The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 22, 1917, Page 1

MAKE A DATE { 3 Dancing for the benefit of “Our Boys in France $s Tobacco Fund” ought to be pleasant indoor sport Very well. Plan on going to Dreamland Friday night. Proceeds go toward supplying smokes for Sammies. VOLUME 19 TTLE, WASH., W (RUSSELL WRITES ON RUSSIA eee WARNING! | The accompany- © ing article is opyrighted, 1917, by The Newspaper Enterprise Assoctation, of whose editorial staff Charles Edward Rus- sell its a salaried member; and it ts furnished to The Star by that associa- tion for exclusive publication in this territory. Any infringement of the copyright will be prosecuted. ne | RUSSELL Who Hels: retarned with the from th perience three month man’ pen can do. } | He a just returned i ee .RIOTERS WRECK 22 FRISCO STREET CARS OR en The Seattle Star GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION ‘OF “ANY NEWSPAPER IN. PACIFIC NOR’ ‘THWEST } i DNESDAY, AUGU 2 “Yes, Man, Member of Peace Talk in Greatest LAST EDITION wan nanan § Have you offered your automo # bile to help carry Seattle drafted 3 men to American lake? Call t Chamber of Commerce and Commer. # cial Club, Weather: “Fair tonight, # fair and warmer Thursday.” ¢ ONE. CENT | Ns Says Star | Root Mission; This Country Is Danger to Allies—A Poisoned Dagger Driven at Our Country’s Heart CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL, famous writer for The Star, spent three months in Russia as a member of the American commission to the new Russian government, which was headed by Elihu Root. His opportunities for observation and investigation of Russian conditions were unparalieled, as all the resources of the provisional government were placed at his disposal. The com- i mission, which landed in Seattle, returned to Washington, and Russell, after closing his immediate official business, has started to | write THE TRUTH ABOUT RUSSIA Russia Will Fight,” Ze His first article is printed today; watch for others. By Charles Edward Russell (Copyright, 1917) Will Russia fight? | Of the thousands of eager questions plumped at the Root Commission, of which I was a member, since it came back to American soil, this has outnumbered all the others together. Will Russia fight? Yes! Russia will fight! She will fight with courage, persistence and success. She will put up a strictly — first class article of fight and she will win with it. Provided only that she gets any kind of a fair chance AND THAT THE UNITED STATES OF AMER- ICA WILL LET HER FIGHT. : { find that millions of us seem to have this whole Russian business wrong end to. We think, for in- stance, that if Russia is not now pushing the war vigorously the reason is that the Russians have a great, broad © streak of yellow in them—yellow and not much else. : This is the most monstrous fake and lie that was ever believed by one nation of another. It is a slander and a libel and ought to be dropped, buried and forgotten. There are no braver men on the face of this earth than the great majority of the Russian soldiers. Ask anyone who has seen them in action, ask those that saw the marvelous and almost incredible heroism displayed | by the Russian army in the famous movements of the summer of 1915. RUSSIANS GRAPPLE UNARMED WITH ENEMY Ask anyone who can tell you of the masses of Russian soldiers who has gone unarmed against the best | equipped troops in the world and have fought them with bare hands. To hear the uninformed casting reflections upon the valor of such men or sneering at the Russian nation s “yellow” is a hard strain on patient tolerance. The real reason for the apparent halt and hesitation on Russia’s part since the revolution is some! | very different. What it is I hope to be able to make clear in the articles that will follow this, and I think you | will agree before I am thru that harsh criticism of Russia by any American is rankly unjust, and that what © the real situation calls for is the utmost sympathy but not a word of blame. | Beset by thousand difficulties and dangers, problems and perplexities such as no nation has ever faced, all kinds of difficulties of which you in this country have never heard nor suspected nor dreamed, Russia has kept on with the most amazing fortitude and resolution, and when you come to know the whole story you | will be filled with wonder that she has done as well as she has. a FINDS FOLK AT HOME LISTENING TO TRAITORS None but a very great people could have pulled out of that hole. | But for today I want to talk about our own country. You think the question whether Russia will fight depends upon Russia. Let me tell you something. It depends far more upon you. You have no need to worry about Russia so far as she herself and alone is concerned. YOU HAVE MORE REASON TO WORRY ABOUT THE UNITED STATES. I come home to find that at the worst possible moment that the devil himself could devise, this nation is listening to a horde of traitors, German agents, selfish politicians and chicken- (Continued on page 10.) © 100 EXTAA "soue pow iw ALLIES CONTINUE TRIPLE POLICE ARE Bode sm DRIVE ON GEAMAN HORDE ximately $6 With New Zeal Near vane Italians after | Kill and Wound 35,000 paying appro r his winter supply of $9 at present it out Wed Wilson an tumi By United Press Leased Wire SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. mines, Tuesday By United Press Leased Wire Direct to The Star A series of riots, the most ‘wl followed by the statement that LONDON, Aug. 22 The war's greatest concerted of- . rofits for wholesaler and retailer! fencive mo ‘< Lik on flere se heteeneal ous since the car strike began, malen Walaa He wovecniment hie en en mt went nf i fe) with ut abatement, and broke out in various parts of jon with continued gains for the allies today the city today. So serious did rice for Washington coal The French appeared to have made the most rapid strides the rioting become, that Chief zes, Which is the kind) forward in the most sanguinary fighting. The German horde . 1 for domestic purposes. that once clutched Verdun, almost to the point of suffocation, of Police White was forced to as fixed by the president at $3.60 eh Lit: tuechee heed The bl 1 ty slopes of CA reorganize the department, put | jon at the mouth of the mine driven still further back e blood »p the policemen on 12-hour shifts, | The average freight rate from the villages of Regneville and Samogneux, with inter+ | and put 200 more bluecoats on |tlie nearby coal districts, from fortifieats were all swept clean of the enemy. 1 abe ADey | WHICH a! Brest \Dart. Of Chg, Beastie unter attacks last night, made with a desperation born at upply comes, was given by coa ; i ; ‘1 re | ‘ iermi a s owledge tha ne French offensive Up to 11 a. m., 22 cars had | gealers Wednesday morning as|°! ae | war ch ; kn wena that the Ae bat ripe been practically wrecked. about 65 cents. wee only beginning, brought the enemy nothing cavy ‘The most serious riot was staged Accurate estimates on the aver-| los Pilih Aah wont ot the Labor tem-age cost of B, Next in viole of the fighting, French artillery, new and highly ple, where strikers had ga pd| made by two < was the great battle over practic-| developed aeroplanes and all arms ynsideration Italian-Austrian for a meeting Strike leaders al panec ally the ent of mankilling The greatest gains r, hay and grain, placed this | front, Rome reports continued suc-|s9 far attained were in the line that a United Raflroads car, t t R . ‘ item at $1.25 per ton. lcess for Gen. Cadorna’s drive.| apove Gorizia with strikebrakers: and Wast ‘ h | | guards, followed by several auto: Dispatches from sauiogton in he sort of war machine uae Field Marshal Haig's Canadian mobiles loaded with guards, stop dicate that the gove Hf seagge ot | pn called into action to pulver ltroops once more are. striking lone in front of the temple for the ofit on coal for wholesal the fortifications—monitors | /7o0P) Orta Lens, ‘They gained Imme-| s at 20 cents per ton, an shelling from the Gulf of Trieste; yurpose of starting trouble, hpurEes a tight started, (Continued on page 10) ‘huge siege guns, British and! (Continuea on page 5)