The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 17, 1914, Page 1

Seana Ora we ._c < x e : meg Beautiful Sing- | : Held as “Love ' : Slave” by Man, Had NOW You SEE, WELL PRETEND Now Twe pswes wirn| | | IT Looks AS Tuvan Left Room in Cheap THE SUGAR BowL 1S THR BUTTER ON THEM WILL] [THE BUTTER WE GERMANS ARE . FORTS. ‘THEN THE ALLies BE THE GERMAN ARMY- PResenTs Tenement Only ARE OVER HERE ON =" Yoo 88 THe ie GERMANS — Once in 12 Years. By Nixola Greeley-Smith NEW YORK, N. Y.,| 17.—Babbling inco-| perently as she lies on a cot) _ jn the insane ward of Belle-| _ we hospital, Katie Fisher, “once a beautiful music-hall “ginger and the toast of the Siemuted in two dingy rooms of a Weheap tenement house at No. 409 West 24th st. the voluntary love| neon the short, portly, smooth. shaven man who was known in the house as Thom “Miller” tame out of the door of the rear West Side tenement on the ground floor, and after padlock. ing it, went on his way to his office in Brooklyn. Every night about 8 o'clock he returned, his arms laden with mysterious packages, now known to be food, which he _ prepared for his captive. note to the police from a woman / had formerly lived tn the flat and who called upon them, God's sake to effect the re- ale & woman held naked and Prisoner in a horrible den.” pht detectives and doctors to courtyard upon which the heav. | ly barred shutters of the “Miller” is out. Woman Naked “Knocking, they received no an- ” ewer, and proeeeded to break In the| window through which no ray of! malight had penetrated for 15 : What they saw has been de-| feribed to me by Mrs. Bridget Law- fence, who occupies four rooms on the east side of the house. THIS Sipe ep Food Gone; Germans Are Eating Oats PARIS, Sept. 17.—Fighting | was in progress northeast of Paris in a cold drizzle, and it was believed here that the rainy season had set In some what eariler than usual. The theory was that this would hamper the Germans much more than the French, especially as it would make it | difficult for them to move their | heavy artillery. The invaders were reported so short of food that they were cook ® | ENGLISH GIRLS LONDON, Sept. mail to New York. the women of England are urging the men to fight the || Indic pted union jack expedients eral towne reontly to shame who have anewered the able-bodied men so far not call. At Deal a group of pretty girie distributed feathers to a young men, who them tonholes. They were the town rie: throughout the cit: men had been feather for crowd ingly as “favors” ond wots’ enees te hale ba. greatly die comfited a little later when announced that the jecorated with the order of the white shirking duty and failing to respond to the call for defenders of { : town, is the central figure | a jn the most sordid and ex-| - 4 romance that . ever come to light 3, = For.15 years this wreck of al fsece «Desutiful woman has been Upsternom ti youre oli aT The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News During the past 12 years the === se ER ee ree tote, Che. Rowse galy VOLUME 16. NO. 175. "SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, SEPT. 17, 1914. ONE CENT Every day a litt before _ a — ma 5. (By )—How ated in in sev- white of ocepted their | CROWN PRINCE OF GERMANY, WHOSE] PASS AROUND | ARMY IS IN RETREAT NEAR VERDUN WHITE FEATHER wn - WHAT MAKES You SAY Thani ON TRAINS AND NEWS STANDS, So By William WEATHER FORECAST — “ tonight and Friday,’ BORDEAUX, Sept. |river Aisne the French are winning their third great battle with the Germans, War| Minister Miller declared today. Police Break Window Bars to Rescue Girl, Held Captive _in Dingy | Room Without Clothes For Fifteen Years | Notice tHe | BuTTeR STARTED TO | RUN HAS | EDITION ain said the w. m. ks, we have plenty and would like a@ little sun Sunday. Germans Are Facing Loss of 3rd Battle G. Shepherd 17. —Along the Germans Charge Rus- sians Advancing To- ward Berlin With Cutting Off Wom- en’s Fingers. | By Karl H. Von Wiegand. | BERLIN, Sept. 17.— |(Via Wireless From Say- ville). — Shocking brutali- ties by the Russian invaders jof East Prussia were charg- ed here today by the war | office. Lieut. Tiedemann of the Fifth Prussian Cuirassiers was declared to have count- |ed the bodies of 21 German recruits which had been | mutilated by Cossacks. Some, it was said, had hands, some feet and some ears and noses lopped off. Reference was made to a Rus- |stan officer who, on being taken prisoner and searched, was found with a woman's severed finger, |bearing a valuable ring, in his | pocket. | The commander of the 11th Ger- man corps reported cases in which the Russians had chopped fingers and hands from non-combatants. Woman's Body Mutilated A Landwehr officer told of find- ing a dead German woman whose |breasts had been cut off by Cos- sacks | ‘The ‘war office annousced also |that 1,800 Galician traitors had ar- rived in Gratz as prisoners, and were awaiting sentence. | It was stated that they had con- fessed they were paid by Russian | agents to signal to the czar’s forces |news of the advance of Austrian and German troops. New General on Job Gen. von Hausen, commanding |the army at the German front, be- tween the forces of the crown prince and Gen. von Buelow, has been succeeded by Gen, von Einem, the war office announced today. Von Hausen, it was stated, was | relieved on account of age. He is 68. Von Einem is a former war minister. In East Prussia it is raining heavily and the eountry in which | the troops were operating is a vast | swamp. |, ‘The room was the foulest place| ing oats with what little beef they Ihave ever looked at.” she said.| were able to secure to eke out thelr | “When the detectives broke through | rations. the union jack.” The first big battle was that of the, SERVIA’S CROWN Meuse and Sambre, ending in the allies’ re PRINCE TRAPPED those shutters they found, over in| me corner, on a broken-down bed, Woman, absolutely naked. She Was sitting cross-legged, like a Turk, @ad she didn't look up when the _ Men broke in. Springs on Doctor | “I heard one of the doctors say, | ‘he's drugged or drunk,’ and he| (Continued | on Page 2) } WERE’S BRAND NEW WAY TO SPEED ‘EM UP: Men employes of Sears, Roe- buck & Co. say General Man- hit efficiency of his billing depart- ment that is, if the story Is true, it is ingenious. Tho girls who operate the billing Machines, these employes declare, fet $10 a week after they have Served a year. Beginners get $8. On Monday of this week, accord- ing to the story, a notice was posted Mating one girl would be discharged fach morning this week, her name And ‘cause of dismissal to be pub. Mely posted on the bulletin board m the morning of her dismissal. One girl, say The Star’s Inform- ants, was duly discharged Tuesday morning. THE REASON GIVEN! The French, on the other see | |were maintaining kitchens at the actual fighting front and serving} hot coffee to the troops in action. The troops were declared to be so cheerful that they sang as they fought. BOARD MEETING TO TALK DANCE A plan to hold three municipal | |dances a week at the Collins field | house in place of two is being dis-| cussed by the park board today. It is planned to give dances Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. The dances are now held Tuesday and Friday. The dances thus far have all been money makers. esr “LACK OF SPEED. nwhile $8 girls e being hired. | The result is, the employes claim, | that the girls, realizing the one ac- complishing the least work each| day will be discharged the follow- ing morning, are driven to a merci. less competition to hold their jobs. Sanborn says the story is only partially true. io notice was posted Monday,”| he said. “It is true that a girl was| dismissed Tuesday. It ts true that} the cause was lack of speed. the cause of her dismissal were posted on the bulletin board. But the girls were not told that one would be dismissed each morning this week. I wish you would tell me who gave you the sory.” In this great United States. There are rivairies, jealousies, Merce and impoverishing its people. For 50 years, over an art has worked with smoothn the envy of mankind. There are no war lords and no fet up and tolerate, because aware Bull them down. Please don't misunderstand. leans as folks; Democracy has proved workable of a I'm merely claimingit for our po! *Gual Intelligence, this system ought to work equal When Europe comes to the task of rebuilding, ? The more | read of the war In Europe, the gladder | am that 1 live | frictions among the states or the this time for this purpose American Union; but they usually are not serious. Latin, Teuton and Slav dwell here side by side, for the most part, | Peacefully and with growing good will. Each state has ite military, but none trains soldiery fannon with a view to overrunning another state, or accumulates | despoiling Its com-| Gladstone said of the framework of this plan that it was the great. | tet ever struck off at one time by the mind of man. LONDON, Sept. tide has turned every the Anglo-Franco-R favor, Lord Kitchener house of lords tonight. The struggle undoubtedly would war minister but the British had good rea be a the sald, son long one, for looking forwar contentment to such an end as they | would have chosen. Great Britain has field, hia lordship stated, six divisions of troops, ing two cavalry division: He concluded by eulogizing Gen. the British commander on | French, the continent, who, he And | meeting every difficulty in a man-) it {s true that the girl's name and/ner proving his worth as a eel | PUPILS T0 NEWSPAPERS NEW YORK, Sept newspapers as text-book dren of New York pub will study history as made from day to day by the war ring nations of Europe. | In instructing teachers to present | | the European war to the children |as part of the school program, Dr superintendent of | W. H. Maxwell, of city schools, sald 17.—War's now where In io all told the d in quiet Frederick William, who is in command of the left wing of the | great German army invading France, talking to two officers of the Death Head Hu ODDITIES In the WAR NEWS An eye-witness to the battie of the Marne reports that | while houses were being wrecked with shells, bridges blown | up, explosives bursting over the town and aeroplanes man- in the more than | not count 8. sald, was) USE 17.-With oeuvering overhead, he could see through open shutters s, the chil-| women darning socks as if nothing was happening. lic schools i a RS it {* being At Krinitz, 6,000 Austrians got entangled in a bog and Their captors had to get them out with ropes. surrendered. Four boys, the oldest 13, who had cheered French artillery as it passed through Bourges, were several days later found in ‘The newspapers are the most|the midst of the troops. They had secretly followed, vowing | Yecartiee fe cota gg ‘s| to stay until they met the enemy and died for their country. an epoch in world history, and the| They were sent back home, where they have since been pupils in the schools shall see new | PeapeRe # in the making.” | FORMING A NEW heroes. |@ England has intimated to the United States that it would LINE OF BATTLE be rather embarrassing for John Bull to take part in a peace vose the Russians \a great emperor will lose his crown and hostilities will cease.” by a Franco-British alles’ left wing was terrific today, the war of- fice admitted. It wae exerted kaiser’s right along the treat; the second that of the Marne, followed ‘BERLIN CALLS REPORT FALSE The NISH, Servia, Sept 17.—That German retirement; the third was that) Crown Prince Alexander's attempt of the Aisne, which the war minister said confidently the allies would win. |to invade the Austrian province of Slavonia had failed was admitted today. The Austrians were sald to | have prepared a trap, and apparent- All official reports showed, he| would be resumed | ly the crown prince fell into it. His pointed out, that the Germans are Allies’ Losses Heavy |forces had been withdrawn from fighting in the open, proving that It was admitted that the allies’ | Austro-Hungarian territory. their positions had been forced | losses in the past two days have The Servian and Montenegrin in- and that the advantage was with | been heavier than at any time pre-|vasion of Bosnia continued, how- | the neh and British | viously since the war began. ever, j Revolution in Germany? 7 e havoc wrought by the — | If the great German army, which kaiser'a artillery was terrific | the camara’ Waltons had ned |, The allies had failed in an at LTALY TO FIGHT invincible, should be sively {tempt to flank the extreme Ger. beaten, siitiergad anos d tnat the | man right at Noyon, Consequently | TO KEEP PEACE? Teutonic ruler would face a revo-|heyY Were directing a frontal at- abe Sh lution tack at Gen. Von Kluck's forces. ROME, Sept. 17.—Strong military German pressure . on the forces were in readiness in all {Italian cities today to quell anti- neutrality demonstrations, A concerted movement was devel- oping among a certain element to consisting of Gen. Von WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.—The| force the government to join the Kluck’s and Gen. Von Buelow's following telegram from Berlin was *ies commands, These had been received today at the German em. _, Rumors were current that cabinet heavily reinforced and were bassy: changes were impending which making desperate attempts to “French and English reports of would means acquiescence in this resume the offensive. victories in France are untrue. demand Military experts believed the retreat of the west wing was a prac- Germans had | withdrawn a large |tleal maneuver, and did not attect| GERMAN RIGHT part of their Kast Prussian forces our strategical position. The French |from, the Reantan frontier and attempt to Break through the ‘Ger WING CIRCLED thrown them, with the rest of the | man center was repulsed. panel pee heme embetter eat sod “The Paris Temps reports that) LONDON, Sept. 17—The Franco- |throngh and. renew. thelr advance | 15:000 British troops were killed and| British allles have encircled the | thronen md renew thelr advance | wounded in the recent fighting.” German right under Gen. Von | aris, Kluk, it was stated in an Amiens Rush Reinforcements ry = @! dis x ally News ' | Thotr attempt was so formidable |* WATER SHUT.OFF NOTICE ¢| ‘spatch to the Daily News today, Pia Hag Boertaas delat ol intr segrtail jand it fs said Von Kluk’s line of |being rushed toward the Alsne|_ Water will be shut off in West/ retreat ts endangered |from Paris and the Oise region Seattle, south of West Alaska st |'Thet French center, opposies the and. on Alki ay, and-in-the Aiki GERMANS GIVE German crown prince and the duke Point district, on Friday, Septem of Wurtemburg, was driving the | ber 18, from 9 a, m. to 5 p.m. The UP VARENNES Teutons slowly back toward the high districts supplied by small ‘ frontier tanks will have water part of the) WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.—A ca- Despite the herculean efforts | day m received today at the the enemy's center and right are | | embassy, from Bordeaux, making, Gen. Gallient said he had! Broadway high students chose! said the Germans have evacuated Fay, junior president, the German advance THE FRANCO-BRITISH MOVE- Winthr ” Spend Five Minutes You'll Know All About the European War Va Here Every Day and held by the allies, Von Kluck’s po-) In hope of avoiding this catas- ment to envelop the German right|sition will become precarious. trophe, reinforcements, have been wing northeast of Paris, under Gen. eee sent to Von Kluck, and with them Von Kluck, was developing) if THE ALLIES BREAK he must keep open the northern pores saain today, moving east.| through here and if their move: nt Ce Tee ward along the River Somme, ap-| Ment along the Somme emerges’ RUSSIAN REPORTS THAT THE side of the Aisne—the north—are siege behind French defenses, arently to serve as a northern | simultaneously north of the Ger- czar’s troops had surrounded th |celebration just now, so the commemoration of 100 years’ Laval 4a out off ahi Kater’ right. |man_ right, *. duation unique in Austrians at the junction of the larger than embattled Europe, this plan | PRTROGRAD, Sept. 17.—Aus | peace between the United States and Great Britain, planned| For this movement to succeed, | military annals may develop. San and Vistula rivers either were and efficiency, ylelding results which are) trian and German forces are con |the German front, between Laon! Von Kluck’s lines northward and | premature or, after the ring had | contrating at Cracow today, ac-|for next spring, probably will be abandoned. |and Rheims, must be pierced, sep-| eastward will be cut, and, unless | been formed, it failed to hold, great scale: A : cording news from the south see ee jarating Von Kluck from the rest of |he can hew his way through, he The Austrians at any rate appar. ‘autocrats that we do not ourselves | western fighting zone. . i |the Teutonic army. | will be compelled to take refuge in| ently are reunited and preparin: that, when we will, we can easily| The Russians are crossing the|) More hard luck for the Kaiser. An Indian magi published |""E,.quent mention of desperate|the French fortifications of La for fresh resistance. prepay | River San with a view to flanking|in an almanac last January: “In the month of July, 1914, all) encounters to reach the Aisne|Fere and Laon, which the allies Tne tenacity the Austrian field iming superiority for Amer-|the retreating Austrians crossings east of Soissons is the|deserted during their retreat to- forces have shown in the face of i'm not claiming wer aystem, Given | Austrian prisoners attributea|Urope will be overwhelmed by a war between the great|,cy to this part of the alll ward Paris, The remarkable sit-| disaster is remarkable, and shows ly well anywhere. | thetr armies’ defeats to the num powers, and terrible disasters will result. But in November|circling strategy. uation then would be presented of | that the men's spirit is far superior can it find a better | ber of untrained troops used to op Once the roads on the Germans’|a German army resisting a French tactical ablil- ie the strategic or ties of their officers,