The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 15, 1914, Page 1

HE big news of the war Invariably will be printed first In the evening (daylight) news; ire in Seattle. The reason for this Is simply a matter of geography, The centers of Europe, from which the newa Is coming, and will come, are from six to nine hours eariler in starting their day light activities than we in Seattle, While morning pa are editing the war news, Europe is sleeping, When the evening (daylight) newspapers are starting their day here It ie midday in London and Berlin. Every Important and tragic move of the war countries printed since the war cloud loomed over the European hori- JOSH WISE SAYS: “Soy Bean took hie accordian to Tobe Smaiiacre’s iset Sun and entertained the girts by derin’ Chopin. Mre. Tobe wasn't of th’ audience, as she wuz busy renderin’ lard.” hj Ves SLAUGHTER HOUSE”-NO. 4 The First Sight of Death; the Sickening March Through Fields of Dead to Reach the Battlefield; a‘‘Raw’’ Soldier’s First Impressions (Master of a large public school in Germany.) (COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY THE FREDERIC A. STOKES CO.) CHAPTER IV. We have turned off the main road, and have to march er a field of stubble. A battle was fought here yesterday, i the field is sown with dead bodies. They have picked up the wounded. bury those who died where they fell. E The first dead man we saw struck us dumb. At first we hardly realized what it meant—this lifeless new uniform ead out there—from the way he was lying you could hardly ieve he was really dead. It gave you a prickly feeling on the tongue. It seemed if you were on maneuvers, and the fellow lying there in a ditch had got a touch of the sun. A rough, soldierly jest, a cheery shout was all that was wanted ‘o raise him to his ramshackle legs. ‘ kd “Hullo, you! Got a head? Keep a stiff neck But the words froze in our throat, for an icy breath was {ted to us from the dead man, and a chill hand clutched at our terror-stricken hearts ; So that was Death! We knew all about it now is what it looks like, and we turned our heads back and dered. ; ~~ then there came more arid more of them And by this time we have become accustomed to them Strange! I gaze at these silent faces that seem to laugh at pm at these wounds that seem to mouth at us fantactically, as if ‘they had nothing to do with me MS Sometimes no wounds at all are visible The bullets have passed through the uniforms some- where, and have gone clean through the softer parts of ies. = vier have growtrigid in death in grotesque postures as i hh had been trytg to pose figures here. . tere are poco schemes of Death that are always re- ag a outstretched—fingers clawing the grass—fallen jrward on to the face—that fellow over there lying on his (Continued on Page 7.) Laie Jost Oe Mavs Qaviav yy The water wagon had just left and the street was sprinkled As things go, this was not a very important Incident. But the merest trifle may be the pivot.upon which will turn consequences | epormous. The sprinkling wagon has barely turned the next block, when an automobile skidded because its tires were wet, and a woman now jes dead. . LITTLE THING? Who knows when a thing is little? ‘The patience of a spider repeatedly repairing its broken web filled the soul of David Bruce with renewed courage and led to a period of freedom for Scotland. Z The fall of an apple led Sir Isaac Newton to discover the law of gravitation. : A shock from the angry heavens led to Franklin's discovery of the Hehtning rod and advanced man's grapple with the mystery of elec- leit e A rain on the eve of the battle of Waterloo decided the fate of Euro) A tonatic’s pistol shot in one of the little nations of the Balkans killed the heir of Austria and brought on the greatest conflict of the a8 ARE THERE SUCH THINGS AS TRIFLES7 You’ve Got to The Only a VOLUME 16. But as yet they have had no time to! That | service in the country today and that ia the UNITED Teer ia but ONE exclusive evening newspaper telegraph PRESS, which furnishes the spot news happenings to a greater number of papers than is served by ite older and larg est contemporary, morning papers which was ablished originally to serve The Star receives the leased wire reports of the UNITED PRESS The concentration of the UNITED PRESS he Seattle Star Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News NO. 147. SEATTL In gathering E, WASH., SATU EE RDAY, AUGUST news exclusively for evening papers has been a most success. ful policy, and publishers have been quick to recognize the value of the UNITED PRESS service with its great record of world scoops. UT In addition to United Press, The Star is a member of the organization known as the NEWSPAPER ENTER PRISE ASSOCIATION, which serves each newspaper on Ite liet with daily featur ind news photographs. The NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION already has ite writers and photographers close up to the scene of the 15, 1914, Glorious Dash to Victory on BATTLE! ee ONE CENT Dream When Guns Are Stacked, Flags Furled and Eyes Closed Read The Star to Keep Posted on the War! zon hae been printed FIRST in the evening papers. Great disturbance battleground and capitals. The Star published one of BY AN EYE-WITNESS TO BE the battie at Liege. M minute, right in the h further “stories” from her. Nobody Interested in the daily movements on the firing omeckerboard of Europe can afford to miss a single issue of The Star. ON THAINS NEWS STAN the Morrow—A Soldier's Printed oy DG TAULE PRICES JUMP AGAIN HERE: MEAT UP, TOO The alarming increase in prices of | foodstuffs in Seattle, for which the | European war is said to be respon-| sible, will be investtigated by the) Commercial Club | This matter will come before the |club at its meeting Tuesday night A permanent committee will be ap-| | pointed to probe the prices. | |” “There f# absolutely no reason for | | the big advances we have been feel-| ling in Seattle,” Secretary Otto Case | said today | Conditions are rapidly becoming worse In Seattle. Another leap of 150 cents in the price of sugar has} brought the increase since the war began to $4.30. There is no reltef in sight Privately, | am looking for | the pric to raise ans | other d ie id | passed,” stated a large whol | sale grocer to The Star today. “It ie generally predicted that the price wiil advance from 10 to 12 or possibly 16 cents a pound within the next few days. The outlook is dep Bacon and ham have bounded up| ltwo cents per pound, and smoked meats have joined the trend, WATER SHUT-OFF NOTICE Water will be shut off on Second} av. from Madison to Seneca sts, and on Madison st. from First to See-| ond ays., Sunday, August 16, from 9 a. m. to b p, m go PRINCE OF WALES IS REAL SOLDIER LONDON, Aug. 15.—As a plain subtleutenant, the Prince of Wales is doing duty as a soldier in the bar- racks at Warly. If his regiment is sent to the front, he will go in this lowly capacity. The prince is 19 years old and at present is being drilled and marched several hours a day with ordinary youths. MRS. WERNER TOWED AGAIN Magdalena Werner, recently acquitted of the murder of her husband, Henry Werner, an Is quah rancher, who was. bru- y slain in his barn, will be- come the wife of Benjamin Mil- ler, of Poulsbo. The license was taken out today. M Wer- ners little daughter Was with her when she applied for the !i- cense. AMERICA BEATEN NEW YORK, Aug. 15. America upward] lost Its grasp on the Davis tennis | cup téday when Norman. , Brookes, captain of the Australian team, de- | @ feated R. Norris Williams in three! straight # | two single matches and the doubles. A STAR WANT AD will 45,000 homes | levery night it runs. | sets. Australia has won into over 4 Kaiser Ap LONDON, Aug. 15.—Much interest was expressed here today in the war statement issued Friday by Imperial Chancellor Beth- mann-Hollweg of Germany, apparently mainly as an appeal to the Uniteg States. ‘The message was given out officially through the German wireless stations and by the Marconi Wireless company to the British press, ‘The present war is a life and death struggle,” it said in part, “between the German and the Muscovite races of Ru: The latter country provoked the struggle, ic wa France and England were drawn into it through “an unnatural alliance” with Russia. Inasmuch as England “stood in the way of the German attack on the northern coast of France,” it was declared, “Germany was forced to violate the meutrality of Belgium, but we had promi emphatically to compe: that country for all damage inflicted. “it is with a heavy heart,” the message concluded, “that we see England ranged among our opponents. England has placed herself on the side of Russia, whose insatiability and whose bar- baric Insolence have helped thia war, the origin of which was murder, “We expect that the sense of justice of the American people will enable them to comprehend our situation. We invite their opinion to the one-sided English representations and ask them to examine our point of view in an unprejudiced way. “The sympathy of the American nation will then {le with German culture and civilization, fighting against a half-Asiatic and slightly cultured barbariem. The notification was in response to the charge that the Ger- mans were violating the rules of. civilized wa jelgians, it was charged, have fired from their homes on the German troops, killing many of th “If the war thus assumes a brutal character,” said the Berlin announcement, “it will not be the fault of the German nation. German arms are fighting Germany's enemies. “If private citizens are to be slain because they participate in the war, the blame muat be assumed by France and Belgium, and not by Germany, shoud it driven thus to act in self-pro- tection.” toU.S; EXPECTAWAR Asks Our Sympathy ‘DECLARATION FROM JAPAN | PARIS Aug. jnal asserted today that it had learned uuthoritatively that Japan would deciare war on Germany as| were mony, ssid the defense of the soon as the mikado who has been staying At Nikko, his summer resi- |denee, arrives in Tokio, probably | ttoday, | Site | TIBNTSIN, Aug. 15.—Japanese | | firms doing business with the Ger. man settlement at Tsing Tchau, on the China coast, haye notified their|stream’s left bank were annihilat- | agents to leave there at once, it was |learned today. | It ts believed this is done at the Tokio government's order as a pre- liminary to a Japanese declaration of war against G y. MAN FATALLY HURT BY AUTO A. Weeding, 902 East 40th st., was struck and probably jhurt by an automobile driven by Mrs, C. W. Wharton at noon today |at Whatcom, and Connectieut sts Weeding was rushed to the city hospital, The woman is being held | _L. Twase, Japanese, ren down Swan Trapp at Second and Main at the same timee. Trapp was removed to the elty hospital, His injuries are t dangerous, They will furnish The Star with stirrifig pletures from the field and with special articles written from these articles Thursday. Mary Boyle O'Reilly told Star reacers the FIRST REAL STORY O'Reilly rt of the war zone, WEATHER FORECAST—If the sun can penetrate this smoke, the weather will be fair tonight and to morrow, says Mr. Salisbury. 15.—The Petit Jour. fatally | Miss PUBLISHED IN SEATTLE of is in Brussels, Belgium, thia There will be AST EDITION Sky Dotted WithPlanes asGunsRoat H BRUSSELS, Aug. 15.— | With the coming of day- | light this morning, furious cannonading by the in- vading German army all along the miles of battle . | front started the long-ex- Pected general engage ment between the Ger- mans. and the allied E gian, French and English forces, upon which the fate of the German army in scares prio ‘owing in hour prio dawn, the aa tire heart of Belgium to- day is the scene of shambles not witnessed since the battle of Water- loo in almost the same — territory more than a cen- . tury ago. The Grrman forees are marsing between Tirlemont Hasselt, in such numbers that'a bettle which must last for several ~ days seems unavoidable. Sky Dotted With Aviators The firing started when a noitering party of German. ca’ was discovered near Tirlemont ised by a Belgian va heavy loss, The eky is dotted with and Belgian avlators, who, in instances, are flying high over | advanein, Germans, their movements and reportti the allied armies. nies, German infantry, in heavy |began edvancing as today's fight jing northeast of Brussels pro gressed, In an effort to envel the allies’ extreme left wing. Try to Open Antwerp Road Experts believed the | plan was to pierce their foes’ I | doubling its extreme left upon Antwerp and opening a road between Antwerp and Brussels to the French frontier. A The allies’ artillery is proving murderously effective and all man attempts to carry outposts the point of the bayonet have heen repulsed in disorder and heavy losses, .< Gen. Von Ruelow, brother of the former imp« hancellor of Germ — many, Prince ‘on Buelow, was also said to have been killed while 7 jleading an attack on the Liege — | forts. | Soldiers Go Insane | German deserters, of whom there wh 4 Liege forts had disheartened the attackers, | Some of them, it wes said, had | gone insane from sufferings and drowned themselves in the Meuse. Friday night, the deserters stat- ed, several German regiments {hurled against the forts on the led, the ground before the forts be- jing covered with dead and | wounded, Confirms Story 1g _ of Gen.’s Suicide’ LONDON, Aug. 15.—The London Afternoon Star's Brussels corre- spondent declared in a message to his paper today that he had se- cured positive confirmation of re- ; por s that Gen, Von Emmich, who led the German troops into Bel gium, committed suicide. The correspondent quoted a Bel- gium sergeant, who said a German officer he captured told him the general left a message to his wife, ying: “IT know Liege is to be my tomb, but | prefer to die by my own hand.” Kight German soldiers, learnt that the general bad killed hi also committed suicide, Sem