The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 9, 1918, Page 1

g YOU CANNOT READ IT. tod foubt you will have VOLUME 20) E8ts ERAS | EYE-WITNESS TELLS OF YANKEE Cal Lyon ees Men in Action i Colonel Goes “Over Top” : With Troop in First Attack on Huns ENEMY ROUTED BY BOYS BY C. C. LYON * SPREE Star Reporter in the Front Line Trenches With Gen. Pershing’s | Army. THE TREN( FRANC AMERICAN | HES IN April 9 (Controle Americain).—1} pave just come thru the} ‘most thrilling experience} ‘of my life. Mingjing and touching with our Ameri-| s in their first line I have seen them) iter their German ene- : and carry to a brilliant “conclusion the biggest mili- ee yet attempt- |‘ e the American army | in France. é It will always be one of! my most cherished memo- ries that | was privileged to, observe with my own eyes the behavior of American it speed as they went over the top with their bayonets fixed are lads I’ve known! Is the France make good? Ge mons today that and of lberty success with which the final attacks are resisted, he said, declarin probably invols by the people. quite equal to the next said Pon page 3 of The Star LIEUTENANT GRANVILLE POLLOC war. Now he will write his thrilling experiences for The Star, beginning Monday. Thrilling? His experiences have been hair-raising. Watch The Star. The Seattle Star « Has been called the “Empey of the Air.” He joined the Lafayette squadron of fighters of the sky before the United States entered the NIGHT EDITION some difficulty reading Weather Forecast Tonight and Wednesday, 1 be interested THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST R WIRE, SRRVICR SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1918. PRICE ONE CENT 2yggpaae OCIATIONS * 2 * & e * * RB HH % % HERE’S THE STORY OF HENRY, AN OFFICE BOY Taken From Story of Summies’ First Big Battle by “Cal” Lyon, Star Correspondent, Who Is Henry’s Former Boss 1 quads marched Henr my office bo And well I recatled th some four years ago, when I sent for Henry and gently but firmly sep arated him from his $7 a week on my payroll Henry,” I had said to him on that occasion, “you're positively nd unless you mend p am t today, as Henry marched mental headquarters, he different Henry. He he had but one idea in his head and that was to straight thru the German om a rlin for a persona r th Kaiser I « * back He rr . pair of mammoth wire cutters Tied to his belt was a couple of ‘HURRICANE NOT OVER YET, SAYS LLOYD GEORGE LONDON, Aprit 9 orge declared in the houne « while the mc al phase of the war ts in a lu urricane is not yet over ‘The fate of the empire of Europe may depend on the Premier Lioyd com rit the. ti} the strain is rel be difficult to ascertain exa At the begir the Germa Un a what has happened. batt West fre t, he said troops in their first big | renee e equa to that of the all “acid test.” |, The number of prisoners and guns 7 i j ken 5 he jerm a hea we And of added interest Legh geo Mig gnn teres re them, the the fact that many Of the |premior said. They have been re- Shoys whom | bade God-| Placed by substantial numbers ¢ uns and reserves. He Is Confident the armies are attack,” “I am confident since they wore knee) The appointment of Gen. Foch to trousers. supreme mand of the 4 ntrat rd P «| egy he most imports cision Will the American army in|{S2,caing the coming battle, accord ing to the premier. i i | hile the war cabinet has retired American soldier destined to). While the war | oar cre retired outstrip the fighters of all) st) the elreumetuness of | other nations in coolness, | the retirement of the Sixth army are é i dash, and bravery? known, Lloyd George sald. IRE 4 The answer is to be found hig mig ' 4 in the simple narrative I’m Sach sian Borde ae going to give of what I heard defenses by tt Y clock owe ans may ermine the is of the battle on the west front, io x me a Germa salient ‘since pon ~ heer of ye si Pe a 4 George declared in referring ine in 4 a heen a source of constant dramatic assistance rendered Sago, | ond annoyance to our tr President Wilson, lower The location of salient was such that | ity of ft afforded unusual opportunities for Annan), hidden snipers and machine gunners tho had, for days, been popping way every American head that!) showed itself top of the trenches It was decided that the salient Must be wiped out #0 great was the pressure from of. ficers and men of all the units com ignated to ht to he regiments d nt it was th compa atacking |{ icultien attack, t permit every quota to the then di commander ompan mander found |) man his organization the front when volun were called for. In many the attackers were chosen by arose, because compan ERY atepping teers os, in be found our “over the top” men in their places in the first lines. Then came the long hours of waiting for the attack to begin They were to go over the tops in Broad daylicht, after the artillery Bad nuagerd in pulverizing t German trene pill-boxes, and ma Chine gun placements. the next day } Dawn ; ( I had made my way into the| trenches shortly after the noon hour all pit andl as I passed from place to place J] re was herdiy a face that Was! ge Able to hide wigns of extreme’ ner-| ox D YOUeness. There were frequent at-| ¢ p temptn le but I noticed that | 4 haere } very few of the es got a “hand.” |») al | Nearly every officer and man | ¢) York H was smoking. . | Pe Pr noon a colonel came thru h; olds, (Continued on page ) SEATTLE NOT YET PAST LOAN QUOTA Seattle has not yet reached her } 1 Liberty Loan quota. ‘o figures, however, will be is sued. Orders from Secretary Me- { Adoo, of the United States treas ury ceived Tuesday, instructed | local officials to give no report They will be made weekly and will be official All I care to say,” stated J. A Sw 1, state chairman, this morning, “in that Seattle has not yet attained her quota. It is a case not merely of doing our bit but doing our utmost. We should not ken in our efforts until we hi raised the amount allot ted to us. nd, in fact, we should not #lacken then, as no maximum } has been set.” ) Annee CAPT. PAULSON IS SUSPENDED FRANCISCO, April 9 Paulson, of Seattle, dep inspector of hu nd suspended fromn been pending probe of his German nnections, It announced he His suspension followed te the Hindu revolt his was mon t tria conne) Maz tain of the ste 1, when the ship was transferred supplies to a G regaré tha man raider in the South Pacific, hunt out Henry, my former of We've already put two of the fice boy. I found him the center suckers on the blink, Mr. Lyor c group that was oper he said, “Stick around and of the automatic watch me get this third one Henry was handling the Then he resumed his business in hand and his comrades had she A little in the and ex wore 1a few m with jet me, Henry,” I was an cool all the pull I umber this far, TI take a shot ¢ neem me out I thought wung th: Henry, I want OLD the Hun! The kaiser is too near Amiens and Paris NOW to suit us. Don’t let him get nearer. Don’t let HIM go over the top. Your part in holding him is to sup- ply OUR men—our boys, a Lyon describes them today— with guns, ships, food. Liberty Bonds will buy these. AMERICANS ROUT FRANCE CHOPS TEUTON RAIDER BREAD RATION WASHINGTON, April it her bread rat AMERICAN WITH IN THE FRANCE onsf France haa ¢ e-third, so that Asietica's wheat patrol may stretch outpe a German nize to raid farther trator Hoover es range from Pr} ; * » wed very small ch ope » on them with | dren, t for manual labor machine gun fire, scattering them, | er ites over one-half the F as explained. FAILURE GREETS FOE H tleas diet in spread ing ra nccording to reports re IN RHEIMS DISTRICT ceived’ by ‘the. food administration PARIS, April 9.—-""Two « Idaho Is the latest state to pledge it prise attacks failed near self not to eat wheat In any form northwest of Rheims (in the Chemin | Until harvest, if necessary Des Dames sector, where Ameriean| College » going on the wheat troops are holding a portion of the| less ba «1 by first-class ho- line),” the French war off an-| te lo seminar nounced toda North of Fonhom-| Madisc J, is one of the first or me, German attacks were unsuccess-;Tecord aa abandoning consumption t of wheat U. S. GUNNERS WASHINGTON, April 9-—In a] SAN FRANCISCO, April 9 minute running battle with two| When Mrs. Rena Mooney will be giv erman submarines in which many|en a second trial for complicity in were fired on both sides, the| the preparedness parade dynamiting American armed guard on the El|still was in doubt toda Jente put both of the U-boats to] When her case waa called, late yes t. One of the di iffered a|terday, by consent of counsel, it was molished periscope. The fight oc-lcontinued until April when the} curred February trial date will be set ~ x f oe 'NO DATE FOR SECOND ROUT 2 DIVERS| TRIAL OF MRS. MOONEY Ambulance Unit at Allentown Impatient—Flies Service Flag | * They're giving service flags to the first four men to transfer into some of Uncle Sam's army units|@nother organizaion s | “We graduated from the Pennsyl cd lvania Dutch mbulance outfit Into a Yep, service flags—in recognition |real New England Yankee field ar of their contribution of man power |tillery regiment to th fighting forces. | Sandy Wick, who pla center on Section 570, of the ambulance serv: | Di 8 football champs, nd Pete jee, recruited at the U, of W d sta-' Summerset, one of Conibear's oars tioned at Allentown, Pa., since early |men, were among the who left last- summer, is the first to fly a They gave their comrades a serv service flag jee flag with four stars when they We tired of sight-seeing in left. Of tb Washington men who Frar by proxy, and wanted 1 ac: | enlisted in & tion 570, 23 ave gone dtion,” writes Karl Campbell, one of!into other branches of the service, ; | | thin scrap without being knocked (f I'm going to write a public my to you in my story. I'm proud of you. If every American b Ay spunk and punch we'd wir war in about three months.” Henry started to but ast then we heard a big shell ming and we all ducked, A I st of Henry was a usm words and the ' th Huns nome of of ho later I saw He wouldn't have with Gen. Persh Henry agair ted places ura himself How'dja he a back ad he handed « German u at I found enaid. “The guy that owned the cont left it behind #0 he could run faster.” LIBEL MONGERS TELL HUNS U.S, I$ FRIGHTENED BY WILLIAM PHI SIMMS United Press Correspondent WITH THE BRITISH AR MIES IN FRANCE, April &— Simultancously with Hinden- burg’s offensive, the most stu pendous propaganda offensive againt France, Great Britain and the United States is going on. Its object is the «plitting up of the countries and creating bad blood, while persuading Ger. man troops that Great Britain and France are on the brink of collapse, and that America is a total failure as a war power There ix abundant proof that Ger ng the mont desperate ull eeruples are flung ot hesitating to use or moral, ical win. Prisoners tured sions, cap. a nent dor in news it te Shai the German troops powerfully organized ter Americans A band of field propagandists told | erman of- | German troops that the ured the United States par which b pr wit ¢ that was rr utter! America its war Acnerica Relg fight lowed to separately, but the Americans nefficient to fight alone,” read a statement scattered in the hope of bad feeling and preventing America’s immediate co-operation. creating Spread Vicious Lies Similarly, alleged statements of British officers, criticising — the French, and of the latter criticising the I were strewn everywhere in the atte t to create friction. German prisoners admit they were to | Bea Neh ha j S * * & & 7 Uncover Foe Hop Mystery to Gain on in Death New Fron . Frank McEachern’s Body preparing for a blow at the British line in Flanders i Found in Back Seat of Auto : ‘ , | | Haig in his official report described a heavy enemi * tbombardment on the 11-mile line between Armentieres am POLICE SAY IT'S SUICIDE) i Labassee canal. Police detectives and relatives The former place is only a mile south of the B of Frank McKachern, secretary. |frontier, and Labassee is five miles north of L — * bead 4A ber pin previous northern extremity of the German offensive OR geil bite it» ARMENTIERES IMPORTANT TOWN read Puvesaar, Wan cauvacks Armentieres, which lies about two miles behind this afternoon that he had com- | British line, is an important railway center but is initted -~ aro dnd the result of @ | closely associated with any of the important cities eee ae |to the south in the path of the German advance. nd f | : t pawaee bares Saar ths wound, A drive along the front now under bombardment in |this region would be entirely independent from the m enemy offensive, geographically, but might serve to fo + £ & en and other strange circumstances, | bave made a mystery of the af- net a go agro hatte | some unexpected allied pressure to the south. planation. The only other activity reported by Haig was The body was found in the rear/artillery fire on a seven-mile front astride the S | meat of the dead man's automobile, This was in the neighborhood of Villers-Bretonneux, miles south of the Somme at Corbie, and Mericourt L’ six miles southwest of Albert. It is along this front # | Hindenburg has been stri to split the British and F |which stood about 30 feet from the firm's offices, 416 Bell st, at 6:30 am | The dead man was 22 years of age, jmingle, and lived at 428 16th ave. N.| armies and reach Amiens, nine miles to the west. F [Ile failed t return home Monday / * Inight. A 32 revolver was | found on the f the car. ! f W. H. Brockmann, 9007 W. 70th a et, watchman fc t # [feet from the spot whe | was found, gave th |tion supporting | “I noticed the ce) TEUTONS’ LONG | TWO MILES IN DISTANCE GUN —_OISE DISTRIGI police murder theory. car drive up about }4 a. m.,” he sa Two men ap red in the rear of the ¢ | member they walked around back] PARIS, April 9—The.German| LONDON, April 9 ther lof the car, I didn't pay any partic: |iongrange gun which has been| French retirement south of ie 5 Jular attention r that, and I] nite S jto the depth of about two m l ede feet aay andnet vipat’ | | Sree eee. ae ae te cated | penorted in the night statement of | Carried Revotver jin Crepy-en-Laonnois, it was @2-! the Rerlin war office, “aq sllet hole in the rear of the car | Rounced here today. French artillery! The French now hold a line along the north bank of the Ailette river from a point near Anizy-Le-Chateas northwestward along the river to the pe ted out, indicated that |and aviators are bombarding it con might have fired the | gnuously The body had fallen to} te. The revolver, they 8aid.! Crenyen-Laonnois is a village of /Reighborhood of the confluence of {might have slipped out of his hand} 500 popu 5 miles northeast the Allette and Olse, near Manicamp, to the spot where they found it oe: Paris, ted just east of about six miles east of Noyon, The rned that the dead man ing from 4 It was | was suffe Germans claimed the capture of 2,008 prisoners in this region. the St. Gobain It is eight miles southeast of the eastern frin, nervous break: | torest down, He had obtained permission Ta Pere, five miles northwest of| In admitting this retirement, the to carry a revolver February 11, and | aor 2 miles due east of Chauny,| Paris war office declared the enemy, purchased a r er two days later. | and seven and a half =niles north and| Which was in greatly superior nume The Bachern com con’ | east of Anizy-le-Chateau, the nearest | bers, suffered heavy losses. structed piers and took pile-driving | yoint in the battle line from front, only artillery * or in| The village is noted as the piace |ine along the Oise between Noyom hern Co, | Where Charles V. and Francis I. con-| and Montdidier, was reported by the © ; | eluded peace in 1544 French, was very icine alias The Hritish statement reported nervous | Monday Daal terse a | hostile activities on different parts end fo oilpe regres BAD WEATHER of the front especially in the neigh agnneseslet ths ak borhood of Bucquoy. AUSTRIANS DEPLORE PRESIDENT’S SPEECH — | ZURICH, April 9—The Austrian 7 that Frank Un respondent ust Monda all Sunday Ss stlensly - ed Press € ¥ olte, Event Cee ee .q\ press deplores President Wii Rann WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES) faitimore speech, tho, under pha) IN PRANCE, April 9.—Bad weather | cumstances, it is declared to be “ite Jis ¢ ng Hindenburg, not only be , i |cause of the difficulty of transport, | ‘lligible.” according to Viena: aim | patches. there is some shelling around Ti but by increasing the hazards of a| "Tye cssential point, according te eports ee the newspapers, is Wilson's readi |, dicantime, the Germans are prac-| ness to conclude peace ticing sh and conducting bar-| TS" Pipe Sy pasate GOATRMA | An this is cablea| Sarde the speech aa “my | *| MOSCOW, April 9—Count Mir wood and Wes. er bach, the German ambassador, will told the offensive means immediate r | Fampourt ier wood and Wes - . peace use the French and Brit — | the rece aes peut a sates ee te sterraized and thelr govern-| PARIS, April 9.—Heavy mutual ee Mendy Heked” and that. awies 8F¢ |artillery fighting waa reported on a| - + “ al <I and that America’s | wide portion of the French front by knees are knocking 1 An slo-French causing a allied ammunition,” and th ment of Pi all a part of th terrific scheme to boost German spit its and depress the JACKIES FIGHT AS SHIP SINKS TON, April 9.—Torpe doed by an enemy U-boat February 25, the Santa Maria, manned by an American gun crew until the sea enveloped her forwa «uns, the navy department announc ed today John Weber, ch fought gam: swain'’s mate, U.S. N., who remained on board with the crew until the | guns were rendered useless, was com mended for bravery by Secretary Daniels, DIPLOMATS EXPLAIN VLADIVOSTOK LANDING MOSCOW, April &—The Japanese diplomatic mission has issued a state ment guaranteeing that the landing of 1 force! Vladivostok had purely @ local object, which will soon be fulfilled arm f boat: | Paris war office today | wth of Montdidier and between the "FOCH’S STRATEGY SEENIN. | weit ae Sna'"'ac FORCED MOVES BY GERMANS great mutual cannonading the re port said ® . stilts $$... ne Mong the left bank of the Oise BY J. W. T. MASON |the drive toward the great French | the artilie ry Nae ak she rmit tant (Written for the United Press) y center, This is a strategic thwest of the lower Coucy 7 | cocunuthwest. of the lower Goucy | scmw ‘YORK, Abell: #,--Von tin cormplishment of high rank | ane JPY 209 Phang snd age Biren ‘ : | The German operation: teau, according to orders, our troops | denburg’s slaughter of German man-| 4 iictte are about ripe! pen the withdrew to organized positions, in-| power to gain a slight addition of a Minteshiee tie pag flicting heavy casualties on the en-| territory in the Ailette river sector y turned his attention so far emy feels inse. Gen Jis additional evidence that he his position in that area to be cure against a major attack by Foch After being near to Amiens it is highly significant that the Germans should have suspended operations in that direction for the purpose of en gaging in a new attack back to the southern line of the old Hindenburg to the rear of Amiens An emergency of some sort hae not only arisen there but persists, ien. Foch may have engaged in suc cessful camouflage or he may have threatened a serious offensive to ward the central German supply station at La Fere, Since the latter has not developed is probable that Gen, Foch has BRITISH | lery showed wide front ear Haig reported “From the German artil activity day, Field Marshal April 9 a « ly t it La Bassee canal (seven miles north of Lens and 16 miles | line. created his diversion by means of @ ‘north of Arras), to @ point south of | ‘The kaiser has not consented for|feint. ‘The effect has been to com+ Armentieres (11 miles north of La) nothing to such a divergence of Ger-| pel Hindenburg to keep up his kill Bassee), the enemy's artillery showed | many’s offensive pow ing of Germans, but at a point along _ great activity this morning,” the Teutons’ Plans Distracted the front that has the least danger ~ statement said Gen, Foch unquestionably has suc for the allies. i “There was heavy hostile shelling | ceedel for the time being in distract-| Further small gains of territory by in the neighborhood of Villers-Bre-|ing Hindenburg's attention from) Hindenburg in the Aillette district” tonneux (nine miles east and south | Amiens |of Amiens) and Mericourt-L’Abbe 7" miles southwest of Albert).” He has done this at the can well be afforded by Gen, Foch point farthest away from Amiens | if the penalty of German casuatties — along the original starting line of ; is fully paid,