The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 30, 1918, Page 1

“ex The Seattle Star NIGHT EDITION Weather Forecast: Tonight and Thursday, fad THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST fair; colder; moderate northerly winds VOLUME 19 Evid. beasey, wink service SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1918. PRICE ONE CENT very where hase this a] | | igns in ssion in silk of the ch the ““E STAR MAN PEEPS INTO KAISER BERLIN WORKERS” % IALLY to people just from Germany, and got facts right from the inside of that “Land of Silence” that nobody else has, VOT EV EEN OUR UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT! This trained American observer's articles are being published in Seattle exclusively in the permissible to The Star. Right off the bat they tell two great news secrets—the reasons why Germany DIDN'T launch an offensive on the Western front last fall. Also they tell how meager are the chances of a German revolution. They contain information every American should know. Read them! Read them all! Here is the first: They carried thousands of troops jand thousands of tons of supplies. Fivery one of these transports has | arrived ata Ruropean port ten} months earlier than their former | German crews anticipated when they BY VICTOR MORGAN i Editor of the Cleveland Press * % a % * * * * * * * * « =e * * * > * * * * + * | i - West Front; Glimpses Germany of Today yng A FRENCH CITY, Jan, 90.—The It’s not a question. We're not asking you. We're TELLING YOU. |rope to fight the battle of demoe-/ Workmen’s Council of 500, Headed by Socialist Deputi Permission was granted today for Scheidemann Joins Opposition Group in Reichstags myo penetrated to the very barbed-wire fence that marks the limit of the kaiser’s em- |e Me craved in tturopes bring - : The 18 ships include the Soving. Cincinnats, President tin | Qn good authority, it was reported some of the workmen by the United States at the outbreak nr en iene Nk a gins At Hamburg, ship workers in the great Vulcan yards The strike is growing hourly. The movement is spre: “T met nobody in Europe who has any hope of a real revolution in Germany, despite the labor unrest,” writes Victor Morgan. “There is far >. greater likelihood of something happening in Austria. If soldiers are called out to drive workers back to their shops, and they refuse, as COUNTRY FROM SWISS BORDER yh | Social FRENCH PORT : Tells Why There Is Little Likelihood of Revolution Across the Rhine, and Former German Ships Carry| NO SUBMARINES SIGHTED WHAT IS GOING ON IN. GERMANY TODAY! | ert: secmays and! amie’ | great merchant fleets has brought The Star and associated journals sent Victor Morgan, noted editor of the Cleveland racy. ‘ ri pr Press, to Europe to answer this question for the newspaper readers of America—TO GET Jia iN incement to Americans Presents Demands to German Government; Philip that 16 former German merchant pire; he looked into the rifles of the Prussian sentries, who would have shot him dead had he — |) ing great numbers of soldiers, and | AMSTERDAM, Jan. 30.—Five hundred thousand st ventured a toe-length beyond the boundaries that surround civilization’s enemies. He talked __ |} tt thelr holds carried thousands of | Were Out On Monday in the city of Berlin alone, according to the world, formerly the Vaterland of ficial Berlin dispatches reaching here today declared Coving, Cincinnati, President Lin coln, President Grant, Powhattan. the Krupp works were st il 5 “ \of the war and the former Marth The entire war industry is at a standstill, according to German Lioyd steamships George |America have ail arrived" their places. Munitions makers in Kiel and navy yard emy there have been out since Sunday. : ’ % HE TRAIN from Germany was ta iL trade “tia: WAL ba Toned tn that section of the line held in part by | «mashed the machinery aboard sen | Provinci 1 towns. Germany were late. For more than a week now all{the Americans. These troops would be green. They had |lner | Danzig and Hamburg are now affected. RUSSIAN REDS THREATEN U. § the Russian soldiers did, that may start something. IT IS THE ONLY HOPE IN SIGHT TODAY.” . Why the Kaiser Had to Abandon Gigantic Plan for Mass Offensive on | ‘ousands of Troops to 1 | thousands of American troops to Eu- | THIS WINTER'S FACTS. men and two former Austrian steam tons of supplies. |copy of the German socialist newspaper Vorwaerts, received he 1t in announce to socialists “still adhered to the strike.” Madewaska, all of which were seized |Washington, Mount "Vernon, Ame | VW OFwaerts. | All Uvene veneels had safe paseage. In Rheinish Westphalia miners are quitting in great | trains from Germany had been late. jcome far and perhaps would not be so well equipped as the! ,A\nupuncemen!, may iso Me ree In Berlin a workmen's council of 500 has been Certainly the agent in the German government's sta-|French and British. oe : |and Baron Du Kalb are now actively | formed Re aye Reel eae why ~ me were “ ge ere was to be no waiting on weather conditions, n0/ engaged | eaition * teins of dtitpiitas | This information came today in dispatches filed fen Heit 2 heed cog know that. Troop movements, o late last night from Berlin. property of the enemy ts course. able of being utiliaed by the} Basel squats out flat on the line between Switzer THOUSANDS GO OUT One dispatch estimated the number of Berlin’s and the allies. and Germany. The Rhine cuts it in two. Basel thus — ——- comes at once the gateway and the speaking tube into the) GEN FOLTZ IS \strikers at 40,000. Another, apparently filed this morn-|. pbihin INDIGNANT AT ling, put the total number then out at 75,000. The | Hold Him Responsibh putting off operations for a conventional “spring drive.”|) A halt |The big lunge forward would not be delayed an instant scrap Jand after reserves were stationed and the weak points in the} vu. s be- | allies’ line determined. | “The kaiser,” so the word came, “is ready to spend a million lives to break thru this time.” | | Literally Hindenburg would hurl his men _ forward kill them. LET THE BODIES OF THE DEAD Fatherland. It is as far as any man who do not want irst-na i messa feclared “hundreds were joining ‘ | firs! . ‘ \f il mec ge e dre J Lif But nobody will stop you from going into the German faster than the guns could ernment’s station in Basel, which at times throngs with TRENCHES FILL WITH THE _ permen, straight out of Superland. AND WOUNDED, and let the living sweep over them in Rumors were circulated here today that German Berkman nd are * Those that I saw that day were very thin Supermen,| reat waves that would engulf the enemy and win the war. MERCY JUDGES soldiers on the East front had shot some of their offi- sal all- J ‘mer é d : i | ’ sas s s : mottle-faced, loose-skinned at the neck. They had it in It is the cold truth that at this stage the neutral conn-} cers. It was also reported that there were disturbances) WASHINGTON IS ANX No direct common, the mottled face—chalky whiteness, like a man!tries of Europe were convinced that Germany would defeat | #ta/f Correspondent with the dropsy, pin-point- AMP LEWIS, Tacoma, Jan. jamong sailors of the German fleet at Kiel. BY JOSEPH SHAPLEN ed with tiny dark brown Falta rinmanding ten ine, {confirmation was obtained. United Press Correspondent PETROGRAD, Jan. 29.—(Delay An ultimatum, declaring the ican ambassador “would be held convention.” Was Thought “Safe” The workmen's council, the dis: | patches reported, is to be represented by an “action commission,” compos-| Scheidemann as Inte as last ed of 10 men and women. Dr. Haase,!/mer was named by the kaiser to|sonally responsible for the life a Ledebour, Dittman, Philip Scheide-| head a reichstag committee consider: | 1, rags i meanors to enter the army in | mann, Dr. Ebert and Dr. Braun, all) ing constitutional reforms, indicat iberty of Alexander Berkman’ ' place of serving sentences in jnil socialists of varying degrees, have|ing the government relied upon him | forwarded to David R. Francis by Gen. Foltz has received unofficial | joined the council jas “safe.” |the anarchist group of sailors and |information that judges in several Meetings Prohibited Last week, however, Scheidemann | workingmen at Heisnigfors today. view Wednesday denounced as “enemies of the government” civilian court and peace officers who make it possible for men convicted of crimes and misde freckles. The combination is the mark of long continued inderfeeding. The doctors we a scientific name for it. | We Americans Are Pig-Dogs SAYS VICTOR MORGAN: “The war can end in one of two ways—a military decision in the West, or a rev- But they were not down- cast, these thin Supermen. Indeed, they were swanking a bit. And “schweinhund- ing!” To “schweinhund” is to name-call one’s enemies, particularly to name-call them schweinhunde — in English olution in the central empires. The latter is the leading hope of the entente allies. But a revolution is a difficult thing to bring about when a people thinks it is winning a war. And the German people thinks exactly that.” The one true gauge of neutral opinion is the money market. A nation’s currency If the company is known to be facing disaster, its = * ig-dogs—a term quite mean- on the wless as you may see, save to the Germans. To them the ‘ covered word implies touching bottom in all that is low in the;the allies in the coming battle. ply de- human. ‘ry one And why shouldn’t these thin Supermen swank and is like the stock of a corporation. “schweinhund”? Had not Russia accepted defeat by agree- th Floor, ing to an armistice in the East? taught her place in the South? Fron ught from the East to the West? Floor. e British and the Ame tly ar- roceries rs will of their information wells were into the reservoirs of the American intelli there trickled a limpid stream of exact data. from east to west. in this world. At Mannheim were more guns. Yd. w to be moved. 1 Ging- he plan, of strategy would be a series of test attacks d plain along the Western line for the purpose of determining ne where the enemy’s greatest weakness existed. Once found, . this weakness was to be battered by a force outnumbering thing ever before known, under cover of a gunfire that ) Each buld make all gunfires of the past seem trivial. Cologne Bats of | in the north and Mannheim in the south would be the dis- tributing points for men and guns. Hope for Weakness on the U. S. Line on that ur com- inches, Had not Italy been|stock drops in value in the market. And were not millions of|and appears to be in a fair way to regain a substantial Germans and thousands of good German guns being |basis, its stock rises in value. And was not thel Cc finishing blow about to be dealt the enemy there, especially |\serman urrency , pig-dogs that they were Of course, a lot of it was word-spreeing. ‘The waters etened with desire. ce department Sut Every railroad, every trolley line, every wagon road in Germany was choked with men, guns, munitions, moving At Cologne there had been massed | the greatest number of cannon ever assembled in_one spot) Hundreds of thousands of men had been moved, and millions more It was hoped and believed that the weakness sought If it passes a peril So with a nation’s currency. ’|Has a Boom investments in Europe, now rose by great jumps in Switzer- land and other neutral countries. It all but went to par. Au as German. declined. This meant that at that moment the neutrals were bet- ting Germany would win the war. There was not a military observer in Europe who did not expect heavy operations before Christmas. The blow must be struck before America could make even a fair beginning at getting an army into Europe, and, more important still, before the presence of large numbers of Americans could stiffen the morale of the French, whom the Germans believed to be in a bad way physically and morally because of their cruel losses, But Christmas came and went. New Year's passed. January was slipping away. And still no drive. Weather conditions prevented it, some said. “Too much ‘snow; too much mud,” ete. Doubtless there were plenty of both. But they were not what delayed the drive. Back of these delays stand two reasons—reasons as (Continued on Page Six) American, British, French and Italian money German currency, six months ago one of the poorest | an money advanced, too, tho not so fast or so far| parts of Washington had given con. | vieted offenders the option of serving time in jail or in the army ‘The army is no place for erimi | nals.” he said. man has been convicted of a crime, wo will not permit him to enter the service, and any Judge or peace offi cer who enables him to becorne a sol |dier is defrauding the government jand is an enemy of the army 1 ‘In cases where judges persist in | this practice. up with them personally.” According to Maj. Eugene R. West of the division judge advocate's of fice, men sent here thru the “maud |lin mere: |army officers much trouble. | THIS IS COLDEST DAY Brrrece! Berrrrr! It is cold! Weather Forecaster | Salisbury took a slant at his ther er this morning at about kfast time, looked said that this is the coldest day 1 this yea perature indicator regis: bove, Salisbury says to- i be about two degrees | morrow better, 01 A cold entire North: mometer about normal for the se | th w has swept over the putting the ther: jegrees below the ls , which re }a heigl of miles at 4 0 Wednesday morning, sent the ther. |mometer shooting down, The wind |at noon had died down to 15 miles an | hour, but the temperature only re 6 4 to the S0degree point |w at noon of the preceding day 43 degrees. Jock | “If we know that al ji, ¢ \ |two workmen formally_told Wallroif apparently expressed a violent change of heart. Dispatches quot ed him as making a bitter assault on Chancellor Hertling for the con duct of the Brest-Litovsk peace ne- gotiation. The German have consistently supported the gov- jernment, altho professing radical be- Hiefs. German Under Secretary for the Interior Von Wallrolf formally pro- hibited all labor meetings and an: nounced th: ‘ould not negotiate. rlared, ver, that he would receive a delegation of reichstag members of the socialist parties Scheidemann, majority socialist party leader, with Dr. Haase, leader of the independent socialists, and majority socialists |of the formation of the workmen's | BERLIN PAPER SAYS T shall take the matter | council and demanded that all nego of Judges have given the | ig” | IN SEATTLE THIS YEAR| way men, according to the 1 1 eneo' ers, presumably be. again. una | Pest and encounters, presul majority of German socialists in the | ment's 100,000 ON STRIKE B, Jan. 30.—One hundred workmen were striking in nday, according to copies lof the nkfurter Zeitung, which Five aeroplane factories were shut arrived here tod: YY. @own on that day, the newspaper as-| ‘The newspaper declared there serted. | were no processions, no demonstra A railway strike is possible. pas tions and the city was orderly and or- | quiet. waerts, met to discuss their future | tram hue te petice aise’) 1 OCAL FISH BROKER IS SENT TO JAIL FOR SELLING “CAT FOOD” The article For selling to the public spoiled canned salmon, intended only as “ehicken, dog and cat food," Sig- mund Lewis, of Seattle, vice presi- dent of the Seattle & Puget Sound ing company, today began a y jail nentence, Lewis was found guilty of selling tintions relative to the strike be held in presence of workmen. Berlin reported that “it was not known whether Wallrolf agreed to mentioned many ar tween police and the strikers. | It is of tremendous significance that | Philip Seheidemann, the German ma- | jority socialist leader, has joined with the German minority leade Haase, Ledebour and Dittmann the first time it appears the soc ists are united Scheidemann Changed Scheidemann's the Germ: y has been so sub: | 30. Heretofore to raise merely a tool of the government. | court in It was Scheidemann who conceiv-| fined $ in addition to the jail sen ed the idea of a Stockholm confer-| tence. His company was fined $100. ence of socialists of the world to dis-| The conviction is the result of a ‘ett yesterday, and was cuss peace, a conference which was| special investigation by state food opposed at the outset as a scheme to | inspectors since last spring, who are twist socialist sentiment into sup: ! tig! ing up on brokers and food port of Germany by “planting of a Other prosecutions are The Russian terrorists have beeny deeply interested in the trial in thi United States of Berkman and Emma, Goldman, the two American “red” leaders, for conspiracy to defeat the draft law. Coincidentally with news of thig | action from Helsingfors came word of Bolsheviki successes in put down the revolution in Finland, The Petrograd agency quoted Foreign Minister Trotsky as writing the: Finnish senate stating he favored withdrawal of Russian troops from, Finland 4 Trotsky asserted that counter revolutionists in Finland had ate tacked the Rolsheviki red gual forcing the latter to defend them- selves. He's From Missouri David R. Francis, American am bassador, is a former governor Of (Continued on page 10) 3 DIE; 10 ARE. LONDON, Jan, 30. are known to have been injured during last night’ was announced today by French, commander of the home de fense forces. The official statement said it was feared six other bodies might be buried in the wreckage. "Listen for the | Big Noise, F olks Tonight The Star newsboys are to be the guests of Manager Alex Pans tages, at the Pantages theatre, The boys will line up at The Star offies and march in a body to the show,