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

— 7 UME 20 Ol aun ITED LEASED WIRT SERVIC ‘The Seattle Sta THE GRE ‘T DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST PRESS ABSOCLATIONS SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 1918. The Germans are digging in. Philip Simms. enemy drive is “through.” offensive, will try to force Foch’: prefer. r { Ma curse ENTIN Amsterdam tary officials announced that attacks on even a these fronts would be at Verdun and in Italy. and 1,100 guns had been captured. took a number of prisoners in a counter attack. week as only “local actions.” further past Montdidier. The i Further, it may indicate that the German armies to a renewal of trench warfare, rather than to try conclusions in the open, which the Germans themselves have openly stated they NIGHT EDITION Weather Vo PRICE ONE CENT Foe “Digging In” on New Front » in meeting the e Koverywhere in Seattle This information was contained today in a United Press dispatch from William While Simms did not state how extensive were the German entrenching operations, this may be a tacit acknowledgment by Hindenburg that, for the present at least, the xpected allied counter Simms also described an extension of the fighting front farther to the north—at Cite St. Auguste, a mile north of Lens, opposite Loos. intensive bombardment was at Avion, a mile south of Lens, and the extreme northern flank of the German infantry operations was at Acheville, two and a half miles south- The previous northern point of A heavy German f. trati the Verdun front was reported by the correspondent of the ied, <div, gaveceiiliy' vatiad thet sector. Shortly after the start of the drive German mili- greater scale would be made on “other fronts,” and intimated It was also announced at Berlin yesterday that 70,000 prisoners Haig admitted a short retirement at Demuin and Mezieres, south of the Somme, but said the British North of the Somme, which bisects the battle front, Haig characterized all the operations of the past The Paris official communique indicated a renewal of Hindenburg’s attempt to drive the German wedge . The battle in that region has been resumed with great violence north of Montdidier. communique declared the French are holding this line firmly. ‘LIMIT WHEAT TO POUND AND “Ghoul Squads” in Hun Armies Strip ) Dead of Clothing i] CHICAGO, March 20.—The basic eight-hour day was ordered in the Ration’s packing industry by Judge Alschuler's award in the packing ar Ditration today. Wage increases were also granted The eight-hour day goes into effect May 5, 1918, and the wage advances are retroactive, effective as of Janu ary 14, 1918 PARIS, Persons were killed and 90 wounded March 10.—Seventy-five yesterday when a church was demol ished by a shel! during Good Friday fervices, it was offici announced IN PACKING PLANTS | 75 DIE; SHELL MACKINTOSH IS | STRIKES PARIS NAMED JUSTICE ED BY HUNS | War ' Reports Prisoners captured by the ~ the German army is ac a —* ‘The battle front in the west before the Teutons began their prive a week ago Thursday bx shown along the heavy, black line. The area nied by spe ghoul ever which the Huns have swept is shown within the dotted and heavy lines, the dotted line showing approximately the battle front today, | whowe duty it Is to strip WASHINGTON, March 30.— ITISH with the enemy digging in. and German dead America today hit the roughest Amiens, the great British supply depot, and one of the German objectives, is shown in the circle. The enemy's stragetic plan, it is be thing, shoes and eq food road thos far traveled in x x lieved, was to split the French and British, crumple the English up to the North Sea and the French southward, leaving an open road to which are ¢ mety scarce In the war. LONDON, March 30.—“We The map shows the distance from Paris to St. Gobain Forest, from where it is supposed the German long range gun has been firing shells || Germany. Some of these ghouls Individuals are limited to a odie vias babe ob Vidiiaa inte the French capital. ie taken prisoner a elr mur pound and half of wheat o pi ee aie! oe ie s eee Pee. _— ——.|) prise at the » f t week, and hotel men are pledged ieres, : x PME " French dead and wounded not to serve wheat flour in any Somme, but at the latter village form until the next harvest we counter-attacked and took a PINCER PLAN US ee There will be plenty of meat, | number of prisoners,” Field Mar. % - a however, to make up for the | | wheat bread lack, meatless | Sha! Hale reported sy. - days having been abandoned ‘Onity local actions Wave taken ta 4 place north of the Somme during Gone da calied:-vicew (il jthe| tO. nene ee r er " 200,000 TAKEN BY COPS caer one, . sore “Our cavalry has fought with sro sang ati oe planes dhec gts great gallantry, both mount employes thruout the United ye | ae r ow r and dlamounted, and has repuls- Payment for overtime work, for a ‘ > r od tha nies Wilh hdnvy lean ped the teeth Perry . y which at present employes receive ‘ Bonbon rl ae Watlecs wd " . in waieardaes onleenecls no extra compensation, was allowed. Minot Stuvandélicel Aubiere. | | | | Equal pay for male and female em vo gs consun ™ an ployes do same « ot work were taken in eustedy by pe will be release Gia osek oo Mificers at Second ave. S. and eatimated that 20,000,000 bush The employes’ demand for a week-| Washington st, Saturday morn | els of wheat will be shipped across “ ing, and, accorfing to officers, | during Apri um of 40 h oe 21 allege: contessed to the burglaries, hold Italy Needs Food svar saa ups and horse thefts that have Food officials are particularly con terrorized the vicinity of River ore apy di as ton for the last week. ' probab ng Cran had a Colt'n revolver, a) A Arive soon, Italy now * , ca “ieee” i kids waitin - : razor a wicked-looking ' 40 per. cent of her This map shows the “pincer” plan which military observers say w at Oh a Kigds been ak ta a a ; rements. Deficier the aim of the Germans in their new offensive on the west front This! Moran was armed with a dilapidated n an facil abor Judge Kenneth Mackintosh | “Pincer” plan consists of two strong attacks, some distance apart, which | .°)7 ’ ing Be enn. onl P Nee = was today named supreme court after progressing so far turn toward each other npelling the enemy's We just started out to have Grimes co i ittle adventur ransto . natan Ave dee Justice by Governor Lister, ac center to fall back or face capture. The two strongest drives of the t 1 fy ‘ i i . as cording to word reaching Seat while being questic a en to give up every bushe tle Saturday. This leaves a va Germans have been in the neighborhood of Peronne and Rapaume. But | headquarters t within the county limits for . Similar action ix expect cancy in the superior court | 1). pritish so far have met this “pincer” plan by falling back am neces Wore Old Clothes im n is exp attired in old rag | which will also be filled by Gov ! c ued o} ° ° use of today ence Lister. sary ntinued on page ten) to facilitate the use of i se eee z oa - substitutes. corn milling equipment eT rapidly being introduced, and al ready possible production of corn meal and corn flour has increased Measures for eliminating millers’ J * It won't be #0 hard for big clocks. After today, the American na | %- 1 The srandfather clock, which has| nd jobbers’ profits are expected tion, for several months, will get || 1 ape sapere tence gach tees kee ‘ea ee | Son ; Joctors an’ ) faithful for a hundred years o ae ae aS up an hour earlier in the ‘morn- ‘“ beuitad tn a qukts mele wil bow hake @ bocenia a Ine 1 planting by farmer: ing to win the war. | | Swedish hospital are gives officials here high hopes of Conservation of daylight, to dary. They don’t know how to Mee Pee ee record crops. Spring wheat acr Bermit more time for home gar- | fill out the tags for infants born | will exceed anything In history s dens, greater efficiency in war 2. Some want to record It as | But it's tough on the little wrist| aid. Winter wheat acreage is 42 work, and vast saving in fuel | | 2 and others want to put down ie) | watches just starting in life 000,000 acres, 2,000,000 acres above] begins at 2 a m. tomorrow | | 3. In case of twins, the queation Owl street cars that make trips| fd the previous high mark To make the feat of dropping | | Wil! be settled 50.50 between 2 am, and 3 a@ m, will! “For the love of Mike, be sure | arn an hour out of your life easier, | ” disappear Sunday while the time| advise everybody to wind up |\STEPHENS WON’T however, set your clocks forward | * cs regulathans are betng made. They| the alarm clock and set time DISCUSS MOONEY an hour when you go to sleep 4 : ide the for Ballard, the| ahead, or they'll miss the Kaster tonight, and then forget it until | Mayor Hanson has Iwsued the fol for Green Lake and the 2:20) morning sermons.” GW ura wc as ak Mext October. Meantime, live by | !owing proc ng Kastiak trips occur-| ‘This, or words to that effect, | ict make a. statement. concerning your clock a now. Bait adhe ea a aat cioon ring at «nm hour which will not ex were wafted to the editor by | the Mooney matter now. It {# still ig nonicichiggsiciue} hp lag 59 eeseaat tet morning, will be| Rev. Crowther, of the First M bina Handa ct) the mupeame. coke Among things the daylight bill is Bren. Pils ahonced Wr Ue youd | dropped, and the inbound cars, one church. i" Si CHa MERE SWa cacrnes tn te Goan en ,on to do are: dent, known as the daylight saving from stlake at 1:40, from the All right, doctor, we're with | 0.) ction, Later I will have some- Give the millions of productive rol aaa [north end. at 1:33 and from Ballard you. thing to say about it." sean in the country several By the terms of this act of con at 1:56, will “lay over’ about 20 eee a was the comment today of Meare” more work by adding a2| seg) ail clocks mhould be advanced | minutes downtown and then pick) A soldier who is sentenced to be! ¢ phens, who practi ad ur to each one's day one hour, beginning Sunday morn up their next regular trip back,/shot at sunrise will get cheated out) ii he had received telegrams Stimulate f eduction by pro | ing, March 31, 1918 with the ome trip omitted of an hour of his life from President Wilson concerning pred more time for gardening. “It is to be hoped that all citizens | eee Daylight saving will cut the work: | i6 case homas J, Mooney, now eon rove everybody's health by rea-| wit! see that thin act Is complied | @| ins hours of ng Pek Laas under death sentence for aller! n of an extra hour outdoors with in pri an Well ax business SET YOUR CLOCK AHEAD | Another helpless human participation in the preparedne Speed up transportation and end life, in order that its observance Aer TORE CLege 3 || ‘The goof who has a date to CansAlin’ tedioa WOl be HOO IEN| ‘day bomb exdiosion th Ban dren fongestion by giving more time for|may be uniform. Our government || take a brand new , hour to meet the new American. cisco. Work in yards, warehouses and | evidently believes it to be a matter An_ alarm clock has 0) | «5 church Sunday “morning }time regulations, according to tele: docks of great importance, and we must! conscience, but we wonder if | | discovers *that he's forgott | graphic reports. RENA MOONEY Save tremendous quantities of coal | not hesitate to observe Its provisions j¢ will be cold-blooded enough | crank his Ingersoll up an hour, | | et cts a wu wr ROW used in electric lighting planta, ANd co-operate In every renpect to ring at seven when it\| By Mireyie een, ie es a GRANTED BAIL “fe “OLE HANSO! Mayor.” re) % a a 6 ‘en on ae hart , a 8 only ee ained Capt, John Kinney, of the} SAN FRANCISCO, March 30. L J eistield | i knows very well that it’s plained rr an Hind ee nae eee an I aatsian debee Rien A teodan: aaeiial ate: Western Uaton clocks, regulated | harbor patrol Superior Judge Dunne today admit “ junday | SON PENS toe Sheree ita tes hy electricity, will go ahead an hour I quit at 2 m. and it takes me | ted Mrs na Mooney to bail on the works at Friedlander’s jewelry |pretty late in life for grandfather i i ' ; eT Hiantitew oubae store, on Second ave., and It's | tkmepieces to be learning tricks.| Announcement has already been Sunday, Hlectricians started to|20 minutes to get home can't | ¢ ot murder which grew out ¢ his job Sunday to turn all the o7e made that schools, courts, city de-| move some of them up Saturday by | show up an hour Inte Sunday morn-| the preparedness parade bomb explo locks and watches in the store It will affect everybody but life- partments will move up their| hand. Others will advan few] ing, and that w lots of explan.| sion. Rail was fixed at $7,500 on Abad an hour, term convicts. ] clocks, minutes each bour by electricity, ation.” each count “At Demuin the enemy's at- tempts to recapture the village broke down, after sharp fight ing thruout the afternoon.” -* FRENCH | PARIS, March 30.—“The bat- tle was resumed with fresh vio lence last night and is progress- ing on a 40-kilometer (24.84 miles) front, from Moreuil to be- yond Lassigny,” the French war office reported today “Our troops, supported by con. tinually arrivng reserves, are offering desperate resistance to the enemy's powerful assaults.” Despite the bad weather, French aviators continued their attacks, the statement said, drop ping bombs on and pouring ma- chine gun fire on the enemy's | battle front —_ concentratic About 34,000 pounds of projec: tiles have been thrown on the | Noyon, Guiscard and Ham re- | gions, Thirteen German machines have been brought down. | Moreuil is an important city, nine miles northwest of Montdid: | ier, in the direction of Amiens. | The front mentioned, therefore, | extends for more than from Moreuil, veering | sharply eastward at a point west of Montdidier, and extending east of Lassigny. Departure of Men From Seattle for Camp Lewis Show Movie Man a very busy person Friday when § tle's select As Mo omiles i} ns WAS av vice men marched esult he secured away, m angle taking The pictures will be shown at a jon pictures of nearly every of the parade and leave- | first TEUTONS PLAN _ SECOND PHASE OF BIG FIGHT BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS oO d Press Correspondent WITH THE BRITISH A IES IN FRANCE, March 30— The first phase of the central powers’ great offensive is over, I believe. That the second phase will begin as soon as Hin- denburg’s battered hosts can be relieved and guns brought up, however, cannot be doubted. | _ The situation was not mater. ially changed thruout the Brit- ish line this morning, while the Germans, like frightened moles, their drive overland checked, were digging in like mad in places. About midnight the enemy put down a heavy trench mortar bom bardment north of Cite St. Auguste. | near Lens. Whe a hostile party tried to ap proach the British lines the British waited until the Germans were fairly iclose, and then turned loose the ma chine guns, shattering the enemy ke magic Southeast of Amiens, on the high ground between the Luce and Avre rivers, the Germans succeeded in | taking some territory in the neigh borhood of Mezieres and Maison. Blanche, which they held in force | against a British counter atack, tho |the British brought back prisoners from under the very noses of the enemy's machine guns. | At Rouex a party of British which held out long after being cut off, es daringly withdrawn at sunset From prisoners, it is known the | Germans expected to accupy Amiens on the fifth or sixth day of the of | fensive, cutting the Calais-Paris rail- way. Yet Amiens still stands. Similarly, Arras, which was yester day's immediate object, with Vimy, | remains in the hands of the British Kaiser's storm troops were eked by the withering fire from © guns and artillery. clonic fighting is ex along the whole line. The flush of the enemy's enthusi asm has passed. Prisoners say the offensive is not going as well as was expected. While their losses are high, German discipline will undoubt edly continue the offenstve, tho their spirits are much lower than at the start. About 80 army divisions (960,000 men) have already participated Many of these were badly mauled and are unfit to return to the firing line. Before the tide definitely turns, fresh divisions are being hurried to ward the battle, while the enemy, tho tired, is trying to advance every. where, particularly south of the Somme, in an effort to reach the Amiens-Paris railway. Against the British alone 41 divis ions were hurled the first day of the battle, 11 more the second, four more the third, nine more the fourth, six more the fifth, six more the seventh, one more the eighth, and about five thereafter. Slowly but surely the enemy is steadily losing headway. On the con. trary, Hindenburg was expected to gain momentum as the first strong, ly intrenched positions were passed Meantime, the enemy's main thrusts are in the southward, where the Liberty as a part of The Star-Liberty weekly with other | current events. | Jacobs also caught FE a | Hill, Star sport editor, inter- | viewing the Pacific Coast Inter- national baseball league mag- | nates in m during the week at the Seattle hotel, | the Germans are trying to drive a wedge between the French and Brit ish.