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

JOSH WISE “Soy Bean fell into th’ creek | with a heavy belt 0° shotgun shelis on, but hy headed he couldn't sin AST EDITION WEATHER FORECAST—Cloudy, with probable showers tonight and Saturday. Moderate westerly winds, The Seattle Star : The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News VOLUME 16. ON TRAINS AND NEWS STANDS, be NO. 170 SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1914. ONE CENT KAISER ATTACK Aviators Drop Bombs on His Headquart Report $100,000 Reward Goes macnn ete to First Russian to Enter Berlin NEW YORK, Sept. 11.—The London Morning Post of August 29, copies of which have arrived here, contains a Petrograd (St. Peters- burg) dispatch, saying £20,000 ($100,000) will be awarded to the first Russian soldier who enters Berlin. The sum was raised by pop: ular subscription, in suma ranging from a ruble to £100, it ls stated. Kaen ROTEST RENTON LINE DE Stirred by the protests of Take Exam, Then Councilmen Erickson, Lun-} dy and Marble against the majority in the city council railroading through an agreement to purchase the Seattle, Renton & Southern Iway at an exorbitant figure, the Commercial club met today noon to investi- gate, Councilman Erickson, champion of municipal ownership, was present and outlined his reasons for op- posing the agreement. Councilman Lundy present- ed his version, Ree BERLIN, Via The Hague, Sept. 11.—That an attempt has | oe to Death been made by French and Belgian aviators to kill the kaiser and of the Instantes of the panes’ [Geran general staff by dropping bombs upon their headquarters in Luxemburg, is admitted here today. lam of the Belgians being told The airmen, it is stated, located William and his offiecrs in a vallent Votonsare of toonet the German legation in Luxemburg, whence they were directing y the campaign in France, and hurled four bombs, but missed the q ‘An examination for a degree had been scheduled to be held building. aa The legation was said to be heavily guarded with search- ’ in the University at Liege. lights mounted on the roof and German aviators in readiness for Suggestions we firet ma that the examination should be postponed, but such pians were soon abandoned. The examina- an immediate ascent to repel aerial attacks. : The kaiser is in personal charge jot his troops. He is in communi cation with the front by means of tion wae held and the candi- dates then trooped from the a ried telegraph station in the ie ition. a university hall to the battie- ft Occasionally he and the mem- field, Within of them were bers of his staff make automobile trips of inspection to the German Some of the American Girls Who Will Sail From New York Monday to Nurse Wounded in Europe || advanced positions, but his ty has not yet visited the | firing line. 2 It is admitted that the Ger man right in France has retired | before the allies’ numerically — superior forces, but along the western line it is sisted that the kaiser’s forces continue successful. In the east the situation’t proving. The German first line ts i | the Russians back in East Prossia, ~ Germans Take Offensive t The Muscovite soldiers are routed through the Lake Mauer region, an@ j everywhere in that region the Ger | mans are taking the offensive. Other German troops are rein- forcing the Austrians. Vienna mes sages say the Russian attack on Przemys! had been repulsed. ‘i Reports that the czars forces have invaded Silesia and were at- | tacking the Vistula fortifications 7 The sudden decision of six- councilmen to saddle the' Renton line on the city at a cost of more than a million, and a half WON’T GO! These councilmen ought to know by this time that the| people of Seattle won’t stand for any such deal. They won’t stand idly by and see municipal ownership jeopar- dized and discredited. Not now. They have fought too)’ 7). “Sonic utilities com- long, too hard, to establish city ownership ona right basis. | mittee of the Municipal] league is also working on The line is worth a cent more than $750,000. Experts have declared they|the matter. could duplicate the line, with new equipment throughout, for $900,000. The counci! meets again in If the city) the line it would immediately have to pay at least $125,-| fom™Mtse of the wets tomer 000 to pave and fill-the tracks to the new grade on Rainier av. And then another) pected, the whole thing will be a ee ey Se eh etka San acussce’ donteoledan neaps tes ts See would have to be spent in running tracks down Dearborn st. An aritiual rental of | getue, hencng @ southern #600. $750 a year for the right to run on Fourth av. would have to be paid. 000 for its road within the efty lim And then the fun would have just begun. It would cost 85 per cent of the gross proceeds for operating expenses, on account of the long haul, not including renewals and numerous incidentals. Yet the city, by the council's deal, pledges itself to operate the road for 75 per cent of the receipts and give the present fies a lite, it will have to pay something ers the rest. If the agreement is railroaded through, as it now threatens to be, the city will be bled, purely and simply, to the tune of a MILLION DOLLARS. AUSTRIA MAY vancing was hailed as an assu! that all danger to the French metropolis has passed. The belief was general that the Germans must speedily withdraw |from French territory or be com | pletely overwhelmed. Red Cross nurses of Cle who formed a portion of the 150 nurses who will sail aboard the “Red Cross” to the battlefields of BERLIN, Amsterdam, KAISE ed yesterday, $200,000 is pay- able in bonds, already voted. peror to sue for peace, and the pre The remaining $1,400,000 Is to diction is made that serious internal be paid by 26 per cent of the road’s gross receipts for 25 trouble: ill speedily ensue unless he does so. years, with interest at 5 per cent per annum. if this interest isn't paid each year, IT 18 TO BE ADD- ED TO THE PRINCIPAL! So, after paying the required per- | ‘The railroads are unable to trans- port ali the wounded from the front. Those who already arrived have filled the hospitals and halls, and many of the homes are taking them in. All accounts told of the bravery centage of the gross enrnings each | ¢ | y year, the city would not be able to é | as Allies Win F | of the Austrian troops, but it ts said The Vienna government is bitter-|they were heavily outnumbered reduce the amount of the principal | \ (Continued on Page 7.) PARIS, Sept. 11—Paris was | ly criticized for permitting this | Russians to the number of 1,500, overjoyed today at favorable news | from the front. Announcement that | It is believed, also, that Austrian | 000 were estimated to be in Galicta losses have been far heavier than | the allies’ center was holding and that elsewhere their lines were ad> A Thrilling St f What LONDON, Sept. 11 —"The Ger. via ar Means to Woman F mia retreat is eenersi.” announe has been officially admitted. | Engineer E. E. McCullough re. The general opinion is that popu-| ports favorably on Palouse trriga Jar clamor will soon force the em-'tion project. VIENNA, via Rome, Sept. 11. —"Peace” is the almost univer- sal demand here today. Antl- German feeling is increasing. The popular view is that the Ger mans left the Austrians to face the Russians alone in their eagerness to evade France, and that Austria has been crushed by Russia as a con- sequence. Yan Sutt Att story will be published in The St A’ and the Home. By Baroness Bertha Von Suttner | Famous Austrian Novelist and Peace Advocate, and in 1965 Winner of the Nobel | woods after D CHAPTER I. | . 17 1 was a thoroughly overwrought creature. This} ,, perhaps | should no longer be aware of today, |were not that my diaries have been preserved. jish and French are pursuing them ner stiered the ctvilized world with her he request of the American Peace Society moat graphic and if it But in {them the enthusiasms long since fled, the thoughts which| vain} France. Inset is picture of Miss Helen Scott Hay, general super- | visor of nurses. RED CROSS T0 SAIL MONDAY FOR EUROPE NEW YORK, Sept. 11.—That he has succeeded in securing a crew of Americans and that his ship will sail for Europe Monday ts de- clared here today by Capt. Rust of the steamship Red Cross, The British and French govern- ments had objected to the, de- | parture of the vessel because sev ed the war office tonight, referring to the fighting in Northeastern ‘ance, “and continues, The Brit vigorously “Thursday 1,500 prisoners, sev eral guns and a quantity of trans- port equipment were taken. “The enemy {s retreating most rapidly east of Solszons, where there are evidences of some dis- order, “Considerable bodies of the en emy are being found hiding in the finding {t impossible to keep up with the main line of| retreat | “They are surrendering on sight “The plight these men are found | , their positions, and the rifling} of villages, are evidences of drunk-| enness and point to demoralization in the ranks of the routed enemy.” CAN'T FOOL TEACHER | tack on the czar’s main army in Rus- was announced here to- The left flank of the in- vading force had been com: ly crushed, and the Russians are in full retreat, it is stated. This victory, said the war office, opened the way for a German at- day. Thé lawmakers’ action fok sian Poland, along the line to War- | jowed Premier Asquith’s appeal. for saw. further strengthening of the coun- It is added that it might also be |try's military establishment. De possible for the Germans to flank | pate was short and the vote was the Russians, whose forces have | ynanimous. been reduced by the dispatch of fresh troops to Galicia, where, it is eran ee were again on | British Taking Lucky CATCH Many Prisoners NEW YORK.—The 7-months-old| LONDON, Sept. 11.—The war of baby of Harry Lippman fell from fice here announced this evening the second story and sustained | that the German retreat in France only slight brulses. A fireman, ‘continues. The British, it is stat walking along the street, caught it./ oq, have captured 1,500 prisoners Raise New Army : of Half Million | LONDON, Sept. 11.—The war of- fice is rushing preparations for rais- ing as rapidly as possible the force of 600,000 additional regular troops authorized by parliament Thure be have never been thought again, the feelings never ‘felt have immortalized themselves, and thus ] can judge) new yorK.—Miss Mary L. Vin-| mans at thi® present time what exalted notions had stuck in| cent, Newark school teacher,| The Red Cross is loaded with my silly pretty head Even this prettiness of which with a razor In hand, stood guard | medical stores and relief supplies lover a burglar for a half hour|for the European battlefields, It my glass has now little left to say, is rev ealed to me while she waited for the police. has 150 nurses: aboard. i by the portraits of long ago. | eral members of its crew were Ger. and a number of field gu: RAT TAILS VALUABLE | — LONDON.—The rat plague hav Miss Leila Wittler, S ing become serious, the Newport at the home of a cousin at Ne’ (Isle of Wight) council has offered |chell, N. Y¥., sustained several a cent h for rat tails. broken ribs when knocked down by SPEND FIVE MINUTES HERE EVERY DAY AND YOU’LL KNOW ALL ABOUT THE WAR The retreating Germans’ present|man center must send reinforce-|quate effort was made by the monte. Yo rthe right, abd, mm this|French to assist their suddenly weakened condition, | the entire | svenwheimed allies, German line will be in danger. This again demonstrates the in- ese HR Heh (ee tl GEN. FRENCH’S REPORT ON [Satiraanle spreteale advantage to | e French of the Belgians’ ree 7 the British retirement from Bel-| allies’ present ant able that the vicinity of Rheims sistance. The jum substantiates the Impression | will, eee: a:serioue reverse, infiloted| Gunner ace nian tage oe el ee ene: eer ted/ hitherto created that the French (never have been attained If it had on the German right. The allies’) general staff was entirely unpre-/not been for Belgium and Great chief offensive pressure is being| pared for a German advance on Britain. ‘ A semi-| Paris from Western Belgium. | The German general staff seems from the| Gen. Joffre's advices to the Brit-|to have estimated correctly what west and south to drive the Ger- d|the French would do, but it lacked mans toward Rheims is apparently proach-|Insight to the characters of the developing. If it suceeds the Ger no ade-| Belgians and British, I can figure to myself what an envied person the Countess Martha Althaus—youthful, though beautiful, and surrounded by all kinds of luxury—must have been. These remarkable diaries, however, bound in their red covers, point more to melancholy than to joy in life | I recollect that the highest conception of human great- ness seemed to me to be’ embodied in warlike heroism ness. German business has for years been in close partnership with Ger- man acientii That is the reason that a famine has set In already in certain hemi ‘and chemical products since the gre. war began. a The fore, | say, let ue mobilize our chemists while the Germans | are mobilizing their armies, and thus get the most out of the lessons of this great war. ' There is no drug or chemical, not be able to make on a commercially profitable scale In this country. ley and uni- Chemistry is taught in every high school and y colleg versity a the United States, but it is mot chemistry wedded to busi- ness. Our American weakness drugs and other quite simple things wi olize: OPERATIONS EAST OF PARIS| are becoming Increasingly difficult | position Is not good. The German today for the German right wing.|right is moving backward toward Its persistent pursuit by thea difficult region of woods, swamps British undoubtedly has greatly |and ravines. | exhausted the rank and file. Last oe 8 week's conditions are now re-| versed. Today the German right Is! being shoved northward to the | blockhouses between Parls and t Belgian-Luxemburg frontier co} My father was a general in the Austrian army, and had| prising the de of the La fought at Custozza under “Father Radetzky,” whom he} Fere-Laon-Rheim: - ‘ Tha . ampaigning stories| thé allies were bein venerated to superstition. What eternal campaigning stories| arg upon these Se talon (Continued on Page 3.) tlone For scholars, poets, explorers, I had, indeed, a sort of| respect, but only the winners of battles inspired me with real admiration. These were, indeed, the chief pillars of his tory, the rulers of the of countries; these were in im- portance and in elevation near to the Divinity, as elevated above all other fotk as the peaks of the Alps and Himalayas above the turf and flowers of the valley king, which we should fate leaves us stranded for colored inks, dye hich the Germans have monop- he German method, is to make the colleges and universities close partners with the factory They pay the expenses of graduate students who will devote themse! to certain chemical problems. | That le why the Germans have led the world in the chemistry ot} undereatima' Ing from that quarter