The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 26, 1914, Page 3

. THREE AVIATORS IN SOUTH . END-ON.THE-SEA, England, Dec, 26.—A battle Between aeroplanes in midair wae witnessed by thousands here Christmas day. The fight Bis: “ss ES, SPIES, EVERYWHERE! side in lah aeroplanes were dispatched ended without eithe fileting serious damage. Two English fiying machi at tacked a German Taube. The Taube was sighted mov Ing swiftly a mile high, Brit see ee y The English to an altitude several hundred feet above the Taube before opening with their rapidtire climbed C ! RY BRIT STAR—SATURDAY, DEC, FIGHT OVER ENGLAND guns. The superior speed of th German enabled it to esca although several trated the wings. a ONS; @ MARY BOYLE O’REILLY TELLS HOW THEY’RE GUARDING ENGLAND AGAINST SUR OF GALLoway PT OF aver ISLE OF Nan Dough civilians in England have been the first and worst sufferers from the | great Teuton raid) on the east coast With renewed vigor they are now being hunted, trapped, arrested thrown into jail herded in concen tration camps. Al) Germans in the cities of Sunder. Jand and Shields for instance, are reported here to- day to have been/ arrested. Hunt Now Or_ Following the shelling of Sca: borough, Whitby and Hartlepool, ation, amounting to panic has embittered this big “spy hunt,” which has become more like a “rabbit drive” in its ruthless round 4ng up of thousands of harmless an¢ helpless Germans, many of them naturalized citizens of England But the facts are known that the G cruisers must have been by spies. They found the lighthouses, barracks tion and railway depots h a startling rapidity and terrific ft doing an almost incredible amount of damage in a very brief Familiar With Country Moreover, the fact that they elosed in nearer to the coast than Endlish warship ever had come shows that they were perfectly fa miliar in every detail with the coas ‘and lay of the land ‘The reason for their success ie PY And in the wholesale round-up of Germans which is following, the in mnocent suffer with the gulity. No Germans or Austrians are now permitted within 20 miles of the eas’ or south coasts. ‘The counties of Norfolk, Sussex Suffolk, Northumberland, Yorkshire are “verboten. Spies Segregated The edict has gone forth that there shall be no Germans allowed fo Yarmouth nor {n Hull, Thousande ‘are being rounded up tn the “com | pounds” at Leeds, Newberry and here; but the known spies are | peirig sent, post-haste, to be segre gated on the Isle of Man “But why such a panic here?” f asked » member of the stock ENGLAND AND WALES SCALE OF MILES ‘Tington ww Caistis msby yr Humber Iefleet shots pene PRISE 26, 1914 PAGE GIVE THE ‘SOLDIER By Gilson Gardner WASHINGTO D.C, De "Uncle Sam, if u Want to make a you've your big useful army, got it more attractive to us young men!’ Such is the chorus of the year's 3,000 deserters from the service It is also the moral taught by army strong to make far all decent facts and figuren If the United States army be bullt up into the powerful force we noed, life in the army must be made a vacation by comparison tc the drudgery of civilian life. The men must be treated as bu man beings, and penal punishment for purely military offenses must be abolished. Must Offer Advantages Bat, more than that, educational and soctal advantages must be add ed; useful occupations must be pro vided; the men must be given more opportunity of getting out of the service if it proves too distastefu to them. To remedy the in to feableness of our army, Secretary Garrison demande two immediate steps. Tho first i# raising the army te its full “war strength.” The second necessary step is the provision of a big reserve. Secretary Garrison recommends an enlistment term of one year. This alone would result in more men entering and staying in the service, Enlist During Winter It is noteworthy also that the highest enlistment figures are al ways In December and January while the desertions invariably are by far the most numerous in sum mer. Congress and the war departmen must, therefore, learn that army life has got to be more attractive to young men, CHANCE | | | JIM 18 SURPRISED THAT | STILL | LOVE DICK | (Copyright, 1914, by the Newspaper Enterprise Assoclation.) ‘Don't you think it rather stran }that we have mot seen Jim Edie }lately?” 1 said to Dick this morr ing. In reality, we have not, or at east, | have not seen Jim since 4 asked him to find Dick for me the night Dad died “Invite him up to While Aunt Mary in away have a maid we ought to have your friends at the house.” Dick did not seem to take the idea jot Jim's comin any great Jenthusiasm, but I did not feel calle upon to assure him that I did not intend to question Jim about hi whereabouts on that tragic night. 1 don't think {t's a good thing for a woman to let her husband think #h condones his offenses too easily Jim Kdle came up to dinner # seemed particularly glad to ree n ‘It's ages since I looked at you Marele, Dol a gray hair among that glittering red, and are you los img your teeth in the meantime "Smile for the gentleman, Mar gie,” said Dick, “that he may be assured that you bave all your ‘eat tools’ intact.” I could not help smiling at Dick's irritated tones, for I knew he war having an attack of remorse with # capital “R” and, man-like, wantec compantonship in his misery We had tong with sauce piquant for dinner, and Jim again took oceasion to flatter me by say ing that my tongue was always served with sauce piquant Tongue with sauce piquant fine for an occasional variety, Jim I cour but you notice th | Dick is neither eating much of that on the table nor is he greatly in terested in this conversation “I'm never much Interested tn the bunk Jim feels called upon tc hand out to the woman that be fr with at the moment,” growied Dich | “Hear, hear,” chirped Jim, evi |dently thoroughly enjoying himael | be se he was getting a rise out of his friend. After dinner Dick was called to the telephone and came back to tel! me that Mr. Selwin had asked h. to come to a downtown hotel whe he was holding a conference with some of his school-book salesme He lingered a minute, but Jim made dinner, Dich and al with d |Confessions of a Wife 1s exchange. “Are there really any spies left in London now?” “They lerywhere,” he answered, gravely. “Scores in the stock exchange; some in the house of commons!” | For six years it has been known jthat the German war office had a system of espionage in England. 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Hours, 10 to 18 ngultation free, Call or write today fs the unpardonable ain 19a m to® pm Sundays Opposite The Kho ash # Arende| | be I: |ted at strategically mportant points along the channel and up the coast so recently assatled, German farm colonies bough tracts at Highgate and Hampstead (the fortification of London), and no official took notice Remembering the concrete em {placements for big guns laid long ago at Liege, Rheims and Antwerp tardy public officers have hurriedly searched public archives for rec ords of bulldings placed on | Platforms of excessive st What Officers Found | At a German fish works at Brix ton, insignificant ma chinery wan set on six feet of con |crete covering 2 wide aren; at Southwick a foreign firm erected cheap buildings on @ concrete foun dation 20 feet thick; in the heart lof London @ German firm of print | ers buflt a one-story factory, with ¢ five-foot concrete roof on a site commanding six railway systems and in the Tremit company’s fac tory, near Stepney station, a con [tract for 40 feet of concrete was | siven last June | The Thermit company jby the Brothers Essen danen is the town of Krupp! JUDGES SAVE NEGRO FROM ANGRY CROWD ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky., Dec, 26. Mob violence is owned Goldschmidt of was averted here when J. H. Hayman, circuit judge. and D. W. Rider, county judge suaded a crowd of more tha armed who had gathered from all parts of Hardin county with the avowed intention of lynching Tur ner Graham, jr. to allow him to be legally tried per men der charge, after he had shot and probably fatally wounded Sheriff R. T. McMurtry HERO FAINTS TWICE LONDON, |S. Dimmer, of the Second Royal Rifle Corps, own fainting twice in his life The first time was when he wa hit In the face by Germar | and the second when he read in the newspapers that King George had restowed him the covete Victoria Cross Dec. 26 J. N Kin, ip IAeut shrapnel upon raham was arrested on a mur-| l¢ | tentiary | PLUG HAT OF LONDON, Dec. 26. A Daily News correspondent writes: A French soldier who came back from the Ypres neighborhood a few day ago told a joke played upon thel | Germans, who were intrenched only about 30 or 40 yards away from his position GERMANS POP | FAKE “PREXY” Additional conventences, modations and pleasures offered. ‘That it can be done is shown by the case of the navy. | And ita effect ts shown by the fact that the navy has « waiting lise, while the army is 9,000 men} below its authorized strength! accom no move to go, saying: “T' 5 must be ‘¢ Ls Li i sta ja while with Margie.’ After Dick had gone Jim contin ued to chuckle to himself “Ten't ‘t strange, Margie, what a ‘dog-in the-manger’ feeling a man has abou his wife? He will leave her alone and bie himself along the pathy adorned with primroses without the slightest compunction. Indeed, yor usually find him singing as he Z But let another man—even his bew friend—show an inclination to chee his poor wife's loneliness and yo see his snarling teeth immediately.” “But tonight Dick has busin He } “The other night he did not,” in Gold-Filled Spectacles And Kyegiasees, With Aphertcas 40 8 FANCY DRESSED DOLL Above illustration one-third actual size. Above il The Dutch Character Dolls are eleven inches tall, dres are eleven inches tal! and have sleeping eyes. An assortme exact reproductions, just as you will see them dressed w! Hello, cried. Bosches” (Germans)! he Your kaiser is very brave, isn’t he? He wears the Iron Cross but he doesn't come into your] trenches. Tomorrow M. Poincare, our president, will visit us. He does not wear an Iron Cross, but he isn't afraid And on the morrow the Germans saw a to hat come bobbing and bowing along the French tr and heard low cries of “Vive le Pre ident! Time after time they riddied that top hat with bullets, and still tt went bobbing along—until the French took it off a spade handle, threw it into the air and howled in derision. HELD IN PEN FOR 9 YEARS, NEVER TRIED LEAVENWORTH, Kan., Dee. J. D. Botkin, warden of the peni “hak been ordered to re John Groff, a convict, on an from the supreme court, decided that the prisoner was serving time on a charge of which he was er convicted Hotkin had served nine years 6 order which Cigar stand, 1508 Westlake ave. robbed. “NAVY YARD ROUTE. 0a m1 2:80), Steamers Hi 0 (excep He Sp 6:20 p Sunday m 1145 pom Time table aubjoct to change witho about one-third of their real size. _, If you are now a regular subscriber to The Star, do n girl or boy. Boys and girls ving outside of Seattle can also take a one month each at 35¢ a month Start today if you expect to win a Doll. Offer will be Parents may bring in the coupons, properly filled out, a DUTCH GIRL one-third actual size. terrupted Jin | “The other leone as as that night ther night has passed and SNTIT WHILE? n #tarte Does tt pay? Do i, who doubt whether a from the Rea The d to explain apeak, “you to Dick that night, an¢ feels very grateful to Jim, surely you understand that cannot my husband with his best friend.” Don't you want to know yund hiin? No, I certainly do not jdid find him is sufficient and I thank you for it Well, I must say that jucer creatures thought I'd have ‘difference occasior jor I tonight milingly accepting him 1 that, Jim, nearly three years ago when I mi led him “It's a good thing for men that women are made like t Margie | and I don't mind telling you that} #9 | I'd take one tomorrow, providing 1| by WO thinking over. the tm pete Br gine nail ‘ justice of it all, wondering |would be lucky to getany kind of| What there was in Christm |a woman to take Array eh me wi ui | (To Be Continued Monday.) couraged and felt lenely and ‘MAN IN CAR HIT BY Theor hen there came a OFFICER’S BULLET knock at my door. | opened it and outside stood a city fire- man, He explained in an em- ba ed way that he was ; | from the Fremont fire PORTLAND, Dec Struck in and, on behalf of the the neck as he sat In a street car by! there, gave me a generously 4 bullet fired by city detectives at! filled purse. Also, he said, an alleged robber. Walter Aekay,de-| they would help me any other partment store employe way they could. rious condition “The kindness of it brought Officers Mononey and tears to my eyes, A city with | Were escorting a negro to t |station when the prisoner away. Both detectives fired of the bullets glanced from | pavement and bit Askay discuss ev where ye , sometimes ny real good comes snnual Christmas giving? thi letter that came to ar Saturday Editor The Star: On Christ mas eve | was sitting alone in my little home thinking of my old father back East, my many old friends, my home, all of which | sacrificed to come to Seattle for the sake of a hus band who was In ill health. “He recovered his Ith. lost mine. Then he went aw: left me with my little I fe | That you for me women are § ejacul dd Jim. 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