The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 25, 1914, Page 1

Sgetreseenapeecsesresr WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH SEATTLE’S Y. W. C. A.? TURN TO PAGE EIGHT JOSH WISE SAYS: (SS IGHT “a | TheSeattle Star IGHT ff financier, states that th” reason The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News WEATHER FORECAST — Te Becleysport ie allue kept ight and Saturday unsettled, prob- ed of ready cash is that It gits = ~ a r staan’ too many muitigraphed letters.” ably rain. Moderate, southerly VOLUME 16, NO. 182. SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, SEPT. 25, 1914, ONE CENT. Gh tame Ane winds. NEWS STANDS, be FRESH FRANCO-ENGLISH ARMY | _IS HURLED AGAINST GERMANS | b ——]Freneh Report German Defense = Breaking Down The Parable of the Old Woman and the Well; Shall the Well Be Shut? By Fred L. Boalt. LONDON, Sept. 25.—That fresh British troops 3 TRAIL leads across a desert. have landed at Ostend and Boulogne to join a new 4 Beside the trail, in the heart of the desert, is a well. French army from a mobilization center in the south, EY By the well stands an old woman. She has stood there 31 years. was learned tonight. ? és Le It is a long journey across the desert. You cannot cross it without water. If | It was believed the allies were depending on this _ you could not get water on the way you would die. | : The other day a party of men and women in big limousines came to the well. In the limousines were not only hampers of rich food, but also hampers filled with the finest sparkling water, in bottles and on ice. | They had Apollinaris, and White Rock, and Sol Duc, and all the other excellent] of water. They stopped at the well and questioned the old woman. Gingerly they ed the water from the well which the old woman gave them in a battered tin cup. army to complete the isolation of the German and to envelop the forces under Gens. Von Kluck and Von Boehm. There were signs of expectancy at the war office, the end of the battle of the Aisne evidently being considered in sight. SAY GERMANS ARE WEAKENING | PARIS, Sept. 25.—A weakening in the German defense northeast of Paris was declared observable at Gen. Gallieni’s headquarters today. i A general retreat of the Teutonic forces was pre- dicted soon. Conditions on the allies’ left were gradually chang- ing. The Franco-British troops had ceased their as- saults and were directing a heavy bombardment against the German trenches on the Oise and Aisne. At the same time they were driving a sects. agatnet, ti s lines of communication, in the hope of splitting Gen. Von Kluck’s and Gen. Von Boehm’s armies apart and throwing Von Kluck —_ upon Gen. Von Buelow, or compelling him to fight, surrounded on three sides, socom aeey Seo? Pe af hat ar In the vicinity of Rheims the French center was advancing. Ll. Wake thele? bplonaia In thie district, the past few days’ losses have been tremendous en sri, “eens both sides. Wounded soldiers deciared the ground was covered with whom were in positions of authority, ordered the old woman to depart. Then they | Belton Whe commanded the army that put Mulal Hadi on the Moroccan:throne, in 1908, and Mal, Norton | Sead and wounded, the latter Ot prevent entirely unattended. Sealed up the well, and went on their way. Sommin (Empire fee). wre fougnt tn tne Seer wer PNEUMONIA THREATENS KAISER By and by a woman approached the well. She staggered under the sgl ’ aliate Crtohiad' SF bateral prvelpingin Wathen hak te aa of the puny baby she*held in her arms. From time to time she tried to moisten ac an aS ing It from developing into pneumonia, was stated today in a her parched lips with her tongue. But her tongue was dry. Geneva message received by the Chronicle. His majesty was She reached the well, only to find it sealed. She staggered on. said to have contracted it by spending some time in the trenches In the rain, As you rode along you may have noticed bleached bones beside the trail. Necklace Made KAISER, SA S TT OT Lage chile. FE trees A eee 5a ce WILL LOOK INTO LOUVAIN CHARGES — The old woman le Mother Ryther. BERLIN, Sept. 25—(Via Wirele ss to Sayville.)—News of the an |. ‘ba. tral le the 080 UF tito obton | rest as a spy in Petrograd of Prince Radzivill, the aged leader of the ihmmwd "| . | Polish delegation in the reichstag, was received here today. It was ( | ‘View water tn the well is the food | 0 rman ars aie ante Sk Pe ee hited d erieanea: r to investi; ‘ } NEW YORK, Sept. 25.—An- The German government commissioned a lawyer to Investigate ES | steer te aeietinn seo aore| | ee! | the reasons for the destruction of Louvain, the methods used, and the | gives to working mothers and their drew Carnegie returned today They sipped and sniffed and made wry faces. “What is this, mother?” they asked. “Water,” the old woman replied. 4 “Of course it is water,” they said impatiently. “We mean what kind of water? Apollinaris?’ Or White Rock? Or Sol Duc?” “Just water,” the old woman said. “Dear, dear!” said the people in the limousines. “This will never do! This ‘woman must not be permitted to give out this water. There must be some : it” “Tn a dilettante sort of way,” said one of the party, “I am an expert judge of The mest st#iking soldiers new organizing in London for Snaia In my expert opinion there is a suspicion of a brackish taste in this.” a mcche tbocoratataes are th eswlind Wor : . n The men in the above picture in training for So the people in the limousines, some of whom were wealthy and others’of Many of them had act cavairy perience in war. The officers o e babies. 1 = te Now Verk'ob tie (daretante treatment of the population, E The people in the limoust : A copy of the Petit Parisian received here said the troops brought |rich amateur philanthropists, pro- By Ed L. Keen : : nnn Pt +0349 to go te war | bY France from Africa to fight the Germans would have to be returned |fessiona! charity.workers and city LONDON, Sept. 16. (By mail to New York.)—] gGsinet hie will by the Prussian | to Morocco shortly, as they were unfitted for winter campaigning. officials. a ay ye arn : The persecution of Mother}! he London Globe publishes a gruesome story of the} military machi | “Len 1 . mageng Phe Price Pec ow the personally, NAG oa Wusiond |. “Saplish eviclicn experts are re- | RYter continves—but the welt hae} manner in which the French Sengalese soldiers have fol-| ana very well,” sald Carnegie, RIEST TELLS VIVID i? 4 » . * sealed. mp Lainel a - aiieei T sai te ran.| which has long feared a Ger. | ported to be ready with a fleet of Te. jlowed up victories over Germans. The account is con-| “And I also know what he has 8 armored biplanes to attack any dir Yesterday Dr. Lippincott, of the | ad j “tte ye re: or , professes fy ne man serial raid, was much per | tr making thelr appearance in nexpaterday Dr. Lippineo the|tained in a letter from a Globe reader, who professes th ane: thie A in milltary ¢ Dr. Lilburn Sat ai furbed today by news of a | Ostend’s vicinity Merrill, the chief probation office, (tO have personal knowledge of the incidents cited. Bee ee Zeppelin attack on nd, 70 It has been assumed all along |called at the home to t > the “It is a wonder,” wrote the correspondent, “that pe eo Kaleer miles across the North seafrom | that such an attempt, if undertak:| county detention house five small ; sated : ‘ ; | the British coast. len, would be made by way of Os colored children, whose mothe the French and British troops have not retaliated on the; stronger. | pity the k The dispatch telling of the inci-| tend, and Thursday's aerial bom-|in Hoquiam.’ Other | 5 tarrihite ities committed by the| ‘Better of my heart. He er dent did not name the city bom-|bardment of the Belgian port was| Later it was given out and pup. (Germans for the terrible atrocities committed by the) has done too much for peace to V YORK, Sept. | more about the actual Parded by the airship, the censor) thought likely to have been mere-|lished in a morning paper that |latter. The Turcos and Sengalese, however, are not so| Sear, SPREE AU ge 3 The Rev. Father fighting in Europe having evidently deleted it, but the| ty a preliminary test foreshadow-| Mother Ryther had refused to sivelscrupulous. One Sengalese warrier is walking about) “”"” — yee ne 25.—The Rev. Fath S ; Statement that the Avenue P. de/ing a biow against London. jup the children and thgt she might | So? UPUIOUS. bd , James Malloy, a native than any one hitherto Smet de Mayer bridge, wake fe {2| Tho British purpose is not to al-| be arrested Havre with a necklace of German ears strung across his | be gf eh “4 if A returning to the Unit- ° Ostend, was y & bom! low any Zeppelins even to start on| “The story 1s not true,” said ! er carries 2 fe wraic 2 otha | T on, N. J., who | . doubt. isa furans 1 1h gen bo aeovented.| Mother Rythes tedan, “De Lignin, Shoulders. Another carries at his waist the gory head of of Trent DNs sha ed States. He was in p waneiterable Damage Done fc iainactnots — Jcott, Dr. Merrill and 1 taiked the a Uhlan with a dented helmet set at a rakish tilt over has been in New Zea- London when war was was said the Zeppelin came -__— —______—_——- iets “4 from the direction of Thourout, is| HOUSE Is BURNED) (Continued on Page 7.) one eye. land for many years, declared. miles southeast of Ostend, dropped} Fire, which broke out in a two-| aon) A. Weanded Turco Was gut sae peer ak Fe “On Aug. 17," Father Malloy one bomb into the harbor, a second | story frame residence at $415 Dun ’ & carriage of a Red Cross train arrived here today on told the United Press today, “I Into the harbor, a third into the| can av., while the owner, H. Cas Cee ee, wounded Germans. . At the Mauretania from | was invited to accompany the fish market, and sailed away in the| sell, was away, totally destroyed the first stop a doctor came to the | British expedition as chaplain, directién whence it came. | the house at 10:24 last night, caus-| ee wand asked if they were all Before going | We sailed Aug. 18. I was as Considerable damage was report-| ing a loss of $1,600. The flames ex ye * Bagh | Europe. The T replied that the| P ‘ * signed to a transport carrying mand were ‘resting peacefully to New Zealand he | Gen. Sir John French to t was not until the train ivad iniGon Rratwich France. shed its destination that it was 8 lived in San Francisco. amereakh one transports were t | ed how peaceful was thetr| Father Malloy spent 19. | required to carry the expedi- —Seere-| days on the firing line | tion. We landed at Boulogne, t rest. The Turco had strangled ° 1 “If the allies are to defeat {stop until the last ounce of thelr | them—al! four” WASHINGTON, § ed, though no mention was made of | tended to 8411 Duncan av., but the i any persons killed or wounded. damage was slight. ; ’ | | | 1 | i t . - ont.” Three days later we went to ma mi ength has bee vent ‘ . * rie } cabled Ge ; rye H Gorn ny, they must destroy fighting strength has n sper I hear first-hand stories,” said|tary of War Garrison cabled Gen with British troops, Mons and became the left wing } . the writ not third-hand yarns,| Funston at Vera Cruz today that it This is th Int f A. F. | ‘"g Nlood . | q robably VS | Low, who lives in the Hillcrest |/DON’T CONDEMN [at make my blood run cold would be impossible for Amertcan| _ ind probably knows “Boys whom the Germans catch | Bewwe disr Ou Mars Qawrar = | in sare rotwses KAISER UNHEARD, ti (ov, 20 ne ee roar "| NEWS OF DAY’S FIGHTING, PAGE 9 (Continued on Page 6.) home from Berlin I was in the Unter den Linden, Both boys and g in revoltir to Arris a three w 8 are - ane Berlin's principal street, when the NEW YORK, Sept. 25—Roy | ‘ . . declared war on G any said W. Howard, president of the Unit er's ast and ha d to bits be ae a3 Low today ed Press, returned today on the | fore eyes s There is being offered to New York patrons of the theatre a play| “The wide street was packed liner Mauretania from Europe. | The accuracy of these stories is You'll Know All About the Euro’ al War 8 its theme visits by a wife to a luxurious flat, where o | The news spread like wildfire, and) He visited England, France, | Nt vouched for, of course, but the ; and the discovery of the wi Globe published them, and even exchange for finer: |the roar which went up from that by the husband, a estate agent, who goes to the | crowd had death in it. I tried to) 7° . | though they may not, are probably 4 with its woman manager. get to my hotel, the Bristol, but the ‘Germany's side of such matters| not, all true, they are illustrative THE FRANCO-BRITISH ALLIES| kaiser's western front. and Gen. Von Boehm's armies in tement that | crowd was too der ae the reported atrocities In Bel-| of the prevailing terror of the In-| evidently were engaged today in| PERONNE, WHICH THE ALLIES| two, but this possibility Is now re he chokes | automobiles dash around a sium must be heard before fair Judg-| habitants of the fighting zones, testing the new German front which| occupied Thursday, Is half way|mote on account of the strength of Holland, Belgium and Germany. ; “they all do it,” while the husband makes no excuse at a i. |Poltcemen. with drawn revolvers | ment can be reached by neutral| was formerly Gen. Von Kluck’s| along hie fighting line. hay the German defenses, $ “ ” i | we the running boards, The ~ eertesay 2 | right wing. | commands important: ighways | er, may be e allies’ a me viey, fiers sete made a “great hit in New York.” In my opinion | we us Held other olieethen. Ane}. Byam though one | doubts Ger GERMAN PEACE The fighting in this area un-| leading from several directions to-| strategy to move a large force into ioe oho 4 econd ca an & ddied, | @8ny's ability to explain away the | doubtedly consists of a series of ward the German positions. | Belgium and seek to crush Von 4 Renee forsee sro Net, walang 1 . poowmunlaee, where. the Tee et nah Mat huddled. | charges made against her troops, OFFER REFUSED )|reconnaisances to determine the| It la also one of the keys to the Boehm’s front at an angle when It “ grace and beauty of clean home life are still widely prized. They teac he British ambassa the pli af Sar Binh peaeinen’s strength of the German lines run-| heights of the river Somme, along swings through Belgium territor: rai age act Sept. 25.—That Ger-| ning along the Oise and Aisne, back| which extends a continuation of the to the eastward, This would be nothing that isn't already understood by students of social problems and ; |! . rlin was hersel as entertainment they are disappointing. protest against condemning her un ANTWERP der the lynch law being practiced , many made a peace offer to Bel inte Belgium. Should these tests Rheims-Laon-La Fere line of fortifi- duplication at the German square’s There are tragic lessons which need to be taught by the stage; but by the British censors, which per 1 es 0 el! reveal any weakness, presumably a/ cations in the Germans’ possession. northwestern corner of the jedge- — this kind of show is simply clap trap, a combination of vulgarity and left Berlin September 1 mits the world to hear only the in- Sm and King Albert refused it, gudden concentration of the allied A SUCCESSFUL DRIVE hammer blows which Von Kluck has nastiness. rmans ce v went war. | dietment, and no word of defense| was asserted today by the foreign| forces will be brought to bear at) through the German lines from Pe-| thus far re: d at the southwest. e not consulted ut now from office. Why don't the s give us more “Old Homesteads”? s of pli that point in an effort to break the| ronne would cut Gen. Von Kluck’s! ern corne