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

Seaport at Dover, the Famous and Historic Old Town Which Is the Gateway - ENGLISH MOUNT STRANGE GUN TO WING BALLOONS a i By Harry Payne Burton DOVER, England, Oct. 4.—The ribbon of salt water shines between Dover Cliffs and Belgian sands—be- Stat that tween the high headlands of England and the low shores of} Belgium—is only a few miles by steamer. And the Ublans of the Germans are reported to be skir mishing upon the very shores of Belgium! A gymnastic leap by Zeppelin, or a swift cleavage of dividing waters by submarine—and Dover may be captured! The chalky cliffs of Dover bristle today with giant guns pas the flanks of porcupines bristle with living weapons. Big 80-ton monsters, painted white, poke their noses rom the snowy steeps; smaller guns, farther down, and painted green, are half-buried in grassy slopes; and scores of long, slim-nosed fellows train their mouths skyward from every point of vantage on surrounding summits monsters are for uper-dreadnought that should venture too near the threshold of England; the green guns farther down have business with & too daring torpedo boat or a too valiant submarine, the guns atop the hill are for—-ZEPPEL. It te the thought of Zeppelins, above all, that has Dover in its air. one peer slyly upward and outward from time to time, and when I reached the shore, there, at the edge of the of France begins its starts earnest—for is !t not in the night that Zeppelins drop bombe? The evening | was in Dover, no fewer than 24 searchlights were sweeping the skies. There were three on the turrets of old Dover castie—thie fortress that has been. British, Roman, Saxon and Norman in turn—and Dover has heard that the kaiser says he will EAT HIS CHRISTMAS DIN- NER in the hi where William the Conqueror came to demand the keys that Harold had sworn to give! Another searchlight blazed from the ruins of the Pharos, that, in another warlike era, served as a beacon for the Roman galleys on their way from Gaul. The searchlights were everywhere except where the war depart- ment has secreted its most formidable gues. eee Up on Northfall Meadow, over which, three days after E Germany went to wai MACHIN of the Royal Fiy- ing corps, on their vy IN THE COURSE OF THREE HOURS, I was permitted by a couple of good-natured armed sentries to get as near as a shallow moet and a menacing mass of barbed wire en- tanglement would allow to the gun—THE GUN To my untutored eyes it did not mean much. For all the world It seemed to resemble a linotype machine, with @ long, skinny, shiny barre! sticking out from the top of it. “But it is the most marvelous gun in the world, my lad,” said the sentry. “And if one of thes: y—watch it drop! Why, we're just pining for Zeppelin JUST A TIP! IF YOU'VE GOT ANY FRIENDS IN THE GERMAN ARMY, KEEP THEM AWAY FROM OOH LA BY WM. G. SHEPHERD PARIS, Sept. 29.—(By mail to New York.)—I'm not allowed to give any information to German soldiers, but if you haye any friends in the <kaiser's army you'd better tip them off that if they see among the enemy @ medium-sized black man with a wide smile who answers to the name of Ooh La, they'd better shoot quick or beat it Ooh La, in spite of his smile, is one of the most terrible per sons I ever met. Senegal is his home. At the battle at Oureq, ratio of one against ten, the Sen- egalese fought the eGrmans with bullets, knives, bayonets and fists, singing like devils and treating bullets and shells as if they were mere mosquitoes. At 10 o’clock, that American ambulance Paris got word that needed at Meaux. Find Blacks on Floor | stand The American doctors arrived) Ooh La is not his real name at midnight. An aged peasant|What his real name {is does not led them to the chureh. ‘Three|matter, but he had to be called hundred and fifty wounded black | something, and after the follow- men were stretched out on -the|!ng conversation, he waa chris- floors, groaning. tened Ooh La One surgeon noticed a thing in How He Got His Name torn clothes stained red, in places| He had been telling of the ser stiffened with dried blood. He) Vice ability of the bayonet in re. threw bis light on it. As he didjpelling rushes, and describing the so, it turned two great eyes on|Manner in which the Germans him, showed a set of enormous|came piling into the allies’ white teeth in a still huger|trenches 1n such numbers that smile, and sald: | war compelled to keep it more “Will monsteur kindly give me|than usually busy a cigaret?” | “And what did you do?” It was Ooh La. He had nine|his doctor. wounds, all bad and very pain-| “Ooh La,” replied the Senegalese ful carelessly, Imitating the gestures The of a man pitching hay with a | fork. “The surgeons say that Ooh La, the smiling super-killer, will be |back on the job tn a few weeks. of smok He's a Human Turtle “Now,” he said, “I'm ready.” Three hours later Ooh La w: in bed and sound asleep in the Paris hospital. They say a turtle has no nerves to suffer with. Ooh La proved to be a human turtle. The doctors usually had to waken him to dress his wounds. Among other things his left arm was shattered by a bullet. He never ing. in the| He was a favorite with |nurses until at last the came out concerning him It was that, during the fight- ing he had killed 18 Germans that he could definitely account for. the| I think in | somewhat was|siris with |which Ooh the truth this jolted the nurses They were American ideas about killing la did not under. night corps it asked doctor was not going to his native tongue, that he meant what Then they put a cigaret between his Mps and iit ft He took a prolonged pull, closed his eyes in Marrants issu for men who ecstacy and thea blew out # cloud|sto.e H. Yunok!'s auto October 14. groaned during the prob-| VOLUME 16. NO. 202. EA Bullets Fired by) | Mexican Bellig-; erents Wound 7) on American| Side.of Border. NACO, Ariz, Oct. 17.— Four American cavalrymen at Naco, Sonora, in Mexico, op- posite this village. Two of the cavalrymen may be fatally wounded. THE WOUNDED— Private Robert B. Watson, Troop) A, Ninth cavairy, shot through the stomach; probably fatal. | Private Daniel Wakefield, Troop) €, Ninth cavairy, shot through the probably fatal. Sergt. Nathan ‘Stith, Tenth cav- airy, flesh wound in left hip. rivate Ponce McCarver, Troop A, Ninth cavairy, flesh wound in left leg. Anastasia Selgedo, 35, Mexican, shot thorugh right breast, Injury/ | serious. | Mrs. Tula Andrade, Mxican, shot | through left thigh. | Mra. Tula Andrade, Mexica: In Fight thigh, j The casualties curred during intermittent attack#@by the Villista | rebels, under Gov, Maytorena, on| |the Carranza garrison at Naco, So nora The first attack was Imunched) soon after midnight. Others fol-) lowed at 30-minute Intervals until 8:30 a m. Warn ‘Em to Seek Shelter | When the shooting began, |W. B. Corwin, provost marshi lthis temporary post, rode throu the town, warning citizens to seek shelter. Col, Hatfield, command-| |ing the United States cavalry, or- | dered his troops into cover behind a small hill north of the border The cavalrymen, with the excep: tion of Watson, were shot by bul }lets that fell into their camps. | Watson was shot while crouch- ing behind an embaftkment. Col. Hatfield sent a courter to Maytorena to notify him of the ef | fect of his fire. Gov. Benjamin Hill and his Car-| ranzistas have not been dislodged | from Naco, Sonora. 'ALL AUSTRIA IS NOW SWEPT BY - DREAD CHOLERA hot | | | | } things soon be runn LONDON, Oct. 11.—The cholera | 4 epidemic in Austria-Hungary is reaching alarming proportions, ac cording to a Rome dispatch received | by the Star today | In one section tn Northern Hun leary there were said to be 10,000 canes. The mortality rate among thone attacked was understood to be frightful, GERMANS CAPTURE BRITISH AEROPLANE) BERLIN, via The Hague, Oct. 17 A British Bristol aeroplane carry ing two high army officers was re- ported here today to have been forced by a German shot to descend ‘onne, where the two officers made prisoners, TheSeattle The Only Paper in Seattle That Dare eee eee eee 4 U. S. CAVALRYMEN SHO PROSPERITY IS RETURNING! which will be printed as rapidly ns ¢! sumption in mill and loom—ACTUAL MOVING WORKS now tracked by feason of War news. in this newspaper. perity is ARRIVING! trade Business: BOOM! signs, and felt that great glow of optimism which is} \thrilling banker, farmer, la- borer alike? sons for their growing joy:|- COMPARES LORIMER T0 CHRIST I IMER TO JESUS CHRIST. N A SPEECH in the senate, April 10, 1912, Senator Jones COMPARED THE UNSPEAKABLE LOR- In defending the notorious political corruptionist and alleged bank em- bezzler against an attack made by Theodore Roosevelt, Jones compared the ex-president to Pontius Pilate in these words: “This is the first time, | venture to say, in our history, or in the history of any civilized people, that Pilate’s rule of judicial action has met the approval of any man, save those who crucified Jesus, and they despised him for following it. If former President Roosevelt had been standing on one side when Pilate delivered Jesus to the Jews, after having examined into the charges and found no fault in him, but, at the demand of the people, turned him over to them for crucifixion, he would have clapped his hands and exclaimed: “Most righteous, most honorable, most just judge! Star s to Print the News to England From the Continent. SATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, OC 1914. ONE CENT IGHT EDITION WEATHER night and Sund probably rain; winds. FORECAST — To- partly cloudy; strong southerly ON TKAINS AND NEWS STANDS, Be DISASTER Reenter ehh kee I “Tet You, AR. TRUE, IT LOOKS MIGHTY DvuBiCUs FoR THS RETURN OF NORMAL COwDITIONS, AND I BGIEVE WE'RS IN FOR 4 LONG PERIOD OF NATION-WIDE DEPRESSION. THERE'S SCARCKY | | | } | } | STAR CANVASS GIVES PROOF relGening prow aly temporarily hit? Will normal bi tke to know most! Opin- ‘of studenta and perts are get the FACTS, The Star bewun « thorough canvass of th merce and othey organisatt: reeults hey flow in during the next few These FACTS will tabu tual re. ‘going for: accounts of which are being largely side- Here is some PEACK NEWS! Watch for the country-wide reports beginning today Hy? In spite of the 4 industry? = Th bat they are on Do signa indicat ities through chambers of jruption of ocean trade,” our ex-| supply the rush orders for 500,000/ ports for three mid-October days| woolen sweaters, which has just | were $8,552,968. For the same p me in from England | riod last year they were $6,560,966.; The auto trade is simply thriv- ‘Almost $2,000,000 more—in this} ing on big orders from abroad |“off season”! Just as an example, a Detroit The New Bngland textile indus-| factory 1s filling an order for 180 tries are receiving enormous or-| trucks, valued at $500,000; a Cleve- ders from abroad, enough to keep| land mm has an them booming all winter One concern must supply 500,000 | pairs of socks a week until the end lof the year. Others have orders for 10,000 dozen flannel shirts, 1,000,000 rolls of bandage gauze, 800,000 yards ot ‘eotton duck, 600,000 yards of crash, | 200,000 pounds of absorbent cotton ) It will take 25 In spite of the so-called “inter-| tion's biggest America’s predicted pros- The us. to is upon beginning revival is Haven't seen the order from you — _ | (Continued on Page 8.) DANCE GN ‘PAVEMENT, Green Lake is going to dance all | over its new pavement—the first Green Gake ever has had—next| Friday night, to celebrate 25 or 30 of the na-| sible, they'll have Mayor Gill and knitting mills tojother city officials speak, and businessman Here are some of the rea- i 4 If pos. | RUMORED RRR Ree ee ence an 1 MORE BRITISH LONDON, Oct. 17.—That a German subm had sunk the British cruisers Invincible and Te in the North sea, was widely rumored here today, though without official confirmation. a “There is no truth whatever,” the official war ine formation bureau announced at 1:45 this “in rumors that any vessels of our navy have met dis+ aster other than those concerning which official ame nouncements have been madea’ 5 Despite the denial, the reports continue to cits | culate. The picking up yesterday from a life raft of a other contingent of the Hawke’s men brought the to known saved up to 71. This included four officers. was considered practically certain that the ini officers and the rest of the crew, thought to nun 446 men, perished. A rumor was current that British warships sunk a German submarine off the Dutch coast, but this, as of the reported loss of the Invincible and t Terrible, the admiralty knew nothing. ‘FOUR GERMAN DESTROYERS SUNK: LONDON, Oct. 17.—British fleet has sunk four German destroyers off the Dutch coast, it was officially announced tonight by the government war news bureau. be: The destroyers were understood to have attacked the cruiser Undaunted while the latter was on patrol duty an to have been esnt to the bottom after a short engagement, Analysis of Moves in Europe Www GERMAN SUCCESSES IN EX tending the kaiser’s lines In France and Belgium to better advantage than has seemed possible to the al-| lies, is beginning to suggest today} that all is not moving smoothly in| the French army. Germain, why ore the Gael : The Franco-British forces are! parently able & maka a greater ind to be at least 20 per cent! pression than the allies? s jer numerically than the Ger-| The most obvious answer Is that mans, the French have not yet had tim Outnumbered thus, it would ap-| fully to repair thelr deficiencies In pear naturally that the kalser! military supplies revealed last would be fortunate to do more than| yea * maintain a strictly defensive atti-|" a tude. | Fre But, as a matter of fact, he has|to sanction the enormous loss, of continued a series of counter of-| life that a frontal attack on the fensives which have had the effect! strong German positions would ei of putting the allies as much on the| tall, defensive as he has been. THE ALLIES HAVE BEEN pushed far from the German lines of communication, and the German battle front has been extended 60 miles, from the region of Arras to Ostend, to protect an additional | 3,000 square miles of conquered: Belgian territory. b+ All this the allies have been uns able to prevent. a They have not only failed te move their own lines nearer to the | crucial points of the Teutonic dé fense, but they have had to give | Ground In the north until now thelr ) advance positions rest on the Frans co-Belgian coast, ¥ The northern extremity of theif line ought to have swung eastward at the Belgian frontier, but instead of this the Germans were able ta detach enough men to compel them to move off to the westward. ‘i eee THIS SITUATION IS PUZZLING, If the allies really outnumber the ond answer may be that the: general staff refused LONDON, Oct. 1 Sharpshoot+ st Dunkirk brought a German | seroplane to ground in the elty yesterday after It had dropped twa harmless bombs. One vf the avi- | ators was mortally worded, Both were made prisoners,