The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 28, 1914, Page 1

BERLIN DELIRIOUS WITH! JOY TOWN AFTER TOWN FALLS BEFORE GERMANS ; BERLIN, VIA ROME, Aug. 28.—Convinced by A & T : |Germany’s latest victories on the French frontier that the kaiser’s troops will soon reach Paris, Berlin was half EDITI ~ : delirious with joy today. (@) x ' The Fatherland’s infantry, it is officially announced, had shown its superiority over the enemy’s eubeuge won atte ON. Satourrre The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News Longwy, Namur and other places. é weather report with our eyes shut Much of the fighting was said to have been at the new=—-saete Bh. Soak fo tec = ES oe _ Muc ghting was said to have beer and tomorrow: weenstly winue’ VOLUME 16. NO. 158. SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1914. ONE CENT XEWS,c7430%. 5 saa of - gre — t is admitted, however, that German losses were tre- i BY it aie Meee }mendous @ | Having effected a junction, the German armic and the Lower Moselle are reported advancing tod mous force on Longwy, which their vanguarc e . together with the towns of Villerupt, Joppecc Audun-le- 9 je @ 9 | Roman, Briery and Montmedy j i OWT Find in Today’s Star comer reported at cota It is reported, unofficially, that the Germans are on the WY} - — outskirts of Calais, France, the closest cross-channel point to |—The Star has had something to say the last few days about police brutality. Today The Germans in occupation of Brussels, have mounted ( I Atty. John Perry ‘of this city analyzes police conditions and tells the reason for them. |'@pii fire guns at the northern entrance.- Automatic guns, { Fase © Tierd alll be mere ofthitee ts fellow. me nate pe od ae are api Sg the suburbs. The Wi) . . city is calm here have been no outbreaks Hi) j |—How do you like the brand of justice being dished out by the honorable gentlemen of PARIS, Aug. 28—Such a mad confusion of fighting il HN | the supreme court at Olympia? Neither do we. See page 3. vee today at bv yet nee the moment it is hard to . . . . ° ° . determine how the tide of battle ts turning | |—Did te aig e your mind oT AS IT REALLY IS? It is described in a Paris is rushing preparations today to withstand a siege. | it of wri on page 6. ere is much anxiety in the French capital. Foreigners gaye a ective ing " are being urged to leave. No wounded are being brought into |—Your attention is called to the maps on page 10. Clip them out and follow the war |the city. The government plainly wants to reduce the non- | . combatant population to a minimum. moves from day to day through the news dispatches. That the allies have given ground at the points where the Germans are most numerous is admitted. The war of- fice asserts that the second defensive lines are nclding, theugh the Germans outnumber the French and Briti:h. The British are holding the center of the line opposing invaders. It is believed that their position covets’ the famous “Gap of Treves” through the French border chain AMBASSADORS OF GERMANY AND AUSTRIA-HUNGARY IN JAPAN TO || SAIL SATURDAY, EN ROUTE HERE ||‘"« WAR LAYS ITS CHILLING HAND TOKIO, Aug. 28.—Ambassadors Count von Rex and Baron Muller de Szentgyorgy, representing Germany and Austria-Hungary, respectively, are turning over their af- faire today to United States Ambassador Guthrie, who will act for them following their departure for home, via Seattle, on the steamship Minnesota Saturday. The censorship is so strict that it is possible to learn little concerning Japanese operation of Kiaochau, but it Is believed Admiral Kato is searching the coast for mines, which are said to be sewn thickly at the bay entrance. of fortifications, upon which the main German strength is moying. Kaiser Stakes All on Assault The British expeditions, it is stated, had been combined and given a post where they must either defeat the Germ ot be overwhelmed. Coke Esgemewe say that the kaiser is staking all ona mas assault. “You found her in the grass,” I said. “For God's sake—are there more of them? “Thick as quail,” said he. The womankin’s lips parted and I saw a flash of white teeth. She looked up into Graves’ face and her steely eyes softened. It was evident that she was very fond of him. “Rum sort of a pet,” said Graves. “What?” j “Rum?” I said. “It's horrible—it isn’t decent—it—it ought to~be taboo. Don (the dog) has it sized up right. He wants to kill—it.”—Extract from “Back There in the Grass,” a story by Gouverneur Morris. Read it all. Page 8 today. are being rushed toward the, Bast- ern frontier. ng Russian troops were engaged with the Germans today in two big | battles, | One was in East Prussia, jother in Austrian Galicta, KAISER TRIES KONIGSBERG, «5 Aug. 28—) cioot to check the Russian ad Steps are being taken to meet) vance on Konigsberg. F Russians. Additional reserves the r league, bush league and sand-lot ball game , no matter what t ting of the tea citing moment when the bi I have seen ‘The thrill is the whenever a game hago 0g - nd tie, and two . tous i tah one of these mes? The man at bat has been hitting above .300. As he braces himself to swing, grandstand and In a trance of suspense. De asina youre f In that situation when, suddenly, a cha In unl- }* taps you on the shoulder and says: “You're wanted outside.” To pte it worse, ther im of authority in his eye which you dare og re, for he r awful majesty of the law. oa We th 's what a lot of wilted and weary congressmen are ex- i oer Be these ys, under Champ Clark's ruling, that, because of reign developments, the boys must stay on the Job ‘War Ie hell! DR pew W ONVAN VANCOUVER, . B. C., |Aug. 28.—Announcemen today that the Canadian Pacific railway has taken | off several of its transcon- tinental trains and has sent jhalf its employes, on full |pay, to fight for England, lis another proof that Can- jada is determined to do, jeverything in its power to) aid the mother country. | The announcement af- |fects families in every city jin Canada along the C. P. R.’s line, for its employes are recruited from all over |the dominion. Day after day heart-rending re enacted here in Van- | | | bitterness against war Increases ‘Ten days ago the prospect of going | to the front was greeted with the wildest enthusiasm. Then it seem-| ed merely « holiday excursion across| the Canadian continent and a trip over the Atlantic; {t meant a few) parade drills, a chance to see the Old World at the expense of the government, and a return home to |the accompaniment of gay music! and glad ecdlaim from the home) folks. « Realize Now It’s Death But it's different now. The wires have brought disconcerting news The Germans have struck fear in every home here where the men! folks are members of a rifle club or Highland regiment. When the soldiers leave now no- body tries to hide the fact that they probably will never return, Many to keep! boys, just~out of their teens struggle, as they depart, back the tears | Sees Her Soldier Off | A woman with a cooing baby in |her arms stood on the platform yes terday and smiled bravely into the| hearts Thousands have left here since] bridge last Saturday. Mostly they are mere) parti | euchr our poker pa: affairs, wer COUVER PLAY CARDS, DID HE PLAY A GAME | Dont By Robert Rounder Long, long before the advent of , | first began going to card We played progressive for priz Sometimes | yed poker, but les were always stag from which the women rigorously excluded. We d in our In our hard, with gi our and face of @ soldier who leaned out a| mouths. lear window. Like the others, he |was shouting and cheering—the jonly thing he could do to keep from disgracing himself. The bagpipes were adding to the artificial gayety. Around the corner a band was blar- ing. Everybody was forcing smiles, Everybody had lumps in the throat. The train began to move, The |woldier leaned far out, woman and the baby, then waved at |them. The woman waved back,} miling bravely |could see she waved and siniled | Faints on Platform | Then there was a rush of people |to her side. She had fainted They revived ber, She sald she had Just $6 between her and starva- tion. Vancouver took note of the wom- jan’s plight and began looking less and chai ¢ ? | NOT NECESSARILY “STAG” | {party as a “social function.” | now I know that a poker party need kissed the| Ot be a stag party around a bit. It found a distressing: ly large number of parallel expression- masks. But our f ae poker But I’ never looked upon a I have played strip poker ‘The farther I ramble in quest of ‘Aw long as she| adventures after dark, the more firmly convinced do I become that a subtle poison has been injected into our modern social life. Certainly, this strip poker ad- venture was no “slumming” party, ‘The people I met at the party were “nice” people in the conventional sense, ance. the question that conventional peo- anes.|ple ask, “What will people say?” That is, they value appear- ‘They @ concerned about Quickly a subscription was started,| Like most conventional people, they More thart $765,000 was raised to!care more for the shell of appear-!gary today formally declare’ war ance than for the kernel of good- against Belgium, help them | i E B ness A friend of mine, who lives in a) | houseboat on Lake Washington, got |me an invitation. The “social” was given at a houseboat near his In justice to the hundreds of! houseboat-dwellers on Lake Wash-| ington, I want to say that only a few of them go In for strip poker. | {It is played in houses as well as in houseboats. This particular party | happened to be in a houseboat When we reached the houseboat) we found three girls, the third be-| ing @ guest from Ellensburg, whom | I shall call Effie, because that isn’t her name. There were three of us men, I noticed about Effie an air of) artificial gayety, and I guessed that she had committed herself to an| adventure and wished she hadn't. | To begin with, there w of cocktails, mixed by on hostess I for one needed some- thing to bolster up my courage. “Well, let's begin,” DECLARE WAR ON BELGIUM VIENNA, Aug, 28.—Austria-Hun NEVER-NEVER If he succeeds in breaking the allies’ second line, it is, mitted be will have before him a comparatively 1 r Paris, 7 however, is protected “by forts of re1 stren "y Mg bak i irm in the conviction that Russia will rio the war, a dispatch today from St. says the will convene in November to vosmabtan a Soon n of Poland-Russia, Germany and Austria, under the flag. . i Officials own that it has become ni LIKE THIS! inforcements to hold the line through the department of Nord, _ '@| where German flankers are advancing on Arras. = The fighting is also severe in the department of the (| Pas de Calis, where reconnoitering parties of Germans have | 1etired after a clash with the French. Messages from the Belgian’ front say the Germans lost ,000 killed and wounded in the three days’ fighting at Charleroi, Belgium. Corpses were piled so high in places they had to be moved to give the artillery free play. Concerning the number of the allies’ casualties, no very definite figures are available. It is admitted, however, that! the field hospitals are overflowing. Most of the doctors of: Paris are at the front Correspondents are barred from the hospital camps. In London Premier Asquith insists today in the house of commons that the situation is satisfactory, despite the fact that at latest accounts the Germans are advancing and the allies falling back. Louvain Completely Destroyed The war office confirms reports of the destruction by the Germans of the Belgian city of Louvain. The invaders charged that they had been fired on by citizens and burned it in retaliation “ Not only was it set on fire in a hundred places, but bombs# and other explosives were used to make the work of destruc- tion complete. Not even the most beautiful, and in many — instances historic, buildings were spared The town is reduced to a heap of ruins. The inhabitants were held prisoners in a concentration camp. ei Lk HEEL uessel “ie de Belgians have sallied from Antwerp and driven the Ger~ ioutiamasent mans toward Brussels until they are within sight of the “I don't believe l'li—” began the Jatter city, according to an Exchange Telegraph Co.’s mes- (Continued on Page 13.) sage from Ghent today. SPEND FIVE MINUTES HERE EVERY DAY AND YOU'LL KNOW ALL ABOUT THE WAR By Fred L. Boalt. ON one thing is absolutely clear in the war news today, and that is that the officials who give out the news from Berlin, St. Petersburg and Paris are artful liars. The press and public of London are growing restless and are demanding of the government more news and more truth. When one has boiled down and checked off the conflicting reports from the four capitals, it appears jainst the French and British, and suffered smashing los Two big battle ns are In progre: today. One is in E n Prussia and the other In Austrian Galicia, mpt to check the Rus: advance upon Konigsberg. St. Petersburg claims the Germans were repulsed at the Alle river and that the 20th German army corps | at Ellenstein. No denials of the from Berlin. Berlin's claims that Germany's major operations are now on French territory are undoubtedly true, That the Germ have surrounded the allies, as claimed, is unbelievable, unless the latter hcve com- mitted a disastrous error. What is more likely Is that the Invading forces have driven the French and British southward and away from Belgium, and now have them within three sides of a square. While this situation is bad for the allies, It might be worse; for the fourth side of the square—the al- lies’ rear—is the Fere-Laon-Rheime line of fortifications, 75 miles from Paris, The war, therefore, may soon take on this triple aspect: Paris withstand a selge. The French forces taking the offensive through Lorraine. moving on Berlin. If the Germans have reached Arras, In Northern France, as Berlin claims, THEY HAVE REDUCED SINCE YESTERDAY THE DISTANCE TO PARIS FROM 120 100 MILES. They are advancing over what wi month ago, a flat, peaceful country, peopled by an industriou and frugal pe: ery inch of nd. The way of the armed horde through level and long stretches of vineyards, and quiet towns, clos rt, whose ancient wa before the crash of cannon. The Strait of row, Across the narrow strip of water lies Calais. And as the Germans approach closer and clo: French town—for they are attempting a flanking movement around the allies’ left wing—the pleasury kers in the great Casino at Dungeness, on English soil, can hear the roar of the artillery. DOVER IS ABOUT AS FAR FROM CALAIS AS SEATTLE IS FROM TACOMA, The Russians