The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 29, 1918, Page 1

Rn nn nan nnnnannnnmmnnnnnonmnannmmarrmrpemoroppmrbbphanbnirmprcbdbnpnrrbonprnommbecried nibgrnnrmrnidcatineeepeir Today, 179 Seattle young men, the first group under the second draft, are leaving for Camp Lewis | General Pershing has asked that the entire American expeditionary force be employed in the present titanic effort The second draft! Let that sink in. The first draft exhausted, the second begun! | to halt the Hun, We are, perhaps, not making such a splurge or such a fuss over the men who are leaving us to- Closer, closer does the war of wars come home. Our vision of it was rather vague during the organization of | day, as we did over the firet draft men. But, in our hearts, we have a keener appreciation of the privileged task we first draft. Today, we are nearer the sacrifice of blood. Today, from across the xeas, comes the word that | that is given them, And all Seattle prays, carnestly, devotedly, “God bless you, boys, God bless you.” c=. The Seattle Star 2 news developments THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST TRAGRD. WIRH ERRVICR EATTLE, WASH. FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1918. : PRICE ONE CENT & D PRES SSOCIATIONS . EGAIN TOWN Huns Hit |*3:-¢2 i. Fighting | E " __|Battle Tide Turns : in Speech Soon occ Of Rain| ee cee <-=~| of Allied For Baitimt Apr 6 + A F s Loss of Odessa Means Also ~~~ German Hordes Butting Ox- * ey ; i, = z PARIS March 29.—The Loss of Big Granary : A like Aga Me , : ’ x , , ‘ : City 179 OF SECOND ng ap hooey . ne sas ; _.. | |holding firmly the territory recaptured fenses at Arras } : * ae : . Bite 2, the enemy yesterday in the Montdidier RESENTMENT ROW j ; ‘ ahi N GROWS DRAFT LEAVE ENEMY MUCH BATTERED Yee : ak ) tor, according to the official announcem WASHINGTON. March 29.—Whit [ Bie issued today. “In the Montdidier re Germany's battalions are dyin BY WILLIAM Phin SIMMS | - . . . the west, her diplomat-militarists are FOR SERVICE nited Pr rresyondent r : f ||despite counter attacks, we held the vill a IES IN FRANCE, Moreh tor. | t captured yesterday,” says the statement. . ; 8 the cast MIES IN FRANCE, March “We stormed and captured Lemontiel and ree That was the official view here t : : Way lo the light of reports f March With Men in Uniform ji, {ishting | continues, today, “Se | wae of capture a dessa a o-| to Special Simther that has salt © Ge at pulsed counter attac ks against Plessis-De-Roye. Talew rain sweeping across the baitle | ‘ ‘ : “North of Montdidier, the Anglo-French forces “Wee the scattered and shattered Rus Train | fieta . i Sian army. Retaking of the two im. | 1 eke Miiiiins, dies ents 5 , % holding the enemy on the Avre aver.” | portant points cam. brigt oy aout ’ Ke is came as bright spots | severance, are butting away ‘ 3 ee “There waw furiouw fighting in front s. Plessis-De-Roye, Enemy t nad _ / “iB the war news, tho overshadowed |MOTHERS RIDE IN AUTOS against the British tines in the : ‘ saults were huried vainly against the indomitable resistance of our t1 by the eo ee region of Arras, The enemy ’ . i Os Prisoners confirm the heavy German losses in this region. : Renal 9 ae sir on ihe a araunte | Seattle bade farewell Friday to Drogressed some, eccupying th . y . HOLD NORTH OF MONTDIDIER hs, acl gle 20d | 179 of her men whom Uncle Sam front line trenches at Orange a * ¢ Mhecth of Montdidler; the Frendo-Brilics arb ‘Vietesloun sane Se eaeoiiey. & city in whic | has called to the colors as the Hill and Newville-Vitanse. - * : Mont ra tous, cing © @ated a valuable submarine bull inet Galan 0 the cepalib-tieh | y iwi : enemy along the line of the Avre, in front of Laneuville, Slere-B PAAR. experts here pointed out She dined them at the Soldiers : Sige s } -? * i Mezieres, Marcelieve and Hamel. On the road from Laon to La Government authorities attribute | Cimp and cheered them ae thee t fighting he moon, y he 6 rman infantry columns and convoys were dispersed by French artil | the Ukraine Bolahevik resistar Pace ce paren Ble t mencement of ‘ : “Artilleries are active on the rest of the front.’ Y od mare! © t . rned ht into sa 4 #* ae Ee Pirectiy due to German application] ay honor guard of men already i ‘ nie " : , Of ruthless demands to the Ukrair wensing aruy Grab aavy y ns obscure rendéring the . q ~ 4 “4 Lemontiel is two miles southwest of Montdidier. The Avre as she cid to Rumania — ane ght as black as the pft | : ‘ g flows westward thru Roye and passes about three miles north of : < ‘ : didier be: Mise Taving their grasp on the! Tho men gathered at the head @ result there was a lull tn Ancre valley and astride the} r Haine, the central powers ge |uarters of their local boards late | '!° 2 rh | Vere rs s BRA FIN ——t a iio bleed the nation to supply Ger-| iy the morning and marched to the | Somme following « hard day, al-| as * . iy, going beyond the stipulations | coitiere’ and Sailors’ club, where | ‘bough under brilllant Mares sus- : "me c pended fr rachutes, outposts ae ' sede dinner was rerved at noon. 1 ." Hope for Russia Have Big Feed and patrots clashed in cofistant ‘ ; i A ‘ Where officials have scoffed at the Almost everything ‘men like to eat | Maneuver for an advantageous get- | 2 Ay y ie? ce of a “comeback” on Russia's | Was on the tables. During the meal | ®Way at dawn. > wt hey now suggest that there is| there were vaudeville numbers do While Von Below gained aneiet te the Ukraine situation and in| nated by the Moore theatre, a bar nm the north the Pritts hata Hort-| ae as M e : “the: general Ryssian problem }tone solo by Robert Akin, accom. | aker to petty advances In the region Me tisk / 3 LONDON, March %%.—British forces took a number of prisoners and “Russia is tired of fighting, that’s | panied by Mra. A.B. Pyler, and mil. | of Alber | St a ‘ “ machine guns north of the Somme, inflicting heavy losses on the enemy, BaMhy she made pence,” said one of- | itary band selections. Four Attacks Mapulsed : } Field Marsha! Haig reported today S fica “But any man will fight for When the naval band played “The | our Hh sttack® were repulsed § i | His frequent attacks with great determination thruout the Shie Own, and if the Germans press Star-Spangled Banner.” every man | late in the afternoon north of the 5 * + (Thursday) only gained our outpost lines, after severe hand-to-hand [Hiussia too far and make the coun-| promptly stood straight and at atten. | § i} 3 3 Mi aoe ing,” Haig said Durden too great, they will ul-| tion. A string was putled and dow he enemy dead are littering the! ay ¢ | His reserves, sent forward against our battle positions, were thi u" | n * back everywhere with losses. imately have a battle on their| of American fings fluttered from the th of the Somme. After ‘ 7 $4 ” | ceiling od. adeautes tay, the Gar} ap - é Our own machine guns, artillery and rifles did great execution.” © Returning confidence in Rus } Tt was a lively affair, The men | mans back the British line a . i 4 if ~ 5 i Se enn Demance for rehabilitation—and oppo-| peppered the walters with serpen- | she stance to Hamul-Sur-Som . : cae ‘a me F LONDON, March 29.— ‘Our positions were maintained against A to Germany—was seen by | tine. n arfusee-Abancourt and Mar 4 - y attacks north of the Somme yesterday afternoon and evening and ae ionats fn the report that Italian Judge F. VY Brown presided. . (Hamel-Sur-Somme is ‘ , ft a , | x Aone gained ground by successful counter attack.” Marshal Haig reported t Serbian and French envoys had| Mayor Ole Hanson being il! . : th ond weet at AS ee "he 7m . “Heavy continuous fighting continued south of the Somme until gone Back to Russia. The American} The parade marched from the } ‘ . ait ae: eas - a : in the evening. We maintained our line thruout the day in the face! _ ambassador has never quit i up Fourth ave. to Stewart st. | somm, Girectly opposite . ; ; . Tepeated assaults by superior forces : f | west to Second ave., and on nd |g phe We have withdrawn a short distance from advanced points. lice officials head 7 thia the French britilantly jin charge. GROWS WARMER "; chares, | Felice ofiias head |" neiow this the trench brittany] | ie . BY JOSEPH SHAPLI {Seah Gdemtiie “ieatio bend next a : Perel ete: . . United Press Correspondent |There were several companies of | pri, new 9 bayonet at A yy — jsyos i ge: PETROGRAD, March 29— | Jackles from the station, then the | German Foreign Minister Kuehl- Willman Mts Geara. the post-| a2, 8 extending! * Fam 3 S : - a RIS, March 29.—Gen. Pershing, in a conference with French tmann, replying to = protest, de | (1o" hand, and then Seattle's honor | c thward, with a} a = . a ne i SRL | | cinls at the front yesterday, asked in his own and his country’s (Continued on Page Four) Siciter tines asl carrying) a. otw ne sae that the entire American forces in France be engaged in the present bal : r and a} | tle, the office announ of flags, radu 1 sout 1 around This in the latest photograph to reach America 6f the kaiser and Field Marshal Von Hindenburg, who me clyde are yond - — entirely at the disposition 6 rT} Their mothers, wives and sweet ) stand ready to “sacrifice a million men,” by their own boast, to the success of their aims on the West front.|the French. He made } uest of Gen, Foch, while Premier Clemaia | niated by the lien voc aad ph ats ws en) They're well started in that direction too official reports of e tremendous slaughter ot Germans show. | ceau, Minister of Munitions Lecheur and Gen. Petain were conferring a |The photo was taken in the Royal rdens of the kalser’s palac Note the cigaret in the kaiser’s | with Foch. there was one automobile into | bu The pr fighting ts In| fingers. Also that he has turned his withered left arm out of ]__ “I come to tell you that the American people would feel highly hong and ALMOST OUR vg soy toeaae ead ~ Seape tee a tiiet Gh : ee, |if our troops were engaged in the present battle,” Gen. Pershing said, “i e 6 buy tobacco and » ge books . the ” k rl 8 i 1y own ne and n co " vg +a for the men who are shedding civil- | ras econ a » the Somn — Wahi a re een ae en ee paw sli gs _ 99 ian clothes for the uniforms of honor. | again t r; the third| nt i Meainet_ihe’ south flank, between | | GUILE DEFENSE TACTICS seg uo esurn sort. JUNE 5 IS TQ See") OF HUNS SUGGEST ar) TO MARK GAIN ENEMY HELD AT ALL Vancouver, B. C., snapped P| tor from Avion*(one mile south (Written for the United Press) | will not resylt in the decisiv with determination as she Lens and about three miles north of| "7 0} arch 29. ‘ar ag|of the AngloFrench fore The} 2 SIReA about the war. | Mrs 2 el WASHINGTON, March 29.—Amer-| rieux to below the Scarpe, which | ean be foreseen, the combat in the| Germans, therefore, will shortly be| Plans are rapidly nearing com- | , WASHINGTON, | March om ped the ‘Teutons before the West is the only woman who has ever | ican histor will record | crogse battle line directly east! west haw turned in favor of the | Compelled to confess that the length-| pletion for the third Liberty loan iad — ‘th prs eet) ~ all) front ey began was the declare: been elected ax a member of parlia-| June 5 as “Service "upon which | of Arras, about six miles south of| ailies, with the Germans. beginning | ening of their permanent front by 25| drive, which opens in Seattle | points.’ wae the dispatch from tion of Bell, * ment in the history of the British | the men of this country responded to | Avion) was the scene of a hurricane | to engage in sullen defensive tactics| Miles has not sufficiently npen: April, 6, Seattle's = minimum amd she why > sine: zo | The Dyas withdrawal was based, Empire. She's in Seattle to addrens | the call of the select draft bombardment of high explosives t important atratesic pointe | eating results. Thereafter, the poe | quota of the third loan will be bra pes a is morning by | he said, upon complete familiarity | Buuttcas’ club, at Dougias hail, at| (The provost marshal general is| shells and shrapnel yeaterda Teccann trant ta now on.| ‘ibility of another strategic retreat| $11,000,000, the same as the sec- eS igs dg Mg Wa 7 —_ | with every step of the German Prep) #45 p. m. Frid: planning to hold the second draft Infantr action followed. The ‘ HTT crerig formations |bAck Perhaps even to the old Hin | ond loan, but oversubscriptions cated 4 he 2 = ion, _ still | ion for the offens' “In British Columbia, every one|Tesistration—for men who h be-| conditions were {identical with .the ia nas Hind eg burg line, will be the ghost at| will be received, and the loan Linge pc iny pe tao ale ing fa- I knew the Britisn plans in a gen: ” has suffered. Scarcely a family ex- | come 21 since last year—oi e 5.) in kick-off” a we | . “ae tas abs council table of the German gen | committee feels confident that vorable shape for the allies. eral way before I left France,” he wg h not a member lying | first anniversary of the f day fighting developed, the| *ee?, his forward m Mts ad! oral staff. the minimum will be greatly ex- While the house military commit-| added, ints that has # tration. As long as the ste, &| enemy making headway south of the| Vancing st & common epee The ve sonind | ceeded, tee was closeted with war chiefs at} He told how each side is able now So oewae » have suffered we | similar registration will Searpe on! n massed formations,| Precarious situation of having out \ The campaign plans now call the department, the senate military, to locate enemy artillery by stations macause we ha "|run Germany's ability to provide a for a gigantic Liberty arch at |committee heard Gen. Bell in al ing observers who listen for the others.” that date. It is believed that 500,000 | at frightful cost ivtrgs Bal , ivieh to spare other | sufficiently large permanent army to | FQOCH NAMED {| Second ave. and Pike st. The | sweeping analysis of conditions in| sound of guns. Six of these listen | ‘ Class 1, physically fit men, will be| Orange hill, around which a gre “The «pirit of the people is indom ‘4 | atl protect the new battle front, is be i i le t 4 i anh wonderful, Dogged deter. | Added to America’s defense columns | battle swirled in April, 1917, is again| Protect the ne Ape aie } {| arch, according to tentative ar- ance from the great drive to the/ers report, and their reports are com: Stable and wonderfu gamually by this program. trung corpses, uniformed injSmning to face Hindent «i ALLIED CHIEF {| rangements, is to consist of four | American expeditionary forces | bined, with the result that an aerial Even if t do not develop a spans, extending from the four That the allies, by reason of their| observer is enabled to fly over a cer | ion grows with every day that the war continues. Undaunted, they Kray-gre Aph hill, nearby.! major counter attack, a retirement|) ., WASHINGTON, March 29 have ha cen he A |) That Gen. Foch has been named corners and meeting In the cen. | knowledge of German plans and| tain position and verify the fact that emote (Continued on Page Sixteen) 5 | have organized even f the Germans may be forced t S4Anter-allied commander of the ter of the street intersection. preparations to meet them, had whip-!a gun or battery is located there. fistricts for service, #0 that now series of local assaults, giving Hin.|) inter-alti mmander thes} 3 - i m1 . r’ ) gent * combating the Ger: |} Beginning Monday, a squad of 50 phe in. SRR tees Asis eam of war supplies comes gteady stream of wa pp volunteers from the naval training denburg no rest at any part of his|{ #fent forces combating the Ge in day after day without cessation unwieldly front day in a meesege from President }| ets i nga Lge De TODA Y’: lay in & measage from President }{ station will distribute the beautiful S BATTLE ANAI YSIS Not Discouraged 10 BE CHECKED | Line Lengthens Wileon eondeotaiation. Fook @ third loan that America’s { ) 5 posters “ ictoria during the first | 5 P es gave ot tee tate that is still When the present drive began, salt your new authority.” | a — or designed to | ; 1 jerman line from Arras to C P st the bond sale, 1 army officials in Washington belleve the bi ” nt. As the very sible eat ylace In the German line from Arras to Craonne ( t American army officials in Washington believe the big allied cou memes on the western Oe li ith th measured about $5 miles, ‘The bat-| gre ae ars: Seventeen thousand of them have /|f ter offensive already is under way, They see in Haig’s thrust on the been sent to the city north flank and Petain’s sharp attack on the south flank the firat Sans advanced, a general depres-| state, in common with those of every Dieasored: BOtSE Le ate nes e ap % va te, will be placed under the “ natin ont a ame fy 20| gion became ap state, will be pla r PARIS, M 9—Many persons! miies Bach additional mile means|U. §. AVIATOR DIES stages of the passing of the initiative to the British and French, accords diately in the licensing system in the near future,| were wounded in the explosion of Bee costes will to win.” plotting to: Ovaries Hebbert, tee | canhsen ine | in the explosion of | Hindenburg must find probably 6,000| GHASING HUN PLANE|FUNERAL WEDNESDAY ing to United Press dispatches from the capital ot per i idehdieeg \ateicitesion for Washingiod. whl a r soldiers for defensive purposes, Further, the American military authorities believe the necessary “in Canada, we are no 1 i ay Pork St Denis today. The damage was) "ie, therefore, the Germans attempt] PARIS, March 29.—Phelps Collins. FOR SEATTLE SOLDIER J troop dispositions have been made and that the “army of maneuyer™ fi over the developments on the | bill providing for this step is before /extensive. The explosion was heardltg retain their present ponitions| of Detroit, Mich., one of the most! ie hody af Private Rhodes A,|f authorized by the Versailles inter-allied council is about to strike. t, The Germans have _ Lahonsrs ged rien » seyeued to become | tor 40 miles and the sone ussion shat-| nermanently, they must increase| successful American aviators in hose it Yan te prt ny - , . HOLD BIG RESERVE FORCE sf “ c w in a few we indows ne center oO} ; a iustofse ember of the l a z the line an they <span poi reli : Sone doe ani len, dnd tor t windows in’ the nter Of! their trench rrisons by about] France, was killed Wednesday while] sity of Washington ambulance corps, ‘The whereabouts of this body of American, British and French Mightiest attempt « % general tightening the wheat] An Amer Yr. MGA 200,000 men, and find the reserves | chasing a German airplane, it was! wig recently died of pneumonia at |f Picked troops has been one of the mysteries of the German drive, The ee es nen will be very,|eafips regulations, Hebberd has an-|bulance corps was the first to ar.| ‘©, make good the constant Ioses to| announced today Allentown, Pa., will arrive Monday. hurling of this force into the combat has been a daily expectation, “That the loss in men - Bat lilies the appointment of tate at the asena’ bt tha anciadl which this force will be subjected. | While patrolling on the French A military funeral will be held in But the allied commanders, if they are indeed ready to strike back very gmat eed. we rane MEMS oh gleiine ca state rorian noon e explosion.) Tt was this same problem that] front Collins started in pursuit of a' Trinity church at 2 Wednesday, un. |f in a major attack, have held off until the Hindenburgian machine has we miso realize th 7 ay = compelled the Germans to move; German machine. A number of der tio re’ been battered and exhausted until it has reached the zeni Sisal won by paying any other prios7 "feet Spsamittee sranibna.-aste ES NORTHWEST MAY GO ON Jincie’to tne Hindenburg line last enemy aviators suddenly attacked lor ig iano haibacal aanignas as vulnerability. a A FLOUR CARD BASIS| March and thus shorten thelr front.) nim, He brought one of them down,|” Private Gustofson was the son of Haig, in his statement today, reported the recovery of some At that time they had a somewhat) put his own machine was destroyed) Mr. and Mrs. C. Gustofson, 414 Ninth |f by counter-attacks, together with the capture of a number of prisonera, B ow ST. PAUL, March 29.—Decision to| less lengthy front to defend behind! and he fell within the German lines.| aye . ‘ and machine guns, north of the Somme. L place the entire Northwest retail| Arras and Craonne than now. The a Blsewhere north of that river, which halves the battle front, he: flour trade on @ flour card basis may| old difficulty of man power has % - - —¥ |] declared that heavy enemy attacks had been thrown back with heavy AMSTERDAM, March 20—°The German supreme command is about be reached at a conference he efore, been revived by Hinden WOARE OF TRADE CLOSED | Invest in War Saving Stamps | | losses liver a ffteh, mighty blow at another part of the front and make a| Tuesday of food administrators from | burg in an even more serious form) CHICAGO, March The Board) | today. Learn Thrift and help | South of the Somme, he admitted a retirement @ short distance go aa h in the enemy's Jines,” the Vossische Zeitung declares, accord-| Minnewota, North Dakota, South Da-| than previously of Trade was closed today, on ac:| | Uncle Sam. 1 |] “trom advanced points.” = Der out: Aiypatches received today, _.. mote, Montana and Wyoming, Hindenburg must now accept the) count of Good Friday, — ee