
can commission for which he had
been recommended, was killed Mon
day in an encounter with Germans,
who brought down his plane behind
their lines. Taller was 23 years old.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-02-08
DAYS SUMMARY
WAR OPERATIONS

London. Feb. Operations on
the western front continue TO he
marked by heavy artillery exchanges
In conjunction with raidng attacka
on the opposing trenches. Paris re-
ports active cannonades on the Aisne
and Verdun fronts and In Alsacc and
q half dozen German forays we're re-
pulsed In which the enemy lost men
and material. According TO Berlin,
the Germans captured prisoners In a
raid In Flanders and IN forefleld en-
gagements In Artois. and French
attack In the Champagne broke
down.
Rome reports slight artillery nc-
tivity on all the Italian front, brit
that hostile aircraft wednesday
morning renewed their lombard
ments OF italian towns. The mum.
Der OF enemy machines brought
down by the entente airmen on the
italian 'front.' from January 20 tc
February 9, was sc, according tc
Rome.
As indicating the chaotic condi
tons in Russia under the Bolshevik
rule, Petrograd advice reachlnt
London. says that looting occurred
on Tuesday and Wednesday In thu
Russian capital. when wine cellars
we're sacked by mobs. The author
tiles used armored cars to oppose
the plllagers. many Of whom wer'
killed or wounded.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-02-08
ARMY FLYING FIELD
FOR RIVERSIDE, CAL

Washington. Feb. S.-The estab-
llshment of an army flying field at
Rivei side, Cal. has been authorized
and contracts for construction have
been let. Names of the firms Sc
curing the contracts have been with
held,
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-02-08
DUTCH CHILDREN GATHER
TONS OF NEEDED JUNK

Amsterdam. Feb. S.-School chill
dren of Frankfort in two weeks coll
lected 10000 pounds of waste pa
per. $4,000 pounds of rags. S,400
pounds OF metal. 900 pounds of
women's hair, 1000 pounds of rub
ber. 1000 pounds of leather. $4,000
bottles 10000 electric lamps. A.
900 corks, and $4,000 hats. The
articles were all turned over to the
army.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-02-08
CALAMITY SEEN IN HUN
OCCUPATION OF SAMOA

Ottawa, Ont, Feb. S.--A dispatch
to Reuters. Limited. from Welllng-
ton, N. T., quotes Premier Massey of
New Zealand as saying that any ar
rangement allowing Germany to re-
possess Samoa would be national
calamity for the British interest in
the Pacific. He therefore urged that
Australia and New Zealand be rep
resented at any peace conference.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-02-08

Maria. Texas. Feb, S.--Tesas
rangers reported ON January 10 that
they had had trouble with band Of
Meslcans at Poryenlr who we're sup
posed to have been implicated In the
Brile ranch raid They admitted
having killed Is OF the number. The
bodies were taken across the Rio
Grande to VI Condor and buried by
their families and friends.
The United States army had moth
ing to do with the affalr and no sol
diers were near that place the night
of the killing Instead, a number OF
Mexlcans sought and received pro'
lection from the military at Evcr'
et,'s ranch. the military authorities
here declared.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-02-08
SAID To HAVE iiAiDED LAittt
CATTLE RANCH NEAR IORvE.
MR. TEXAS
WASHINGTON IS INVESTIGATING
tni,~i states Army Not Implicated
In Anair---Aicsican Ambassador
Files Protest

NJ Paso. Feb. San Investigation
OF the killing OF 10 Mexican citizens
at Porvenir, Texas, 40 miles north
ives, OF Presidio. on January rs. has
been ordered by the state depart
mont at Washington. and IN belns
made by the military stationed In
the Big Bend district OF Texas,
where the killings occurred. THIS
was asked for by Mexican Ambassa-
dor ygnaclo Bohillas.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-02-08
Ed, PARKER PASSENGER
ON T0RPEDQED BOAT
More Than Hundred Oregon Men Were on the Torpedoed
7uscaua--No Definite News Until List Of Survivors
Has Been Cabled to Washington

Washington. Feb. s.--Passengers
on the torpedoed transport Tnscanla
included many oregon men. among
whom we're Edward +, Parker OF
Grants Pass and Charles Hendricks
OF klamath Falls.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-02-08

Wlthycombe expressed the fear that
his son. Earl Withycombe. was on
board the transport Tuscania. tor
pedoed on the Irish coast, but his
fears were dispelled later, on receipt
Of telegram saying his son had
been transferred from the engineers
regiment which he believed to have
been aboard the ship.
Later word was received that the
young man is III In hospital al
Washington. ID. G.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-02-08

Portland. Feb. S.---Sixteen officers
and men from Portland were aboard
the torpedoed transport. The list
included nearly 100 men from Other
sections OF Oregon. Among then
we're Joe X. Redfield OF Glendale
aud Second Lieutenant Daniel w
Parker and Fred T.. Snyder OF Ash
land.
Those on board from Eugene are:
Ruben Chindgren. John II. Chaplin
Howard B. Merrill. Arthur J. Ream
Riley +, Murray. Otto +. Miller and
Dale n. Mummy.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-02-08
j. S. AMBASSADOR
WAS nor EXPELLED

4 Washington. Feb. s.-The state
department today received routine
telegrams from Ambassador Francis
at Petrograd under date OF Febru-
AIRY I. This is regarded AS discount
Ing unconfirmed reports that Am
bassador Francis had been expelled
by the Bolsheyikl.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-02-08
ARTILLERY
CLEANS OUT sN|PERs

With the American Armies. Feb.
S.-The American artillery and IN
fantry forces have succeeded in
clearing out majority of the snip
ers who have been causing consider
able annoyance.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-02-08

An Irish Port, Feb. S.--As the list
OF the Americans aboard the Tus-
cania was lost when the vessel went
down IL will be impossible TO aseer-
tain the names OF those lost until the
names OF the survivors are cabled TO
the United States.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-02-08

Stockholm. Feb. s-According TO
unconfIrmcd dispatches. the Bolshe-
wiki government has expelled from
Russia all entente mission and they
are on their way TO the Swedish hor-
der Ambassador Francis has not
been heard from since February :.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-02-08

Washington. Feb. s.--Advices to
the war department accounting for
all but lis OF the American soldiers
aboard the torpedoed Tuscania re-
mains unchanged.
Cable reports from an Ireland port
gives information that ~ bodies OF
American soldiers. battered beyond
recognition. we're washed ashore .
miles from the scene OF the torpe-
doing. Their Identification tags
bore no names or numbers. oficials
pointed out that the soldiers had
not yet been assigned to definite
units.
War department advices now show
the total number missing as 21o, Of
which 113 are American troops.
II may take some time to deter
mine definitely who is missing.
London. Feb. s.--Revised figures
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-02-08

stockholm, Feb. S.--General Man.
nerh.im. commander OF the forces
supporting the Finnlsa provisional
government, has defeated the revo-
lutIonary Red Guard at Korkeakcsi'
near Tammerfors, according to Hell
singfors dispatches,
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-02-08

Seattle. Feb. s.--wm. w. Cooper.
son OF Prof. Frank Cooper. superin-
tendent OF the Seattle schools. was
aboard the ill=fated Tuseania4 49,.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-02-08
I. RS CONDITION
REMAINS UNCHANGED

New York, Feb, Theodore
Roosevelt's condition is unchanged
today which Is considered satisfac-
tory.
New York, Feb. S.--The affection
.Df Roosevelt's ear subsidized some
what today. II Is announced.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-02-08
rOOD SITUATION CAUSES Ex-
TREME ANXIETY IN HALLS OF
CONGRESS
DRAFT ALL PERSONS FOR WORK
Heatless Mondays Discontinued In
south-warmcr Weather Expect
ed to Relieve Situation

Washington, Feb. s.-Senators
today urged drastic action to cope
with the food shortage. Senator
Smoot OF Utah urged the establish
ment OF a monthly fast day.
Senators are agreed that II war
keeps on every person will be draft
ed for work suited to him.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-02-08

Washington. Feb. S.-Heatless
Mondays have been Abandoned
through the south extending from
Virginia. Fuel administrators hope
that with warmer weather viii come
improved railroad traffic and that
heatless days may be discontinued
after next Monday.
Another bill affecting the draft
would authorize the president In any
emergency to call into immediate
service skilled experts In industrial
lines or in agriculture regardless Of
their classification. residence or
quota.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-02-08

Salem. Feb. Governor James
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14

loan campaign. Between that tiny
flare-up on the Lexington Common and
the present mighty conhagration on the
plains of Picardy liberty has won and
lost, but chiefly won, a number of de-
cisive battles. All might be linked in
a common series, as part of the
same irresistible movement toward the
emancipation of mankind. At home
here in America in this month of April,
1918, we are engaged in financing this
been existing as a nation for nearly a
century and half in luxury and pros
perity beyond the dreams of avarice.
April 10, 1875, from all accounts,
must have been another such day as
Easter this year. warm and sunny and
even little sultry, the kind of a spring
day that opens buds and quickens
pulses, that ripens the fruit of sup
pressed anger and hatred. All the pre-
cedng winter the forces of the King
and those of the colonists had been pre-
pairing for the clash, the one openly,
the other secretly. General Thomas
Gage, the royal Governor and army
chief, had fortified Boston Neck where
the peninsula on which the city is built
joints the mainland. He had garrisoned
the city with about 1000 British reg
ulars and marines, ZOO of whom were
encamped on Boston Common, 400 on
Fort Hill, $40 on Boston Neck and the
remainder in smaller detachments else
where. These professionals conducted
themselves toward the civilians of Bos-
ton in much the same manner as did
the Prussians toward the inhabitants
of Zabern, enjoying the full favor and
protection of the Governor, their gen
eral.
But size and significance are not al
ways partners. Our ancestors did not
count the cost, either in blood or
money. In France at this moment the
sons of those patriots of Lexington and
Concord are fighting with the same de-
termination to make an end of military
arrogance. They, too, are not counting
the cost. Shall we?
The only possible answer an Amer
lean can make who can't fight himself
is the largest practical investment in
Liberty bonds.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14
Splendid Silk. OFFERINGS

OF notable lots in the Silk Store these for snec;.I MOI
ion for Monday:
AlS;lk Taffeta, $1.29 Yard, from, 81 40
Most desirable shades including navy blue: s. wide
Tafeta Foulard, $1.19 Yard, from S179
All silk; 36-in, new designs navy blue grounds
All-Slk Crepe de Chine, $1.19 Yard from 81 go
In fine color range 50 in
Evening Silks, $1.19 Yard, from ST. 80 and s1.4e
Messaline and tafeta, SIS ill., in broken color ranges
Black Chiffon Taffeta, $1.49 Yard, from $19s
beautiful French make; s. in. Street floor y pr,.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14

Hand" admonition and illustration.
twenty-five other banners, similarly
inscribed and illustrated, 20 by 80 feet
in size, have been ordered They will
be hung throughout the district where
they will be likely to create the great
est bond-buying response. Advertise
ments will be placed in newspapers
and magazines.
Probably no advertising campaign
was ever Solicited" on as stupendous
scale as this. About $50 of the best
statesmen available in New York have
been released for the Liberty Loan
Committee and are soliciting adver-
tlslng from more than 10000 business
firms representing every line of bust
ness and trade in the city
Groups of smaller firms are being
formed in eighty-five different trades
IN the city to contribute pooled adver
Using.
In addition to soliciting newspaper
and publication advertising. the sales.
men are obtaining locations for out
door advertising, and more than $500
signs of various kinds will be painted
or posted in New York City during the
drive.
Advertising suggestions and folders
OF copy have been sent to over one
Thousand cities and towns in the
"a Federal Reserve District, and the
committee is supplying newspaper plate
matter free to those local committees
running advertisements. More than
5,oOO 24-sheet posters are being placed
throughout the state.
Buya bond cards will be placed on
hotel writing desks, inside of phone
booths, and at the desks of restaurant
cashiers. Placards will be placed on
factory bulletin boards, and also on
the announcement boards of clubs, col
leges and libraries. They will be hung
in the Fifth Avenue buses, municipal
carts, taxicabs and ferryboats. Whcr-
ever placards are not disable pastors
or stlckers will be employed instead.
Posters will be used in all of Liggett e.
myers stores, on water tanks on the
tops Of buildings, and on fences and
telegraph poles. Franked cards to the
number of 1 100000 or more are being
sent out on special mailing lists. One
variety, bearing an appeal to "Mothers,
wives and sweethearts," is going solely
to women. The "Collar the Kaiser"
novelty will be distributed through
laundries, and will carry a circulation
punch estimated at 100000. The
candy box circulation will reach 3OO,-
600, the grocery package wrappers L.
100000, the hatband $4,000.
Pay envelopes are also to be utilized
as advertising mediums. Four Diff
ferent sorts of inserts have been pre-
pared, and a 100000 circulation is
estimated. Wards bread distributors
will use Buy-a Bond insert with each
loaf. A 100000 circulation is calcu.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14
First Yoke of Prussianism
Broken at Battle Of Concord

N THIS month of months, April,
whose blossoms will seem always
pink with the TRANSMISSION of patri-
cite blood, we celebrate the Birthday
of Liberty. On April 10, ITS zone
hundred and forty-three years ago.,
force of infantry and marines, owing
allegiance to Teutonic monarch quite
as mad if not as clever as the one we
defy to-day, marched from Boston to
Concord, Mass, and back again through
a hornets nest of as angry patriots
as ever swarmed on the TANKS of au-
tocracy. The anniversary of that day
is legal holiday in Massachusetts.
For its significance in history it might
we'll be celebrated yearly throughout
the civilized world. On that day Lib
erty, as we know it in the Western
world, the thing for which at this mo-
ment the great enlightened nations of
our generation are deluging with their
blood the countryside of Picardy, first
saw the light Of reality.
1t is no reflection on Great Britain,
cur present heroic ally, to date the
dawn of liberty from this conflict with
her King. The Liberals of England
hailed it then, and do still, as the SUM-
rise of their own emanci patton from
the yoke Of junkerism. George III was
German. His court was largely Ger
man, and made up of the same breed
of autocratic pedants as are engaged
to-day in tramplng into the dust all
the sweetness and light in their path
way. Technically, we were at war with
Great Britain during the seven heart
rending years which followed LeXing
ton. Actually, we were engaged in
filing the handouts of slavery from
the wrists of the entire English-speak-
ing race, both at home and abroad
preparatory to this present sublime
moment, when, shoulder to shoulder
with our ancient ally, France. the
whole Anglo Saxon family presides at
the violent deathbed of the last and
greatest personification of divine
right brutality.
Investors in Liberty Bonds and pros
pective investors can hardly remain in
sensible to the immense significance
to them of the anniversary of Licking
ton and Concord, punctuatinc the third
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14
Night Signs Will
illuminate the Sky

Pastors and placards will also be
used in milk store windows, transfer
wagons, ice and coal wagons, at the city
markets and in the Postal Telegraph
Office windows. Rubber stamps with
slogans will carry their imprint on
theatre ticket envelopes, railroad
ticket envelopes, New York Transfer
Company receipts and seed distribu-
ton tags
Electric signs will be used in dozen
prominent locations throughout New
York. Slogan strips will appear on
Western Union clocks. Four prom-
nent theatres - Metropolitan Opera
House, Keths, Brooklyn Academy of
Music and the houses supplied by the
Strauss Programme Company-will all
carry a page each week of bond-buying
appeal.
Auto markers and pennants to the
number of $500 are being distributed
for constant use during the drive
Three hundred transparency covers
have been prepared for the BROOKLYN
high schools. Twenty thousand win
, dow displays are ready, including war
relics, army and navy equipment and
Liberty Bell transparencies. Six hun
dred feet of original animated cartoons
Tor motion picture appeal are ready,
with many more screen features ap-
pealing to prospective bond buyers.
7 IL.
our national anthems and reproductions
OF posters, slogans, our boys, our flag
and devastation in Europe will reach a
multitude during the drive.
To distribute all this advertising and
appeal matter twelve headquarters
have been established. Three are in
New York, the main depot for distri-
button being the Thirty-ninth Street
and Seventh Avenue establishments
Through patriotic cooperation it is
planned systematically to disseminate
100000 pieces Of literature as a street
distribution campaign alone.
And while this summary of the
mighty advertising activity of the
third Liberty Loan drive is an aggre-
gate while it is being written, every
tick of the clock increases and ex-
pands the varieties of publicity effort
and the avenues of appeal. Top speed
is to be maintained during the entire
100000 900 bond buying appeal. Not
an individual in the I'd Federal Re-
serve District will lack information
as to how to hammer the Hun, nor how
to help preserve the American heritage
of freedom.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14

In addition to these there is clock
paster bearing the words thine to
Buy Liberty Bonds" There will also
be grocery store wrappers made of
page proofs of newspaper Liberty Loan
advertisements on paper suitable for
wrapping merchandise. There will be
candy box inserts reminding of the
bonds. There will be reminders on
theatre programmes and match boxes.
There will be stickers and stamps for
envelopes. In the aggregate there will
be between 500 and 600 different types
of advertising matters either directly
connected with these novelties or of
independent pulling power.
Of the bookmarks $500, 600 are being
distributed. The milk bottle tops will
number 100000, the book matches
II 100000 and the envelope stamps
100000. The arm band, although not
strictly in the novelty list, is of a
novel character. Of these, 10000 of
white felt and 500 of silk, both bearing
Buy a Bond" inscriptions, are being
distributed.
Car card advertising is to be one of
the most extensive and intensive bond
selling aids. On all of the B. r. T.
cars-front and rear dashboards-t
printed call to buy will appear, and
there will be posters in the elevated
and subway stations of the INTERIOR
ough. The New York City and West
chester surface cars will carry "full
run" of 10000 Lend Hand" cards.
The total car card distribution will
approach $4,000, including stations of
the car systems.
This Lend a Hand" topic is ex-
pected to be a bond seller of the first
magnitude. The drawing is by Sarka
and shows with realistic vividness the
struggle of soldier to climb up cover
the top" and play his part in the dash
across No Mans Land to bayonet the
Hun out of his trench. 1t will be re-
produced for banner and poster in al
most unlimited number. The Cotton
Exchange has ordered a special banner
30 by 40 feet, bearing the Lend