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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-04-04
Intense Artillery Fire

Paris, April 4.-The artillery north
of Montdidier assumed great intensity
last night, the French war office report
ed today.
Northwest of Rheims (ini the Chemin
das DANES sector, where American
troops are training), in the Champagne
and along the left bank of the Meuse,
French troops penetrated various en-
emy trenches and took prisoners, the
communique said. !.
East of Rheims, in the Avocourt
wood northwest of Verdun) and north
of st. Die, German raids fell down
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-04-04
British Front Quiet

London, April 4.-The British front
continues quiet, Field Marshal Haig
reported today.
S'An enemy post in the neighborhood
of Hebuterne (north of Alhert) was
rushed and a machine gun captured. -
he said.
GA few prisoners were captured on
other parts of the battle front. Else'
where on the battle front, also in the
Menin road and Passchendaele sectors
(near Ypres, in Belgium), there was
hostile artillery firing.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-04-04

days. He is cleaning up his herd, sell
ing off his poor mixers and buying
better ones.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-04-04
shinning Loss Small

London, April 4.-Only thirteen
British mdrchantmen were sunk oy
submarines during the week endlne
March 30, according to the admiralty
report. Of these six were 1000 tons OF
over. Seven fishing vessels also were
destroyed.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-04-04

This is the smallest toll exacted by
U.boats since the week ending January
20. when six vessels of more than 1900
tons and two small craft were sunk
The sinkings in the week ending March
% were the heaviest this year-ld
vessels Of more than 1900 tons and Il
Stu q IIar oupS
New-York tribune., 1918-06-11
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New-York tribune., 1918-06-11
Souiet Army Driven
Back Across Onor1
By Gen. Sernenof
(By The Associated Press)

HARDIN, Manchuria, June Cen
eral Semenoff, leader of the anti Boil
shevik forces in Siberia, has driven
back the Russian troops which had
crossed the Onon River, in Trans
baikalia. Advices received here from
the fighting zone, however, say
Semenoff is facing heavy odds.
Admiral Kolchak, former commander
of the Russian Black Sea fleet, and
now commanding the forces protecting
the Chinese Eastern Railway in Man
churia, has joined forces with those
of Colonel Orlof and has massed his
battalions at ?ogranitchnaya for an
offensive movement against the Bolshe-
vik troops on the railroad running to
Vladivostok.
Admiral Kolohak has 1900 Russians
and 600 Chinese ond also a Chinese
independent command Of $500 men
guarding the frontier General Kali
makoff, with 200 Russians, is CO.
operating with Kolchak at Peganitch-
maya.
The Bolshevik troops are massed at
Grodokova, five miles from Pegranitch-
maya. 1t is reported their forces in
clude 800 armed Teuton prisoners and
that they are supported by a large
force at Nikolsk, near Vladivostok
The Chinese troops will not take an
active part in the offensive, confin-
ing their operations to guarding the
railway.
Bolshevik soldiers arc stopping
westbound trains at Grodokova and are
removing men eighteen to thirty-five
years Of age who are without foreign
passports.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-11
Russia Yields Lands
Close to Two Ports
Territory Ceded to Finland
Puts German Menace Near
kola and Archanqel
Especial Dispatch to The T,1b,n<


WASHINGTON, June 1o.-The State
Department was advised to-day that
Russia and Germany have agreed gem
orally IN regard to the new boundaries
OF Finland. Finland cedes to Russia
the fortress CT lno and Raivola, under
guarantee that they shall not be forti
ned. Russia cedes to Finland the
western part of the Murman Peninsula
with an exit to the sea. The exact
boundaries, the dispatch said are to
be defined later.
1t was pointed out to-day that the
cession by Russia to Finland puts Ger
man influence dangerously close to the
extreme northern entrepots of Russia.
kola and Archangel, threatening also
the railroads from those ports to the
interior of Russia. Both harbors arc
under the present control of British
and French naval forces,
There has been surprise in some
quarters here in the readiness of the
boishevik government to enter into
agreements with the Central Pow
ers which crcumscrbe Russia's future
but now the opinion is held generally
that the Bolshevik leaders esteem tho
maintenance of their authority as tho
government of Russia to be Of moro
value than ;he protection of Russia's
vital interests, even when the ces.
SONS affect other powers interests.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-11

action in connection with questions of
foreign policy nre necessary
"Polltical cooperation must be sup
ported by an understanding on mill
tary questions. If the states are
bound together by treaty of protec-
ton. they must bear prorortionatelv
the burdens of this protection, and all
would then nave an identical interest
in the simplifcation and appropriate
extension of military institutions.
The experiences Of the present war
have shown what similar training in
arming, equipment and supply system
means in facilitating the conduct of a
war and what difficulties their absence
has entaicd. The military authorities
would easily come to an understanding
OF what is necessary in this direction.
Would Be Supreme.
at would be indeed fine if general
world disarmament would be reached
with the conclusion Of peace. Let US
take stand for the present, how
ever, on facts and make the alliance
complete. Once Germany and Austria
Hungary are economically and politi-
cally united, who in the world would
have the courage, whether alone or
with others, to run against this bloc,
especially when the war preparations
of the allied empires are unified,
when France is weakened to such q
degree as she appears to-day to have
no idea Of; when czaristic Russia can
be neither menace to its enemies nor
protection for political states which
play the role of perpetual disturbers of
the peace and intriguers; when the
northern border states are the military
followers of Germany; when Poland is
allied to the Central Empires and
when neither starvation in the Central
Powers nor dissension between them
can longer be counted upon?
"The peace of Europe will then rest
in the hands Of united Germany and
Austria Hungary, and will be in good
hands. With every economic and DO DO
litical agreement that takes place be-
tween the new alliance and the Balkan
States, or even with Turkey, the i'm
portance of the bloc, and consequent
ly its guarantee of peace, still further
! increases.
"That is the road by which we in
Germany, with Austria Hungary, will
eventually arrive. if not at an imme.
diate disarmament, nevertheless at g
substantial lessening Of our armament
burden"
The Vice-Chancellor said the Polish
question could be solved only in con.
nection with the German-Austro-H Hun.
| garian question, or vice verso In what
ever form, TOO, Poland might in the
future seek and find its attachment
with the Central Powers, one thing is
certain, that the attachment "woulc
be easier if Germany and Austria Hun.
gary are politically, economically, mil
itarily and permanently united than i,
the present state of affairs is retained
or even if there is possibility tha
IN future complete separation shoule
be threatened"
He maintained that the solution o.
the whole matter must be on broat
lines and effected quickly. He con
cluded:
"The fateful hour has struck fo,
Germany and Austria Hungary, and
therefore. assuredly also for Europe.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-11
Relief Commission
For Persia Will
Fight Propaganda

DR.. Harry Pratt Judson, president of
the University of Chicago, will come to
New York Thursday to consult men,
bers of the American Committee for
Armenian and Syrian Relief before he
sails as head of the American Com
mission for Keller in Persia
Two contingents of the Persian COM
mission sailed from Pacific ports and
are expected to meet somewhere in
India within few days. At least six
prominent men and womea will sail
with DR.. Judson. They expect to meet
other members of the commission at
the Persian Gulf.
Although the stated purpose of the
Persian committee is relief it is also
admitted that it has an important
political mission to perform. German
intrigue, aimed at complete control of
the country's vast mineral deposits
spread through Persia following the
collapse of Russia.
The American Committee for Ar
menian and Syrian Relief, with head
quarters at l Madison Avenue, deteg7
mined to fight this dangerous influence
with the United States as the base
The commission was formed through
the State Department with the un.
official sanction of the Administration
At the headquarters yesterday it was
said that the commission will attempt
tc gain the good will of the Persian
people and check the rising tide of dis
ease and famine near Teheran in the
Lake Urumia district.
New York men who are members Of
the American committee insist that i
is absolutely necessary for the Amer
leans to win the confidence and friend
ship of the Persian people. Untolt
stores of copper, nickel and manganese
exist in Persia, and Germans and Turk:
have been making determined effort
to gain control of these ever since
1914
Among those who sailed with tn,
first contingent were DR.. and Mrs. A
V. w. Jackson, of Columbia University
DR.. Jackson has long been known al
Persian scholar.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-11
Anti-Souiet Moue
Spreading; General
Strike Imminent

LONDON. June 1O.-The movement
engineered against the government by
anti-Soviet deputies is assuming a
threatening character, according to a
dispatch from Moscow to the Exchange
Telegraph Company. Factory workers
are boycotting the Soviet deplty del
egates and even attacking them violent
ly. A general political strike appears
to be imminent
In several provincial towns where
elections have taken place anti-Soviet
deputies have been returned with large
majorlties.
A, great syndicate has beensformed
in Russia, by permission of the gov
ernment, to take ever the entire i'm
port and export trade Of Russia, ac-
cording to a Stockholm dispatch to
the "Politiken," of Copenhagen, trans
mitted by the Exchange Telegraph cor
respondent in the Danish capital The
object of the syndicate, it is stated,
is to facilitate the transition of this
trade from private to state interests
and to control trade with foreign coun-
tries. Export trade will be allowed
only under government advices.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-11
aft Says u. S. Must
Go Intoe Russia to
Make Easter, Front

NEWARK, Del, June 1O.-"We must
go into Russia and make an Eastern
front" declared William H. Taft in q
stirring address at the annual com
mencement of Delaware College to- day
while discussing the war. "The Eastern
front" he continued, "has been lost
through the treachery of Germany.
They say to establish an Eastern front
would be great task, but there is no
task that is too great for the United
States"
He referred to the wonderful rising
OF England and France at the Marne
and the splendid result, when many
persons did not believe this possible.
We have got to whip the Germans. !"
Mr.. Taft continued, land we have got
to whip them right; not only the Ger
man military party but the German ma
tion We have more money and more
munitions, and we can and will furnish
more man power than any other coun-
try in the world for the purpose Of
rldding the world of this serpent Of
militarism."
New-York tribune., 1918-06-11
Says Bolsheviki Here
Aid Germany's Cause

A. D. Semenoffsky, president of the
Executive central Committee of the
Federation of Russian Organizations
in America, objects to statement
which, he says, was made in a Socialist
newspaper, that all Russian organiza-
tions in this country are united in
urging the United States to recognize
the Bolshevik government. He char
acterizes the Russian meeting to be
held this evening in Madison Square
Garden as a pro-Kaser gathering. In
a letter written yesterday he says:
"In the name of the Federation of
Russian Organizations in the United
States, in the name of the League for
Russia's Unity and in the name of the
Russian Political Club, l wish to say
the Russian colony in the United
States is against Bolsieviki as new
form of tyranny in Russia and is
grateful to the President of the United
States for his democratic policy toward
Russia, the policy which expressed it.
self in not recognizing Bolshevist
tyranny and the so-called Brest-
Litovsk Peace treaty.
THE Jewish Daily Forward and the
Russian, Bolshevist newspaper .Novy
Mir called for tomorrow meeting
at Madison Square Garden with pur-
pose, to- urge the recognition Of the
Bolsheviki.
THE Russian colony is against this
meeting. Bolsneviki and pacifists have
destroyed Russia, and now they are
acting here willingly or unwillingly
promoting the Kaiser's cause"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-11
Russian Prefers
Bolshevisn1 to
Allied Invasion

Russia's only salvation lies in the
Russian people, according to Professor
G. V. Lomonossotf, head of the Russian
Railway Commission in the United
States, who issued statement yester-
day explaining why he opposed inter
vention on the part of the Allies. Al
though himself an "intellectual," one
OF the Menshivikl. a railroad executive
under the imperial government and an
appointee of the Miliukotf and Keren-
sky regimes. Professor Lomonossoff be-
lleves that the horrors of revolutionary
misrule and bloodshed are less than
those attendant upon foreign INVASION
Glass consciousness is the main OBJ
staclc to progress in Russia, he points
out, and this would be intensified by
Allied Intervention, the Bolsheviz feel
ing that invasion would be hostile
act to uphold the bourgeoisie
Revolution according to it's own
nature" says Professor Lomonossoff
"is a barbarous form of progress. y
Revolutions never have been made in
evening dress.
Russians who are inviting the Al
lies to save their political position and
their property against the rebelling
people are senseless and obtuse. I
deeply honor the Russian intellectual
class and l regard it great honor to
belong to it. l also clearly understand
that the Russian people cannot stand
on its feet without its aid, but at the
same time, if | am to choose between
persecution of the Russian bourgeois
and intellectuals and the horrors of a
new foreign invasion from the East |
prefer the former
"Thc main thing is, however, that a
| foreign intervention will not only not
heal our national wound, the historic
chasm between the intellectuals ana
the. people, but will only make it worse
1t is obvious that the people will in
terpret Intervention as the result of
an appeal on the part of the bourgeois
and the intellectuals and as their trea
son against the country.
"As soon as your armies leave Rus
sia there would start such a settling
of accounts with the real and mag
mary traitors as would overshadow
everything which is happening in Rus
sia to-day"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-11
Gen. Semenof Expects
Support in His Fight
Against Bolsheviki
Freight Held Up for
Troop Movements
Railroad Orders Indicate
Way Is Being Cleared
for Reinforcements
(By The Associated Prcss)


HARDIN, Manchuria, Wednesday
June 5.-Although it has been reported
that General Semenof, commander of
the forces operating against the Boil
sheviki in Siberia, is hourly in expects-
tion of Japanese troops to support him.
there is no confirmation that these
troops actually are on the way.
1t has been learned, however, that
strong recommendations have been
made by the diplomatic corps for the
immediate Intervention of the Japanese
in the face of the growing German
menace. These recommendations have
been forwarded to the governments of
the respective diplomats, including the
Washington government.
The friction between Lieutenant
General Horvath, military commander
at Harbin, and General Semenoff has
s6bsided, Semenoff having agreed to
recognize Horvath's authority. Sem
enof, however, will have a free hand
militarily in Transbaikalia.
Admiral Kolchak has relinquishcd his
post in the Chinese Eastern Railway
dire Atorate and accepted command of
the troops operating in the Amur re-
gion. The fourth trainload of General
Orloff's contingent departed to-day to
support General Kolmakoff's expedition
against Nikolsk.
What seemingly lends color to Gen
eral Semenoff's announcement of ex-
pected Japanese support is an order is
sued by the railway authorities pro-
hibting freight shipments between
Harbin and Chang Chung for eight
days. There are also rumors that the
railway has received instructions to
prepare for the early transportation of
a large force from Chang Chung.
Reports of Japanese military move
ments are officially denied, but it is
admitted that definite operations by
China and Japan with Allied coopera-
tion are imminent.
Public opinion generally welcomes
the idea of intervention, recognizing
the necessity which throws the burden
upon Japan. Expressions of regret
have been heard, however, that Ameri-
can troops will not take part in the in
tervention, as the greatest confidence
is repOSed in them.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-11
Judge Wadhams,
Back From Front,
Praises u. S. Army
AS Fine as Any Troops in
Europe, He De-
clares

Full of optimism concerning the out
come CT the war and praise for the
valor and equipment Of the American
troops, Judge William II. Wadhams Of
General Sessions returned TO his duties
yesterday after passing eight weeks IN
England and France Some of the time
he was rsk king death under the direct
fire of the German batteries IN the
front line trenches in France. judge
Wadhams's errand was chiefly to study
what is being done in Engiani and
France in the employment of prison
labor during war time.
Everywhere / went | heard nothing
but spontaneous expressions of praise
and admiration for our boys" said
Judge Wadhams. Everybody comedies
that they are now ds fine body Of men
and as efficiently drilled and equipped
as any that nave fought the Hun at
any period of the war They are very
keen and their morale is splendid.
at is simply impossible to convey
an impression of the magnitude Of war
work that the United States has accom-
plished in France. 1t can't be under
stood unless one has seen, as ] have,
but we can and will do better All our
boys ask of US is to do our share &.
home.
Americans suffer most abroad, per
haps, by reason of their tendency to
boast. 1t has interfered with what We
per our work. We understand this.
bousting, but the British and the'
French, particularly the latter, take it
seriously, and accordingly they nave
expected more of US than we have been
able to accomplish.
Our great work, of course, is in
shipbuilding. Ships will carry soldiers
ard supplies to France. All the officials
talked with abroad were greatly en-
couraged when they heard that Charles
NJ. Schwab had been put in charge of
building the ships. They knew tn ~
that the work would be done. They
were also rejoiced at the attitude of
la Dor in Anne erica"
Judge Wadhams brought back rosy
reports of the boys of the old Fight
ing 69th," now the 165th.
They are fine lot of soldiers"
he said. THE Way they have been
hending it to the Boche shows their
spirit and their wonderful physical
condition. l talked with Major William
+. Donovan. He SAID the men of hi ,
command are absolutely confident that
tho only way to win the war is to
kick hell out of the enemy until they
a1e annihilated.'
~ talked with General Pershing and
with many of those in command Under
rim. They all say: Send us men and
more men. Make no premature or in
conclusive peace. Let US finish the JOB
here and now"
Judge Wadhams said the pooling by
General Pershing Of our brigades with
those of the French and British mace
the most favorable impression on our
allies: He predicted that before long
| the food and supplies of all three
armies would be pooled. He said Gen.
elal Pershing was already working on
such problem. President Wilson. he
sad, is looked on in England and
France as a great leader His speech ,s
and declarations, he said, are as we'll
known abroad as they are in the United
States.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-11
Cross "See-Score" Bridge Table

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New-York tribune., 1918-06-11
Greater Ieuton Alliance
To Rule World Is Planned
German Vice-Chancelor Says None Would Dare Oppose
Permanent Union of Present Coalition With
Poland and Russian States

AMSTERDAM, June 10-Permanent
economic and military union between
Germany and AustriaHungary, with
the gradual disappearance Of customs
duties and frontiers" is proposed by
Friedrich Won Payer, Imperial Vice
Chancellor of Germany, in a state
ment published in the "Neue Freie
Presso," of Vienna, and quoted in the
"Vossischc Zetung," of Berlin.
Included in this scheme of Mittel-
europa under domination Of the Cen
trail Powers are Russia, Poland, Bull
garia and Turkey.
The Chancellor points out that
with this union once effected, the
peacc of Europe would be in the hands
of the Teutonic Allies, the settlement
Of vexing problems arising from the
war would be more easy and the solu-
ton OF internal questions would also
be facilitated.
The Chancellor said in part:
"The present form of the alliance is
inadequate In view of the fact that
vital questions are concerned, the du-
ration of the alliance must not depend
continually on the feelings at the mo-
mcnt Successive treaties of short
intimate that the idea of separation
practically would be out of the ques-
tion and the centre of gravity of the
alliance must be laid in an economic
uniCn."
Poland Invited In.
After explaining why such union
offered bright prospects, Herr Won
Payer said that all these advantages
would be increased if Poland and the
northern border states were joined eco
nomically with the Central Empires
They would be enhanced enormously
if. in loose form, Russia and Bull
garia, and perhaps Turkey, also par.
tcipated. The Vice Chancellor con.
tnued:
"All must finally become a great
united region of intercourse, with uni
form interests. Concurrently with the
gradual disappearance of customs
duties and frontiers there must be uni
tication or a far-reaching rapproche
ment OIL economic legislation, espe
cially trade and industrial tariffs ant
the care OF labor. Certain forms O.
indirect taxation must be outlined
similarly, and railways, waterways ant
other means of communication mus
be made to serve the common inter
eSts.
independence to Continue
"Such cooperation, however, is onl,
to be thought of in conjunction witt
the maintenance of the political indie
while mutual consideration and unitet
New-York tribune., 1918-06-11
Japan, Is Unwilling
To Intervene Till All
The Allies Approve
Especial Dispatch to The Tribune)

Especial Dispatch to The Tribune)
WASHINGTON, June 1O.-Japan is
unwilling to intervene in Siberia with
out the unanimous approval of the
Entente nations and the United States.
except in the event of menace to her
own national interests or to those
OF China, and barring her recognition
as the mandatory of the United States
and the Allies, and the absence of a
menace to the peace of the Far East,
the Tokyo government will not decree
intervention, 1T was declared in high
Japanese quarter to-day
japanese statesmen, like those of
the Entente powers, were said to per
ceive the increasing benefits the Cen
tral Empires are deriving from pros
ttrate Russia, and the possibility Of
those empires so intrenching them
selves in Russia as to require a new
war to disposscss them, but such fu-
ture war, it was declared would be
interest of that country