The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 11, 1914, Page 1

JOSH WISE SAYS: “Beeleysport has th’ kind of |) | barber who after a halrout brushes himeelf off with th’ soft brushin’ off your ee ¢ noe \ AST EDITION WEATHER FORECAST — Mr Salisbury has forgotten his recipe for rain, consequently fair weather will continue; cooler Wednesday The Seattle Star The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News ON DHALN® AND NEWS STANDS, be VOLUME 16. SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1914. BRITISH BOAT ¢ DESTROYED IN COAST FIGHT? NO, 143, ONE CENT Yih Yi) | Ml TY AL WW | | | | SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 11.—Wreckage floating in to the South Side life-saving station from the open sea indicates that either the British warship Shearwater or the Canadian cruiser Rainbow has been demolished by an engagement with a German warship, or by an internal explosion. The Shearwater put to sea from San Diego last week and was believed to be headed toward Mag- dalena bay, to seek refuge from the German cruiser Nurenburg, lying in wait for her in the open sea. Advices from Washington have definitely located the German cruiser Liepsic at Mazatlan harbor, on the Mexican west coast, hence it is believed the Nurenburg has cruised north and engaged the Shear- water or the Rainbow, near San Francisco. The Rainbow sailed from this port hurriedly Saturday morn- ing, after taking aboard 50 tons of fuel. Early this morning wreckage from an English warcraft was washed up on the beach, including seven doors, bearing metal signs, “Gunner” and “Navigating Officer.’”* : “The doors found this morning,” said Capt. John Grosbeck, of the life-saving station, “cause me to believe that the ship was wrecked by an explosion from within. If the ship had gone down after hav- ing been shelled some of the wreckage washed up would have been splintered. There is not a splinter on any of the woodwork found. In one of the doors is a pane of glass that is still intact. “Everything points to an appalling sea disaster.” At the British consulate here it is denied that any word has been received to indicate that the Shear- water had t in this vicinity. | Word has been received in Seattle that Canadian au- thorities declare the wreckage does not correspond to the | description of the woodwork on the Rainbow, but that It may He’s Charley, Our Janitor; He F. 13 Years as Corporal in war Nurenburg, and that the oF sunk In the engagement. Rumors of a naval engagement off the California const are persistent, although no authentic account of such action has been obtained. The captain of the 8. 8. Governor, which arrived from San Francisco last night, knows absolutely noth- Ing of any reported naval engagement. TOUCH OF WAR ENGLAND TO | | | g 1 AUSTRI The last edition of The Star was;Charley. “I landed, broke, and ‘sa | é off the press yesterday afternoon, | joined the army. I served in India| Seattle households are already, LONDON, Eng, Aug. 11.—' 2 and we of The Star office, report-| with the Second eg le , ‘ Yorkshires. | tee|t ° 2 Britieh forei Thayes fghiisg now, I vee. Welter ee el ae ee ambassador w rough service on the frontier.) Prices on all@mported goods have| 4 explanation of the presence “In one battle with the Afrides, | gone up, although tn some instances | Austrian troops on the frontier & savage tribe, they loaded thelr the increase will not hit Seattle for, Great Britain's ally, France. ; Dlunderbusses with scraps of | several months to come. Up to thie afternovn no reply] |fence wire, nails, tacks, crushed) Probably the most astonishing 8 been received. glass and rocks. I've got & s0Uve | advance noticed here Is the leap in| Unless one is speedily forthcom || | nir scar on my arm. the price of imported medicines, |"® It ls expected the British am- ers, editors, telegraph operator and office boy, had relaxed after a strenuous day and sat around with our feet on the desks, smoking pipes and holding a family chat while Charley, the quiet janitor, cleaned up the day's accumulation of paper on the floor. Being human, The Star family naturally talked war “Looks like the kaiser has bit- ten off about all he can chew” an- nounced the city hall reporter, Charles Douglas, the silent jan- itor, perked up his ears, but went seeping. “Where do you get that noise?” asked Wash, the elegant telegraph operator. Wait till Wilhelm gets/ “After five years in India I was transferred to London, then back} to India for two years, and then to South Africa | “When discharged there, after 13) years’ service, I came back to| | America, but I was a fighting man | | by this time, and the first thing I | did was to enlist for the Philip. | pines. I served nine months there. “I reenlisted at Fort McKinley, in show them a thing| Maine, and served for a time barracks, but peace was too tan said Albert, the of-| and there was nothing in the army life without the fighting to going. He'll or two.” “Anyway,” fice boy, “I'm glad I'm not old enough to have to go to war.” “I got my discharge, went to} “Well, I'm glad it’s England, and/| Portland, was married and here I) Germany and the rest of ‘em, in-| am } “But, honest, boys, when I read of my old regiment going to war again, I feel just like a hungry | boarder when he hears the dinner stead of the old U, 8. A.,” said the| courthouse reporter. “I'd hate to f have to win glory at the cannon’s mouth for some kink, and get all , bell.” shot up. ere mae ai Charley could stand it no longer. Charley was a corporal in both “You just think you would, boy,”|the British and United States he exclaimed. “As a matter of fact,, armies. He lives with his wife at after you get a taste of it, wild|310 W. 83rd at horses couldn't keep you out of the fight .|GERMAN CAVALRY IS sonst at me. | Ritiea “and the| ACTIVE AT TONGRES LONDON, Aug. 11.—Two Ger-| |man cavalry divisions are operat Philippines, and I've seen some mighty rough times, but right now I'd like to be back in the midst of it, fighting side by side with John|ing today about Tongres, Belgium Willan, my old sergeant major, and|to the north of Liege, according to John Walker, my battalion captain) an official statement quartermaster in the Second York- It is announced also Germans shire.” are entrenching along the River| on | Aisne and large numbers are tn Charley made toward his broom,| vading Belgium from Luxemburg. | when we of The Star office, with | | he skill of trained reporters, start- SCUTARI CAPTURED ed to pump him. And Charley told us a story of his remarkable ca- reer. LONDON, Aug 11.—Under a “{ ran away from my home in|Rome date the Dally Mall today Maine when I was 17 and went to|says the Montenegrins have cap ‘ England on a cattle boat,” sald! tured and occupled Scutart Ifhik about 1 LEIS SST One MANS ODIVION gy War, war, nothing but war—that’s all one hears these days. 1 get it In the office. | get it at noon for lunch. | get it on the car, morning and evening. It was therefore really a relief this morning to hear the man sitting next to me on the car say: “1 tell you what I’m going to do Sunday, If the weather is good.! I'm going to take a long walk in the woods, is deluge of war horrors! has got on my nerves. | want to get into the cool quiet, where patient Nature Is content to make its changes slowly and soothe the smart of | this horrible news from Europe.” | Sensible fellow! | It wouldn't be a bad Idea if all of us, for such a purpose, should take to the woods, the open fields or the untroubled waters. A Medicines have gone up from 50 to 100 per cent, including some of the most commonly used drugs. Opt. ates, morphine, many varieties of acids and salts have soared. Sugar Takes Jump Sugar is headed skyward fn leaps and bounds. Today's quotations in Seattle found the price up $1.80 a hundred since hostilities began in Europe. Flour climbed 20 cents a hundred this morning According to the opinfon among local packers, there will be no {m mediate advance in meat, despite the discontinuance of Australian beef importation No change As predicted in the price of mutton and beef, but dealers are allowing for | a one cent increase for pork to take effect shortly. Tea and Coffee Higher Teas and coffee have advanced, but It may be many days before the grocery stores must change thelr prices. Cheap grade coffee 1s five cents higher. Tea is up three cents. Imported liquors have started up- ward. Champagne has been hard. est hit, with a $6 increase to the case Clothes of foreign material will remain unchanged for the present season. price will advance accordingly next year. PLAN KOSHER MARKET A fund of $3,000 will be raised by the Adath Israel, of Seattle, rep the local orthodox Jew , to carry out plans for Kosher resenting ish citizens, the opening of a meat | market WAR SITUATION TODAY GERMAN ADVANCE on France, through Belgium, checked. Both kalser and al lles awaiting reinforcements before expected clash at Namur. FRENCH REINFORCE. MENTS being rushed to save Gen. Joffre’s army, reported en- gaged with large force of Ger man troops on Franco-German border. DECLARATION OF WAR momentarily expected by Great Britain upon Austria-Hungary. RUSSIAN TROOPS reported beaten back by Austrians all along the line in the czar’s ef. forts to cross the Ger frontier. GERMAN CRUISERS Goel and Bresiau captured in Med- iterranean sea, according to rumor, BRITISH GUNBOAT Shear. water reported sunk in naval engagement off San Francisco, If the war continues, the) bassador in Vienna passports. | Confirmation is king of re ports reaching here today the military authorities had had a num- ber of Slav members of the Aus trian and Hungarian pariiaments shot. The story was credited, how. ever, the belief being that Austria will have immense difficulty in preventing an uprising of its Siav subjects and that undoubtedly it is taking drastic steps to terrorize them at the start. will demand | | WAR TO CAUSE | GLOVE FAMINE } A glove famine is another {] posstbiitty uncovered by the |] European war. It Is possible |] American glove wearers—more |] particularly the masculine—can get through the coming winter without discomfort, but ff the |] conflict abroad continues for |] any length of time there are |] likely to be hard and expensive times next year. Nearly all the are of foreign make, or if of American manufacture, are made of foreign leathe gloves worn | RUSSIA ADVANCING ON AUSTRIAN LAND LONDON, Aug. 11.—Despite the Austrian assertion all Russian ad- jYances into Austria have been re pulsed, St. Petersburg messages | today confirmed reports that the | Russians are advancing on Lem- berg by way of the Styr river valley |GERMANY PRESSES ON TOWARD FRANCE) PARIS, Aug. 11,—German troopa| are reported to the office to- day near Morhange, east of Metz, trying to penetrate the French frontier. The war office announced that German cavalry and mounted tn- fantry d failed in an attempt to} reach ench territory through Luxemburg. TAX DUPLICATES | A plan to issue duplicate tax cer. | tificates to guard against loss is being considered by the elty coun- ell. TO REPLANK RAINIER The city counell yesterday pro- | vided an ordinance for the re (planking of Rainier av, at its old grade, pending the settlement of litigation, It will cost $20,000, ‘ laughter Hous Remarkable Book Suppressed by Emperor William Himself to Be Printed in The Star IT'S A TERRIBLE EXPOSE OF EUROPE’S MILITARY MACHINE The Author, Wilhelm Lamszus, Master of One of the Great. ‘Public Schools of Germany, Wrote the Book in Story Form, and in It He Tore the Mask From Militarism in the MOST GRAPHIC PICTURE OF MODERN WARFARE EVER WRITTEN THE TERRIBLE EXPOSE OF EUROPE’S “ARMY MACHINE” WHICH THE GERMAN KAISER FEARED TO HAVE THE PUBLIC READ In it the author strips from war its deceptive glamour. Mechanical invention has changed the “Field of Honor” into the “Human Slaughter House.” Instead of the bravery, strength and skill of man against man, war today means huge shells mangling dozens of men each, dynamite dropped from aeroplanes flying by night, a regiment wiped out by pushing an electric button. By orders of Emperor William, School Master Lamszus was removed from office and his book was suppressed, But not before copies of* this horrifying work had been read by thousands and had been translated into English. © The Star has purchased the rights from the American publishers, the Frederick A. Stokes Co., of New York, to print this remarkable expose serially in The Star. It begins in The Star tomorrow. Read the war ex- pose which Kaiser William wouldn’t let his people