The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 21, 1914, Page 1

NE of the most horrible word pictures ever sketched in the history of mankind is on page 3 of The Star today. If you want to know war in its sickening terribleness; if you want to know what Sherman really meant when he said that war is hell, read today’s installment of “The Human Slaughter House.” You will shudder after reading it. But—read it. It is one of the best peace arguments ever set forth! se Ge] LheSeattle Star AST eit taste ' The Only Paper ii in Seattle That Dares: to Print the News coal, why don’t they get some ‘oa oe ae. aS vert A GE re to have rain—maybe. Mr. from those mines in the North SRNR UES 628 0 a Salisbury says cloudy, with probable seat” VOLUME 1 16, SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1914, ONE CE rsh f s MEANII, & showers tonight and Saturday. ON TMA First Photographs Taken on Liege THE Seattle public learned day before - be penis that he adage ak sro in “‘cov- : ering” news, United Press, a this paper’s telegraphic service, beat the ‘ Associated Press, used by a rival after- noon , six hours with the news of the pope’s th. Today The Star proves it leads also with the pictures. These photo- ; graphs are the FIRST to be printed IN SE- ; ATTLE of ACTUAL SCENES on the bat- tlefield at Liege. t Ko Boo ll 510 avr : vy, ye f oh," q Pe Gs 8 site it The cr at the Front. A Section of Belgian Infantry Preparing Their Trenches in eee. for Attack. This 4. by Underwood & Underwood Photograph Made Aug. 6, after Two Days’ Fighting in the Vicinity of Liege. copyrignted. 1914. by Underwood & Underwood. aos F ANTWERP BESIEGED BY GERMANS; GREATEST Belgian Lancers on the Field of Action, Showing Pinons Tattered by the Grueling Fire of pra eteiats Shells Sear ls This Photograph Was ‘oR Aug. 6. Cnprrghind. 1284 v7 Undernond & Unserwe Tw Fig! STORY OF THE p U.S. ROUGH ON AUGUST 6, THE DAY SUGAR MEN Reap oF comes-on ar | RIDERS TQ) PICTURES WERE TAKEN ()N CARPET; CLANCY'S ROADHOUSE IN TOMORROW’S STAR The attack of Liege Aug. 6 & perfect hafl of bullets from was executed by one German nd machine guns, which ‘OHNNY CLANCY wae arrested yesterday. He army corps, while the Belgian down the Germans. J will be asked to prove in court that the ft consisted of a mixed bri- The attackers soon lay in | “Pacific Social club,” in the Van De Vanter | ae vy the artillery heaps of dead and woundea residence at the Meadows, on Pacific highway, is of the forta. around the fort | actually a club, and not a roadhouse and a public The battle waa fought along At the same time Fort nuisance f a wide front and partially in Chaudfontaine, to the south Whether the place Is one thing or the other PARIS, Aug. 21——The French| the open fields east of Liege, kept up a hot Sugar has dropped 50c a is of small importance—except to onan: ANTWERP, via The Hague, Aug. 21.—Ant- @overnment has accepted a com-| The Belgian troops carried on another body of Ger | hundred pounds today. Whole- You can get just as drunk in a club as in a Bined American rough rider and| out several furious counter at- who had seized a neigh sale qrecere’ of Renttio are roadhouse. Folly may be a regular patron of a road- naps is in a state of seige today. | tacks, throwing the Germans ing castle, The Belgian ar- house or a member in good standing of 1 to leave, which Pe raen compe for service againet) wack and pursuing them up to tillery reduced the building to quoting it at thie reduction: When 'clc te mremed Re cutie tian It is = yg yet) will be asked e, Later several thousand foreign-| their original positions @ mass of smoking ruins. ie history of the war rise lost soul is a soul lost—rard all t pte they can easily do by water. ‘ D ers marched to the Hotel Des in.| Not an inch of ground was A squadron of Belgian ian- | In the price of sugar in the lo- haireplitting of lawyers over the difference be- Steamships are held in readiness to take nom gained. by the Germans dur- cers was completely wiped out cal market wae recited In de- tween one thing and t’other won't repair the life bat F d England. ’ ing the fighting, and they sut- after it had killed 150 German tail yesterday to U. 8. District or bring back the soul, combatants to France an ig! i. ty, weuid be soseeiees fered severe losses in dead and | uhlans. aiisrkey Clas Alot ia toon: Club or roadhouse, Johnny Clancy's place te The fortifications were themselves considered impregnable, but |. The American corpse is made up| wounded. The Germans finally retired y vay tough. “Gay” parties bent on a night of “fun” go as an additional precaution, 1s were for flooding the fargely of soldiers of fortune, who Stories of the great struggie all along the Mine. mony given by Seattle sugar there from Seattle In automobiles. They seldom country before the forts, so to make It Impossible for the kalser’e Were In Europe when the war| tell of terrific slaughter among Here ms dealers. start before midnight. They seldom return before forces to bring cannon close to them. the German forces. the: Gers Allen summoned the principal fi an hey aricopiea ip iaery ty | wholesalers, as well as other prom-| | DE PALMA WINS at oct Parehon, 10 the {nent business men, tn an attempt Rist of Laded. Th to get at the cause of the general pi northea Ac } rise in foodatnfts whe 1 ) alph De| tacking infantry crept up un |. The investigation, fc ing the f ell 1. Aug. 21—Ralph De the cover of gears y ae | Pe glen gapie mylthépertidy Miorm, Ritomobile race today, flashing| fire, but the Belgian defend eo B «| authorities at Washington, is con cross the finishing line well in| ers re a “gypsy ce a oe tinuing today | ; d come Be im P front of a big field of notable bong e af étten pee VANCOUVER, B. C,, Aug. 21.— The sugar jobbers of Seattle, aft- drivers. The smallest crowd in| + at mpts to wreck trains|@? €xplaining themselves out of | e Belg e 7 Following at Mars turned ont. nal, the Belgians opened with and destroy bridges along the Ca-|®ny gullt in inflating prices, de-| nadian Pacific, efforts are being] Cl@red they didn’t know the cause made to replace German and Aus-|0f 40 artifictal rise, if any exists, trian laborers, now doing work on| Dut sald {f anybody is to blame It |the road, Hundreds of ivops are|!* the San Francisco jobbers. |ruarding all. tines, and. keeping}, Allen will communteate his find-| Bde rcinaape rps |ings to U. 8. District Attorney | Traine going out of Vancouver| Preston at San Francisco are running only at slow speed,|,,7%@ grand jury probe in San ag ony ot caution fe be.| Prancisco yesterday tended to and extraordinary precast | bear out the Seattle sugar men's ing token at-all mes Jassertion, After examining sugar |refiners there, Preston declared Many of the smalier houses In the suburbs have been destroyed a . and the trees outside the city cut down for the purpose of depriving . the Germans of cover. French office arrangements. EXPERT EXPLAINS SITUATION By J. W. T. MASON No dispatches mention French or British as being with ie (Former London Correspondent of | Belgians in the North. It’is prac the U. P.) tically certain they are in South ern Belgium, NEW_ YORK, Aug, 21, 11 The Germans probably will not a. m—The German occupation [follow their advantage to the of Brussels possesses a greater | northward, as there seems nothing political, than military ad io gain by such a detour. They | vantage. [must plant a sufficient force in The city {s strategically unim-! front of Antwerp to keep the gar- | portant at present, but if Germany | pigon Jocked up, but the main pur- holds it when the war ends, it Will) pose of their advance is to reach possess a strong card at the con-| prance. gress which drafts the peace terms, daylight. Sometimes they do not return then, iinet cee ee JHERE is, beyond Georgetown, a fine stretch of pavement. The “gay” parties “hit it up” when that bit of pavement is reached. They generally speed faster on the way back than on the way out. Johnny selis speed-madness in bottles. EVERY ONCE IN AWHILE THERE 18 A SMASHUP ON THAT STRETCH OF PAVEMENT, THE MACHINES RUSH DRUNKENLY AND CROOKEDLY THROUGH THE NIGHT. EVERY ONCE IN AWHILE THEY COLLIDE WITH OTHER MACHINES, OR WITH TELEGRAPH POLES. THE WRECKED MACHINES CAN BE RE- PAIRED, THE PHYSICAL HURTS’ HAVE HEALED. BUT THE DEAD ARE—DEAD; AND THE HURTS TO THE SOULS OF THE MEN, THE BOYS AND GIRLS WHO VISIT JOHNNY’S CLUB NEVER HEAL. If his patrons—er—members—were all old and experienced sinners, it wouldn't much matter, But they are not. Some of them are beardiess boys, Some of them are girls in their teens, And some of them are other men's wives, e aiding the Belgians In making their det i} ’ their stories conflicted and that be | Bres ; f j is convinced there Is na legitimate | TOMORROW, THE STAR WILL TELL You, Possession of Brussels will have French Army Active | Casall tor the inorease, IN. PLAIN LANGUAGE, ABOUT JOHNNY important bargaining poss{bilties. Te posatbiltiien. of disconcerting or f t Railroad Center the enemy may have outweighed “Measunn| the progress of mankind through 100,000 years by this) I think we will be able to prove CLANCY'S ROADHOUSE—JUST WHAT SORT OF Importan: R < war,” a humanitarian writes, “it appears that human character has not! without doubt that unlawful com- A PLACE IT IS. ‘The Belgian capital ie somewhat /-with the German: general mate tae stamood. ea bean” binations have been formed by important a8 a railroad and com-|danger of following the course of I don't believe tt. sikar men, jobbers and whole- missariat center for the German|the Scheldt into France, however, A Sotioad 2 ikl ; are along’ way further back than our ae salors,” he “wald, army, but the circumstance that it) with Antwerp’s great forts threat- Tecorda go; but even a hundred years ago human character was in While the examination revealed aay is in a community hostile to the} ening first the German flank and for peace. many ways worse than tt 1s today. prises avout the head and the *| INDICTMENTS Jap Captain an After salting Cotector Davis, Invaders lessens its usefulness, | then the rear, Men were then brutally thrust into the foulest of jails for debt; | bows, Robert Evans Messir came | Admiral Pond and Gen. Murray, and, if they couldn’t pay, were left to rot. to bis death because of acute and the commanding officers of | The sale of men, women and children in slavery was common 100| mania, according to an autopsy! ARE EXPECTED Old Friend of jthe U. 8. vessels in port, Capt. | | years ago, and the conscience of relatively only a few was revolted | made by Coroner Mason last night : | een ee | . Moriyama returned to his Vessel by it The 1 died at Steilacoom and| WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—That) Leipsic s le | It fs significant that the makers of the present war are ashamed (his mother made the charge that|the men responsible for the recent | Roinh ahaa Ne an ‘anti Mayor) “PARIS, Aug. 21.—The great- | there had already been outpost of it and are trying snxiously to dodge the blame which they know|King county deputy sheriffs man-| advance in the price of foodstuffs; SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 21—A lithe Ge: Liteon, hes! eat battle of the Belgian cam- clashes. ying enxlously to dodge th th jerman cruiser Leipsic, were | Sa taapohan: pesiaaaes aah’ in their hearts will be branded upon them by the writers of its history.| handled him, and caused his death, | will be indicted soon was the dec-| courtesy call on Mayor Rolph WAS | Wien personal friends and that it|* paign, and. perhaps in. the ; han. feniias: th Re y There was little of such senstiveness a thousand or even a hundred Whether he struck his head (erecien any of a high government | made reser A Capt. K, Mort | would be a painful duty to have wohid’s hieteey) se <bellaved Re Hl Head a, . ol q are ago. Never did N the great Frederick go int battle | himself, or whether some one else| officia ere, yama 0 he Japanese cruiser! t hi 1 . Seoiogising. eae i as . sateen rh im, [ eannot tell,” aid Dr.| He saye the department of Jus-| fdzuma. |to meet bis friend in battle. eure to atart soon between the today 16. @: Wavy, ine from Me Throughout t P fi hy “put he did not die of the} tle jathered evidence showing; The captain was accompanied Frenc near ry. y russels, Fe rk ae ian emee: ether than ever before. and Mason, re * ‘. ne hi ‘ficial Inflation was respon-| by Consul Gen, Numano, and both Alaska tax bill up to President Bru Wawre, Gembloux, Namur and nity is warmer in its sympat! To doubt this would be to| bruises. He had an acute attack of|t Pp 3 apie’ re 4 million evidences before every eye. brain fever.” sible for the advance in prices assured the mayor that they hopelfor signature Indeed it was thought Itkely Dinant, to Neufchateau.