The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 17, 1918, Page 1

—of uffs oma or? | ». CITY OF VLADIVOSTOK it ts one of great strategion!, potitionl and military tm. portance. It is a elty in which Seattle is vitally inter exte It ie thru Viadivostok that Seattle has b ' ) A Ereat Siberian and Russian trade. You w y interested in the on Vladivostok en IME 20 BREA BEARD Wine serve VOLL Me 20 Uhiteb PRESS TATIONS NoRoom in City for Child of Soldier, Declares Mother “No Children Allowed” Is Hurled at! Mother by Seattle’s “Rent Hogs,” She Charges i in Letter “Is there to be no room for an American woman in her own country with her own boy?” A Seattle mother asks this question in a letter to the editor of The Star. Her boy is six years old. His father is now at the front, fighting for the Stars and Stripes. Yet— When, in her struggles and her sacrifices, she seeks telief from the higher and higher rents demanded of her by her present landlord, she is confronted by others in Seattle with a blunt “No Children Allowed.” Her letter follows: “I am writing to you on a subject | ————-— that to me is of great importance at | Ge eritical time. Net enly doce it | ua,{hm | thought & ridiculcus. Tel- me, but also many others in my position who are left to battle and furt! marked, ‘Where will you go? Every. | thing is filled up, and no one will rent to a woman with a child.’ | “Neither my youngster or I are at home all day. I am s quiet woman, and try to take the best of care of working woman, I am ty my apartment. My youngster ts In — the | bed every night at 7 o'clock and is *, | Bon-destructive. eS ereemn coterniehes | “Il have vie apd my landlord has notified me thai {oars bet neta bt Bt papering: hes & Apel 1 my rent will be $23/ 1 have each meath—an advance of $5. land also ¢: “It ls wow nearing summer. No something heat, and yet, now that my rent ls means. When raised, I mo longer seem to cet hot wish t water, The gas company has also they alam the d in sent me an additional bill of 82 cents over 1 go say, ‘NO CHILDREN Se add Gates gute oo pr edly oeegerd “Now, this is a serious propost- Teint rate ot 00 conte wi bo re tion, ‘and what am T 10 do They quired each month. oe to explain that my ol are not at home all “The landlord stated that I would | 7) TO iting. a My seabed to. the landlord that 1 4°%- Think how that ts goi could not afford to pay 325 4 month me, with $25 rent per, Sie pans “§ age in addition to living and pay- ing one to keep my baby dur- ing the a day. “Yet I am expected to buy Liberty | bends and war savings stamps. Placards are being placed around | ' town—'Invest in W. S. 5S.’ ete, and) make the world fit to live in. | “Let's start at make ’ HALF STARVED, MINATTO GIVE (HAIG TIGHTENS { EXPECT BRITISH TOLAUNCH VAST) The Seattle Sta THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST RATTLE WASH., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1918, “We Have Fallen Back?” “We have fallen back. Bailleul is in the hands of the enemy.”--Marshal Haig. That is the fateful message from the battle front. “We have fallen back.” The Huns sweep on—but stopped they shall be if we give our generals at the front enough reserves. Have you quali- fied as a reserve? Are you helping to brace that army of ours, battling on the “frontiers of civilization”? Or have you, here at home, surrounded with safety and comfort, fallen back, too? Your conscience will tell you. If you have not bought Liberty Bonds to your limit; if you have not sacrificed hand. The British position here is . li ° b h “& continuation of the British eationt/ to increase your limit to buy---you have (+ 2y~.."%,05 “er Sz he Ypres mlient runs eastward “fallen back, too!” {The Kaiser's | e Kaise "amen COUNTER PUSH | YANKEES WIPE | OUT ENEMY’S GUN POSITIONS ‘aris I swore I would! ADVANTAGE IS WITH BRITISH Thru Death Traps to Reach Objective ALLIES MAY KICK BACK BY J. W. T. MASON Written for the United Press NEW YORK, April 17.—The British are recovering the initi ative in the struggle for the hills south of Ypres. The recapture of Meteren by Marshal Haig indicates that Von Hindenburg’s plans are being seriously disarranged. Instead of proceeding with his operations against Ypres from the south, Hi burg has shifted his at tacks to the east, where there wUll more death traps for bie | in the bills. The slight retirement in this area by the British suggests simply a tact rearrangement which should present new difficul for the Germana. Danger in Salient Hindenburg’s continued efforts to penetrate thru the Ypres highlands from any direction at #0 heavy a} cost in canualties, has now become | | meanure of nelfdefense to protect » highly dangerous German salien' hin walient in the weakest link| In the new German front. Hinden burg is compelled to risk holding! fast to it, because it represents the nearest approach of the important German line to the British railway junction at Hazebrouck. The capture of Hazebrouck is Hindenburg’s im. mediate objective as the most neces sary preliminary step in his effort to reach the channel port. In his latest efforts to reach Hane Brouck, however, Hindenburg has come perilourly near overplaying hin into the German line in‘the upper half of the “S” and the Nieppe forest malient extends westward into the; British line in the lower half of the! If the British hold fast to Ypres, the German front cannot be straight AROUND YPRES, | Hindenburg Must Send re | \the Virgin, holding the figure of the Infant Jesus, fell, p NIGHT EDITION light fro ‘Tonight fair $ ariable Weather Forecast: Thursday fair ar rmer, gentle PRIC "y NE CENT a REGAINS TOWN AND HOLDS HUNS ~TOASTANDSTH BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS United Press Correspondent | WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES /FRANGE, April 17.— Von Armin and Vor Quast, continuing their drive toward Hai brouck, are suffering heavy losses. Apparently the only enemy gains in the be hours have been at Wytschaete, which was occup during a blinding mist at dusk last night. British troops are reported advancing against Wyt chaete, which probably will be retaken. CRUSH HUN CHARGE U.. South of Ypres an attempted enemy advance was down at short range. In retreating, both enemy flanks (caught by the full force of the British artillery and m | guns. I watched the b ee, From an elevation near Bailleul, | swirl thruout the afternoon. The area to the west was constantly pounded by velocity and gas shells, while vapors drifted across the vated fields. DEAD COVER FIELDS Northeast of Bailleul, near Branoutre, Von divisions attacked heavily at 3 o’clock in the the British guns tearing great holes in their ranks. By ight.” fal! 3ritish line seemed intact, while the sprouting fields ~ werk k with dead. I famous Virgin leaning from the church tower Albert has been destroyed. The figure has been ov ing the street since 1914, when the city was shelled ‘by ti Germans. There was a ‘widespread superstition that ernoon would be declared. ened. Any time Gen. Foch concludes} the situation is critical, he can strike| the German Nieppe salient with his! reserves and doubtless bend it back. | But to do this now, while Hinden burg is so ferociously slaying his jown men, is probably not Gen./ Foch’s plan. Hindenburg must be given all possible freedom first for| Seattle fi | R cactiee ial the aioe “am ing | BY CARL D. GROAT I'm now overdue, and with hunger I} WITH THE AMERICAN ARMIES| self-deatruction to do my share, but under these aw.| WASHIN April The pine IN FRANCE, April 16.—Two Amer a | | Britiah fon nders a be or limburger and saver u can patrols crossed io A t Seuiehig: “‘Sepliieeted tate potice| Sircumatances I can do nothing | ne tish for Flanders wat F m er wer a ea jean p roused No Man's Land} | BOLSHEVIKI FIRE ch of office 7 EN” see we . oe ie northwest of Toul this morning and -> ep nega ery aeoeedy who, *T?? sud tigh rents, Doce the ooun-| As exper's looked over the arittcal thall I Gine without wine:or wOhline | 4 ut German fi bi pad ra | UPON CHINESE IN ‘ . 4 try want to kill out the white race? | situation fac aig hey without dine poy elie nie aeein ceigch dpe and Killed Albert Solew ira s,| That is about what it will amount to, | forecast that the « re yield Ac ntackant, — |Mtene. They found the enemy gone. | MT ANCHURIA CITY | dure himecit up Wednesday morning | {26 1 €an see very plainly that 40) ing Yores und the little rurip of Rel p04 Mihito ‘Court, , |a.tus ane wapanee thal weroes te tok BY RALPH H, TURNER ~ the newly wed those signs are dis #ium they still hole launch s . 7 wurees 00. TOKIO, April 11. — (Delayed.) After wandering, cold and hungry, | |, d . er attack | them out for another whack at the ye Couraging. lesperate counter atta | Bolshevik leaders on the Manchurian. da halt i ed, means onem: sh thea the woods for a week and a halt | Re ree TO BE NO ROOM | such & drive, It is declared, means GREEK FORCES OY ner oa “a een eet a penned following t ry ae ng, inatto final |FOR AN AMERICAN WOMAN tuation had passed beyond the MAKE DV NCE om bas “i me * gasp and cold and| "tim to Chinese authorities de | ly decided to give up 2| HER OWN COUNTRY WITH HER where further efforts could be A A A bepress | manding the delivery of the Cossack | his mother’s home in Georgetown | own AMERICAN BOY? ” Yy. ea 14 | wt ly elding groun an vere Wednesday. at a hearty meal, told) This is a serious proposition, Me.|siowly yielding eround and merci ossoq ghe struma river above RAJECZ GIVEN er good-bye, a = Editor, and I trast that you will give | es*!y slaughtering the invader Lochtahtno this morning and occu-| ry «ar for police ogg squaa| it Your worthy consideration and at Foch Is Waiting * <P ES ig CZERNIN’S JOB See ate ith a Star re-|fention, that it may help others.| rat no qreat « attack has | ed Pee eee eee tee AMSTERDAM, April 17.—Raron cv lliggaalates cx | Let's not have Seattle » childless | red to 4 Gen, Foch|Kisheki, Ada and villages to the! gephen Burian Von Rajecz, former Porter. ot to be arrested," he eaid.|tit¥—and let's not have the ‘Rent | iraicaten, it is bell sre, that the| northward, according to an offictal| Austro-Hungarian foreign tiniater, whee ta T find the chief ot| Hoss’ (the proGermans) eat up our) gituation has not yet reached the| report from British headquarters at/ hax been appointed suc r to sei has na th |salaries, preventing us from doing | Srererate stage, When the peril in| Saloniki today. The British occu-|Count Czernin, who resigned trom | der Police All Want Him | our bit and helping our dear boys) vamitted by Foch, the world will) pled Kumli and Ormanli | that office following the recent ex. | 6s kee os Gewese, | god — i , g.{8ee in Flanders another such stand | posure of Emperor Karl's letter to | forces near Vladivostok, A a an American, and 9 red-ing was made by Joffre at the | Prince Sixtus, it was reported here Luis! walked into the arms, Of | blooded one, and am doing the best | Sfurne. The order will be to “go for | THOUSANDS DIE today from Vienna. : Lieut. J. F. Mason, who recognized| that 1 ean for our boys, but under | seta or nie” | AT HEL SINGFORS | Sergt. Smith, G. B. Holmes | the circumstances I cannot give as a | P. McNarme and —< Pr y much as I would love to. I expect ITTLE CHILD HURT | WASHINGTON, April 17.—Thou- PREMIER QUITS Ray Newton, who all clamore | that in the near futere my rent will L nds of casualties occurred in the AUSTRIAN POST & honor of arresting him. In capture of Helsingfors, April "| be raised again Elex Schuman, 6, was serious! to defeat German stra LONDON, April 17.—Greek forces Jof his force, according to a dispatch | leader Seminoff and the disarming | \to the Kokusai, received from Peking | today When the Chinese refused to turn| Seminoff over to the Bolshiviki, says | the dispatch, they bombarded a rail- | | way station on the Manchurian bor-| The shells, Bolsheviki | short. centrating | The GERMAN PLANE BROUGHT DOWN IN PARIS REGION PARIS, April 17.—A German bat tle plane has been brought down t body, grinning from ear to ear, they! eprusting this will help to bring | jured when run down by ar fter th days’ storming,| ZURICH, April 17.—Austrian Pre. | tw Creve Coeur and Le Gran escorted Luigi to Capt. of Detectives) results, 1 beg to remain, yours for | pile driven by FR. Finney ng to h reports to the|mier Von Seydler has resigned, ac-| Bretuil (about 50 miles northwest of Charlies Tennant’s y soeen. Wh + | libert: justice and democracy, jave * in front of the human | ata ate department. White Guard pri bsg to reports received here to- | Paris), it was officially announced Where have you been? | 4 ome, 122 20th ave., Wednesday oners were released. * today ave you been doing?’ ya iP ewan AN AMERICAN MOTHER. * hom t pt. Tennant Minatto spread out his hands and| maid: “I walked in the woods and ate dandelions. I ate stale bread. 1/ Kot plenty sick and tired of it, so here I am.” “Why did you give yourself up? .| GERMAN WHO FELLED OVER 30 ALLIED PLANES COMES EX-SCHOOL TEACHER CAPTURES HUN ACE S TO GRIEF AT HANDS OF MASSACHUSETTS MAN ON RETURN FROM PARIS) en, but it is badly injured, and one leg was broken. He had to be car ried in Big Prize Admits Identity Up to this minute, nobody had the slightest idea who the captives were. When they were questioned at head uarters, however, it was discovered |Meteren, Field Marshal Haig announced today. jconsiderably this morning. asked Tennant A comparative novice captur. Veterinary corps, who has been in | He saw Wolff's plane coming down] him, and ordered a sergeant and two “Hungry ato. ing an experienced enemy avi- | specting Yankee horses rapidly, From the forward end little} men who came up to roll him in dirt Minat - no traces| ator! | It was the night of the bombing | flames were spouting, and it was evi-| and put out the fire ot Sheriff String bloodhounds,| ‘This is the feat accomplished |raid on Paris. Wolff, in his four-|dent that the machine had been hit! The veterinary officer, in the| and that he would have been glad if} by an exschool teacher from | seater biplane whose prope d was coming down out of control.| meantime, had seen another man they had discovered. him. He ex | Massachusetts, on the battle blades were painted with his nam Sven as he watched, the machine|running away, and followed him. plained that he was so hungry that! fields of France, The story is | had gone in the raid with Lieutenant | pitched to earth, bounced lightly two! He, too, fired once or twice, but | he would have eaten them, related in “The Stars and |Kaemmerer and Sergeant-Major | or three times, stuck its wheels into| didn’t hit his man, He finally came | ¢ Minatto shot Soles thru the head Stripes,” the newspaper publish. | Flacher If there was a fourth man|a shell hole and flipped over, burst-|on him in a trench, finding him by \9 When under the influence of liquor| ed by Gen. Pershing’s men “over jin the plane, he escaped. There is /ing into flame at the ne moment.|the light of the plane, which was/ fm Holex’ home, where they were en-| there.” |a story, which could not be verified,| Hunt in Burning Plane's Light | now burning fiercely. The lieuten foying a midnight party. THREE AVIATORS DIE 4 ON TRAINING FIELD ¥ houston ‘Tex., April 17.—Second Lieut. Roland J. Winterton, South Boston, Mass; Cadet Forest Dean hes, Worcester, Mass., and Second ut. Leo J. Nugent, Washburn, Ia. were killed and Cadet Maurice wa two aeroplane eriously injured in rashes at Ellington field here, late yesterday Winterton and Jones were doing famera gun work when their plane went into @ tail spin and crashed to the ground, Nugent and Maurice, fiying together, fell about 200 feet in the second accident. and that | neh ‘The account of this thrilling experience follows in full: “It must be tough,” remarked Abe | | that there was such a man he was caught by the Fr Well on Way Home One man was flung into the air in| In less tha minute, ‘ore the captain could gather | | Martin’ once, in his #o-many-a-week his wits to run over t paragraphs, “to be v's wite| Anyway, Wolff loaded his aero-| that lay between him and the burn-| ‘The aviator submitted to capture | and never know whether to get sup-| plane with bombs, and joined his|ing machin second man crawled | gracefully, and the lieutenant, turn per ready or not.” But Abe,Martin aquadrilie. In the long flight of | out of it, all afire, and ran for shelter jing him over to the ser . went never fathomed the depths of the/night hawks hoe held his place, |in the direction of an oldw communi |rooking for the third mi which we| reached the French capital, and by | cating trench poxsible poignancy of fate | hold is to-be an aviator, to win hon-|11 clock was over Soiasons, almost ant covered his man, and as he went | over him for weapc iron cross with 500 yards | was decor ‘The captain ran back into his bar-| crashed took off the the aviator which The man was lying fully 60 that a prize had been taken. | |Captain Wolff readily admitted his |dentity; Lieutenant Kaemmerer did not hesitate to give his name, and | the poor sergeant major was in no condition to make up a story In peace time, ptain Massachusetts, corps offi Indiana he making of citizens in-| to soldiers brought about one of the the Supply company was a school or and renown by bringing to earth | at the line, on his ‘way home |rack, grabbed his gun, and shouted | feet from the machine, and as the | Steatest banalities that has so far 20 enemy planes J then to be The Supply company captain was|for the leutenant of the Veterinary | Americans came on him was writh. | been presented in the great war, and captured by a school teacher and a ving to in his barrack. In| corps and another lieutenant to come | ing on the ground, and working with | knocked a good deal of the romance | veterinary surgeon y tucked his along. They raced over to t his hands behind him They | out of air-pirating. That is what hi ned to Wolff, |ly automatic under his pillow, where | 1 4 followed first the man| thought he was trying to pull a pis-| Captain Wolff is one of the best the famous Germ ace a week | it couldn't go off in the night and | who clothes were afire The cap-| tol, but as it turned out, the poor | known and most skillful of the boche ago Monday night. He was brought|#hoot him. He heard the roar of a|tain got to him first, stopping him | beggar was suffering agonies from |air fighters. He has a long record | lin prisoner by the captain command. | propeller #0 loud that he knew a|by a couple of shots which landed | his fall jof air fights, and has brought more | th| plane must be very near the ground, | near bis feet. The man tumbled into] It has not yet been determined | than 20 allied planes to the ground, ! ling the Supply company of the | J Infantry, and @ lieutenant of the|and rushed out. a ditch, and the ei ag [Pith Man odate 4s captain covered | whether his back was actually brok- But that is all over now, British Recapture Meteren in Counte LONDON, April 17.—“East of Ypres, in consequence the enemy progress along the Lys, British troops holdin ‘forward positions were withdrawn to a new line, deliber and without interference from the enemy,” Field Haig reported today. we LONDON, April 17.—British troops have recaptul : “In the neighborhood of Wytschaete, yesterday e ing, we successfully counter attacked,” Haig reported. the Meteren, the situation also was restored. The v is ou (Wytschaete, on the northeastern slopes of the fan Messines ridge, was entered by the enemy yesterday. vious to the British counter attack, the Germans had g a footing in Meteren, a mile west of Bailleul.) : “The enemy endeavored to develop an attack east of, |Robecq yesterday after a bombardment, but the advance _ was broken up. “Advancing enemy parties were caught under our fi jeast of Ypres yesterday afternoon at our old positions a were, destroyed. “South of the Somme hostile artillery fire ine: South of Arras, opposite Boyelles (seven miles south), our line was completel restored.” Battle Analysis against Ypres itself appeared to be devel- The German thrust oping today The capture of Bailleul and Wytschaete and occupation of a portion of the famous Messines ridge has partially exposed Ypres from the south. Haig last night reported fighting along this en- tire front, from Wytschaete to Meteren, eight miles to the west and south From this front the fighting east of Ypres, extending north for the first time since the G April 9. The British commander said tivity in the Passohandaele sector. This is the sector generally has spread to the east and north- dof the Ypres-Comines canal, n drive started in Flanders there was increased artillery ac known as the “Ypres salient.” Passchendaele is six miles northeast of Ypres. Included in this salient are such historic places as Zillebeke, Hooge, “onnebeke, Bixschoot, Julien and the Menin road, The northern end of the | salient swings around the western edge of Douthulst forest. BRITONS TIGHTENING DEFENSE In consequence of the enemy pressure in the center, along the Lys, British troops have been forced to retire from advanced posi- tions on the northern flank east of Ypres, Haig reports, This indicates the first tightening of British lines for tne defense of Ypres, Ypres has always withstood the Germans, and has been the center of some of the bloodiest fighting of the war. It is regarded as doubtful that the enemy will attempt to take it by a frontal as- sault ‘The cannonading reported in this sector may presage an attack which will be in the nature of a demonstration to prevent their reinforcements being sent from this part of the front southward to the front between Wytschaete and Meteren,