The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 29, 1917, Page 1

a sae pERUSALEM IN.DANGER par CAAA nnn WAR RARAA RAR Ann = TheSeattleStar 2%. | THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST VOLUME 19 GutasARSS, WIRE Senvics SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1917. PRICE ONE CENT ASSOCIATIONS Red Tape Holds U.S. Blankets Here - - - EE - = _ — TURKS TRY THIS MAKES US TOO ANGRY TO WRITE ANY COMMENT RELEASED LONDON, Dec. 29.—Americen army privates can no longer climb When the first Sammies reached England they scorned third-class into first-class compartments on British railways and ride with officers. coaches and Yode with the officers. Army authorities decided it was unwise ( One of the British army regulations prohibits privates traveling first to discriminate in favor of the Americans. The American commanders i class and makes it mandatory upon officers. agreed and issued the order today. j | HOLY CITY German Agents (aas== U. S. Destroyers _ MOTHS Desperate Campaign Begun | Capture Crew “esrmc" | With Aid of Austro-Ger- en, Agree to Alsace CAME FROM RUS: \ WILL GO TO NAVY NOW WASHINGTON. Dee. 29.— ? Twelve hundred wool blankets, | Four Turkish army divisions, e: ul mar ine turned over to the government upward of 60,000 men, rein | | when the steamships Great | forced ip wotrwigaee Pa oer an ; : i | Nort n and Northern Pacific ; cates freaky have Seem PETROGRAD, Dec. 29.—German delegates to the Brest san WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.—The United States destroyer! were taken over for war service, desperate campaign to retake |Litovsk peace conference were reported today as jr Fanning, aided by the United States destroyer Nicholson,! have been tied up at Bremerton Jerusatem and drive the British | privately rreed to a plebescite to determine the Y was officially credited with capture of the first German) for two months by red tape, de from the Holy Land, ac po disposition of Alsace-Lorraine. submarine prisoners of war. The event occurred in No-| spite the crying need for blank- oe reaching Wash Such a concession was not formally made in the an vember, and cable reports gave only scant news of the) ets by the mobilized man power ~ i Heavy fighting i* in progress over/nouncement of terms outlined by Count Czernin, ar capture. } a line from wealem/the declaration that it had been covered in private con Special commendation by the Fanning commander, { ng the “ rences was regarded here as further evidence of a fa Lieut. S. Carpenter, was accorded the officer of the f Kear Admiral Coontz open attempted to | Vorable p toward general peace. deck, Lieut. Walter O. Henry, and Coxswain D. Loomis, ; ~y poids mmc >. i Te tie ele erty on t f The centr vers’ ly in general caused a good im for sighting the submarine periscope, and Chief Phar-!| sitter . f Jerusalem rai port ef: pression re. Sor the Bol macist’s Mate Elzer Harwell and Coxswain Francis G. Con- Originally 2,509 blankets were A forts to turn convened the constit moment, nor, national naval volunteers, who heroically jumped over- boa by the government from pngnimentl failed ; peace aspirations wo ‘ rted by a ma board to rescue a drowning German sei N = Nevthers soemdhips. “Maar ot At sow tn 8 jority of this body espite the fact that the Bol FOUR OFFICERS TAKEN the blankets were sent to the aieater’s fords § sheviki party is in a minor Four officers and 35 members of the crew were taken! Puget sound navy yard. to-one. ordin Admission of 10 revolutionary socialists to the Bol q A : ; , prisoners. After having been cared for aboard the de- But they were not used. Red tape be i ma a "4 sheviki government circles strengthened the B viki \ If you could pen the w ords to herald cry stroyer, the Germans cheered the American crew as they ised the question of which arm of Weed Turko Austro German di.| Very greatly. upreme moment in the history of the world, 9 put off after the destroyer reached port. pepe tge tes ape “él | ; Pree an what would you say. — The account of the capture differs little from reports ago, and neither the shipping board, Four Divisions Attack A plebescite means a vote by the pec One of the supreme years of all time will begin un- already made, except that there was no mention of the claim »: department nor war depart ape Dees ber 26, 2 the ernment they prefer. ling an Se da co "hed poses” oso oe sathoes that the Teutons had opened the valves after surrendering. mans on hota ot yet yonoe = jeial report reads, “the enemy de- | — . - —— reside: ilson so describes the momentous ‘drmira! Coontz told Congressman (Pcie cael waren Ape ne in whith eeetase elas The-indieations-were-that~the-depth charge had blasted | yyy" suturins however, aaa Gechs--with foer full divisions tn the iM n which we @ ing. < the shell-like sides of the U-boat as she sank. | was finally determined to turn the Beighborhood of Bir Nebala.” What is the message of the hour About 4:10," said the account,{ the Nicholson and the convoy. blankets over to the navy stores, (Entente military experts estimate It may be wrapped up in your soul, while escorting onvoy, the look Three Shots Fired Turkish division nd For the most appropriate message of 50 words or hot the Waa sighted @ pert) “The Nicholson fired three shots W Sin haters tn lan heralding the doen of the nese TOI, Tie’ suse seesat toe matt nou seg’ 'sheae te WHILE RED TAPE — rm, of 69,000 troops.) 1 er e bad ° pe submarine came > rm ly he tine cer yr A END é will pay $50 _ scope was visible for only a few sec-| was down by the stern, but righted DELAYED SHAR we launched a} ,, + abedesl th It must the hands of the editor of The Star ond her and seemed to incre er —l —— COs Biden oe oe “Propo Depth Charge = U.S TROOPS DIED w two di-| seovens the Petrograd less mused eestimakiall oe cleared, the vieto distance of two | ye wi ' unta umed ‘ ter the per . 1 After the Months’ delay in wepned wool r over a ninet Li TEUTONIC Al l Y ‘ Lad ' t ihe Ubost en! te ing soldiers’ uniforms » Kafir N@mah | >> in ‘apie nant ‘the The Nicholson ‘ ie a up thelr and overcoats was admitted by sem were EXCED- | 1. ate o thet t BY CARL ‘D, GROAT ‘ the posit f " h easssaapsionel eine amass Ee: Sharpe before the be wa, No action will be t VASHINGTON, De Amer ‘ the « This delay, camp commanders ein dat dae to Wier ot uthorition expect t | ped t cs ¥ ithe sub-| have testified, resulted in the cried + Cent ails moment. the nning tower of marine k Ur rs, both | de of scores of troops, who t the F t (Continued on pay suffered from lack of proper ES HAS f UP: SMOKE Li ND clothing and blankets BANK SEIZUR compe ig Sharpe said it took him from April UPSET RUS BUSINESS rere re : co With rains still falling, snows woo! ren . pein et t t ¢| melting under warm winds, and be nd $1 every month to The pe | was bought until f » Cert ‘ rivers ri eradually in the fort i Hoya in } T the night ember Ncarriate Misoxk Realerdiireeene unsettle t hae volley south of Seattle, the Fund,” for which thin pag "tee ont dent ‘wink Linteatty anced toda nk em alee Here is Sharpe's tam . field menace assumed danger t lector in t thr r ge Oe od eapuedlyel, 8 Cota eon aaa Mh gsc a ys letter from the tir be heel fi van Se proportions again Saturday ’ t ! mine off the Di oF ing anscolatianta read ad ven agg page a t water from the w he registers a kick anoniete trolled by it at pre- for some time r r 7 f . es pre ern t t t } ling prices (Sharpe made no effo Teday’s dispatches from Ftc me t r pene aie the he ft nd. t ntinuing “I see by the paper that YOU TAMPER WITH v. .. “OVERSUBSCRIBE earn how muc siprten was inv on putons were send of New| ™ nea ' that it w and the PUBLIC are slowing up e re Red Tape Again Turkey were oe ee és f 4, and “Well, DON'T DO IT. NEW YORK, Dec tharged referred the matter to Secre fect on Bulgarian ~ : traft ractically imponsible. ‘The “Of course, the Red Cross and ‘ : sale Saat sis y Baker, ‘who, in turn, referred it 5 “ r tthe r f | the hospit A i siiaiadeaaaiadae PARIS. Dec rance's “wool o the munitions board en | betwe 1 nix ‘ r.| sure a gr E +6 Sake 6-43 rpe asked if funds ASK PRESIDENT TO $ f the Bolshe Can't Reach Depot iniss the si more than they ' ner king” i# still inexhaustible in|. June 6 Sh aaa aa re « Me ; am will Chr as candy and a few rman 1 1 same month got auth ‘ P E 5 bgt bk reg om be | minor things : x A t made t A \ ROTECT FARM R BULLETINS Bulgaria Against It cattle and Tacoma anda nO RD TO ES WEE OF Tk wa ested tod: ae ribed hace see hae y 15—-He discussed with the se. k E, Dec. 29.—E. F. Ben | s 1 r ing. : ¢ . franc al defens neil the advisabik By United Press f f wa low Step Aside for Red Cross f 2 at “ are : nig * d The - n was f of purchasing wool from the Bo» Sovcccscccssos cocina Pay ’ a ia me oe h roads are impassable fa We plead guilty to having neglect-| Parts for the | The ubseribed was 10.276,000,-|' weuse 1--He reached a wool-buy- ‘ FIGHTING 18 FROZEN UP f une © nat th than Ke me. soe Sen ee a ee ee t 1 ! sc ci ata a « office in Boston and bought ji AND TOMMIES SKATE that t : ermiie tf from cor at with | wee wante eG ar}been deliberately tan 1 ow ; : t : THE BRITISH ARMIENS| ed to f n wntil. 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Zobn te . ‘ ve ie U-boat : th t he year. ‘Train A the army, f rains Reach Here ervice be eattle and Tacoma | m * " 1 t Northerr wi om plete ” ard f fon 9% h wnt and the on pe W . e G toda c Three Niagara Falls 5 : All Buster pete gelatin ayaa sd Ns q Vaated nd can tne oe maiied questionnaires on Decem Dec. 29.—Vesuvius is |mans wouldn't come out and fight, anes of the recent floc eattle | the retirement of Admiral Jc je havg nr tione | Pacific went out on # per cas Tho a ci “oy er 28 from orde: 20 to No.| eruption, according to |so I thought I'd join the army and : i Women taxi drivers and other Ume-|coe from his post as first lord of the|ernment at Niagara falla to supp! | Saturday, and trains from the East} Tacoma by boat. Service out of Ta ie ll ence Bed | word today, . 4 iS after them,” Ng j + W doings, admiralty power for war industries, [arrived with no more delay “than us-)coma was normal, _ 1108, inelusive,