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i CENTS. wage: Reed to start a Thrift card. Cultivate the “It will pay dn the moral eatisfaction your money to Uncle Bam you have done help win the war. Secondiy, it will it to Will get Interest on your loan. WIRF sery ABSOCIA’ To! cas 20 Giiteb™ }hiee SING AS THEY FI “MILES AND MILES OF THEM” , You will know what Realizing it, you will know what to do. their death your bit is You will know what true patriotic service is today, NOW. folks-—-grim, bloody, deadly war and you will not f It's war, field will be your own blood. THE BOYS WHO ARE MARCHING TODAY ARE YOUR BOYS. j OFF LIGHTS AS. WAR MEASURE will go on a short ration of street lighting at war measure. Mayor Ole Hanson and Superin- Lighting J. D. Ross Monday agreed to eliminate | ‘once 40 per cent of the city’s street lights and to burn these at street corners. The saving will amount to) year and is in line with the request of the fuel The city at present is burning about 800 barrels of | oil a day at its substation and it is to save as much | as possible of this expensive fuel that the new order was | ' “The sooner Seattle realizes that ~,| the nation is at war and begins to save accordingly, the better,” said {| Mayor Hanson, in a fformal letter to Ross, asking the elimination of the | lights. Hanson said that this move on the part of the city was the forerunner 4% construct a long-range }/of @ proclamation calling on the of carrying 105 miles. }| business men to retrench on their developed along the } store window and sign advertixing subcaliber plan. | § Take §} ‘The city can save a huge amount They'll Hurry INGTON, April 1.—The States navy department | Of current if it will turn out its bie | lelectric signs and darken Its store | windows early in the evening, in the opinion of Hanson and Ross. Some time ago the fuel adminis —— aie with Rows =. pow “lightiess nights” for Se jade. fos it was nse Bs 2 that this ‘would encourage acts of vandalism, and #0 the plan was abandoned. | Don't Use Carbon “I arged the administration at that | | time, and now I urge the people of Seatie, to do away with the old style learbon lamp bulbs,” said Rows Mon day. “These bulbs burn from two to four times aa much current and give leas light than the tungstens. The new nitrogen and metal filament are | Seattle, to do away with the old atyle | should be prohibited ~ present ot (BRITAIN WILL ‘5 olla the ate art | ANSWER CALL | FOR MORE MEN| | BY WM. L. KEEN United Press Correspondent LONDON, April 1.—Great Britain is preparing to respond wholm heart jedly to the army's call, “Send us | more men.” | | Premier Lioyd George's announce a another salient | nent of prospective drastic measures |was received unflinchingly. They | probably will include calling up for lery | Rational service men up to 50 years up heavy artillery | of age, canceling army exemptions | likewise are completing | 141, 15 32 years of age, and a thoro calculated to check! combing out of military eligibles in esta advance the bat-|%8° industries, with substitution of - the bat | more women and aged men 0d ara aera, me | It ie also hoped there will be Trish | and light field guns aianel “ee “cotecuaeas apr © government appreciates the Presumably the Germans’) i consistency of appealing for Amer will be supported bY | ican man power when material for | , fully opposed by the! naif a dozen divisions of the best | | fighting material in Ireland is ide ins so far have used) ‘with the Morning Post's and Col 180,000 men), of which) nepington's surrender to Gen. Foch, been withdrawn a9 the | the jaat vestige of serious British op: | The most conserv- position to the generalisstno idea ‘based on scientific Was removed. It is now generally tions, is that the Ger-| understood that Foch was virtually, ave reached 300,000. | tho not actively, in this position sa laince the battle started, which ac: | VISCOUNT ISHII counts for the splendid welding of French-British forces at the critical | 'ARNS_ AGAINST | com vo HUN INTRIGUES FRieDA HEMPEL WILL | TOKIO, April 1—On the eve of his| SING AT MET TONIGHT] for the United States to- Frieda Hempel, Metropolitan oper: Seattle concert pend fm an address warned against a, at the Metropolitan Monday night ot German attempts to es. |by singing “The Star Spangied Ban- | trange Japan and the United States. | ner one Miss Hempel comes to Seattle! BALTIMORE WILL) inc. ec tacteientea trowcants,| HEAR PRESIDENT She will sing for the first time in| WASHINGTON, April 1-—The| Ladies’ Seattle under the auspices of the Musical club. House let it be known today " President Wilson plans to speak Baltimore next Saturday, at a TWO WHEATLESS DAYS | eelebration, opening the third} SET FOR CALIFORNIANS! SAN FRANCISCO, April 1.—Mon-| days and Wednesdays hereafter are Liberty loan campaign | to be observed as entirely wheatiess | ELEVATED R. R. BONDS |." comers an crtirly wheation ES ARE SOLD TO STATE|?. ™. a wheatienn meain in Califor | nia restaurants and hotele. ‘The sasue of $250,000 of city utility bonds for the construction of an ele- RUMANIA AND RUSSIA vated street railway authorized at he inet eisction was sold to the state SIGN PEACE TREATY! Monday thru the efforts | Fitzgerald, of the coun.| PETROGRAD, April 1—The Rus: | committee. #oRumanian peace treaty has been bear 4% per cent interest. | concluded. It provides for Rumant ———- an evacuation of Bessarabia within | two months, exchange of prisoners f|and exportation to Rumania of the WATER SHUT-OFF NoTICE | | Be#arabia wh urplus. { j PARIS IS AGAIN | BEING SHELLED | PARIS, April LowThe long range | bombardment of Paris was resumed today, in still lined up, but | are confident the lu im i | | iH i Hi _ i) be whut off in the Lot 14th ave. N. E. | B. 75th st. tomor- | a m, to 4p. m. | Amiens, Forecast Weekly Report at Washing- ton Gives Optimistic View on Big Drive PERSIA TO JOIN HUNS?, BY CARL D. GROAT United Peeas Correspondent TON, April roops are relieving neh troops, so the latter may join the French coun. ter offensive on the western Hine. And “such of our troops as have received a sufficient amount of training will cooperate with the French and insofar as they are able will assume » share of the great burden now so heavily borne by the French and British armies.” This was officially the war office weekly The summar ly that stated in mmary declared unreserved the enemy hax been unable to force a decision” and predicted he | will be unable to do so as long as the allied armies are able to ma neuver with the consistent unity and flexibility which they have shown | during the engagement of the tase | week.” Concerning the American partic pation already under way, the state ment said: “Our own resources have been Placed unreservedly at the disposal of the allies and our divisions will | be used if, and when, needed. Our troops are taking their places in| other parte of the line, thus reliev ing veteran French unite Such troc as have received proper and sufficient training will co-operate with the latter and {nao far as possible assume a share of the | great battle, it in declared.” | The statement reechoed the con- fidence which military men here| [have consistently volond since the (Continued on Page Five) FOE REPULSED BY BRITISH IN ALBERT REGION LONDON, April 1.—A local opera tion In the neighborhood of Gerre (probably Serre), seven miles north of Albert, wal reported yesterday morning, Field Marshal Haig an nounced today One hundred and guns were captured The enemy twice attacked the out skirts of Albert yesterday evening but was completely repulsed. nine machine LONDON, April 1—South of the Somme, the enemy Is persisting in attempts to advance along the val leys of the Luce and Avre, but haa| made little progress, Field Marshal| Haig reported toda | Throughout yesterday afternoon | and evening counter attacks alter: | nated with varying success, Fight | ing is expected to continue. PARIS, April 1.—"North of Mont-| didier, especially between Montdidier and the road from Peronne to the Anglo-French forces | broke up powerful German attacks,” | the war office announced today. The main Peronne-Amiens high-| ‘ay crommes the battle front at Ham. <i, just north of the Gomme. Stamel| is 17 miles north of Montdidier ‘ = awe: | {King George Sees = Battle Front as Big Fight Rages || BY WM. PHILIP SIMMS United Press Correspondent WITH THE BRITISH AR MIES IN FRANCE, March 31 No king traveled more simply than did George V, who just visited the battle front. (An official statement Satur: day night declared the king had returned to London that even. ing, after visiting the west front Thursday.) He crossed the channel on a destroyer, just like an ordinary officer, He was whirled up and down the lines like a hard-work ing army shaking hands with t isted men and eating ordinary mess food wher ever mealtime caught him Seeing a slightly wounded Australian at a station, the king walked up to hin and said “T've often heard about you.” The Australian, holding out hin hand, responded “Put it there. ‘The king shook hands warmly and appeared immensely pleased | ly to be taken a an equal. x— ever at tui pr ha bu fro Mer su front mans fighting practically on the de-| “ys fensive This does not Gen major counter offensive into opera:| tion. A The movement of American troops! tor France does not yet suggest th come of the war to the test of a new indications are that troops in the transfer are limited in| long |number and their appearance with! for the allies, by their steadfastness, | | the French and British will be large |t@ press upon the German people a The matter of morale among civil Where to Fight What do you think about this’ Willard-Fulton prizefight, sched- uled for the Fourth of July? We think the decent manhood and womanhood of America ought to rise in protest against this cheap desecration of the nation’s sacred day—this orgy of brutality for easy dollars—this profligate waste of muscle and money, when our country needs them both. THINK OF IT!) While our boys are dying in the trenches of France, fora principle, for the honor of thetr mothers and ststers, these pugs prepare to battle—not for humanity, not for liberty, not to save civilization from the Huns of Hell, but for mere money. The prizefight profiteers are bidding — $140,000 is the latest bid — for the privilege of putting on this shameful show. They expect to coin money over and above their bids—and the fighters expect to coin money, and their managers expect to coin money, and everybody connected with the enterprise expects to coin money. No money, no prizefight. Now they’re talking about WHERE they'll stage the fight. Ve think we know where Willard and Fulton ought to fight— It isn’t Reno, or Juarez, or Havana— They ought to fight IN FRANCE. - <= "HUGE DEATH ROLL OF FOE _MAY BREAK HUN MORALE | come, to the German | House of Blood. people, fans at home has now become a vital Fe in th More than ever NEW YORK, April 1.—The initi-| the # * must prepare for ive along the new western battle. | sitest endurance, while waiting for han now almost wholly re-|the reaction in Germany to the gi allies, with the gantic casualties of the past few| BY J. W. T. MASON | BY FRED 8. FERGUSON Written for the United Press WITH Mareh 91 THE AMERICAN ‘Troop mover rned to the Ger The next phase of the western mean| combat may not consist of field en It may be the renewal) of dissent in the central empires oley of caution may suit) over the realization that the sac irements better than al rifices to the Hohenzollern Moloch net Hinden-| hay | Thursda, necessarily : | day, is preparing to put a| gagementa, presumably going north Foch | night. tered | wires esent 1 uity re re electrically charged er the terri On another’ o ned by Hin r ago, will have done than to make that area a if the morale of | | the allies holds firm. Picardy, Present) ‘There can be no major strategic the American) results from erman success #0 as the war continues. It is without casualties, captured document showed had been issued to the > try to get very minu om the I “4 have decided to risk the out per-combat in ment of the troops. Co. D auxiliary realization of this fact. Thereafter, the House of Hohenzollern will be at the Chamber of Commerce. for moral effect ‘ the ||GERMANY ‘MOVES| »/MORE TROOPS TO “\FACE U. S. MEN United Press Correspondent ARMY, | nts behind the German lines are Increasing. was learned that one division moved | eat activi |into the trenches on the Toul front | sitated by a fighting, instead of @ , but was withdrawn Satur. e in formation regarding the Americans. It describes: the uniforms and equip to the 16Ist U. 8. infantry will meet Tuesday p,m. That's how the correspondents describe the great array of Americans who are hastening into the big battle line. They are It's time every man and woman in thi You will not dare to fail, for the blood + ¥ THE WAR pageant. American troops are at last assuming @ battle tions transports moving over the roads back of the’ The fact that the greatest activity is reported at ters an well an the lesser headquarters closer to the front, that Gen. Pershing is to take command of the American: the Tou! sector in charge of « Join Petain. ‘Thin was described by ficient training will cooperate with office that the French governmen participation. the Moreuil-Demuin front. United Press line to the wouth of the German offensive front the war department added “Such of our troops as have the French, and, insofar as. able, will assume a whare of the great burden.” . This is the only official announcement regarding the main’ jean forces preparing to enter the war other than that of the it had accepted Pershing’s Hard Fighting Gees On ‘The hardest fighting reported by Haig is'in the Luce end Counter attacks there had Correspondent WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN FRANCE, —War planes report German right bank of the Avre, after heavy The enemy launched a vicious ai between Moreuil and Demuin, entering the towns at |P. m, occupaion of Moreuil, mn ti ting. 3 Sunday ai The Germans are reported moving westward om pe valley, having Hangard. This is practically the only change south of the 8 | but it is important, because i it brings the enemy that 1 [nearer to the Calais-Paris railway, south of Amiens. The enemy attacked west of Al | bert twice at dusk. Both times they were repulsed The British attack against a Ger- man outpost near Aveluy wood, |north of Albert, met with the most |stubborn: resistance and hottest ma- chine gun fire from Albert itself, and |the British were forced to retire. | Other than heavy shelling of Vil- liers-Bretonneux, nine miles east and south of Amiens, on the Amiens Rosieres railway, and the usual un- | Feae' patrol encounters, the battle front is comparatively quiet. Pays Heavy Cost | The German attack against Arras jand Vimy ridge, which was a total | tailure, This is the first news of recap. | ture of Moreuil by the Germans The British war office Sunday | night announced that Canadian cay alry and British infantry, co-operat ing with French: troops, regained is known to have cost the enemy heavily. The First reserve regiment alone the colonel and nine killed and 21 wounded. Several British batteries fired | long periods over open. shells cutting long lanes in man ranks. Machine loore at full speed One gun mowed down 450 ‘The pays ad were The targets were officers. sniped at them with | Others killed Germans be volvers, The battle was never in British singing as they fought, one division had been in the days. possession of Moreull and the wot ; to the north on Saturday. The city was first taken by t Germans early in the week, same announcement said the also had recaptured D and a half miles north of Pershing’s Offer of “Is Accepted by LONDON, April. 1—The French} | government has decided to accept |Gen. Pervhing’s offer of American participation in the Western front battle, according to Paris dispatches received today. BY FRED 8. FERGUSON | United Press Correspondent WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN THE FIELD, March $1,—Genera} headquarters, as well as those closer It | to the lines, is the scene of the great: It is an activity neces: training army. | ‘There is no confusion, despite the An American patrol entered the | rapidity of movement. |German lines three times during last On one expedition it encoun Roads, for miles in every direction, are choked to the utmost with every barbed | conogivable traffic of war. asion shots e exchanged, but the patrol with | moved slowly, past solid miles of ‘The United Press automobile today American fighters and machinery |coming from all directions to join [other fighting forces bound on the ‘same mission as those which have already passed. The brown-typped | American wagons and camouflaged |«uns and caissons are strea wing: | steadily over all the roads tn. this part of France, m New Snap to ) There is a new map and vi [i the American arm: Pe Gen. Pershing's confidence in of- fering it to Gen. Foch. The only. question expressed is in the song, whistled and sung from the trans: port wagons, “Where Do We Ga From Here?” ; So fai fighting meri cerned, the day passed : ‘There was only the usual exchange of artillery fire. r On Easter Sunday, the day of ree y, urrection, thoughts of the men in the American army turned than ever’to the grim business. killing. Easter was a day of hope for democracy and the of mankind, Atterfd Easter Services _ Religious services were. he very Kind of occupation @ surrounded by their who are now ready their lives in the great history, attended He ® It was a wet, rait was no tire front was couriers dashed,” » which is:proud

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