The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 13, 1917, Page 1

gSssetsss ss ssscc sis eg stand the spirit of this 68th day of our war, you'll gladly give them Ae) 100,000 CHEER — ‘BLACK JACK’ IN PARIS STREETS "THE 68TH DAY OF OUR WAR | | Seat Raa Seb ed ee EM ——— The 68th day of our partici pation in the war will alwaye be memorable because Gen. Pershing today set foot on French Soil and offered physical evidence that America is going to do her full share to see it thru and help France. it is doubtful if lonial revolutionists were more cheered by the arrival of tte than were the French today by the presence of ick Jack,” commander-in-chief of the armies we are to send to help drive the Germans from French soil. If anything more than his mere arrival had been needed to make the psychological effect of his arrival greater, it was con- tained in the announcement from Washington that Pershing |s Gen. Petain, and not under Field Marshal Haig. action by the senate agricultural committee on a bill to prevent the use of non-perishable foods in the manufac- ture of malt or spirituous liquors brought national prohibition one big step nearer. The Liberty loan drive was setting new totals, as the na- tion realized that but one more day after today remained in which to meet the patriotic demands on its pocketbook Democracy was given another great forward push thru the abdication of King Constantine of Greece. By United Press Leased Wire Direct to The Star : WASHINGTON, June 13.—Gen. Pershing will operate under Gen. Petain, the French generalissimo, and not under the British commander. What portion of the French front the first American contingent will take up will not be known | for some time. $c By United Press Leased Wire Direct to The Star q ipa porn 13.—A’ Paris, frantic with with enthusiasm, ving the American and French | J. Pershing and his staff here/ | PPAR PRPRDRAROPR PDP PPP PDP PPR PPPS PPD ttre DDD PPP PPPS soa Your dollars must help send the Red Cross of mercy across the endless acres of France, where American boys will fight and die. If you under { GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY NEWSPAPER IN PACIFIC NORTHWEST } LUME 19 SEATTL GERMANY WINN U. S. MUST WAKE UP! ACT TODAY! BY THE EDITOR Seattle MUST raise $1,640,000 between now and Thursday night for the Liberty Loan. There are no “if's” and “and's” about it. Community pride, self interest, good business and true patriot- ism all dictate the same course. Disastrous it would be if we, and the rest of the nation with us, should fail, Berlin would ju- bilate, and hell would laugh, Joffre and bleeding France, prostrate Belgium and starving Serbia and Poland—what would ig they think? But Seattle is not going to fail! nation tail. There is one day lett, after today, in which to act. If you have not yet done your full share, i bor Now. | If you have forgotten the Lusitania, the in- j vasion of Belgium, YOU CANNOT FORGET THE MILLIONS OF YOUNG AMERICANS WHO ARE GOING FORTH TO MEET THE KULTUR SAVAGE. It is to feed and clothe these boys—our own flesh and blood—to supply them with bread and with bullets with which to fight, that the Liberty Loan must be subscribed. Seattle has never failed in any emergency be- If MUST NOT, IT WILL NOT, FAIL Nor will the fore. NOW. INVEST IN A LIBERTY BOND TODAY, at 6:30 this evening. i . i Marshal Joffre, Vice Premier Viviani, Minister of War! ® Panleve, American Ambassador Sharpe and a score of other dignitaries greeted the American commander and his officers at the Gare du Nord. 100,000 It was conservatively estimated t people thronged the streets along the route of the parade to cheer Pershing BY W. S. FORREST * BOULOGNE, France, June 13.—Cheering thousands, some moved to tears, welcomed to France today the com- mander-in-chief of the army which America is to send to join France in making the world safe for democracy. The tall, soldierly appearing figure of Maj. Gen. Per- shing, garbed in the business-like khaki of the American army, was acclaimed as France has seldom acclaimed another in all her history. ae Frenzied crowds packed the streets to shout their joy and wave the tri-color of France with the same three colors of SINKS STEAMER @ had made a quick and an un eventful tri over from England aiting eagerly for endous reception ac ‘o the commander of will be but a ‘aris is pre | ‘noon, corded here the American army Marker to that which paring for 5 o'clock this afternoo when Pershing and his staff arrive} PARIS, June 13.—One hundred at the Gare du Nord and ninety-nine persons ate miss ing out of passengers aboard Pershing Deeply Moved Pershing was deeply moved by the greeti received : (tonsider this one of the most|*#s announced today. Some of . American |tbose missing are Senegalese the French steamer Sequana, tor- important moments in ht Bistory,” he said. } “Our arrival on French soil, con- EATTLE MUST DIP Stituting, as we e advance S$ y, makes Nest the impor- 4 participation guard of an Aw Us realize to th tance of Ame UP OVER MILLIO “We'll Do Full Share” ees ° “Our reception has moved us|| | BANK® REMAIN OPEN Most deeply. I can only reaffirm Banks yh : wtaiteday he that America has entered the war| | Wednesday and Thursday, be tween 3 and 6 m™., to accom- (Continued on page 10) ‘GREEK REPUBLIC OOMS UP WHEN KING ABDICATES BY CARL D. GR WASHINGTON, June Abdication of King Constantine of Greece was regarded here today as the probable forerun- ner of a Grecian republic, headed by Venizelos, Constan- tine’s bitterest foe. This step, however, will not be immedi- ate. Instead, this government, following the lead of her allies, modate those who can not sub | seribe for Liberty loan bonds earlier. Seattie must subscribe ap ° | | proximately $1,640,000 by Thurs- | | | 1} | | | day night, to come within its allotment of Liberty loan bonds, Every effort to meet this huge job, and, if possible, to oversub scribe the amount, is being made by the Liberty loan com Subscriptions obtained to mittee. Tuesday $600,000. Total subscript yanks, at the | Tuesday, amounted to About $200,000 more, not re the banks, makes the grand total near the $6,560,000 mar Seattle | is due to subscribe $8,200,000. Subscriptions had a good start this morning with the announce rrent of @ $200,000 subscription by will recognize the new regime |the Seandinavian American bank | under Constantine's son. Jand $50,000 by the Puget Sound For the moment the abdication | gayings & Loan association, and means that the allies are going tO lit ig expected that than a amounted about more have fuller ° 1 children and injuring 60 | peration from|miiiion will be reported by the | ©" | Greece, t were unableltanke tonight. Eriployes of the King Goes to Scene MAY DIE OF INJURIES fo wr t sbdurate and|ceattle Hardware Co, subscribed} British antiatr craft guns and | Pto-Ge stantine $32,900 defense planes vigorously fonght| Herman Meyers, 6, son of H. P. X To Control Rich Harvests oe vate off the invaders. Special con-|Meyers, 1115 Spring st. is near And the first evidence of this stables were hurriedly called out |death in the Minor hospital with a} Will come from allied control of HOTTEST DAY! lend the damaged areas roped off|ladly fractured skull, It is be a the rich harvests of Thessaly lio keep back the curious crowds. |lieved he was struck by a motor ‘ These harvests are badly needed Straw hfits and soda water! | King George and Minister of |cycle Employes of the car barn and will solve, in large measure,| She's come, folks! Weather| War Derby went to that part of|at Spring st. and 11th ave, heard | Prophet Salisbury says it was 76 in the shade at noo ntoday. Last June 18 it was 79, the problem of victualizing the British forces in Macedonia. (Continued on page 10) vl pedoed and sunk in the Atlantic, it] IEXTR S.S.GOVERNOR RAMS AND SINKS CUTTER SAN FRANCISCO, June 13.— The U. S. revenue cutter Mc- Culloch was sunk by the Pa- Jand was with Dewey's squadron at |the battle of Manila Bay, It was |the McCulloch which carried the | first news of Dewey's victory to | the cable offi t Hongkong cific 8. 8. Co.'s steamer Gov. ernor in a collision off Point | 72 Abo: McCulloch Arguella early today, accord. | Eight office 1 64 men com ing to a wireless received here | posed her cre nd she carried | ns Governor had a 250 tons, in 392 shortly before noon, The | four McCulloch's crew were taken | off before the vessel went | ment down, and there were no cas: fen c a crew of 140. uaities. Sher between San Diego, San Details have re-| Francisco and Seattle. The Gov colved ,ornor reached here from § Sunday and left Monday for Diego. She was built in 1907 at Camden, N. J displace feet long. not yet been pasels collided at 7:21 a MeCulloch sank at 8:06. r Panic on Governor panic on the Gov number of ng that their v damaged also. m., a fol }f p of the Pa nnounced a ed in | e Governor has a disp their in [ment of 1,415 tons, and was d that no liv were |feet long, and was built in 1897 at|lost., Details of the eollision had Boston. During the Spanfsh war not yet been received by the local she was used as a dispatch boat officials at press time AIR RAIDERS KILL 4! 50 German Planes Battle Above London LONDON, June 13,—Another daylight raid by German alr- craft over London occurred at noon today. Fifty hostile aeroplanes formed the raid in squadron, Lord French, com mander of the home defense, declared wrecked their « friends The bulldings hy to victims. and offered relatives and raid w | murderous of the most et suffered by Eng afternoon, it was stat 4 non-military train carry one land Tht Jed that jing ed a death roll of 41!heen struck by din London alone bombs dropped by lone of the German fliers War NITUATION TODAY 50 alr before Kill Ten Children and bom . le | w Bonar Law, chancellor of the | jf exchequen announced in Commons e Germa jane a Cy that one German plane had been Sy uri brought down t did not prevent artillery The German raiders appeared | eng | ver the Essex cc eharily bode NT—On the Dvina river | ‘over "the i bites . Berlin admits that the Germans are fore noon—in broad daylight. In| new doing some lively fighting. ne bomb viitow ten BOY HIT IN STRET t end of Londe by the air pi ntary school, the dropr an ¢ London which had been struck in|a scream, and, rushing out, found cn automobile almost immediately /the boy lying In the street. A mo- after the raid, They inspected the torcycle was shooting up Spring st, », WASH., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1917. 4 number of passengers had | icsssititisstsirec iss ttetisssstectsctisereiiiisi iiss i isestsscietest P i |. LAST EDITION Your savings are SAFE if you put them in Liberty bonds—and so are you. It's bonds or bondage. # Weather Man Salisbury says: “Fair tonight and Thursday.” ; ONE CENT ING; AMERICA FACES REAL PERIL OF DEFEAT, ASSERTS WRITER — AFTER INQUIRIES IN CAPITAL : Newspapers Have Not Told Whole Truth About War, — | High Official Declares; German Victory Over France © | and England in Next Six Months May Mean That We | Yet Have to Fight Prussian Hosts on Our Own Soil. | Editor's Note: In publishing the accompanying article, The Star is not trying to pose as an alarmist. The facts hereafter set forth are not gotten up to make a sensational story. Mr. Rickey, a former editor-in-chief of the Scripps newspapers, has been in Washington for two ~ weeks studying the situation. He has talked to many men high in the government. This are © | ticle is the result of his investigation. Mr, Rickey declares that our nation is in danger. Wash- | ington is alarmed. The Star feels that the public must be informed of the true situation. BY H. N. RICKEY WASHINGTON, D. C., June 13.—If the people of the United States—rich and poor, employers and em- ployes, business men and artisans and farmers, the whole one hundred millions of us—do not wake up at ; once to the imminence of the danger which faces this country in the world war, then God help us, for no hu- That the danger cannot be overestimated, that it is growing with each day and each hour, that it may result within a few months in A DISASTER SO GREAT THAT THE BRAVEST MAY WELL TREMBLE in contemplation of it, is not merely the opinion of the writer. If it were, this article would not have been written. But this is the interpretation of the situation voiced by the best posted men in Washington in office and out of office. It is the almost unanimous opinion of those who are in position to know the facts uncolored by European censorship, and who have the intelligence to estimate the facts and the courage to face them. The writer has been in Washington for a number of days for the purpose of attempting to break thru the crust or rather hard shell of official secrecy and reticence in an effort to get at the real facts. It seemed that it was vitally necessary that the truth be told, whether or not its telling conformed to the official view as to how much or how little information it was safe to pass along to the people. \ MUST TELL THE PUBLIC THE DANGERS or This is not intended as a criticism of the government officials, either civil or military, nor as a even suggestion that they are wilfully distorting facts. The newspapers are as much or more to blame than the officials for the lack of appreciation and understanding on the part of the great mass of the American people of the magnitude of the task which the war with Germany is to impose upon them and the very real | that they may, almost certainly will, face in the near future unless they at once devote to that task all that they have of strength, intelligence, ingenuity, courage, natural wealth and last, but not least, patriotic unselfishness. Washington newspaper writers and the editors back home have carried the voluntary censorship idea to such lengths in their efforts to keep military secrets from the enemy that they have leaned over backward. The mere suggestion from any official that this or that information might be of value to the enemy has been suf- ficient to suppress news which it was vital for the public to know, and the publication of which could by no | possible stretching of imagination interfere with the military efficiency of the nation. The cumulative effect of all of this suppression of news has been to create in the public mind a picture of the relation of this country to the world war which is exactly the opposite of the picture that ought to be | there, that must be there, if we are to do our part in the war with the speed and efficiency that we must do it if disaster that impends is to be avoided. GERMAN VICTORY OVER ENGLAND AND FRANCE MEANS OUR SURRENDER “We entered the war to make the world safe for democracy; we must now fight in the fields, in the fac- tories, in the trenches, to defend our nation, our homes and our families against Germany. For a German pe | victory over England and France is not only a possibility but a probability unless American help in food and ships and men can be sent to Europe in much greater volume and in much shorter time than the present .organi- zation of the country agriculturally, industrially and militarily will make possible. And a German victory over England and France within the next six months or a year would mean that this country, half prepared, would | have to surrender abjectly and pay tens of billions of dollars to the Prussian war lords, and forever after be | subject to their tyranny, or fight Germany for years, probably on our own soil at such cost of blood and wealth as would make the present war in Europe seem small by comparison.” I have quoted the above from a man in Washington who knows as much, if not more, about every phase | of the European war than any other American. He was the last man I talked to about the war, and he made | this statement deliberately and unexcitedly. 1 know he believed it, and I know that he has the facts upon which to base such an interpretation of the situation. ‘ NOT AN ALARMIST, BUT HAS COURAGE TO FACE IT This man is not an alarmist, but he has the courage that all of the rest of us must have in the crisis thru which this country must pass during the next few months. | If what this man said to me stood alone, and was contrary to the opinion of other well-informed men, it would not have been so impressive. But in effect it was a summing up of information which I had gotten in more or less confidence from dozens of other men. And more impressive still was the fact that no man in of- ficial or unofficial Washington who is in a position to know what is going on behind the veil takes the opposite view. I am so sure that the man I have quoted above knows what he is talking about, and so sure that it is to the interest of the country that what he knows be told, that I shall quote him somewhat at length: WE MUST GET IN WITH OUR FULL STRENGTH “America must wake up to the fact that she is at war. The people must realize that unless they get into this war’ at once with their full strength it will not long remain a war for ideals, but will become a war of self- preservation, as actual for the United States as it was for France in 1914 when the Germans were marching on | Paris. | “The cold fact is that the Germans are winning. : “The chaotic conditions in Russia which have palsied that nation’s military arm has enabled the Ger- mans so to strengthen their forces on the Western front that what started out this spring as an allied offensive has not only been stopped, but has actually become a German offensive, with England and France strained to (Continued on Page 7.)