The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 9, 1918, Page 1

New Strategic Retreat? March came in like a tion, the past few t burg drive in the but say he was only “foolin’,” a days mean anything If these snowy touches of An to a lamb, t be like lots of April 1 we'l like west vt LATIONS THE SATTI E, WASH., SATURDAY, GERMAN, AVIATOR LIVES AFT ER FALL FROM SKY BEHIND LINES | re eo Cady a oe This photograph was snapped just after this German airplane had been brought down in a battle behind the French lines. The German pilot lived, tho badly hurt, and is seen trying to extricate himself from the machine. The Xa as the picture shows, ture, took him to a hospital. smashed the plane to splinters. Russian Vessels AreSunk Troop Transports Go Down, in Unequal Struggle Off the Aland Islands AR MANY LIVES LOST COPENHAGEN, March 9.— German destroyers have sunk Rassian transports south of the Aland Islands, according to re ports here today. The trans- ports are reported to have fought unsuccessfully. The Aland Isiands lie between Sweden and Finland, at the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia. They were taken from Sweden by Russia 1805 and are inhabited largely Swedes. German forces were reported have occupied the Islands recently to aid the Finns in “restoring order It was believed at the time that Ger. many would use these islands as a base of operations for driving the last of the Bolshevik Red Guard out ot Finland The presence of ports there might indicate tempt of the Bolsheviki to retak istands. If the transports down, probable there heavy kes of life PED ARMY RECRUITS FLOCKING TO COLORS BY 30S. SHAPLEN United Presa Correspondent PET RAD, March ing.-—Mobilization of the is being p to Thousinds of officers affected by demobiliz ulararmy are re-Jo JAPAN IS ALARMED AT COLLAPSE OF RUSSIA TOKIO, March 9 press is increasing Russian co! man menace who RUMANIA QUITS PEACE MEETING, IS NEW REPORT LONDON, March 9.—-Rum off negot in by to Russian n (Even Red army and privates jon of the reg ning. Japanese It fe spread thru may the uded peace concluded and ‘The wh been Russia leas said. nate Bessarabia 40 be occupied by the nia refused t © conditions broken off ed to be usslar ccept t d neg Rumania . $. CUTTER RESCUES DANISH SCHOONER March Their with provisions exhausted, the Danish two-m wan rescued b t guard cutter Januar y department announced to The ship was then purposely de atroyed The Urda, out from Gibraltar, wa saitlgden when the cutter, under, conve, righted her, trans. | al Marines i in War Drill Will Be hown in Film ‘The Soldiers of the Sea” 1 be the feature Weekly at the S. marines will be shown “going the top” with fixed bayonets and in other war time rill. The flagraising cere- | mony at the Seattle recruiting office | of the marine corps will be shown Other pictures of local interest filmed by Photographer Frank Ja cote are workers at the Pa in a tion on hk wi The Star-Liber ib erty*Sunday. U over Barker, of Lo nt labor repre: Thirty truck drivers, on Fomew here. after ¢ ® service. The parade is head the Moose fife and drum corps. “Barney,” the athletic bull pup of !3im G. Arbuthnot, wrestling at the U. of W., will perform his list of stunts PARIS BOMBED BY HUN AIRMEN PARIS, March 9—Paris was bombed by enemy airmen last night There were some victims. “HE” WAS “SHE” WHEN jarm joy RECRUITER CAME ALONG ! SANTA ROSA, Cal, March 9 He was a fine looking recruit and I thought I had him nailed to the eturn from a Fort xpedition and then her bh e had been working in en's clothes ARREST CHINESE AND . Fighting | Intense : at Ypres | Marshal Haig Reports Battle On a Front of One Mile ENEMY IS DRIVEN BACK 9.—Britivh at LONDON, March troops repulsed a German tack east of Ypres on a front of nearly a mile Friday evening, Marshal Haig reported today At only one point were the Germans able to penetrate the British lines, A counter attack ‘ove them out again last night fighting beeame intens ing the engagement after considerable and with a he ‘overing their EXPOSE DRUG RING :: March 9 © Chine SAN With the one white FRANCISCO. arrest of fi 8. 8. Venezuela toda believe a drug ring of w arrest worth ¢ tt Panama arrived from Hongkong. MOTHER AND DAUGHTER COMPETE AT ORATORY EUGENE, Mareh 9 ed for oratorical Reekman prize YAKIMA MACHINISTS THREATEN TO STRIKE YAKIMA, March 9 rike neal machiniat Declaring the empl to effort the 4 Mayor mediation meet their demand machinist inion has for mm the job. work NEW YORK WAGES FIGHT ON JOHN BARLEYCORN 2ANY, ninst John favoring the than ever by of vetoing the latuy calling prohibition ele 4 referendum The wet forces are going thru their hardest battle since dry legislation | « Jounched in thie state, on © wounde of more than Houthoulst f foothold or ment th SEN. JOHNSON’S NEPHEW BACK HOME AS VETERAN AN ATLANTIC PORT, March 9 Still carrying a bullet of his three and a half ence at the British front in 1. Johr \ nephew of Senator im Johnson, of California as the result ears’ expert France T on Hir ed here British teamship. of the teal corp! Neuy Johnson was a British a He did ambulan Chapelle member ro: army e dut me In the ec he A b: thigh in September In Au 1916 and hiper He pears the latt 1 shrapnel bullet in his 1915 he wan gassed back ust shot him in the r bullet RNMENT HOLDS TWO Da William Steinhaur, 21 being held for federal investigation for having fail ‘ed to reginter. ure "Mad Mariner of . — Washington Goes Uncaptured * orm padd Kant Se . excitement Saturd a perilous trip th acromn Lake W way the raft in storm, the n French Red Cross workers, one of whom snapped this pic ay, ax the rewu! stranger ton made on ® ral dat of Friday's | | the afternoon of the murder between The mad mariner, described an be tween dreamed 20 and 40 in fashion’ yours of age, able « him Refuses Offer of Aid anded deserted ta all night. The PACKERS WI TO REGAIN PAPERS N FIGHT and HOUSE WOULD ABOLISH NINE SUB TREASURIES HID ‘na BERLIN SAYS PARIS ATTACK WAS REPRISAL BERLIN, via Le We attacked Par t effect emy bombing Trier, Ma war office in re the m an ondon, M 4 lant nig prisal for en th of tow 1 Pirmasens ed today with ns of * the FINLAND AGREES TO PEACE WITH GERMANS AMSTERDAM of a pe and v in Berl to renounce Lmree war costs a prisoner Mareh 9 be © treat many comper agree to ex. Both pi tio The tween nan urties: in for hange VON L. MEYER SINKING Mans. for ROSTON Von L. Me er the und wording to hi bers of his | hope for his re ing from # tumor March 9 merly secret postmaster family of the liver, George ary of 1 grave condition here toda Mem little = The seattle Sta GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF MARCH 9, 1918. ‘NearEndl . Arguments of Attorneys Fol- low the Instructions of Judge Reynolds IN JURY’S HANDS TODAY Mare with © was committed by mmitted. h he gave ax the motive for the | H. Abel opened the argument kreat importance Hodge tentified maw Main enter the where the murder was wayne store minitted 4 and 6 p.m Position of Defense The defense took the position that weather tod the day of the m the de| out to (Osnlinied on Page Four) Mikado’ s sen to Have New Uniform TOKIO, March 9 kado’ und the Japanese swapped field Government Will Make Promises in Timber Work Good .. PORTLAND, March 9 « going to make gc » to emp The gov nment 1 on umber industry shingtor understood that every and and I uch @ ured that 8 being found © presented BRITISH MAJOR NAMES patience MEDICAL BOARD HERE Manchester An reer Major C the lical off din the on their v V hester 1 Canad mis me ure Frida While here My ted nv ‘ their first for the jes before proceed and fi examit British nd Canadian arm ing SMASHED AUTO IS FOUND BY POLICE No. oversea A umashed automobile, license rday Fulton # the erick at was found morning Westlake » the leense number car is the property of Dr. F Peacock, with offices in the § Bank building. ‘The been unable to communicate Dr ck to date INDIANA PROHIBITION 1S UNCONSTITUTIONAL EVANSVILLE, March The Indiana prohibition bil 1 by the last se ix unconstitutional on ave. near According polic with jon of the legish Judge Hoteter| lof the superior court ruled today, f ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC Weather NORTHWEST to eastern Siberia? Simply n't jump What's the question a that, if that ally of the in and take charge, Germany The welfare of Ru The cannot sritain, France, allies, Japan, doe will considered, certain- themselve Gr and America have their hands full of other There's only Japan left to suave Siberia from Germany. ‘To say that Japan shall do it, to that the well-known German policy is good for Russia. When we get ready to ad- mit this last, we might as well set fire to our vision of ia is to be sian protect at Italy of busine: not is say world-wide democracy It likely that, having ask But thi ends in Germar this world is going to be very largely an allied world. No one country is going to do all it wants to, to another country. An alliance that has licked Ger- many is going to be treated with the utmost respect by individual nation. disarmament, chief concern will be the Siber many shall not take, West, of millions of tions piled up in Siberia, most of it bought with allied and United States money. Why should Von Hindenburg hurry with his prom- ised great offensive? It’s the other fellow who has to st », and Von may get great addi- Rus if they let him. A up to Germany to hurry. Her folks hungry and demanding long-delayed triumphs. A lot of Russian plums have ripened since then. And the allies hesitate about letting Von Hin- denburg shake the tree! aved Siberia, Japan would much if war de- feat, every Peace mean or an alliance whose lasting peace s to whether Ger- for war purposes in the dollars’ worth of muni- Simplified, an issue is shall or scores the chance ar tional strength om ja month ago, it vas were Transportation in Forecast Fresh southwesterly PRICE : France Is Puzzle | U. S. Has Solved: ‘It Had to Be Clockwork, With Uncl Having Even to Build the Clock; : 600 Miles of Track Laid. % | wharfh uses, wareh which Y had to be ¢ rseas, from for th which th This is the second of a series of orticles by Horry BL Hunt on “Where We Are At in the War,” pearing exelusively in The Star in Seattle is were are today in use On Job Early Within a few days after the RY HARRY B. HUNT Special Staff Dispateh p. ho SILINC admittec ‘ormer vice 0 Great We St. Phalle, former man: the Baldwin I and transpc ‘0 be used great a dis! the field of b mmur from those p. Fran rters were dy um capaci h 8, des; uppl n the United 4s of embarkaation is Then comes 3,000 infested 0 und France of transy pan ation burden of Ar in of French of the order that b experts came vdquarter ailwa Fr phe Fre ull and o| Four) must be rtually before nero! SAS KGE {t reache 1 construct (Continued on Page e building of the Pan: . colossal job tho it NEW YORK, March 9 O'Brien, the “pink and white” I girl t $100,000 from John Manning bec John ton Sam in ‘lay ing plished by Un within a few down in’ Franc ase arry her after having promi sa bride anyway. Her broken h has been healed in Ireland by J }Daly, a Skibbereen Th facts were disc Mrs, Daly to a friend here. BEVERLY IN WRONG NEW YORK, March cinth Dickerson admitted it a when he from Wm, J Beverly track road, ican locomotives and cars, by man. farmer for which the rails, ties, spikes, telegraph wire, engines, cars n were transported fro Idition to this railro 1 9 ev tial part of our transp ted at French ored one them a} stogic tective months, opilee extre y tion ports gre mile long two other slightly smaller where our may unload. Docks, tipples, cranes, we have ere big swiped at piers of part and my the vessels driver lid not wa mistake part. the the hammers in ager orta for where the picking lq) their rer NIGHT EDITION and Sunday rain. wind: Tonight biverywhere n_Seattle ONE CENT | Yankees Across Border? Report Tells of Heavy Shell- ing on New American Sector SAMMIES PROVE GAME Announcement today tthat American troops are occupying trenches on the allied line “near the Swiss border” very probably means that Americans— maybe for the first time— jare fighting on German \soil. | The front is inside the German Swiss frontier, at some points reaching a depth of more than 10 | miles. BY FRED 8. FERGUSON United Press Corre lent WITH THE AMERICAN ‘ FRANCE, March 9.— Germans are —_straf- American troops whe switched from the front to a sector near the Swiss border. A heavy artillery demonstra tion by the boches has been go- ing on for three days, reaching the crest of its violence today and tonight. The Americans’ morale is the best, despite the bombardment. Was Hard Lack Upward of 30 men this afternoon, were sheltered in a dugout upon hich @ big shell made a square hit. | They hurried from this dugout to an- other, but the latter was also demol- ished. The shelling of the Sammies con- pe day. Relief? le to reach the front Two men « tinguished ° signal corps dis: meelves by maintain: ing communication despite the heavy shel! fire. Telephone wires were re peatedly broken they continued to work on es of shell cut the wire from s of one of the men. When ing finally ceased, they had rs completed erying on this front ts our times as heavy as that an sector during the 0 riod there. ps training here relieved @ French corps. The boches be- gan strafing the Americans as soon as they were certain the Sammies were in this sector. these The arti three or , WILSON TO GET | MESSAGE FROM JAPAN EMPEROR PACIFIC PORT, March 9.—A military mission, en route oday, head- kushi, with 1 message from the mikado mission to study industrial organization n, and to arrange for { war materials for proposes jen. Chikushi, the mission Prof. Miki Moleki, ex army cloth; Col. lL. Nomura, Ando and Capt. M. Suzuki. bers of the mission said they sit France “to study military nd methods of trench they return to lined to discuss the Japanese troops s enter Viadivos: sary military ‘| Japan Watches pite three years of war mer pack ance that neh the HONORA IS A BRIDE Honora rish E unt sed eart ohn 10 losed in a letter from | 09.0; erly | a a box of Siberian Port With Warships BY RALPH H. TURNER United Press Correspondent March %--No attempt lay to conceal the reasing chaotic condi- . and the extension of and German ence in: to Siberia constitute a genuine men- ace to Japan and the Far East. For weeks Japanese war- ships have been on guard at Viadi+ vostok Premier Teraucht told the diet: What causes me the greatest anxi- ety is the turn events are taking in Russia. Regulations g TOKIO, vere severa erning the en- trance of aliens Japan have been severely tightened, to bar, as far ag influx of enemy and nee into Japan, mean that Japan is erating With her allies in elim: extension of enemy in- | fluence in the r East.” the secre- | tary of the police bureau said. Danger to allied interests in Asia, as a result of the release of German and Austrian of war In Siberia Is considered serious. The Harbin correspondent of the Asal asserted that prisoners in’ Irkutsk nt |inating the Hyacinth got eight | have been given arms and ammunk tion,