The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 16, 1918, Page 1

WHY NOT DIVIDE? NIGHT EDITION ght and Se asterly win Weather Voreeast— Moderate so eSeattle Sta THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST : SEATTLE, WAS SATURDAY, 1918 PRICE ONE CENT fe"*§ TATIONS MARCH 16, I’m WASHINGTON, March 16—A ful " forceful war mens » the wort expected from President Wilson noon indicated today It wan offi that ailence in regard to Americ tion toward the proposed Jap EDITOR'S NOTE “Confessions of a Wite, she went on a special mis The Star. She is writing her exper there” in a special and exclusive ser of which this is the first. Others will he has mined to expedition into Siberia At the same time it was plainly the pan- Tor v lens in van e just returned from” France, “Everywhere with the American Red Cross”— arify the confusion about » question, coupled with ab ‘Crestion , - : et that he has definitely wet his talk, officiaix and ih ati green ation. ace no ‘i © nword NE | Gupese Iatorventies The Unite ! of to express te President Wilson's message peoples perish: . a result of of soviets ex | HIPECT WILSON ‘Macces. to Kill “Believing in Hell” 2.2.05 ‘ie anise Reply to Wilson A bit Plirtatious , afraid, . Japanese When President’s Friend- Peace Guides Them. -_ From Winter she is born too us, / United Presa Correspondent ,* or oh? bute She is airy? soviet congress at Moscow, amid a silence in- Paith’t se is conbrar idle, in view « where T have been * < apni. enat the prea. fication of the German.Bolshevik peace terms, today seeing war in all its impressive horror, for just now the = aes do we put o Ida lone i son \, | €> TO TALK AGAIN Now, Misr March is an Irirh maid, Attitude of United States Tho Soldiers in Trenches Often Are ] ‘pea obi her manners vary &% ly Note Is Read And brings a sunpy morn tous SS PETROGRAD, March 16.—President Wilson's P Atel she brings a thor o usr, * terrupted by murmurs regarding the Japanese situation. a. in the Near East and her ruth and to in-) Bus when a March ir Seventeen, adopted a resolution in reply to President Wilson's American Red Cross is binding up the crimson wound of the id. ay ae a oes) turns From War js J eturns From War is ~ —ONWARPLANS §=Capitalism, Is And faith! but shes conbrany! on Siberian Intervention Wilienent in Language, Spiritual PEACE TALK IS IDLE Soviet Congress Delegates Murmur of : a ¥ a& > & e v BY JOSEPH SHAPLEN BR 4 fAnd then again laughs scorn 4 us. message of sympathy to the Russian people was read to ‘ " stated that al « at The congress, which met yesterday to vote on rati- of Kussia. spect the activities of the Red Cross “over there,” means Pau aiee kets whole warring w I met one afternoon Capt. Latham of the > My first vivid.impression of war I received just before sori 7 abel 5 I left Americ _ Connaught ngers, which was one of the little army of | “contemptibies” sent by gland to France 11 days after war was declared between England and Germany. These men are perhaps prouder of the medal nag agg cp oka that ' glorious “runaway” to the Marne, where the Germans lost) the war—altho it has not seemed yet to have penetrated _ their thick skulls—than they are of their Victoria Crosses. This young Irish captain has been wounded five times Band gassed once, and is one of only five left of the original quota of his regiment. He was and is still over here on recruiting duty, but he told me that he was going back very soon to join his regiment—-the regiment of which he does not know a man, the other four survivors of the orig inal quota being so disabled they cannot return. His story—and it is most interesting—I am going to | tell later, but I have just said this much to try and make one of the things he said as vivid to those who read this as it was to me. Great Spiritual Awakening piapows Neither Race Nor Creed f I had told him what I expected to see over there, and we had some way strayed to a discussion of the great F spiritual awakening war brings to almost every soldier “I don’t care what your religion is, Mrs. Gibson,” he last said earnestly, “I don’t care whether you are | Protestant, Catholic, or Jew, but I do know this: If you go over there and you see what you will see with the Red Cross as your guide and friend, you will come back believing in God—BELIEVING IN GOD, AS SURE AS HELL And that is one thing I learned most thoroughly when I came in contact with French, English and American soldiers who had been in the trenches— that they believe in God, whatever may have been their belief before. Perhaps not in the thoroughly orthodox way that \ have been taught to believe is the way to everlasting But they certainly have a good enough faith to fight by and die with. peor rs and those who exploited, for their sympa thy toward the Russian people t Russian #0 experiencing wt hardships takes advantage BULSHEVIKI'S CHILLY RESPONSE TO U.S. NOTE TEUTON INSPIRED BY CARL D. GROAT on | United Preas Correspondent » Friday | WASHINGTON, March 16.—That the Bolshevik ‘tat wos |CAders have definitely cast their lot with the Germans, in favor of the pact was merely a|Was further proven today by the chilled reception given Matches. tree aut necording ‘© @*|President Wilson’s message to the soviet congress and its response inviting an upheaval of American labor. }150 JAPANESE KILLED The resolution, angling for an uprising of the toil- TEUTON HORDES BY RUSSIANS, REPORT ers, was regarded as playing the German game at the FLOCKING INTO | TOKIO. March 16.— Rusa direct instigati n of Lenine's German paymasters. BELGIAN LINES ° . MIKADO CALLS AMSTERDAM, March 16— ON RUSS PLANS ment of German troops into Bel cium, Les Nouvelles dispatches BY RALPH TURNER TOKIO, March 16.—Suggestion of seared nay " .|RUSS CABINET SPLIT; on cabinet to deal with the confidence that far distant when 1! overthrow capt establish a socialist so- h alone is capable of lasting and just peace ssuring the welfare of the toilers.” are be * y iy when ,* Ss ‘s erbeen to usr, 7—¥~_ Sher such a bright Colleen teo us,! She bringr the world “ha green bo us, bY x IRELAND is fer nation ._ ee So ‘eh? call her And ake a celebration! _ ON.E.. = a | we yaveen bovus |PEACE NOT RATIFIED UP TO FRIDAY WIGHT Is today pay day? Then to day is the right day to put some of your money in War Savings Stamps. Don't pass up the chance. 118 FOE PLANES ARE BAGGED BY BRITISH FLIERS BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS WITH THE BRITISH AR | MIES IN FRANCE, Mareh 16— British aviators have downed 118 German war planes in day fighting «ince March 1, it was announced today. Of these 64 were demolished and 34 were sent carthward uncontrolled To Shove Clocks Ahead; Daylight | Saving I Is oO. Ki 'd the p Ru river, near the jocated on the Z Manchurian frontier. nat ‘Field’ Marshal H PEACE PLAN IS CAUSE BY JOSEPH Sit x ii Quartermaster atablinhed nbure | U. S$. DESTROYER WAS hid ae woppeeting possessed by this g t is further under- | I felt as I talked with those who had faced death in the trenches that they had faced God. They Are a Cursing Lot, These Soldiers, But at Peace With God And most soldiers are a cursing lot. Words that have never been thought of by men in time of peace rise to the surface when those men speak of a foe and savage as the Hun, but nevertneless I found al! these men have made their peace wi th God in a way that brings as malignantly cruel ,. FIRED ON BY MISTAKE WASHING man no Stop Enlistment he is trying to stir up I German dictated ® lies and for Germany ernment terms are ratified |GRAND DUKE MICHAEL'S - dent WIFE ASKS FOR EXILE soc win’ SGRGONAD, Seaset still go good If it can be pre them without German | Duke Mi : nda distortion murmurs of the the Japanese te the Russi on soviet con at Perm situation Ss are not owever, that the definite at- nerica has not yet been foreign office denied a request for ine expedition Into St Significance conference is attached to the the Hayama palace between the mikado, Count Okuma and War Minister Oshima. The em- peror his decided to return to Tokio of Drafted Men n the next nN opposi Japanese intervention to confer with Gen. Morris, He has sur~- feeling of security. uready conferred with Premier An English Tommy remarked to me quite casually, one) °” evening in Paris, where he was on a leave of ab ne after months in the trenches and behind the lines: “If the FIRST HUN MACHINE damned shell or bullet or bit of shrapnel comes across from ‘ 4 . tance aye. ee i ca MY those hounds of hell that has my name and address on it,| */""' '* Prlleved to have beer ‘ . Reig syacbe I shall go out white, for the captain up there understands.” | prok. " rived m America What is the use of talking church or creed to a man en t “ at mn the air forces, ¢ like that?—and every man I talked to was like that. He has gotten beyond your ken. He must belie as ne face the top, which sooner or later he must go over, that God i as sure as the hell in which he is living. Only this give him the great courage to fight and die unwhimpering. As for me? I have come back BELIEVING IN HELL, AS SURE Be SOD. Hanee becomes © wall thie morning, but it is un. Sees It in Tear-Dimmed Eyes of i ration. ie aie peal rgsire “ pattie bios y redken tha a Women and Pinched Faces of Tots tt t ' will be no formal ceremony |! hich belong to Gill will re I have seen it in the tear-dimmed eyes of black-garbed |, women; in the pinched faces of little children; in the hope- less despair of old men and women. I have heard it in the Piri as ba Ro screeching of bombs over French cities, and seen it when : ; : his t 10,000 no | need Hep yea? the star shells of the enemy have lighted No Man’s Land have watched it settle over the groups on the street when » boy with his eyes shot away passed, or they heard the | ; |Small Packers of Salmon Say They : : - See ee ae _ Are Against Wall |: eS aereenee enter |e a sound and {n Alas Local Scenes in : The Star-Liberty | Photoplay Weekly | owing of the Star-Lib Weekly e Liberty tomor incl t non-commissioned officers? aD U. of W., Capt. Perry U. S. AVIATOR DOWNS ng hands with Germany Ind., who ar. 1M, month fowned his first. ¢ GERMANS SEIZE SWEDE SHIP, DESPITE PROMISE ™ OPENHAGEN, Mar correct rove Geclare that unless the |. W. W. MEMBERS ARE. : —————— | semotone 2 inten prie for the R TALK at canted calmer rt ARRESTED FOR TALK Hanson Goes on Mayor Job Monday; _Crehan to ~_ for Few Weeks | erty Prin: with grain for t was learned to establishment of maxi nd no minimum prices. With the mum price Ladies of League of National Serv: ice giving leather vests to survivors of Destroyer Jacob Jones Training Camp parade on Second ave View of Biscuit plant wrecked by. AMERICAN BANKER IS HELD HUN PRISONER ‘view o'r ON THE ALAND ISLES “iin em out of straitjncnet WASHINGTON, — March — 16, n midair aranty. ‘ust Coot xew HENEY RESTS IN PROBE OF PACKING HOUSES man under-| WASHINGTON, March 16.—Rog sia and who later was jlation ontrolling the entire rican , military CHICAGO, March 16.—Franeis J, Heney today rested in his packing e man Han output of coal of America « prisoner beginning April 1 a e » e i on the Aland house probe, following yesterday's ening, when he b 4 announced e by the and “Napping of a stick and looked to s a soldier with only one take tits A telegram to political activities, and attempts to freeze out small arm to grasp the crutch that served him for a leg. ha usy I ack to c-| Under the ‘ ment copay I have seen it in our own hospitals when whole wards ON 6 er Aco ¢ | hauling eliminated | minister at 8 > buyers of hides and tallow. Wit prices have been ae eee U.S. TO CONTROL ALL = COAL AFTER APRIL 1 | arrival of American boys were ill with pneumonia, and I saw it Fro by dest i ealdcoi creep into the eyes of our first cripple for life, a handsome ruling © 0. te fe ‘eatin American boy who was the first to lose a leg in the trenches, mortars ines when I asked him what he was going to do when he got back to America. YES, I BELIEVE IN HELL, AS SURE AS G 10D! WILD DASH THRU CITY |NEW YORK ASSEMBLY AFTER SWINDLING TRIO DISCUSSES MOONEY LOS ANGELES, March 16.-~A ALBANY, N. Y., March 16.—The limousine raced thru New York assembly today is consid today In Beresford. | ge how were taken from the Fi Expert on Far East Tells Why Japanese Enter Siberia and What the End May Be Nippon's war attitude Terauchi dec chatlen by treaty at yet incal Japan's action on the | without Russian invitation would action where Japan believes she can justify the Teutonic invasion of Bel- be of most ass gium, ers in Viadivostok is today the base of a ha favored the European fronts t munitioning to it. But the migh ing ¢ great the Senti sian disintegration, There has been every disposition to avoid any inter+ ference in her internal troubles, pread of disorder, making utonic gains of a value ine t this time, is forcing the hands. Most of all is Japan 1 bccause of loans made to both state and private; of ons supplied since 1914, and Interests at stake, se apprehensions have tinued on page &) Teraucht stated Japan's that h Hight ups Written Ff BY G. CHARLIE Professor a participa jeab and a transportation, downtown natter of p and cost @ ering a resolution calling on the ror of California to grant for Thomas J convicted of murder streets Jack for the mai 4 part of the the chase fo! stay of execution ‘ Japan Moone. an Aa y result of bis alleged participation in bility put upon her © Nipponese Empire has allies have used watchful territory) been moving toward intervention— (waiting as a way out from the Rus ernment of Japan t will not hesit 4 moment to take proper measures.” ‘ pend been unofficially stated invade “neutral” It has also that to cian Case? What will be the ultimate result of They escaped. a bomb plot.