The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 6, 1917, Page 1

i \ i FE city with fire apparatus is also ing used. We are also picking up e Seattle Star THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST . LEASED WIRE sSeRVICR > PRESS ASSOCIATIONS VOLUME 19 SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1917. NIGHT EDITION PRICE ONE UNDREDS KILLED I LAMES ADD TO HORROR IN {HALIFAX AFTER CRUISER RAMS * Seattle Girl Will | |, Sins for Red Cro: y SHELL-LADEN AMERICAN BOAT NEW YORK, Dec. 6.—A British cruiser aide into an American muni- hitions ship caused the terrible explosion in Halifax, according to reports re- eived here today by cable officials. Hundreds of persons are believed to have been killed and more than 1,000 njured, in the explosion that followed a collision between an American mu- ng ship and a British vessel, in Rockingham Bay, Halifax harbor, N. S., ns city is cut off from telegraph communice stion. Railways have ished special trains bearing fire apparatus, nurses, doctors, saaitical sup- lies and food. Communication is possible only by messenger. “ene report said the bodies of 25 railroad men had been picked up be- | ween Deepwater and Richmond. Richmond is across the narrow arm of water on which Halifax fronts. At Truro, the most successful point of communication with the stricken icity, itwas stated the death list will total 300. Immediately after the collision the ammunition-|— den ship caught fire, one report said. Efforts of the 700 MEAT MEN CERMANS TAKE trew to Exige the flames and save the ship were ile. She blew up with a report that shook cities 100 Miles away. Blazing ammunition shot into the air and ON STRIKE T0 9, 000 BRITISH | inkled terminals and houses nearby. Docks were hatiered. Railroad cars were lifted from their trucks @ dashed to splinters. ak : : 300 i 700 meat 7 " reas ae . arehouses were demolished and their yeaeces ere eee | ae nes sedi - scattered. Telegraph wires failed after a ut on strike ‘Thereday, at 9a <teahiia/ ol Neduatink. ti of the disaster had been flashed. whk dacbas iis Gi neux, Cantaing and Noyelles as A message received in Toronto by an day, it was a dat the well as the wooded heights north ae $ “ilwre ; every yu d y hers’ strike headquarters in of Marcoing from British > Inter-colonial railway said every building labor temple forces was announced in today's Wueens hotel had been destroyed. official report The first messenger was able to giv We adva fight description of it. Ui takes to depth pl pageren § Attempts by the navy department at Washing yee ut 6% mile fo get in touch with American ships which might be area Canadian port failed. valuable pod brief DO official of north of if from large number of « e only a m the Frye the Bri jomete ed againnt ¢ James Henry k itters Me Moeuvres and w from By United Press Leased Wire j TORONTO, Dec. 6.—*Halifax City is on fire,” said a)‘ Message received this afternoon by J. D. Reid, minister of! failways, from Division Superintendent Sayer of the Inter- ia railway at Moncton. “The fire is spreading.” 4 The dispatch » sendi @al trains out of Moncton guns * 11,000 ITALIANS ARE ' TAKEN BY GERMANS nited Press Le Londen, De low park mass of fire wreck in the al trains from fire apparatus be nurses and hos Bydney, and rushing it to Halifax je way. Am|our ty oe (Continued on page 7) BE OVER held : Queens hotel. is totally By United Press Lease A Wire GREW OF MUNITIONS SHIP TRED DINK VESSEL BEFORE EXPLOSION .. ... BE OVER. TRURO, N. S., ty-five corpses of railway the death toll of the terrifie ex plosion at Halifax will probably ployes were found between water and Ric 1 today, reach more than 4100 at at A messenger reaching a small lowing the ex peunitions ship againat the Piave line town somewhere between Hall fax and Moncton brought only harbor, ager of the Dominion tycjeinced necount of the ver. RUMANIANS FIRE “ ——_, _ GERMAN PEACERS railway, reported today Latest placed the total dead to 8 Bt a XENY BODIES FOUND 48Y, Dec, 6.—Man nd ite « s Leased Wire ' ze with Rumanian troops in 7 De of Hiaaleasiret we ery fire, and ured toda my i mpe-| well as ¢ and ev-|and there | and dead age north discriminating explained Millr ¢ a nonur st higher ween Moncton a our members, caned Wire Cap. 0 prisoners and 60 guns wreck Aust take peop! an nunes in the Melletta yuntains were Ktormed and strong there maintained,” the it declared ©. 6—Fifteen thousand Teutonic over a front of mous m Dec. 6.—Twen. 6— em erp fol and Halits «UE ux ff concentrated nd er troops at the Austr nem pal th preparing its repor attempts to work mak sink her bef e In the region of Balta batteries shell lea Ru adent, ene sian trenche et wba TRURO. agp nur Last night it] prairie The ing atrange den from has 6 rrupt the . ribbons of glisten that east back tions of the gray The oll that dripped an automobile engines to the surface to lend it self nixture of dust and water that re clotted ink From the barracks’ eaves, the wa r a the and the roads are 4 4 y before the | the ops raining for It} five nd at other times for Then it begins again sullen downpour of bit am sod “my 6 fog th f the ti wide th @ barrage of id ye ei clou was bidder the camp mont it has thro laid welge = ont steady ter, stinging drops fire of Pool the shallow hollows of the Tac even lakes, have formed in embles ° push |‘ t jter drips in a hop ' Kita Roland, the delightful little singer on the Moore theatre bill, who" will help the Ked Cross program |“ Friday. She is a Seattle girl, who has made good in Greater Orphoum vaudeville | parr {Don’t Forget i Red Cross Day } at Theatres and worth of ~ BOCHES RENEW ATTACKS AND :, FIGHTING GROWS K pressure on ng’s salient eation | 4 HOSPITAL TRAINS | RUSHING TO HALIFAX . By United Press Leased Wire MONCT pit train ne and alifax and there carr Be nt hi fiehting jal of the uid te nn ernment railroad » He of Usiier mer that ma th of the Fall of the Across the parade ground hangs a vesture of mist, tinged black by the smoke from the barracks They are drilling The olive drab lperfectly — with furnaces: the equip: | an | the military sort of mur-) spongy dun-colered | |REFUS ~” GEN. IRONS NOT * TO MAKE DEAL ON NEW CHIEF |30 Declares in Statement Is- sued at Camp Lewis About Quarantine TO BARGAIN Jas. A. lrons nder of Camp Lew ‘ollowing statement © situatior mmanding genera fhe necessity of training troops meet nds that and men be deve tion of an eff itar organiza tic n with the mi uthorities cannot be received It ix a waste of time to attempt ditions or submit hypo al questions to this heulquar to Impone « thetic (| ters. Asks Cleanup An ham been stated before, when Senttie hax been cleaned up, to the! satisfaction of the war department the conditions imposed by general or der N wh officers and men from vinitt NEW EFFORTS MADE TO GET MAJ. HYDE AS POLICE CHIEF ‘: Hope of lifting the military quarantine on Seattle by enlist ing Major Arthur P. 8. Hyde, of the Coast artillery to direct a clean-up became a possibility Thursday, when W. A, Peters, vice chairman of the state de fense . went to Fort Worden to confer with him on negotiatic No Lnagneers to Hyde Mayor G Girectly if he would sanction the ap of Major Hyde lepartment I would have no objec jor Hyde. 1 un i Tam pointment with cor sent of the war said tipns to Ma © is highly 1, however, not 1 super will Episcopal Altho Judge Kenneth Ma reaffirmed his Thursday ut of it name to chief, St kintosh ter to him, urg job re of any may ha ked what he gardless Mayor Gill turf of the men are wearing rubber pon: they drill field with The brown and as coats . No — Wanted in. Wild West Division, : So Training Goes On in Rain os over them Iding thru: the storm swinging now to the right and now to the left the ponchos flap idiot k and forth but the go p uniferms blend |deadened by the rain Here and thery on the field bayo _{transport was damaged in the Halifax explosion. by | UNITION SHIP BLAST SENATE URGED TO WAR ON AUSTRIA Attacks by Austrian Subs Have Been Enough to Warrant War—Hold Off on Other Two Countries By United Press Leased Wire Ww ASHINGTON, Dec. 6.—The navy department stated this afternoon that as far as it knew no American troop The de- |partment has been unable up to mid-afternoon, however, to gather any details. American troop ships carry no ex- plosives except ammunition for the naval gun crews on board, it was stated. By United Press Leased Wire WASHINGTON, Dec. 6. declaration of a state of war ably reported to the house by mittee today. “The state of war The resolution calling for a against Austria was favor- the foreign relations com- between the United States and Austria been an actual fact for many months,” the committe report declared, ‘‘and very little readjustment of affairs, between the countries therefore will be involved. | “Depredations of American lives and rights by Aun |trian naval forces has been small, compared with those of |Germany, but they have been indulged in to an extent to posed war on this country,” the report declared. Insistence by certain members of! the senate foreig: elations commit tee that Turkey 4 Bulgaria be in 1 ration of war pre 1 at this morn committee. The resumed later with a concussion be should ultimately be deemed advise able, was given by Representative Flood, chairman of the house for- eign relations committee, who took he floor after Miller. wan of that 1 tonight Favor War on All will in great S. declare war rurkey at this ume. If we are to declare war we must at least give them time to get out,” he said BOCHE RAIDERS TAKEN ALIVE IN LONDON FIGHT countries [ ty United Press Leased Wire ¢ Bulgarian] ~ LONDON, Dee. 6—Twenty- five enemy aeroplanes made five simultaneous bombing at- tacks on Kent and London Lord French an- sa menace Man ‘ Inform: Mi wo of five or six machines h penetrated defenses and bombarded the central city were forced to land, and their crews were taken al The planes dropping the German kaiser,” | ne Turks must| © or die jermany. I hope hey die with her | Miller charged that failure of the »som of routed. with ¢ so flew over Kent, nounced by Lord y were three dead n London, and four red elsewhere ame early in the morning. ng to an of- ficial statement issued by Lord French, commander-in-chief of home neroplanes were all audible A heavy barrage up over London against ard 10 injur end and 11 in Stands by Wilson mphatically demandi aria and Turkey accept es The rly was put them Two and a half hours elapsed t= tween the first warning and the “All clear signal announcing the end of the raid. According to the official state an sh in| nt, the first group of the sky- countries if war killers was sighted over Kent at e988 1:30 this morning. Bombs were | MAKE PEACE MOVE. |dropped by these machines at va- | rious place: By United Press Leased Wire The s WASHINGTON applauded that the ad gainst an im. against Bul-) aria for until time ond group put in an ap | pearance at 3 a. m,, and proceeded up the River Thames, also into Kent. Between 4 and 4:30 o'clock two more These joined groups which had ind the machines, in a converging column, started toward London. Lord French an+ nounced that the captured crews of the two German machines brought ‘down included three men for each | plane if efforts to obtain an army | rede i direct a cleanup failed,| Three men for each machine would |indicate the on with | tatest type n do neral utility biplanes, ‘These are t speedsters, mounting one gun \s that in front, one behind and a third op and to of tunnel in the 5) Dec. 6.—Repre ondon, socialist, « ce | groups crossed Essex with the th today ir nthe pnt ut favors im fan interna a durable hment by congress » ional league to secure pe right hief of police fas I ld get of Gott He's as to myself humiliating erated thru a sort (Continued on Page tail \ tossed aside, and in their wet to the skin, men who will “carry it on” difficulties of the job French officers, with helmets silvered with stand by and now suggestions. The men speak once in a while, (Continued on Page Five) aleful gleams as) so they are thrust with the neta cast wicked bi squads o} rs and to stabbe the learn the Blue-coated their metal rain drops, and again offer learning to shirt: sleeves, inge, maneuver (location de » digging criswerossing trenches in the grave mud Here the coats and lithe ponchos would impede the work Somewhere in camp" }leted by censor) men