The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 16, 1918, Page 1

BULL’S-EYE FOR THE HUN ‘That's what Licut. Voltock, the “Fempey of the Alr Amerioan ¢ or, Was, Ho relates how he was the tar get for the enemy tn an article on page 9 today ot of the weries of thrilling narratives to appear in The Star the nee THE GRE. FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIO VOL UME 20 eSeattle Sta ATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF SE TTL E, W ASH., TU IESDAY, AP RIL 16, 1918, NIGHT EDITION Weather Forecast; Tonight and Wednesday, fair; light frost tonight; moderate southwest erly winds, IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST ANY PAPER ONE CENT PRIC ZE Bevery in a OE MOVES UP! ‘With Faith in 1 Him, Hold Fast! rap a Ae RRR ARR The other evening, one of the most influential lawyers and church lay- men in Seattle said this: _ “have almost reached the point where I’m ready to surrender my re- ligion. I can’t go much further and believe in the justice of a God who permits this bloody war business to continue. How can I explain or de- tend the motive of a God who permits the Germans to invent a gun that HE Hu Isn't that dar oversubscribing so that thor the with our means tk shoots 70 miles and kills women and children worshiping Him in a. ” church? Hold fast, friend lawyer and churchman! There comes a time in the affairs of men when all that is material is d, hopeless material, and the thought, heart and soul of man can turn, to the spiritual alone. Hope in his own efforts may be gasping its last breath. there is always left Faith. Twenty centuries ago the world was ruled by the few. The masses were dogs, or worse; their lives, their very thoughts, so fixed by the world;pow- er that they should not, could not, rise above the level of brutes. Hope? These millions had none. Charity? These millions knew it not. Faith came! In our times, we have what we call a high order of civilization, the product of Christianity. How did it come about, and what is it? Did it come about because men, after Calvary, erected big buildings, But to organized autocracies of financial or political power, made great discov-, eries and inventions in the material world, developed or improved any of the sources or means of material power, maintaining the doctrine that might is right, in any respect? No! It came about because men died for liberty’s sake, and hence for their ers, as they're doing today. It came about because martyrs stood torture and death to prove that ‘right is might, as men are bleeding and dying for it on the fields of France this day. ad Materially considered, our status shows remarkable progression. But is it enough that men are better housed, better fed and clothed than in olden | times? Is our administration of justice impartial? Have we autocracies of wealth or social prestige? Are we all brothers? Are we all born equal, or some of us born by “divine right” to something? Has our civilization rifting toward brutal autocracy? r not the answer to these questions lie in the fact that, after 20 cen- turies of civilizing, it takes all the blood and treasure of Great Britain, great _ America, great France and great Italy to hold back from world-domina- tid a nation that boldly proclaims the brutal doctrine that might is right, and that God is with them to establish it? : But Jet us remember that each step toward the brotherhood of man is thru suffering, blood and sacrifice. Amiens may fall. The British army may be beaten back home. The ench may be eliminated, Italy crushed and all the little nations strug- igling for freedom be bound. But America must hold fast to Faith. Her ‘soul is for human liberty. Into her records she has engraved “In God We Trust.” Inthe darkest hour of civilization’s rejuvenation, believe, she must believe! The right, liberty, fellow-love are God’s own. His will or understand His methods, but she must hold fast to her Faith. Our lawyer churchman is almost no longer able to explain the motive of a God who permits the Germans a 70-mile gun. Puta tiny mustard seed into the ground, and it will become a tall shrub, bearing seed ten thousand fold. Let the wisest amongst us explain that. “He doeth all things well.” This is the beginning, the continuance, i was she andthe end. But most of us don’t fully grasp it when a great trial or loss) « impends. BAKER RETURNS ‘ROM JOURNEY TO U. S. FRONT | WASHINGTON, April 16.—Secre- tary of War Baker returned to this country from his inspection tour in France, landing this morning at an Atlantic port. Baker notified officials here by tel ephone of his safe return. He plans to return soon to Washington “1 have a feeling of pride and con fidence In the Americ: it« achievernents in tary of War Baker said here, today on his arrival from Europe. | z Mr. Whitcomb Might Answer 4 9, This; We Can’t Editor The Star Will you kindly publish an answer to this letter? I am working in ¥ hip y ard and trying to do my day 1 ordere The price, he I ordered a \ 20 days ago 2 sure can not b “ I am only five blocks from the Western mill on Westlake. TOTAL OF 3,559 WASHINGTON, April 16 casualties among the American expe en abroad to date an follows 246 15 189 Died of ¢ . 891 Lost at sea 2 Died of wound 79 Gas unknown To ab wood and our ¢ attacks, suicides, causes 45 troops in France were very © get into the fighting THE’ PLACE FOR THE HUN IS NOT IN THE SUN; THE LIMERICKS istred HERE MAKE IT QUITE CLEAR; READ THEM AND JOIN IN THE FUN “Star Shells” on | That he was »” with the devil For the best BE. A. SHANKLIN by Tuesday “Star Shell City Division, Postoffice . pay $5. . There's a place for Bill, the | and those in Kaiser, according to the lim- a is written to “Star Shells” © editor by readers of The Star. But it is not in the sun. It's | somewhere else. Across the | river Styx, as poets might put it. And Hin, the Hun! Unless our limerick writers are all wrong, he'll get his aplenty when the Yanks get into the fray in full That the kaiser and God swing before long. | In cahoots wield the rod, The laugh is on the katser. | Is hard to believe, on the level; He may not know it yet. But | Aitho, by the way, will, Kead these limericks, The Beigians say . | The limerick \skepticiam of |Thanks for the | Liege. editor shares the Bg A Shanklin pronunciation of « | My son says, “Why not write a son net Put a sonnet to Willy Would sound rather silly Va much rather shoot him, gone it. dog: 1. CHISHOLM, Fall City. But} MUST | ta America may not know }}?"" | AMERICANS LOSE |": MEN IN FRANCE * be Total | 51 If you've got such a bee In your bon: | '**No Need of Gloom,’’ Says Tank Inventor Who Is Now i in Seattls man, “The situation on the West front is | serious. No doubt of that. We can't | smile about it. But there is no need of gloom. The British have been thru worse fights before and held | 1 am confident that their line will not break now.” Maj. Gen. BE. British army D, Swinton of the the man who con ceived and built the famous Hritish | tanks, made the above interpretation of the western battle situation at the New Washington today Thin historic soldier in in Seattle to speak for the Third Liberty Loan @t A great Open mans meeting at Ma- sonic Temple, Harvard ave. and Pine wt, Tuesday night In have no predict eral Swniton brusquely, “Any individual prediction would be nlosh, even if I had been authorized to make one "Germany is making a determined effort to break thru the line before America can throw her full strength to France. Pays With Dead “She has pushed the allies back, it is true. The papers every day teil how much territory has been lost to the Hun, but they don't tell how many gray clad bodies cover that ground. Germany is paying for ev ery inch of ground she gains with the lives of countless men Regarding his ow hievement, the Hritish war tank, General Swir ton had little to say, Designed to hose out and destroy machine gun heats, the world knows that it has been particularly effective. “The idea came to me when I heard of a «mall caterpillar tractor in Antwerp which would climb up hills,” the inventor said Doesn't Keall: “Before 1 le nd we heard rumors of the de ent of a Ger man tank, but I really don’t know whether or not it was perfected. I have been in America since January and know little of what is going on except what I see in your dally pa The Germans have been util light artillery in combating our case the line Know pers When what he is valu If the © grows irri He's Playing Safe ‘Certainly I'll not tell you.” he A reporter from The Star today what he evidently con rticularly mbertinent er sw you before Y y be a ro-Gertaan, I don't and I don't think ne © money ry on the war within a few © British office You have no realization uld you know of its actual horrors Seattl will Give Then cam: | or the them without very cent that can give and more besides. That time will come.” “NOTHING BUT TRUTH” FOR STAR NEWSBOYS) Nothing But the Star carriers on V Max Figman and Ms Hood, of the Metrop ‘have asked The St for The n theatre, urriers to be 7 | their Z wa merch » to the theatre in a spared to laugh, as guosts of fun-maker ‘There once was a wicked old Hun “a place in the sun.” | It would have beon wiser ie ho made war for To first Kill the kaiser, |And finished before we'd begun. SARA G, BOWMAN, 1006 Taft St, Port Townsend. see The German crown prince, so they if-baked head made of clay Like some other guys, Who think they are wise. r believes. | «| ed here ,| Aw United States troops are opposed. | Bailleul! h te impress you and the need Liberty Loan ont may have » victory? taken Captures Bailleul, Objective Railway Town in Flanders BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Untted Press Correspondent WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN FRANCE, April 16. —The Germans are in Bailleul. Von Stettin’s fresh troops attacked from the south, while Von Carlowitz hurled storm troops : |ward past the city, on the east, simultaneously assaulting Le Ray |vetsberg heights, which are the southernmost part of proturber> at ere rising out of the otherwise pancake-like lowlands of \ders. Several divisions swept against Bailleul itself. |was taken during the night. With it fell Le Ravetsberg ridge, t ltween Bailleul and Neuve Eglise. i] (The capture of Bailleul, first important ob of the enemy in the Flanders drive, opens the Hazebrouck, most important railway center in Fla land threatens the British lines at Messines ridge, Yeu jand at other vital points.) ‘| North of Merville the enemy attempted 65am {| British positions on the eastern edge Pry Eng for AAARARAAY OA oa), Haig’s Report “We have falien back north of Bailleul and Wulverghem,” Haig said in his statement to day. “Bailleul is in the ene my's hands.” Fresh German attacks in the neighborhood of Wytachacte (four miles south of Ypres) and southwest of Vieux-Berquin four miles southwest of Bail leul and the same distance duc north of Merville) were re. pulsed this morning, Haig said A number of German prisoners were taken in a minor opera- tion last night southeast of forest. The attacking forces on { caught under British shell fire and failed to ‘On the northhern flank they developed the att \ fiercely, but were smashed before they reached {| objectives and were thrown back on Bailleul. HINDENBURG RUSHES Ae a Rushing up reinforcements, Hindenburg |ing heavily from near Merville to Neuv: © Elise, This takes in the entire right gg of |drive. From Merville to Neuve Eglise is 11 miles in lair line. But the front covers nearer 17 miles and | Merville, Vieux-Berquin, Merris, Meteren, ‘Neuve Eglise. | A heavy trench mortar bombardment preceded \eapture of Bailleul. The attacking forces included a G man Alpine corps, the 117th, and ti the 11th divisions. At least three divisions followed up the German ! between Bailleul and Neuve Eglise, before which the Britis ‘ines were bent, but not broken. The fighting began early in the night, which was jeter! blackness. On the Somme battle front, Von Der Marwitz’s artil SUNK IN FIGHT \is speeding up, showing the German Second army is ling with guns. There is considerable shelling of vil WITH BRITISH the British front. "BATTLE ANALYSIS Hindenburg has won his most important victory in the Flan- ders drive thru the capture of Bailleul and Abandonment of Wulverghem. As he drove his wedge west- ward between the Ypres-Com- ines and La Bassee canals, Bal- Jen! became the key to Messines: ridge and the Ypres salient on LIBERTY LOAN NEAR BILLION | {ye yore “84° Hasebrouek on |edgee of the ridge, while he WASHINGTON, April 16—Liber-| Raineul is located midway between ty Loan subseri are passing | Arnentieres and Hagebrouck, on a| puileul against the western edge the first billion ars toray sharp bend in the railway between — ures from 11 of the 12 federal] those two cities. It is seven and a tets showed a total of half miles east of Hazebrouck and of bust aout eight miles southwest of Ypres. Robecq fa mile and « half south of St. Venant). | bitter struggle in carrying the high ground southeast and east of Bailleul known as Mont De Lille and Le Ravetsburg.” { } LONDON, April 16.—Ten Ger- man trawlers were sunk by British warships in the Cattegat yesterday, the British admiralty announced today. “The Cattegat was swept Monday,” the statement 1. “Ten German trawlers were sunk gun fire Their crews wer by British ships. There were no British cas ualties.” i} |there from the rear. The abandonment of Wul | which is four and a half miles slight lly north of Bailleul, on the Douve jriver, gives Hindenburg a hold |the southern foothills of the |The tenability of this position ts questionable. | But from = Wulverghem | Wytschaete he can keep the occupied on the southern and Maj. Gen. FE. D. Swinton, of the British army, who conceived and worked out the famous British tanks | that revol mized west front tac ties. He's here to speak for the Third Liberty Loan at an open mass meeting at the Masonic temple, Har. vard ave. and Pine st, at 8 p. m Tuesday | | FIRE DESTROYS GERMAN AIRPLANE EQUIPMENT .... PARIS, April 16.—The $80 }ioswen in the fire whic neas yesterday No official reports have been re loeived yet from the big Minneapolis district, where the campaign opened | Ypres in Danger In the event that Messines alk should fall, only a miracle of British srit would save Ypres, which never s has been in German hands. : Messines Key Ridge The fall of Bailleul also opens the asines ridge, which is the | westernward road to Hazebrouck, penal nest defensive position in all the most important railway and . runs westward from the highway center in Flanders. The { Messines, past Wulver- Germans already have | reached nts, It was announce: | 7 ERNIN GIVEN : » Kemmel, a distance of three | Meteren, Merris and Vieux-Berquiny th It is yout a le and half | three ARMY COMMAND |= 3's avout « mile and a hait| three ‘towns on a northandsoutht : : on its eastern face runs line, a mile and a half apart. Vieux- ” COPENHAGEN, April 16.—Count Berquin is only four miles east of Czernin, who resigne Austrian This ridge is practically impreg-| Hazebrouck. Meteren is a mile and foreign minister, has received com: | nadie from the east, and only slight STATE LEADS COUNTRY gn mininter, has received. com nthe aut and a GuArtet dos, went cf SET mand of a strian bi lly less difficult from the south or In additi to the fall of Baille IN MARINE RECRUITING] ttecs treat, it was learned bere to-|Y, tere (ftlouls: Sreet the south, oe) ta) eaten: eae Washington state proportionately | 44y- | objectives in Fi ers has been to ghem, Haig reported fighting in the }ied the country during the first year | : | work around to t est of this ridge neighborhood of Wytschaete and n furnint |WAR PRISONERS | ARRIVE IN U. S. : up to the close | planes r | America One persone © kille | northward to Wytschaete and assault the British ‘Boaitions thwest of ‘Views Barina: | TODAY'S WAR MAP ON PAGE 7 | marine ment da nished 1 state of ulation, MAYOR HANSON WINS FIGHT FOR STEAM TRAIN TO THE SHIPYARDS late to ‘k every day. We will soon have a conference and demand service from the company and we will get service or put service on. | Ourselves in some form or other. “The 350,000 residents of Seattle mist not be forced to remain at home because of rotten street car service. Of course we will at once construct the elevated road, Work will start directly but that only ecoy- ers a small area of the city, We portation and need it bad+ y day makes it worse; the furnished o m the crew of | 58, which was sunk The pris the subr by an A can destroyer oners are to be interned ‘Their exact number was not given out but it is believed there are about 20. WOMAN womar injured dment | HUN GUN KIL nt imed today Street car service in it be improved at ¢ war needs, Mayor I | jared Tuesday, when the steam train service to the shipyards which he has attained, is only one step toward the ultimate relief that must be applied here. | Word reached the mayor from | | Washington that the steam train | | service from Madison st. to the ship- | yards,*to accommodate 6,000 me | had been authorized by Director Me: | ly | Adoo. | increases daily. Some “We are much pleased at the out | concer ed plan must be adopted and ‘ come of the fight for steam railroad | the citizens served by the present [ am sure this suggestion’s not | service, but it is well to remember | company, or else we ‘will be coms wrong, that this transportation only became | pelled to do something else to get That as Hindenburg sings his swan necessary when our present street | service,” car transportation broke down,” First word that steam trains had | Hanson said today, “Every car line| been ordered came in telegrams to lin the elity is in a bad way, Thou-| Capt, Blaine, local representative sands are compelled to wait and wait/ the shipping board, and to Senator Wesley and wait for a car, Thousands are| Hanson from | He's a deuce, not even a trey Who had the instincts of a gorilla. MISS MABEL JOHNSON Bellevue, Wash The kaiser is w MISS Apt 1628 Bel . 106, | A fanatical Hun once supposed | He could lick the whole world if he ed to do it oms to rue it, He s | But now wong, He should ask his best friend To be sure and send A suit of asbestos along | J. P. TODD, 4 Colman Dock. AJAX A, TODD, U. 8. A Fort Lawton. | | where once was a Hun called Attila,