The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 10, 1917, Page 1

>. RARE oa Neath ' \ THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PAC. LFIC NORTHWEST etait mrodert 2 ac FULL LEASED. WIRK SERVIC F SEATTLE, WAS IDAY aCE aR VOLUME 19 A'TTLE, WASH., MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1917. PRICE ONE ( hvarywhere UNITED PRESS A TATION ttle CAPTURE J ERUSALEM f Inhuman Cruelty of Huns in Belgium Told Holy City’sFall j_ in the Official Records of Brand Whitloci: |Blow to Kaiser By MILTON BRONNER ' Of Our Washington Bure: | OE , rate ase Is Wi 2 : y any ba avagen, WASHINGTON, D. C. Dee 10.—The official records of jut the Greatest of These Is Wilhelm Hohenzollern ||s:*". we «seer Gen, Allenby’s Forces Free Sacred Brand Whitlock, American minister to Belgium, charging the : : f # 4 7 . pa ro} 5 * Germans with the crimes of massacring civilians, using non-’- Pg - others; it in the funiliade tock Spot From Turks for First Time in scombatant natives as shields for their advancing troops, and : , a4 ear sey (a 401 Years. After a I ong Campaign deporting thousands upon thousands of Belgiums into vir- Phis fusitia aol tual slavery in Germany, were given to the world today in - ) persons with victima! By United Preas Leased Wire & 94-page book on “German War Practices” by the com- } “ . t mittee of public information. = aly ‘ r mir anc x ‘ His Praporka to that effect, made while he was still at { peeling tbe ps LO} , Dec. 10. .—Jerusalem has >par ee it was there that 12 children | fallen, Capture of the Holy- City, Brussels, are on file in the archives of the state department. g under the age of six perished They add the last testimony—if proof were needed—that 4 ; Mi of the atrocities charged up to the Huns are based upon * , from the fire of the executioners ; ‘hristianity’ ‘Ss most hallowed spot, s facts and not merely upon the inflamed imagination } . - Se ae y lay in their by 7 hostile populations. d ‘ : “The child Vievet, 3 weeks old. Gen. Allenby’ Ss British expeditionary — Whitlock, in his capacity as a diplomat of a power still ss wun Betemps, 11 months forces, was announced here today. at that time at peace with Germany, reported facts to his , 1 “Nelly Pollet ths old. superior officers. They did not want propaganda stories } Ida Jen months old C hancellor of the Exchequer Bonar Gilda Marchot, 2 years old er for or against anyone. Washington wanted to know 4 ; a A . 3 : ‘iar sirway, sears and © Taw made the announcement in com- what was going on in Belgium. he Ga Whitlock reported the news with as much accuracy as } “The pile of bedien comprised also was possible for him to get it. And he got it first-hand } ny children from 6 t years MONS late today. use the American legation was the clearing house thru © families have entire : . : hich the victims of the Huns passed. snip bupbopbver The news spread like wildfire thru- ‘Civilians Executed in Belgium Without Semblance oy i Bp estindga w Bhs ae out London. Its fall was heralded as a’ of Judgment by Their Captors, the German Soldiers ; ar st Ey Days 4 pea “yeti / y ] \~ For a long time Whitlock’s reports have been locked up. ‘ 4 ri ecg Ke ster POOd OMEN. lecan’ War Practices,” laauel by George Crests, Commit: (Map OY am . : (ber ome ie Sons Capture of Jerusalem brings the ~ y P ’. Munro 7 » ee ' Holy City under Christian rule again age Public Information, and edited by Prof. D. C. } of inceton university. : Horrors of Louvain Whitlock’s first dispatches regarding the thew tm of the - ‘ “wie, 3 ; csi gprs bs eo upon the for the first time in 401 years. During nans were sent in 1914 when the kaiser’s legions were o-. ) ‘ BM ueust 27, order a ]] that time it has been under sway of inhabitants to leave ding death and terror before them: | . “Summary executions took place at Dinant,” he wrote, | . . ithout the least semblance of judgment. The names and ; . , ‘, " seagggr 2 a oo ‘1 rien n were — Two bodies of British troops, Bonar nber of the victims are not known, but they must be ‘ driven on the roads like cattle. More | te " ‘ ted fous. Among the persons who were shot are: M. ‘ than) 10,000 were driven an fs Law said, surrounded the city 2 rieet h , tr ‘ an fu and cut it off from the Turkish gen- rF a IPOIN, mayor of Dinant; SASSERATH, first alderman; : ‘| |{Titlemont. 16 iilometers from eral tebe et deluwebhineer ‘There: 4 nvaln | upon the city surrendered. © 5 MER, aged 70; consul for the Argentine Republic, VIC- ae PR: 5 or Matiian jothion tiene ts < OR PONCELET, who was executed in the presence of Xi ; charge that the Germans cp § AR S 0 CE the British tacked. ‘Turkist: Het ae , ] ] j l e British attacked Turkisi - 4 ife and seven children; GUSTAVE and LEON di q conan - ly gr bag yeaa southwest and northwest of the city im E, two very old men ‘ ; ; " ; BE, ery 4 " | P and drove the enemy from these po JULES MONIN and others were shot in the cellar of { a be y sitions. Jerusalem was thus isolate i ; ved Ho ug ed. The Turkish commander prompt: . ; Camille Pistte and his son, aged 17; Philli- " ly surrendered Piedfort, his WIFE and DAUGHTER; MISS MAR- 3 } e g the Gette br in the army ts mercy : struck : out}: Gen; AHenby will make his formal Mey village to gain 350,000 recruits in entry into the shrine of christendom for the Red Cross norrow “During the execution of about forty inhab- / a all egaonns Bonde ere jeat ' \ Ags t the nation a great drive| Since the founding of the andlent itants of Dinant, the Germans placed before the wreere b> —a ‘ t arr . Pi ae condemned their wives and children. It is thus } Lads ‘ N m soars Cred as . agiic ; edn eeateat te: f Pog a mi Tebultt, a t retres join {fire and the spoils of a dozen am that Madame Alin, who had just given birth to a ras. kf rth Soe a Bhahessys Yor | child three days previously, was brought on a hours, were allowed to depart ! tion « all ¢ shelter) THE SINISTER DATE of AUGUST | burr ‘ oh t st < d solidly be- | Mies, in wars and struggles dating mattress by German soldiers to witness the execu- i: rides Civiques of Louvain 5000 | o aay oe wat Be n kh ' go | from 1000 B c down to the crusades her c aken prisoners ar f us . r ‘ “Rut whether their hands we atic the crore” t r of th century tion of her husband; her cries and supplications wee hich th 2 tar cut off or not, whether they | world seemed to co eo ° ter today the m or wom Began Drive in Spring ag Gere ; S| s s 5 t were so pressing that her husband's life was spared fe eid for several f ony to the were impaled on bayonets or not, jenale ei, oe : : Britian armies began thot. am “On the 26th day of August Ger-| persons were T weeks r children were shot down by mil a r must b » ri S|/up the valley from the Suez canal ce entecsd. vetinas etvects| “Women and children hed to wit n of the mont sorely tried com. |f sn te ‘ te| Mary order in cold blood tn the | « ¢ the ‘ "of nurses who will be on the streets carly last spring: Almost “unnatall s ».| Ness the execution of many of their| munities was that of the littie vil | em len cro t awful crime of the Rock of n of ¢ r own supply 200 WOMEN y est Cent ete te Louvain and ordered the inhab-| teiow citizens who were for the most| lage of Tamines down in what is flowe ‘ Are no. clone Bayard, there overlooking the ¥ eted, t na cor oe won aie the Wrest front, first Gen. Se Ents of the houses to proceed to part shot at the side of the equ: knowr as the Borinage, the coal | hud a scarcely room| Meuse below Dinant, infants in | ceived the idea of deporting Belgians and later Gen. Allenby, pushed Siaiiam Place de ia Station, where the|The women and children, after hav-| ficifs of Charleroi “ their mothers’ arms were shot 4 Frenchmen to Germany. to make Two hundred women ily upward against the Turks, of pearly a dozen assassinated ing remained on the square for 15| “Tamines Is a mining village, a| alld ' he same down without mercy (Continued on page 6) ewe Pon ones et Ferg ms jecealom's fais, Was. oe to aid in the big Red Cross | |this British expedition, on November membership drive. ‘Their ser- | |1, captured immediately after Repor 1424 Third ave, - J Joppa "the E Ry United Press Leased Wire | | era adqu r reling moveme | AtKPAS, Dic. thks Gotinns t re on 1, too. You | |the He ty itself, strikiug north : r offering your car and east. At latest reports, last | “ re being arreste ta all Eliott 4013 week, they were within about nine Tt y r - ——_———_—_——@ | miles of the city BY ED L. KEEN 1 were ordered tak United Press Ce spondent . E at ‘ ey MA IRS ‘ Bethi Early extension of city car voters to indorse the plan of trans <DOt he 40 Peennien Ready for a stormy r y they would move. They y ever r £0 from home to'heme in the thiehem Also Taken a mar . tricts. Bethlehem, where the Savior was lines to the north city limits in | ferring these bonds to use in con members of the city ¢ , bh stnted, however, that evi 1 reer ‘ se Ballard and to the neglected in- | struc tion into the industrial area. vened Monds afternoon to lence already brought to light was UD t our ‘ e word of mouth, pag-| born, lies ant six miles due dustrial ares on East Marginal | Cost to Reach $350,000 cide whether or not to accept the not, in thelr opinion, definite ba € prir 1 place the proposi th of Jerusalem, and is presuim way, which will mean the link- | “The cost of this work, according | taste recommendation of the judiciary | for impeachment also now in British hands, D ing of the Lake Burien and Bal- | to the engineers’ estimates, will be | there in ¢ n't i committee and request Corpora Councilman Thomson, who open i ‘ : : Jerusalem's fall will be a tremen “lard lines has become @ prac: | approximately $350,000." Arvind nsel Caldwell to pre on record aga pair eonces h g officers and crews nbers rn Red Cross | dous blow at Turkish morale, accords | tical possibility during the last | Arter the voters authorize the| ly. pest tox ‘ a chment charges |uniess military a t sid of the steamers Mont a0 one ee 8 nk to the belief here. Loss of this next few da i Gill Gable 5 : 4 eee : manitarian forces that are standing | shrine of ¢ endom, possession of jegotiations hav joped fast! and the ext tnaladine the ei 9 house of co y Hl forces packed the council | beer minated ihe | back of America’s war program which has been the boast of the Mos EE caty’ hal date EE locaden sareesure oa al _nece hurries sun Pek ‘eerane) The fee is $1 a year, and the big|lems for centuries, will have a far n Oliver Erickson has been kept) from First to Railroad aves. and on | *\*te™ ne to Sette * sy ro Niner tegg ht pcteebe . ed . Ae a teen tien ann Gana | me ee y conferring with business men| jraitrond ave. to Holgate st. would ||" 1 d “ the controver . oe : . is 4 land begin terminate ent dispatet have indicated the industrial section eager to| be speed jevern) fecent Caverom ould wind dut the nav Thomson ae ha i Z “ Y mbers will | B Pasha, T s ambitious ve the city solve the transporta Th t t exch yt . Hanna for It ne tw gress oar nd 1: r Y on the Christ. | w nister t nan who because of failure Of | waterfront ir b in | D® ee / mur , Hanna was ready to c ccep " t de to méet the! qustria . 44 £o 6n an alt t sis ate | champion immediate action to form: | judic recomme c A « : rere must be mer nident ew tt re | ulate impeachment plans t ol 1 1a y| ; © Red Cross. Sewing for the ; e British anne 2 and Palestine tement of aims by a flatly with the announcement that | defir structure air in st. and Whitney came to| spokane and then continue | “ Nickson and offered to sell his I west to the Spokane st. bridge Kaiser's Personal Defeat Jerusalem's fa s a tremendous nal defeat for Kaiser Withelm. tx car line to the city, for! wher Or tion would be made| as an important Htary | he would oppc 1y Impeachment | are to be made 1 he wo 000 rather than see municipal | with the ¥ | ie procedure or und that it| put them in legal form fracks constructed from the ‘ Spur on F | ris inter-allied oo 4 would accomplish nothing but “mud Git Asante Means business section north to the cit A spur wwe ¢ , alifa His price, made to the city a tew|, 7 » known c e 0 Altho Councilmen Lane, Hanna! Hanna has yuh himself as al >, : use tor ¥ slieve, on solemn : : ’ . eakers explain t 1 su rusalem lefer 1 by as large a Ger wr i} 1 solicitors will c man as necessary to dri pack nevitably lower, his prestige weeks ago, was $70,000 tnging . workers“ . t and Bolton, of the judiciary commit: | fa ge peachment by openly Erickson immediate oly ne rs The cara) Le y b tee, submitted their recommendation | declaring himself in favor of removal conference with Corpora yur ‘ 7 ¢ Mar. “re unanimor Lane is kr ‘ . e has been heard. Caldwell ‘ 5 tiatitet lar ‘ orar go into the con ‘ nent is order MAR Or ONL Oy roy e es for/thru the audience sh and protect the Moslems, of the » and put every coun demand that Hanna be Ine eee. LENE Employers will be asked to meet | tc m the kaiser has always ap nance be introduced $ t cally tne man on record people Cana satriotism of their workers. by |} as their own particular pro Treat i The y't tle ea ‘lia’ tinelin 8 r Four Doubtful N w situation r c N t the | #¥mpathy of the p ‘ fe or a family member of every In 1898 the or made a special tracks bt join it at 23rd and | trom ” nd Pir where! #t W ath, wh his viaic Councilmer Fitagerak ¢ Monda r ck on foo aah ‘ Horth 67th s#t., and cars can the ‘ has obseu desk Haas and Moore refused to indicate|Camp Lewis dance hall plan made le terrible « hich 2 1 w s the Red Cross ip to Jerusalem, specifically sean tener all $5th wt. and 82nd ave : aye piled with of jocume b by Dr, Mark Matthe and the | Overtaken the ¢ ‘ u eterans from Port 0} unce there that he was the pro- bx. w.” é ; sie fyb ty as rning tatement by Re ov ey most deep! preciate the Soldiers’ home arrived in § tector of the Moslem world, Evident: Need More Transportation tr thns : sil thet | er LECTION t that “whethe 1 ne , offer > at ; k and work t t er even then was drean ber edaae trom the Indu wile ‘ F © not a in Seattle un M uu” « reat kindr ) t n t mination which Pre: ates iT aascacn anid other ma o . ’ fy aacaaht ts So oil In the 4-column ad of the meat ak Gabsia: ean Soe aad et aaihe sid “ # pr se . gets sige trial ar i ea ‘ re with red in’ Fri |], ts : ; ‘ asa ‘ : é: . . “ : i @ to the other, heard ‘pastor ‘ \ ght te he ors, at ave. «don page 2) ufacturing interests sent representa ; ‘ «Star, phical error laymen score Mayor Gill Sun. | get locks of x 8” are 0, y gratetu f pur membership costly ke doe fe ' whens “Ens } | occurred, ‘The part in which the error appeared was printed as t wan estimgted that sentiment entifie Me ON PAGE 6 to bi a ty of fund of the tiwh 4 has be i Call Gill K M ® ‘ oldiers afta civi o we er captains the hands of the British, and the he ex he most | By United Preas Leased re ; eiste ‘ » should have r. James row labo! in the cit a hh onal t esting of the Holy City from pment lead , wie ° ; . ) A ara under | et Mc ' rusa itten by Herman 4 + : reece i « h wer t preciat he the er t t th prove m valuable than were f eer tt sd aie ed printed in all or Central dis mie ' tee tits « who t omorrow ‘ ty. Food is| William = MeCur tthe The first of this series aps Be fore shor on opportuni, | Taree mm re corr” Seat [thie os, | sees tt Pa ate rc td ie wtill sae dia Gulow sero and bilsardy ‘of Burnham, a suburb, early todas stated their posith rl er intentionally or not ‘ ve as bullet Keep our yr resbyterian church Monday af years on page 6 today v : (Continued on page 10) for pplied, noon. fanned onda in the Division A tenue | ‘ » © have not sold, We will ask the’ weather, The temperature was 3 below zero.