The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 14, 1914, Page 1

4 ‘Bil in Darkened Streets o By William G. Shepherd (United Press Staff Correspondent) OSTEND, Belgium, August 31.—(By Mall to New York.) — The mew fear is on Ostend. The streets are piteh dark, al though It Is early evening. Throughout the night there is the blink, Dlink, Blink of signal lights, and the tramp, tramp, tramp of soldiers’ feet. Stand out in the middle of the street, Look up at the stare in the blue, soft night sky, and you'll understand what this new fear is Stand out there with the hundreds of men, women and chi! dren and watch the sky with them, and suddenly It will come | to you like an awful shock—the Zeppelin chill, It's the newest human worry; the latest mode in terrore; the 20th-century blood-loer, It is, as George Cohan might sayy SOME worry. | felt it firat at 9 o'clock this evening, when our boat from England drew up at the magnificent Ostend dock In total dark Men with lanterns lighted the way of passengers and . We don't want anybody in the sky to see our lights,” a marine explained, A whole city trying to hide itself from some: thing that might be flitting about among the stars! The impos | D CONCRETE FORTRESSES AT LIEGE “|| | These photographs, just in from held out so long at Lieg Photographs, and the places they occupied made the crate terrible 16-inch German siege with concrete walls nick of veritable volcanoes. uns did to the stubborn turret forts which house, were torn to piec shown In the ? Shepherd Shivers With Zeppelin Chill f Fear-Stricken Ostend The houses were all dark by military orders, but the They were all, It seemed, in again. Ostenders had not gone to bed the streets, looking up | looked up also and the Zeppelin chill hit me again. Little children and mothers will say their prayers In Os tend tonight and then be awake, for it’s hard to believe that even the good God can save you from bombs that drop from the sk Ostend fies tonight, helpies English battleships in the harbor cannot insure Ostend against Zeppelin. Vive Zeppelin, inventor of a new fear! sibility of a city doing such a thing struck me immediately | “The Zeppelins have been throwing bombs on Antwerp, 60 miles from here,” continued the marine, “and 60 miles Is only a little over an hour's run for a Zeppelin.” | looked up at the stars, Was every one of them shining? Or were some of them hidden by the black hulk of one of the Great Mauretanians of the air? Not a hulk did | see, and | shook off my first touch, my bap. tism, of the Zeppelin shudders. A threeblock ride through the dark streets started it | ERICAN CORRESPONDENT CAUGHT IN FIGHTING ZONE; caught in the zone x them ba rton saw only special cable what he witnessed for By Harry Payne Burton SPECIAL STAPY CABLE (Copyrighted, 1914, Newspaper Katerprise Association.) LONDON, Sept. 14.—“LA GRAND BATAILLE!” (The great battle.) My eye trailed along the outstretched arm of Monsieur Trictorin and there, over the distant hilltop to the right, floated through the windless air of dawn countless little balloons of smoke, which were lightened with terrible rapidity by shells that were bursting in their midst. Could it be true, I asked myself, that accidentally | had come upon the greatest battle ever fought, the battle all France nkows, and all the world, too knows, has been waging just outside the gates of Paris for five days now. Glowing Heavens Light Them on Their Way I had no idea we were actually near the firing line, although all night long we had heard the boom of “jeannon, the burst of shells and even the shriek of shrapnel and we had been lighted on our way by the great glowing eastern heavens, A GIGANTIC MIRROR ON WHOSE GLOSSY CURVE THERE LAY STEADILY [Seattle Star THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS ONE CENT Siws"ttinne 2 iin, Vote Germans Are in Full Retreat All Along the Line By Wm. Philip Sims | PARIS, Sept. 14.—De- claring the danger of a siege} was past, Gen. Gallieni, military governor of Paris, ON TRAINS A SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, SEPT. 14, 1914. Mr. Voter, Soak This BLOODSUCKER! T'S funny, isn’t it? William P. Crawford and Scott Calhoun, ex- wwe suddenly become very, very generous since The Star, last week, told about their scheme to bleed the city out of a cool million and six hun- dred thousand dollars for a junk-pile railway. I abled German gun Between Meaux and Solssons 1 passed nine burned auto trucks with tratlers loaded with exploded and burned ammunition. The roads are littered with Ger. man smal! arms and impedimenta. THE REFLECTIONS OF THE FIRES OF THE BATTLES BELOW. Monsieur Trictorin had picked me up in his automobile south of Melun, where I had been stalled on my way from Lyons to Havre. He was rushing a wounded brother—his only one—to a famous oculist of Paris to try to save the sight of an eye half shot from the socket. The Red Cross flag flying from his windshield us by sentries and gendarmes alike. And this is how it came about that I saw the great battle. Trictorin, not knowing the roads about Paris, we were to enter by Sceaux, but instead we were suddenly ine Meaux, which is beyond Paris a little and to the northeast—bad luck for Monsieur Trictorin but good luck for me. And as the car sped up the slope I kept saying to myself: “At the top I shall see the great battle—the greatest battle that has ever been fought!” : The road up was a silver ribbon, taut between blue-green hop fields. The dew of dawn still lay on the leaves and the bi: i of cannon to the east. Then the top Tt was a bolt out of a clear sky. to it. To me it was just a heedless, unorganized horror brought by the Germans upon a peaceful country. Correspondent Sees Battling Hosts From Brow of Hill A field of wheat was in flames. Acre upon acre of yellow grain was crumpling up behind an enormous SCYTHE OF FLAME. Haystacks were burning. I saw the flaming roof of a farmhouse on the downward slope half a mile away. Part of It was entirely gone. The other part had slid to the ground, and one corner was stuck to the aecond-story window. But we do not see a man nor an animal, nothing but fire and smoke. It Is all t® the right of us, a mile or two away. GREAT CONVULSIONS OF SOUND come as blinding flames leap up, and an instant later shells burst far down the valley, but most of them directed Into the distant forest to the south. We conclude that the German bat: holding the other hilltop and are firing on the French lines concealed in the woods, we are not sure, for smoke and blinding flashes make the landscape just ONE GREAT BLUR. Soldiers Duck and Turn as They Run Under Fire | But Out of the goodness of their hearts, Calhoun and Crawford suggested, Saturday afternoon, to the six councilmen who de- liberated with them that they were willing to accept only 20 per cent of the gross receipts, of 25 per cent, in payment for the road, and that they would extend the term of paymerts to 28 years, instead of 25. With their hearts full of sympathy for the People of Seattle, Crawford, WHO HAD TO BE CLUB. BED BY COURT ORDENS TO GRANT A NICKEL RATE IN THE CITY LIMITS AND 'SSUE TRANSFERS, and Szctt Cal- has notified War Minister Millerand that the seat of} government may be brought back from Bordeaux at any} time. It was expected that} an official decree providing | West of Chateau Thierry I saw numbers of Paris automobile buses with farm wagons attached to them, gathering up the dead Peasants were burying the corpses, first taking from each its metal ‘identification — tag. stench is perceptible for miles. German Rifle Fire Poor Surgeons say more than half the The} houn, OF THE HARBOR ISLAND BUNK TERMINALS, volun- tarily cffered to | je city ure the Renton lin right >‘-way free of charge, instead of charging $75 a yea itrat sug- gested. My, what kindness and generosity—on trivial detalles only, however! The price of the junk-pile remains the same—$1,600,000. And $1,000,000 of that Is blood mon: Smug Scott and Crafty Crawford trying to sidetrack th ue with meaningless crumbs of apparent generosity. But the main proposition is the same. They're trying to hold up the city for $1,600,000 for a road that isn’t worth half the price. THEY DEMAND $1,000,000 OF THAT SUM AS TRIBUTE FOR THEIR CUNNING IN THUS GETTING A LEGAL STRANGLE-HOLD ON THE TAXPAY- ERs. The people are going to vote on the proposi- tion in November. The Star sincerely hopes they will vote against purchasing the road on such bloodsucker terms. The only argument ad- vanced for the deal is that it is worth paying a robber’s price SO THE CITY CAN GO AHEAD WITH ITS STREET IMPROVEMENTS IN RAINIER VALLEY. Well, it’s a dawg-gone shame if this city must pay a $1,000,000 hold-up for the privilege of improving its own streets— that’s all. The Star does not believe the city has to pay any such tribute. AND ANY COURT IN KING COUNTY OR THE STATE OF WASHINGTON THAT WOULD PERMIT SUCH AN INFAMOUS PIECE OF STICKUP WORK SHOULD BE AND WOULD BE IM- PEACHED IN THE NEXT LEGISLATURE. for the transfer will be is-| killed were siain by the artillery | fire. sued soon. The German rifle The whole German line 1s in re-| poor. The soldiers do not prete treat today, following the battle of | to aim, and fire holding their rifles the Marne, before Paris, Part of|under their arms aiser's forces are reported| The Germans are abandoning eut off and facing annihilation by|their wounded and the French are the allies jearing for them. Evacuate Amiens Germans ha .”" announced Gen. Gallient | direction of Personne and Saint Quentin. From Nancy and the Vosges the German retreat is gen eral.” line of defenses north of the River | Aisne, in the vicinity of Rheims, and endeavored to make a stand, but were overwhelmed by force of tinue their retirement I have just returned from an inspection of the front, In the vicinity of Maux Chateau automobile placed at my dis- posal by the military authorl- ties and saw for myself how perfectly the French organiza- @ Evidences of admirable co-oper- ation were observed on every] — panig, Sept. 14—Gen. Von eRe der Holz, military governor of peice iwabe gium, has visited Antwerp un- der a safe conduct, according to Le Figaro today, offering, on the kalser’s behalf, to end the gium if the latter will make “certain concessions.” The Belgian government Is id to have refused the propo- The kaiser's troops prepared al numbers and compelled to con-| Thierry. | made the trip In an tion is working everywhere. ne the conquered portion of Bel- war between Germany and Bel- jon. Solsse s during a mili opposing batteries | aled in the hills about he German guns alter-| d shells upon the| nd poured shrap-| anks of the French the town nately dro French artill nel into the infantry Roads Littered With Arms Solssons after the Germans abandoned their position, I nted 145 used shells a dis. WAR FLAG PENNANTS COUPON Any Coupon clipped from The Star, when pre- sented at The Star office with 15 cents, will entitle you to a 75c War Flag Pennant. German Pennant out this week. Pennants will be sent by mail if 5 cents additional for each Pennant is enclosed. Bring or mail to The Star, 1307 Seventh Ave., near Union. WHAT I THINK ABOUT IT BY THE SPECTATOR At had Yesterday | ran across an item of information which told how, in Boston, a while ago, a state official quizzed the people who sell goods rn if other folks were paying their bills, and found that 1,183 arrying on their books more than a million dollars of One Bostonian In every 10 was revealed to be a chronic “deadbeat.” ‘That is, he refused to pay, or to make an effort to pay, for value re- son to believe that the human nature In Boston is Here's some of the same brand right here in Seattle. s why old Cost of Living perches high —the man who pays his bills has to carry the man who can’t or won't. it’s not so bad helping to carry the man who can't—that’s Chris. tianity. But the other thing is—well, quite the contrary, © more ways of being patriotic than by shouldering a rifle. fire ts very | | Monsieur Trictorin at the wheel starts the motor. We are gcing to leave what we ha The car swings northeast and the road | starts a descent. But suddenly, at the turn up goes the road again and we find ourselves with another and better view. Inoculars are jenly produced by Trictorin, for we have discovered soldiers this time. They are running down the distant slope. There Is nothing “military” in their method. They seem from five to 15 feet apart, and they LOPE DOWN, DUCKING AND TURNING, AND FOR THE MOST PART RUNNING IN A CROUCHED POSITION. | see some of them fall, but nearly all reach a trench, Into which they drop. This all means that a little company of French soldiers has advanced FIVE HUNDRED YARDS THROUGH HELL, and is now firing from a nearer position upon German infantry, also concealed in trenche: ! cannot find the German trench, but ms to be behind SMOKING BOMBS constantly and fiercely into this particular pla gets for infantry. . Suddenly, far beyond this to the east, we see an aeroplane swinging above the battlefield. 1s French. The aeroplane seems to be only gathering information. lose sight of It, and before my vision can pick it up again it has buret. Fragments of Human Bodies Hurled Into Air Fragments fly up in all directions. The lens seems to tell me that it Is only flying earth, BUT | KNOW AT MY HEART THESE FRAGMENTS ARE SOLDIERS—human beings We have stood still only three minutes, but Trictorin moves on, He must get his brother into Paris before 7 o'clock, and it is now 6 We leave burning fields, bursting shells and billows of thick yellow smoke, all punctuated with silhouettes of soldiers, and start the descent directly west towards Paris. Half way down the hill we hear a new sound, rifle fire. We stand upon th 2 of the car and strain our eyes through the glasses. Then we suddenly realize that the battle is not some con- centrated military maneuver, such as a schoolboy might play out on a kitchen table, but A HORRIFYING STRETCH OF INDIVIDUAL FIGHTS. . For here, In a little copse not more than half a mile away, there is still another battle going on. Some German infantrymen have attacked sentries posted in this forest, just outside Gaux. mans, perhaps 200 of them, run from a trench Into the woods. Occasionally the red legs of the French soldiers appear between trees. It seems to be th: supporting artillery fire from either side. Only a few thin trails of smoke curl above the treeto} The group of French soldiers—about 10—emerge from the wood, They seem to be consulting, when, to their right, out come a dozen Germans on the run. They stop alternately to CROUCH AND FIRE FROM THE HIPS, Their shots seem to go wild, but presently a Frenchman falls. The red legs CHARGE WITH FIXED BAYONETS and the Germans run to gain the cover of the trees. But they turn out again, | cannot tell why, Perhaps they see other French sentries in their path, almost frel the shock. Watches Hand-to-Hand Conflict Through His Glasses | follow with the glasses one hand-to-hand combat. A single German who nearly reached the wood at another point is CHARGED BY A FRENCHMAN, as ! make It out. The German crouches and fires. | know he misses, for the red legs keep on running. He fires again and misses, and HE 1S BAYONETED AS HE CROUCHES to shoot the third time. Trictorin says the spear went into his mouth and came out back of his neck. | could not see that myself. We start again and leave the great battle forever. All along the way, though, we are reminded we are riding through a country being BATHED IN BLOOD. Once again stray boots and knapsacks are seen all along the road, and a French sentry displays two Uhlan helmets farther down. At one place we see ten Germans lying dead beneath one tree. We do not know whether they were shot as spies or whether the tide of battle just left them there as it rolled over Its bloody strand. We only know they were all very young, they looked as if they must surely wake In the life again—life they had only used a little as yet. And a bit farther, not far from the gates of Paris itself, we see two French sentries in their vibrating scarlet lying dead in a little woods—gigantic poppies crushed amid titanic wheat, ' qm SPEND FIVE MINUTES HERE EVERY DAY AND YOU'LL KNOW, ALL ABOUT THE WAR | eld of wheat, for English artillery, high on another nea The bombs leave a TRAIL OF INKY SMOKE, which mal firing tar 1 think it is German. Trictorin deciares it Then | notice a little streak of whirling flame shooting downward, 1 The aeroplane has thrown a bomb! It Ie not the heavy artillery fire, which is now more muffled, but the crack! crack! of Through the glasses you can see the Ger- edge of a fight between outposts with no Then two groups meet. You can THE LOSS BY THE GERMANS) Paris garrison, which sallied from of the critical battle of the Marne, |its defenses to help the French and near Pari blamed by military | British field forces. authorities overconfidence and| Numerous letters found on the overwork. rsons of dead Germans showed,| TORRENTIAL RAINS HAVE ‘The Germans apparently thought |sald the British commander, that |transformed the roads in the fight- on September 4 that the British the Germans thought they were|ing zone into quagmires, and only|and of Gen. Von Heeringen are were crushed and that only the about to enter Paris when the re-|the German guns drawn by trac-|said to have been driven across the | French were left for them to deal |treat was sounded, |tion engines are being saved, while | frontier into Lorraine, | with, On Sept. 7, Von Kluk realized |the others are immovably mired. | Gen Von Kluk, accordingly be-| that he was in great danger and or-| Gen. Von Kluk's army and part) |gan a flanking march across the dered the retirement of his army.|of Gen, Von Buelow's force were| allies’ lines, evidently intending to At that time the British force and | thought to be headed for the Givet- the French Sixth army were co-op-|Namur line of retreat. It i erating with each other against the!lieved the British have isolated part of the Gen. Haus and the Price of | Wurtemburg'’c armies were report- ed approaching Reth The armies of the crown prince of Ger- many, the crown prince of Bavaria G | Only a precipitate flight saved erman rear and right flank. | |the Germans. WEATHER FORECAST— Rain tonight and Tuesday; warmer Tuesday; moderate southwest g led and then