The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 28, 1918, Page 1

a divisions in the quiet sectors of the | | Givisfons thus released into the bat. a Reserve Army of 800,000 Ready to Strike Huns WAR DISPATCHES United Pr formed on war to The Star war dispate developments news developments you are not keeping fully informed on vital hes keep Star readers in Unless you read dispatches THE G LRAS TED VOLUME 20 {Xi ED WIRF SERVICE PRESS ASSOCIATIONS | BLOCKED TAT OISE RY HENRY woop United Press Correspondent WITH THE FRENCH AR MIES BETWEEN CHAUNY AND NOYON, March 28.—Com- manded by two of the most brill- jant French generals, the French are blocking the Germans’ prog- Tess between Noyon and Nesle, where the enpmy is seeking to force his way down the narrow Oise valley and turn the entire French Other forces to the north are seeking to throw the British back toward the North sea, aiming to crush both allied armies. Hinéenburg’s preannounced aim ‘ef capturing Amiens is considered a| blind move . it appears certain, 2 to substitute Austrian | French front. hurling the German Ue. French Columns Arrive * Despite the enemy foresight in the full moon for his offen- during which the allied lines of Simms and Wood in Battle Zone William Philip Simms and Hen- fy Wood, United Press staff cor Fespondents with the British and French armies in France are to day on the actual zones of the World's greatest battle, sending the news direct to the readers of ‘The Star. Those two tried and trained correspondents have been on the battle fronts in France since the beginning of the war. ‘Their experience, mature suas. { ment and ability give The Star an unequaled representation on the “frontier of freedom.” Only four American correspond- 5 ents permitted at the British and French fronts. Of these four, Simms and Wood have been there thruout the war and In this Tespect the combination is un- {| equaled. communication could be more easily bombarded at night. French columns | are steadily arriving Long columns of artillery constant ly are flowing up to the battle front, where they go into action with me The above is a reproduction of another government poster Jeo Remerias, U.S. THREAT ON RHINE KEEPS GERMAN FORCES OUT OF DRIVE. "a W. T. Written for the United Pres: t Hindenburg from throwing pre @ quarter of a million more men into chanical certitude result of near ly four years of warfare | After taking over part of the Brit-| ish line, the French are solidly hold: | ing the left bank of the Oise, between Tergnier and Noyon, commanding the bridges and fighting with a spirit unequaled since the battle of the Marne. Nowhere in the entire war have I seen calmer confidence. With the pollus convinced the Germans are playing their last card. they are per-| forming individual miracles } A French battery facing Noyon | fought three days and three nights without food. After being complete: | ly surrounded by Germans, the gun ners fought their way out, saving their guns and carrying off their dead and wounded ‘The captain of a French machine gun company told me he went into} faction with 20,000 rounds, which | were exhausted against the sol masses of the enemy. He declare he could easily have fired 60,000 rounds. Meantime, hundreds of man-killing | soixant-aquinzes (seventy-fives) are performing to the utmost the rol } for which they were created, namely the mowing down of Teuton infan: | try | The heavy artillery is pounding with deadly releptlesuness against the German rear. A battery captain | told me his guns had had for targets advancing columns, each 6f which | consisted of solid battalions of Ba- varians. Prisoners say half the Germans’ strength on the West front was fac- ing the French on Monday Armless Pole {| Nearly Bites | { Hun to Death CRYSTAL SPRINGS, Miss, March 28.—Henry Hupperich, a German, who is said to have curs ‘ ed the United States, may die as 5 the result. of being attacked by } Alexander Kerenski, an armiexs }| Pole. Kerenski wrapped hin legs ( around the German's body and bit him in the face and neckrhy- sicians say he has Mtue chance of recovery. | up still more NEW YORK, March 24. y restraining further movement of Germany's first reserve troops | across France, America’s in creasing military strength along the Alsace-Lorraine border is ex erting what may prove to be a decisive influence upon the prog ress of Hindenburg’s attack against the Anglo-French lines The key to the situation now con |tronting Hindenburg, } tain is the au Both sides must depend for newal of activity upon fresh rein forcement If Hindenburg were able to bring shock troops and to slaughter them in large numbers as a further sacrifice to the #lohenzol lerns, the situation along the west front would cause much anxiety There are German reserves ready for such @ purpose concentrated at Metz and Southern Alsace |the western combat at this critical | moment America’s part in the war on a major scale begun to be played and without any large Must Watch U.S. Men Hindenburg cannot push much farther forward to a decision against France and England without risking the capture of the Rhine this gum mer by the American armies. ‘That is the principal r y heay German reinforcements are no long er being hurled against the British and French fronts The initiative in now passing to Gen therefore haw a in xt activity son Ww the combat is Haig. His re port today of captures of German prisoners and guns is the most sat news that has come from allies since the t week ago. It may to look for an allied counter attack jin France, but the way is being pre Would Open Rhine |pared for it by the new local of It would be fatal, however, for |fensives, which the Britiah are devel | Hindenburg to draw on them. If / oping. they were to vanish, the road to the} - - Rhine would be made into an easy I. W. W. MAKES THREAT SPOKANE, March 28 passage for Gen. Pershing ere ot for the erica Were it not for the American | ie up the logging camps in Idaho are in I. W. W. corre: armies in Eastern France and the fast-arriving American reinforce ments, there would be nothing tol mpondence selzed by federal offici actory tle began, one too early yet contained TODAY’S BATTLE ANALYSIS British soldiers and officers do not believe the present comparative lull means the battle will die out, according to United Press mensages On the contrary, they believe it will go to a finish—to a great decisive engagement that will conclude both the battle and, probably the war. It shows that the British won't be content merely to stop the Ger man advance, They want to make this the final round of the war and press it to the “knockout.” ADMIT LOSS ‘The capture of Mont Didier, admitted by the French war office, came as a surprine Mont Didier is ten miles west and south of Roye and, until the French retirement to the westward of Mont Didier, it was believed the fighting there had not progressed more than three or four miles west ot Roye. ATTACK LEFT FLANK Haig’s official report showed the British holding the enemy in the Somme region and declared that German prisoners had been taken The French army, holding the Oise line, is making a remarkable defense and increasing the danger to Hindenburg’s left flank Berlin newspapers gre expressing worry at the increasing difficul ties of Hindenburg's progress. of the famoun series by _It ts today published for Threats to! noted artints, to ) first time in Seattle TU. S, HAS oe PLANES THAN ALL GERMANY, BY H. P. WASHINGTON HUNT Match 28 k for the past two days rinistration wit erence to dictated either by misinformation or ust plain politics: It is got true that the or the allies in France are mercy of Hun air mon We ha monthe and England togeth western front, and yiany more than German has in actfon, More than 5,000 of there been delivered Germany has only 100 squadrons of 18 planes each, England and Fr combined h about 110 squadrons. Americans at the built, in more the last nine than France have on the America necessarily training planes. Fut battle planes are being deliv | ered now, and deliveries are rapidly increasing since equipments for | training planes have been met The present production situation | gives no chance to doubt that by| July enough battle planes | livered to equip every we can put into Franc a surplus for replacement of lost or damaged machines | ‘The Liberty | efficient for England and France to! order them in quantities after se | vere testa by experts, and its pro. first produced can be de-| motor is sufficiently of the Rolls Royce engines, on which | battle planes: PARTISAN FIGHT IN CONGRESS BY L. C. MARTIN United Press Correspondent WASHINGTON, March 28.—Bit- \ter partisanship in the senate over | the conduct of the war government | threatened today to spread to the house, Republi and some democrats jcharging that the country is being | minted as to the war work of the ad ministration are being answered spir- itedly by both democratic leaders jand “war chiefs” at the other end of 4 duction today is greater than that) England had heretofore depended for | LONDON, March office announced this Opposite Arras, the Brit The; Seattle Star VATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NIGHT EDITION Weather Forecast moderate se ‘Tonight utheaster NORTHWEST rywhere CENT in Seattle” Seattle PRIC E ONE CENT 28.—The British front has been pierced at a new point, the war evening. sh “forward zone” has been penetrated, it was announced. This is on the extreme right flank of the German advance. LONDON, March |Chipilly,” |Hamel.” try actions there. | ensuing. The G Near Sailly-Laurdette, In spots the battle blaze! jis burning low. North of the Somme, the British seem to be holding | firm, In the vicinity of Albert along | the blood soaked valley of the An and at Bh uoy (five milen we north of aume) and Hebuterne (six miles north of Albert and two and a half miles wouth and weet of Bucquoy), the British are holding | tenaciously | Drive Huns Back | Reports from the Franco British forces to the south indicate a little progress there. The Hritish rushed the enemy infantry at Sallly-LeSec (seven miles south and weet of A [bert on the north bank f the Somme), driving them out in a panic epecialiata” had 90 odd men beg up t ar Young men the enture, m ashes night f to the enemy columns, | fighting tb again | Fight to Finish An officer told me the Germans are using a species of tank to bring up j artillery This is the | onty mention of enemy tanks I have heard I do not bel) the battle will die out , r with whom I have talk d firmly believes it will to a finish—a « t, deck er nt, concluding both asualtic tlege of ¢ of ad during the ir way bac mmunitior ag and prob Acheville is an important town milex southeast of Lens, east of Arra ithwestward thru eth passing thru and niles north a e ng 8 ern outskirts of Lens the city of Souchez, five miles south: | west of Lens. Just east of Ach ville ja the famous Vimy ridge CRIMINALS OF |GERMANY ASKED | TO JOIN RANKS AMSTERDAM, March 28.--Field Marshal Hindenburg and Chancellor Hertling ha d to call up for {military service the German crimi of military age, according to ad vices received here today |AUSTRIA TELLS OF WEST ATTACK 8 ttack again yon ground on st front,” the Austrian war office declared today “In Venetia (on the | there was lively local artillerying.” Italian front) thetavenue whose work is under fire. | Under the duress of the great | west front battle, the bitterness on both sides has led to many inac jourate statements, and it prot | will result in demanded “ Keity" to straighten the on just what has or has not been | | accomplished Meanwhile the senate military af. fairs committee will ask Maurice | Strunsky, an employe of the commit tee on public information why he sent out captions for airplane ple: tures containing glowing statements of the early shipments of hundreds and thousands of planes to “swell our ever increasing air fleet in ‘ when it is declared we > air fleet there. sof Washington at d for giving ts of secur:! as a matter of fact, the submarines sank twice as many ships as we have been able to build. the war office officially announced this evening. WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN FRANCE, March 28. occurred this morning between Acheville and the Souchez river. \launched,” 28.—“The enemy has crossed the Somme from the north near’ “We fell back toward’ BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS United Press Correspondent A heavy bombardmen There were no inf West of Beaumont Hamel the enemy attacked in great strength. Heavy fighting ermans last night launched attack after attack against the British positions in Rosignol wood, in the same region, only to be hurled back. They seemed once to have A penetrated the eastern edge, but were driven out after hard fighting. five miles west and south of Bray, on the Somme river, and northward, toward Ancre, the British are taking prisoners. The weather at the beginning of the second week of the battle is threatening. AMERICANS WILL AID IN COUNTER ATTACK WASHINGTON, March 28.—The allies have a mobile lof 800,000 men ready to strike at the faltering Germans—and # time for the stroke is here, a high American army officer stat : today. _ It is possible that 100,000 American troops are available this huge maneuver foree to be thrown against the Teutons, added. BRITISH TAKE HUN PRISONERS AND GUNS LONDON, March 28.—“Repeated enemy attacks in the valley, also in the neighborhood of Beaumont-Hamel, Puisle = Moyenville, were repulsed,” Field Marshal Haig reported ay. “We captured prisoners and machine guns. under way on both banks of the Somme. : “There was a heavy bombardment east of Arras this morning, An attack is developing.’ “Astride the Somme yesterday evening and last night was severe fighting; also north of Albert and Poyelles.” om Fierce fighting ‘ LONG-RANGE GUNS ARE BOMBARDING DUN PARIS, March 28.—Dunkirk has been under enemy bomb ment by long-range guns for several days; it was announced t day. There have been but five victims and only small materi damage. Dunkirk is in France, on the English channel, about 20 |west of the nearest point in the German lines. This city h |been under bombardment before. FRENCH YIELD SLIGHTLY IN BITTER FIGHT « PARIS, March 28.—Abandonment of Mont Didier was officials” ly admitted by. the French war office today. ‘ “In the region of Mont Didier, important German forces were the communique said. ; “After the bitterest fighting, we retired in order to the \of Mont Didier.” Mont Didier is an important railroad and highway center, 107 miles west and south of Roye, 21 miles southeast of Amiens 18 miles west and north of Noyon. It is 30 miles due west of Ter- gier, which marks the German line before the present offensive, |Mont Didier _has a population of 40,000. SPEED IS WORD TODAY TO U. D. GROAT Correspondent TON, March 28.— ust strip for action,” was official warning of Acting request army. This limitation of ship space an-| France, some weeks ago, firs |nounced recently and further ex-| urged the movement and Engl plained today, is in line with Mareh’s| has now added her plea, in a policy of getting every possible man Chief of Staff March today, in larence tx’ the shortest possible (Continued on page ten) * the light of pressing appeals | time from Britain, France, Gen, Per- It also complies with Lloyd shing and elsewhere ‘for more | George's appeal last night for hurry-| ship space for troops and army |ing reinforcements for the beleag | freight, ured west front. | In a statement explaining an pressure is being order cwtting down parcel ship. to bear upon the Ameri. =} ments to* soldiers,’ March explained to Tease that “a most urgent war necessity” overseas in uired limitation of such — ship-| he valiantly strug men At pr nt they take up tons space a week. Hereafter, par: cels will be sent only on the soldier's ¥, TO OFFER BONDS FOR CITY’S FISH MARKET | On April 1, $16,000 in utility ware rants will be placed on sale by the 5 city comptroller, The warrante have been authorized by the city ouncil, to finance the pu fish market.