The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 18, 1918, Page 1

roo Se ET, OUR PACKER PATRIOTS packers trie 1 to pack Herbert Hoover's office. \ but th President Wil n't fa for their game ® ehting for the people. Read about it on page = Tee Rei a THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF SYOLUME 20 GXiteb" Prem MASKOCINON! SEATTLE, WASH., to und BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS United Press Correspondent WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES NEAR April 17 (night).—The fight now progressing is the most spectacular of the war. From a hill top near Bailleul it can be observed in pantomime as tho from a balcony seat. Miles upon mile’, from around the Passchendaele Salient, from which the British are voluntarily withdrawing, to the far southwestward of Bailleul, are visible to the naked eye. With field glasses infantry can be plainly seen on the move. The battles of Cambrai, Verdun and Messines were all in a hill country, affording the scantiest glimpes. But from elevations around Bailleul, the war's most dramatic pan orama stretches out with scarcely a tree clump obscuring the view. Cows, Dazed by Uproar, Stare in Astonishment | BS Across fertile miles of farms, men are visible going into action. Shells burst in pasture lands. Abandoned cows cease grazing and stare in mild astonishment at the strange The sky is filled with black and white cloud puffs and with low-flying airplanes in contact with infantry, Groping signal rockets to point out targets to the artillery. e rattle of machine guns and the bass thunder of heavy artillery, mingled with the ear-splitting, volleying bangs of guns, a worthy orchestra to the greatest drama of all times. n House Crumples d Burns to Ashes Tn the foreground a German shell crumps fairly into afarm house. The former occupants probably are tramp- Too Many Holding BAILLEUL, r 5 * While countless men are giv- Ing their lives to halt the Hun, feo many are holding back their fortunes. * Face to face with this situa tion, Third Liberty Loan work- ‘Thursday night, at the Masonic club in the Arcade building, to which State Chairman J. E. Swalweil has invited the members of the Liberty Loan committee and the executive committees of the industrial, com. fs were immediate | mercial and council of patriotic ser steps to awaken Seattle to the | vice sections immediate crisis. State Chairman Swalwell will pre ‘The Third Liberty Loan objec- | sie and the speakers will be as fol five has been advanced from | jows: Dr. Henry Suzzallo. represent $3,000,000,000 to $5,000,000,000 inn the state council of de Har by Secretary McAdoo. This ap | old Preston, re anty proximately doubles the responsi- | council of «i Proc bility of every American. tor, W. W. Ladd, Martin aik ttle has raised her quota on the! and Ralph McCullough, representing 5,000,000,.000 basin But she has| the industrial division; J. W. Spang tagged since Saturday. More sub-| ler, representing the commercial dt scriptions must be obtained Citi-| vision; W. A M. Smith, re zens financially strong must buy] the insurance organization Fred = bonds in proportion to their dasets.| W. Graham, representing the Trans ” | Canvasses of subscriptions reveal) portation club. that a goodly portion of the citizens A hills with moderate earning power ha Th tle Boilermakers’ union. ; ; sn : ‘ subscribed faithfully But there are fh ibscribed out of its own The American Mother” who told WAS yo NGTON, April 18 While too many subscribers who hayeftreasurgifor $50,000 worth of bonds | ner at st abuse by “rent hogs” in|flour mills and middlemen have taken out enough bonds to-gtt aloft the Wfhird Liberty Loan, the! wednesday’s Star has a hundred / made millions in swollen p | ae capella ee agp en a ne tic recnxe Ma_| homes to choose from today since the war opened, governm Mel roportionate finan-| count today offered to George Mc pent ee ot \Gtumrrey ey tary of the industrial| Her story caught in the ever-vi-|#upervision is gradually getting the Plana for speeding up the Third! division, the use of a booth at the| brant heartstrings of the city, and upper hand and prices are on the | Liberty Loan drive, which closes bazaar which the boi makers will) patriot hornes the score down grade, the al trade com | May 4, will be discussed « dis hold for one week, beginning next! save been opened to her. Fagerness| mission said in a special report te ; 1g <j ~ "equip it for Liberty loan campaig ts almost to rivalry, and The ernment price-fixing, together } ’ j| ready being made to station at the|), busy taking aulad aad 6h ra and distributors, will re Boche 's Soup |! booth returned soldiers, girls garbed| you, gor tne consideration of the ur in flour being “several in red, white and blue and an Uncle | “esses reo ‘ a barrel” lower to the con | Wi th G Sh t | ‘who will tell why and how to|*ldler's wife nid sumer than last, it was reported } 1 un bd buy ‘bonds. On «hearted patriot offere a At the same time, the ‘commission j ® owas $89 |b or the duration of the war.| charged net profits of millers in. |i WITH THE AMERICAN es 1, J. Adair, president of the North-| Another sympathizer brought to The | creased from 11 cents a barrel for . S$ IN LORRAINE, April 17.—| western State bank of Bellingham, | Star a ¢ ‘of the moratorium biil| the 1912-1913 crop to 62 cents a bar (Micht)}—The American artillery on has notified C \ walwell that| enacted by congress, iding “that 19 917 crop. thie front already has red the Pacific American Fisheries and|no eviction shall be 1 during the profits of car lot distributor German by allied companies of South Belling-| period of military service in from cents @ barre! in lencing enemy batteries with only a| ham, and employes, bh ubscribed | of any premises for which th cents in 1917, and of «mall & few gainutes’ bombardment. The | for $235,060 worth of 4 of the| rent does not exceed $50 per month ors from 62 cents in 1915 te Frenct od at the Yankee| third loan, of which mployes|occupied chiefly for dwelling pur 1917 guninerw have subscribed for $59,150. This| poses the wife, children, or other operating profits per bar A ant commanding one gun| subscription of company and | depende in military used 175 per cent in 1916-1 spotteg @ German “rolling kitchen.”| ployes # one-third of the service ‘ ne ceding ear and profit By gosh! I'l bet I can splash one subscribed b: lingham and | eransed t 7 ¢ . nt 100 per cent fri Heine's soup.” he exclaimed lingham During the Second Lib.| or & t un action or proceed nimission criticised the food Tha first shot was too “long.” The erty Loan drive the emp! es of the « ® t «th of ponse sdministrat regulations limiting pecond was too “short.” The third| Pacific American Fishe sub millera to fixed profits over cont spilled the soup subscribed for $34,000 of! The law prote tamilites of Amer-| This method, it was held, fails to Thiele just an example of the ex-| bond: ar liers |furnish a stimulus to efficter , tremely *mall targeta the American see Almost as soon as The St | production and offers encouragment | i “ i a ept 1 x r e atree G. M. Dyer, at 5 |in cost padding artillery c capable of hitting. | Seattle has accepted the challenge | on th reet M im The J cans are now the mas-|of Toledo, O., which has dared any| Union st., East offered the| It was also suggested that maxi ters of Man's Land on this sec-| city of more than 20,000 population | “American Mother” a place in his)/mum flour prices be fixed nM the w yall lat. tor. Kvery night five to eight pa-|to compete with her in a per capita| home as th hall trols scurry from the outposts and| Liberty loan subscription contest | From then an, offer piled upon offer |3, 000 SOLDIERS Smash the enemy's dugouts, listen ht ies | From bi eas man came & lan | Fe ee ean ei nents | ‘The University district will rally| to stop protitesring th rents and reat] FIGHT BIG FIRE | An officer and 12 men raided five| around the Washington monument, | estate #, ax a result of the little) Nisw YORK, April 18.—Army of- | Machine yun nests, field telephone|on the university campus, on the | mother's plea for protection from the | ticiais are today probing the origin “i post and some snipers’ hiding places|evening of April 25, for the Third|rent hog. This citizen suggests that] of a fire that destroyed a large bar without lon: spent five hours| Liberty Loan, under the auspices of |every house in Seattle that stands) racks building on Governor's {sland | taping the entire area before that the University Commercial Club and | idle for over #ix continuous weeks be| jast night 7 section of the American trenches: (Continued on Page 12) eased by the government at a fair hree thousand soldiers were un “fy # | rental, and that the propert then] able to extinguish the fire, which ibleased during the period of the| aia $10,000 damage : SMAGNIFICENT EDITORIAL,” Pane chee See Sr es il Y 7) with the present “real estate| york fire department. The firing of | h SAYS DR M A. MA TTHEWS ‘ for the purchase of homes at! _ cannon alarm, which was heard { ° ° inflated values. He further suggests | thruout the lower section of the city, | “itor The Star Permit me to thank you for your mag that real estate firma be limited to 4) created consi excitement | ft st editorial entitled, “WITH FAITH IN HIM HOLD FAST. commiasion not exceeding 5 per cent} on th “’ ne 16th on each sale during the war emer-| ; un the front pa ‘ ‘ " yng ine a é ‘ es r . uring: | $300,000,000 IN N. » / are correc ‘aith is absolutely essential in y | : ; ted y hia hour. Your editorial will do much good nd I wish to The are addresses and telent i NEW YORK, April 18 The New n express, no doubt, the sentiment of thousands of people in saying numbers enough on file at The 8 | Ye k federal reserve district official % il THANK YOU FOR IT office to keep American Moth-|1y reported today total subscriptions 1 i ; With best regards, I am, Yours, r’ busy for a week, if she tried to} of $318,200,000 in the campaign for Ee ‘ "M.A. MATTHEWS. stigate all. They are at he |3 00,000,000 for the Third Liberty | posat as soon as she calls for them, * Loan, Back on War Loan ting | | MOST SPECTACULAR BATTL WAR NOW IN PROGRESS home. s, then jing along the roads, regretting they ever left their The house gi¥es off a white smoke for a few minute a flag of flames mounts toward the sky Gas shells flop into idyllic fields “YOU MILLIONS SAFIE AT IstOMlE™ FROM A MAN IN UNIFORM TO THOSE OF US WHO ARE NOT HEY say, who have come back from Over that at night the troubled earth between lines is carpeted with pain. They that Death wind, and that the very torment. They say that squandered there, young in full cultivation. There, the whistling with every charged with things spent and life held least say rides mists of all human is dear. oe eee T is not the pleasantest prospect for those of u who yet feel upon our lips the pressure of mother’s good-bye kiss. But, please God, our love of life is not so prized as love of right. In this re- naissance of our country’s valor, we who will edge the wedge of her assault make calm acceptance of its hazards. For us, the steel-swept trench, the stiffen- ing cold—weariness, hardship, worse. For you, for whom we go, you millions safe at home—what for you? can 2 eee E shall need clothes for our bodies and weapons for our hands. We shall need terribly, and without failure, sup- plies and equipment in a stream that is constant and never-ending. From YOU, who are our resource and reliance, who are the heart and hope of that hu- manity for which we smité and strive, must come these things. CITIZEN SOLDIER NO. 258. CITY WARMS UP MILLIONS MADE | TO “AMERICAN | BY FLOUR MEN The Seattle Sta ANY PAPER” IN THE PACIFIC THURSDAY, ‘AP RIL NORTHWEST 18, 1918. YANKEES STOP DRIVE ritish General Says Picardy Saved by Americans Strangling vapors are trailing heavily across the sprouting crops. An apparently fearless crow is due for the surprise of his life. The whole business looks unreal from this hillop. gives the impression of a monster open-air spectacle in com- memoration of an important centennial This is enhanced when I see gunner duck from a blazing battery, bucket in hand, and chase an ownerless red | cow—foraging for the supper milk, like an awkward stage- hand engaged in some ridiculous thing in the midst of an Irvingesque tragedy. All the while you are standing in front of a tiny, white- vashed and thatched cottage, feeling alone in a world where everything is soldiers, death and war Here Are Man and Woman Prepared to Meet End You turn to go and halt, startled. Peering thru a little square-paned window, you see, outlined against the darkened interior, the white face of an aged woman. Beside hers is that of a bent, old man, staring fixedly toward the plains. They have lived in that cottage too long to leave it. A little way down the slope a German shell bursts above a similar cottage. Bits of red-tiled roof fly in every direc-} tion. Now the enemy’s artillery is registering on the hill.| A tabby eat, licking a discarded “bully beef” can, scampers | off thru a hole in a hedg Even he is deserting the old place. t inside the cottage, the old man lays his hand on the woman's shoulder. Together they watch the fields velow You move away, but something makes you walk on tiptoe. For to these folks and those they symbolize the | ms to have come. end of the world see! Vast Cannonading Hint of New Drive ‘The French apparently are concentrating the heaviest allied artillery fire since the German drive started, on a 5émile front, extending from a point south of the Somme, east of Amiens, to the Oise, in the vicinity of Noyon. This bombardment, reported in a United Press dispatch from Henry Wood ers every inch of the German positions and the rear areas for miles back of their lines. Prisoners say that the cannonading has caused theavy German casualties and has preve 4 the enemy from digging in. } POUND VULNERABL, POINT The points of the farthest German penetration in Picardy are included ) thin bombardment. It also includes the r part of the southern nburg triangle in this rey eved by many military vulnerable part be { the German advan r this cannonading the allies to be holding his own, His official {tish front last night.” TS assault aga: and the complete jon re next few hour is preparatory to a major « On fe FPianders front Haig claims report today said the was no change on the PULSE FOE ONSLAUC a deter | Kemmel from the direction of Wulvergh The whethe t: Mont m. which Hindenburg claims to occupy BELGIANS PROBABLY RETIRE ‘The retirement must have r itated a similar slight retreat by the Langemarck, and Le Blankaert pond was repulsed. This indicates an extension of the Flanders’ fighting to a point eight| miles north of Ypres and less than three miles south of Dixmude. This city is leas than ten miles south of the point where the west front touches |the North sea LORD MILNER IS |AUSTRIANS BALK WAR SECRETARY| AT WEST FRONT | LONDON, April 18.—The appoint| WASHINGTON, April 18,—Aus ments of Lord Derby as minister ex to France, su of Viscount Milner trian troops in the Ukraine have re fused to on the West traordinary Lord Bertie do’ service lsecretary of state for war, succe front even in Italy, according to ing Lord Derby, and of Austen|rumors reaching the state depart Chamberlain, son of the late Joseph| ment today | Chamberlain, as r of the) In addition to these rumors, au | war cabinet, were officially announe-! thentic information showed that the Jed toda Teutons are trying to convert the Ukraine into a German-Austrian col The appointment of Lord Milner | ony as British secretary of state for In so far as possible, the T means that the British war office | h cut off all communication be is now in the hands of an efficient | t the Tikeeiae and Russia, and expert, Milner has a great reputa-|are supplanting the Ukrainian offi tion in England as a man of action, | ¢ials with Austrian or German offi: | who is ruthless in overcoming all ob: tan xtacles to success DIVERS INCREASE TOLL OF SINKINGS LONDON, April 18.—British mer chant ships sunk during the week ‘BELIEVE GRUDGE. KILLED PRAEGER| CHICAGO, April 18.—That Robert Praeger, the Collinsville, Ti, miner was lynched, not bs ending April 15 inclu 11 of more|German sympathies, but as a result than 1,600 tons, four of less tonnage|of a quarrel with miners at Mary jand one fishin , according to| ville, is the belief of Attorney Gen- ward Brundage today. ved a complete report from his investigators Madison county grand jury is at Edwardsvilie, and |indictments of those implicated in |the lynching are expected soon. |the admiralty’s report fe | ‘This ia the heaviest submarin the ending jwhen 16 large ships and ones were destroyed. HUNGARIAN CABINET FILES RESIGNATION The now in session small | since week tod One steamer beat boat attack, hy again been appointed to that’ post,| nour | succeeding Count Wekerle, ata breakdown | of a German attack in the Bailleul sector, to the southwest of Mont Kemme! Haig also reported heavy artillery fighting on the southern edge of the Flanders’ salient, and the repulse of nl attacks there. He emphasized the ht y German losses In the fighting around] r 4 Wytachae yesterda withdrawal east of pres on fre ej is clearly out ined. Apparently Haig moved his lines back an aWera about three miles. It would appear that they now run from about Zillebeke, a mile and a half east and south of Ypres, northward to a point just west of Belgians, lines, according to an official communique, joined Haig's lat the esThourout railway, which runs northeastward thru Lang marek Igian report said a German attack between this railway | “| Passchendaele, Poeleapelle and Langemarck, it use of his pro: | to} | TALIAN STEAMER SUNK’ ROME, April 18—One Italian LONDON, April 18.—Confirmation|merchantman of more than 1,500 | that the Hungarian cabinet has re:| tons and two smaller craft were | signed was received he today.|sunk by the enemy submarines in Count Tisza, former premier, has} the past week, it was officially an: | NIGHT EDITION Weather Forecast: Tor rr nh PRICI ONE i “ENT in Heattio s NT 4 YPRES If SHELLET WITH THE AMERICAN ARMIES If ‘FRANCE, April 18.—Gen. Pershing received a letter from Gen. Rawlinson, \mander of the British Fifth army, in ithe latter declared it was largely due to assistance of the American engineers th ithe British army was able to check the |mans in Picardy. WITH THE BRITISH | ARMIES IN FRANCE, Ap 18.—Von Quast’s freshly arrived guns were poundin | villages in the areas back of the British line today. jout last night the region along the La Bassee canal bombarded with gas shells. North of the Lys the British communications are ¢ stantly under indirect machine gun fire. Ypres is being shelled intermittently. The British jare keeping up a harassing and intense fire. | On the north flank of the Lys battlefield yesterd | there was a ceaseless struggle. British fire from the cluster of hills southwest of Ypr |raked seven German assaults in the evening, bee Armin’s attempt to advance into the portion of the Yp1 salient which Haig evacuated. Here British till smashed the troops of Generals Marshall and Zudohns which were caught in the old shell-torn battlefield. VILLAGES TAKEN BY _ BRITISH LOST AG LONDON, April 18.—“German infantry, jing in three waves, southeast of Kemmel hill, us back slightly at one point, but a counter attack stored the situation,” Field Marshal Haig reported to “Shortly after midday the attack had been rep at all points.” In’ the Bailleul! sector’ the enethy, attacking 3 times before midday, was completely repulsed. | “Our line yesterday was intact on the whole fra ‘|There was no change in the British front during ti |night,” Haig said. | “There was hostile artillerying on the Lys battle from Givenchy to eastward of Robecq, continuing {dawn between Locon and Robecq. “More detailed reports of the fighting yesterday Nieppe forest and on the Wytschaete front established verity of the enemy’s losses. The Germans are again in possession of Wytschaete , it is admitted in Field Marshal Haig’s night official report. The British recaptured these villages in counter attacks | hi | and Meteren a jare co-operating with the British on this front, Haig said. ” {between Le Blankaert and the Ypres-Thourout railway (@ resulted in the capture of 600 prisoners. FRENCH ARTILLERY | WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES IN THE FIELD, Aprit yet attained by the allies, » is absolutely and irrevocably de-| superiority of the allies. * In the retirement east of Ypres, the British abandoned |sallen of about five miles just north of the Passchendaele | Continued enemy bombardment north of Montdidier _ SMASHES FOE LINES | 17 (night).—Every inch of the German lines from south The offensive has reached a stage) remain on the defensive, constantly nave for Germany. ' officials declare yesterday morning, but were compelled to evacuate again in the face of continued enemy assaults. The Fi : 1 claimed by the German war office. The Belgian communique said that salient), a massed German attack gained a temporary ad- vantage, but a counter assault restored the positions and hil reported in the French night communique. The French {laid down a counter bombardment. BY HENRY WOOD United Press Correspondent lof the Somme to the Oise, a front of 90 kilometers, 95.89 | miles, is being pounded by the vastest artillery concentration whe allied military officials declare | threatened by internal upheaval unanimously that the present bat | white American arrivals swell the | French military the French army is capable of wait With the allies present certainty | of checking the German offensive,|{ng another 18 months if necessary coupled with the known German to attain a crushing superiority. But losses, the Germans at the battle's| with the Americans maintaining or end will be exhausted and incapable | increasing their rate of arrivals, the of seriously attempting another of- final military victory is possible |fensive. Instead they will have to | much sooner. KAISER TRIES TO WASH HIS HANDS OF THE BUTCHERY AMSTERDAM, April 18,—"What haven't I done to preserve the world from these horrors,” the Kaiser is quoted as saying during a visit to t Armentieres battle front, in a dispatch to the Lokal Anzeiger, |