The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 22, 1918, Page 1

i ' ih tn “AN night the killing and pillag-|ing the fhg went on,” he said. North se a The crowd was ordered to walk These tactics make it imperative PPP toward the Place Des Tilleuls,| that America rush troops as fast an ar — ld eR Those who did not walk fast enough | Possible. There are numerous indi BRITISH were shot down cations that the Germans are pre “A Flemish clock maker came out | paring for a frem drive between | —— —— of his dwelling supporting his aged | Amiens and Arra#, harmonizing with YNDON, April 22 We improv father-in-law; he was ordered to hold| their system of exploiting drives position during the night in Sp his hands, but he could not doso| When successful and nbandoning | the. Villers-Bretonneux, Albert and without letting the old man fall, so a| those where the enemy successfully | Robecq sectors,” Field Marshal Haig Bier struck him in the neck with | resists. rted toda y an ax pee i From the Aillette river to the » and north of Lens (mid “Arrived at the Place Des Titleuls, | North sea, only ive sectors | way between the Picardy and Flan the women and children were sep- | Temain—betwee and Arras| ders battle fronts) we conducted a gated from the men. Haphazard,|@"4 between Nieuport and Ypres. nr successful ytur | ing prisoners and machine guns ? Certainly! Why, “That’s fine. He’s got the stuff! Eyes m All of Seattle Is There are thousands of others like him over there.” | of him and proud of the fact that there are ‘thousands of others like him.” going to make HIM proud, too—proud that he comes from Seattle! t, but smiling, William F. Bickel, father of the first Seattle Sammy hon- | of his contribution to US, let us resolve, this, the ored by France for bravery, today received the news with the above exclamation. | Fine? You bet it is fine. He’s got the stuff? Not a doubt of it in the world. And Seattle In this moment of high realization | third week of the Liberty Loan drive, Proud of him? Certainly. Why, all of Seattle is proud of him, Mr. Bickel, proud of him, Mr. Bickel, proud | | HIS COMRALES AT THE FRONT. BRAND IT AS A LIE Kaiser's friends go around warning people not to con- tribute to soldiers’ smoke funds. It's just another bit of enemy propaganda, THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF The Seattle Star ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST Proud of Your Boy, to contribute what we can TO HELP HIM AND } Mr. Bickel NIGHT EDITION and Thursday, westerly. Weather Forecast: Tonight probably fair; moderate winds, mostly VOLUME 20 . 5 PRESS ASSOCIATIONS 1 NITED SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1918, Fverywhere ae PRICE ONE CENT Till the Prussian sword is shattered, Till the Prussian horde is scattered, Till the Prussian flag is tattered, And its shameful deeds undone, What to us are pain and pleasure? }) What to us are toil and treasure? One and all, we heap the measure! One and all—to halt the Hun! —Edmund Vance Cooke INVADERS CRE INNOC Brand Whitlock Says Teu-| tons Shot Down Mothers With Babies in Arms ; OFFICERS GAVE ORDERS BRITISH FIRE a Sree | BRINGS DOWN GERMAN “ACE” BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS United Preas Correspondent | | | d' FOUR MEN DEAD IN CALIFORNIA = EARTHQUAKI LOS ANGELES, fe eee Sey land. in Everybody's magazine riting for May, which appears tomorrow. WITH THE BRITISH AR. | owns of San dacint jo and Hemet ‘ he telis how carefully organized bar. © 4 so southeast of on MIES IN FRANCE, April 2 Angeles, are pi fy in ruins, harities followed in the wake of the | German drive, being especially crup! and a score of people slightly Baron Rittmeiser Vou Richthof- injured today, as the result of en, famous German aviator, was after each German defeat. Picturing what occurred when the! killed Sunday Im the Somme =, a eae | French resisted, a German attempt valley, it was & today. aft a bom the Meuse in 1914, Whit- ‘At his funeral today he will be ‘The dead Mike read given the same honors as a Brit- “People were ‘4 y Frank E, Darnell, Boston, trampled “ not wate On ate ght officer. }to death on a Santa Monica pier.) as a sort of screen, while the Ger mans began to construct 4 te™| German flight commanders. His| porary bridge over the river. The| squadron, known among British air Germans sent a citizen in a boat! men as “Richthofen’s circus,” has| Secross the river to inform the | been mentioned in numerous German French that unless they ceased fir | communiques. and has figured in ing the civilians would be shot. But} | many works of fiction on the war & few stray bullets sped across the Richthofen was last mentioned in iver. |the German war office statement] Mothers and Babes Shot | April & when it was announced he! “The prisoners were massed to-| had achieved his 77th and 78th aerial gether—nearly 90 of them, old men | victories. gar anf young. girls and boys, little) Richthofen was killed behind the ghildren and babies in their mothers’ | Rritish line. There no details ; A platoon was called up, the|of his death yet a colonel in command gave the word | airmen speak hi to fire, and the gray soldiers in cold | — Ree et on Tne eee ™ “| GERMANS HOPE “Among them were 12 children TO WEAR OUT ALLY RESERVES under 6 years, six of them little babies, whose mothers, as they BY HENRY WooD United Prese Correspondent Richthofen was the greatest of the) wien a panicatricken crowd rushed toward shore | August C in, Astoria, Or., died of heart failure when he rushed to the street in Los Angeles Two unidentified men buried in a mine two miles south of Their bodies were recovered damage was estimated at nto and Wi towns of 00 popul ore policed by home guard companies. | towns are without elty water, | 8 or electric lights. | Flames Shoot Up Miles of paved road in Southern | California were eracked and buck San Jacinto people asserted ax the earth rolled and build-| pushed into the street, a 10) met |} led that ings were stood up to face their pitiless mur- derers, held them in their arms.” ‘The fate of the town of Andenne, (Continued on page hefore the war a place of 7,800 peo.| WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES apn RC anaes, | pie, ia cited by Whitlock as an ex IN ag ieee, pao at By con | amiple of what happened when the|stantly extending their drive into | Off ] W vers, freer new sectors, the ( 1cla. ar Germans were thrown back in an rmans unques attempt to cross the Meuse on a temporary bridge | tionably hope to ex reserves, which Reports the soldiers picked out 30 or 40 men and shot them down in cold blood.” there artillery In different wa, ONLY 500 MEN considerable (| RIDE ON TRAINS | rie ene sectors | ‘i helling was directed dean rr TO SHIPYARDS} ji iin at SALISBURY, || om, mn Yorny gcvc|tiiumies “oman HAVE A HEART | seiner sna any oe ma Having smashed the old 4 Gatarteont Gistricts that lett: Yesler | py the « aosets tne hela at 6:30 and | porhoo The tr of Albert). and, if shelling discomfort, vs nil (four miles north the ter means se following, { that a sunny | rainy Sundays 5 weather man rests content, and ; warns Seattle that the hot spell | 4 heavy dur nccompanied by After sharp fighting. » carried 1,500, without essary, 2,000, ing the course of which the enemy | fe over, and goloshes and umbrel- {| Capt. Blaine, of the shipping board,| captured an advanced post, the at las had better not be packed yet {| said the street cars were congested, | tack was completely repulsed ] as usual, and a large number of men late at work. ‘The trains will be a big success, ac Just north of Albert night r heavy there was local fighting in the mists during the} cannonading, | awhile. While Mr. Salisbury does Mot say positively that it will Tain, still he does not promise that it will not rain. cording to Capt. Blaine, if the men | until r midnight. The British Temperatures Sunday varied (| will only coo-perate now to the ex-|jost one post but gained ground from 57 to 68 degrees. Saturday's {| tent of riding on them. They will] elsewhere thermometer shifted between the }| leave promptly every morning, one from the foot of Yesler way, cover 54 and 7% points. Na ON INS PARDON BY BRAVE EDS ON BATTLEFIELD LANSING, Mich., April 22.—An Absolute pardon has been granted Eaward Putnam, alias William Bren ing the East Marginal way at 730, and the other from C tal ave, and King st., at 6:30, cover ing the East Waterway district. WILSON AGAINST COURT MARTIAL | FRENCH repulsed east of) Avre,” the April rks wer and east of the French war office report flan, who esca from Jackson Ha Prinon while od a sentence tor | LN CIVIL CASES) “xctiery tire continues lateeny. He enlisted in the Ca-|’ WASHINGTON, April 22.—Presi-| various parts of the front Nadian army in 4 At Vimy] dent Wilson today expressed strong ridge, he was rendered nearly help-| opposition to Senator, Chamberlain's| Albert C. Snell was seriously hurt by wounds. He is on his way|pjiil providing for court-martial trial| Saturday when a truck he was driv tario, whefe the Ca-'¢or those arrested for treasonable ut-jing skidded from the roadway at government will provide for terances and acts. =—————~ Sixth ave, 8. and Plummer st. seer atone a POE AG SHELLING AMIENS | Their German Writers Esti-| mate Total Casualties at 5,000,000 | spomnil IN THE WEST) April | WASHINGTON, of Seicheprey, in = oar sector, while suf- fering the heaviest losses — their fighting to daté, in- flicted casualties numbering close to 500 on the Ger- mans, Gen. Pershing re-| | ported today to the war de- | partment. LONDON, April 22.—The bombardment of Amiens has been heavily renewed, ac- cording to a dispatch today} from the British front. Three additional hits have been made on the famous Amiens) cathedral. PARIS, April 22.—German writers estimate the grand total of German killed nd prisoners, adding those dying of iliness and wounds and the casualties in co- lonial and naval fighting, ete. 000,000. Kar! Bleistreu, a German military writer, Ceclares in the Neu Europa, | that the German losses on the west| front, between August, 1914, and August, 1917, totaled 2,604,961 in| killed and prisoners, On the east front, he ne| total killed and prisoners were » the Ger 1917 . 450 kill ed and taken ¢ on “both fronts BRITONS WILL SPEND BIG SUM FOR WAR WORK LONDON, April 22. Andrew Bonar Law, chancellor of the ex chequer, presented a record-breaking budget in the house of commons to- day The votes would (12, actual 2,408,000,000 pour Germany's war expenditures are 6,250,000 pounds ($31,250,000) daily ‘almost the same as ours,” Bonar chancellor estimated of credit for the coming total 2,550,000,000 5 uunds compared last y 015,000). expenditures r of ws ($1 Law said ‘The war debt of Germany, he raid, is 8,000,000,000 pounds ($40, 060,000,000). ALLIED TROOPS LAND AT POST ON THE ARCTIC MOSCOW, April 2: reinforcements to deta Lapland seve of British and French been landed at Mou Serving as} tish marine in Russian a» body roops has Kk, on the northeast coast of Kola peninsula, in| | the Arctic The troops of the entente are co operating with the Bolshevik forces the protection of the Mourman coast and railway against attacks of] Finnish White Guards. 72 AMERICANS IN CASUALTIES WASHINGTON, April 22 alties announced ocean Seventy-two « by the war department showed to- day 10 killed in action, five dead of | wound ve of disease, one of w cldent, two from otier causes, wounded slightly, seven severe wounded and one previously report- ed -aiesing now reported killed, YANKEES KILL 500 HUNS ||, FRENCH DECORATE U. OF W. MEN FOR BRAVER « anneal ' FRENCH HONOR SEATTLE SON WITH CROSS OF WAR x tame ! 1 Edward Bickel, University of Washington man, and son of Mr and Mrs. William F. Bickel, who was awarded the Croix de Guerre today for extreme bravery on the battle field = ACTIVITY HLONG TO HOLD TOW SOMME FRONT. ON U.S, FRONT 43. W. T. MASON ed Press War Ex NE WV YORK, Aprit | jean troops have | Selcheprey their first rey | of the war, and have co | the engagement with v A resumption of the Picardy drive by Hindenburg thru an assault along pert the Somme and the Scarpe rivers appears imminent A United Press dispatch from the ench front says, “There are French . fr " r ' All previous attacks by the numerous indications that the Ger-| -nans against the American posit mans ar preparing for a fresh|in Eastern France have been raids drive between Amiens and Arras.”| oF tindinsances for the: purpose of securing information Gor Von Hir This, the correspondent di Apabute . n ne wit the enemy str pn in Un h The ault this time at & he |"maintaining their temporarily] jeoy however, wa a abanc ee ves a condition pe om agplaasshin _ - | abandoned dri ina lition per. ‘ or andes bgaewwotioe of mitting immediate resumption the offensive.” between the has been ¢ of any of th fronts of the off for several | Flanders battle field, | with the sption of brief lulls, has |been the scene of almost continuou fighting since the drive started the | April 9 On the Pieardy front, below the French have mi esstul loca , and the sec eastward has raids and _ artille attempt by Hind manently the vi 1 to im opposite having been n burg to seize held by t prove t rman positior that part of Gen, Pershing's line Was Complete Failure Failure to accomplish this, how ever, was complete. The official | Berlin report that the Germans de stroyed the work Amer! positions is | in view of the fact that the Germans were forced back to their own line The purpose of Hindenburg to con | solida the American-held sector | with the German front is sufficiently Jindicated by the action of the Ger | mans in remaining overnight in the Amenican positions they had occu It is apparent that the Americans made a strategic retirement before the initial rush of the Germans, et | ther because the German force was gely superior in numbers, or be the the quie » two big fighting front The west nsive | weeks ‘enemy in the unimportant the le sev innum ae nis Attack on Amiens Front | Haig, in his official report today described a strange enemy attack in | the neighborhood of Mesnil, which is located on the Amiens-Arras front, about 11 miles north of the Somme. There e also indications that ause a German barrag Haig anticipates an effort by Hin-| cations of cutting off the denburg to consolidate the two big) ‘The « of I |battle fronts by an attack between | fighte conclusively that the original retirement was well devised and suc in its purpose | rads on both sides of Lens, which | of conserving the American forces is about midway between the two! for a more favorable assault battle fields, | The German claim of 183 Ameri ‘These raids may have been part of | cans being captured may be true a feeling-out process to determine |'The Americans very probably would whether the German lines had been | be reluctant to obey orders to fall strengthened materially there | back in their first serious encounter. ‘In this sector is the famous Vimy | Hesitancy on the part of an advance lridge. By a flanking movement! ed unit may well have caused its iso: from , Hindenburg | lation by barrage fire and its neces the Scarpe and the La Basse He reported numerous succ may hope to this important sary capitulation, Americans have height, after h he would at-|a certain quality of recklessness tempt a turning movement north-| which may cause occasional mis ward against Bethune and Givenchy, | takes like this, but which in the end or southward against Arras, means victory, k -a| |G0 SIX DAYS AND REST IN BA For bravery on the battlefields of France, where # drove bullet-riddled ambulances under shell fire for days, and went six days without sleep or rest, two Unive! lof Washington men were awarded the,Croix de Guerre 4 | Paris today. | They are Lieut. Albert Smith, son of Mrs. Georgi Smith, formerly of the Wintonia hotel, and Private E Bickel, son of Mr. and Mrs. William F. Bickel, 155 Hig drive. Mrs. Smith is now in Spokane. Word reached Seattle in United Press dispatches in Paris Monday, and later in sent by Arthur Priest, who is representative of the Washhigem ents’ association in France. The United Press dispatch said: “Smith and spent nine days carrying wounded under shell fire, b ning March 21. “For six days they neither slept nor rested. CARRIED MEN FROM TRENCHES “Smith commanded 20 ambulances, all of which riddled, altho only two were lost. These ambulances ¢ lout the last wounded from the trenches to the dressing tions, when an evacuation was ordered ‘kel volunteered and rescued several wounded a trap so dangerous that the French commander would n order the ambulances to atte mpt the feat.” 1 F. Bickel, the boy’s father, found Dean Prie age gp waiting for him when he got down to his o: in the Lyon building, Monday morning. ‘dward decorated with the Croix de Guerre,” it | dward decorated with the Croix de Guerre,” it state “He is well.” |“THAT’S FINE,” : SAYS FATHER A few seconds later tati The Star informed Mr. Bickel of the United Press dispatch, describing his son’s exploit. ig Isn't that fine!” the father exclaimed. “That boy has the stuff! Yes, sir. He’s got the stuff! But there are sands of other boys over there just like him, and they’ll do the same thing when the chance comes.” The n he telephoned “Mother” Bickel. “And Edward is well!” she kept exclaiming. “Tm coming right down to see the cablegram.” Bickel senior is a former St. Paul banker, and is inter- ane in the Seattle, Renton & Southern railway. Bickel and Smith are the first Seattle boys in the Amer- : army to receive the French cross of war. : Bickel refused to try for an army commission when the iean war broke out, but enlisted in the university aml corps. After reaching Allentown he was assigned to help train other units. FIRST IN FRANCE, FIRST TO VOLUNTEER Restless to get into action, he obtained transfer to American ambulance units in service near Rheims, with the) French armies. He was the first University of Washington man to vol+, and the first to reach the front. French officers there marked his soldierly qualities, and for some time he has been listed to be sent for special training in a French officers’ school. Continued action, however, has kept him on the line, ; the Washington |” unte His father, who is vice president of Parents’ association, received a letter recently which said: “The allied and German armies are sparring like giant prize fighters now, each waiting for an opening.” When the letter reached here the big drive was on, Young Bickel belonged to Sigma Alpha Epsilon ternity at the university. Young Smith was studying electrical engineering when ~ America declared war. He was a sophomore. Just where or when he gained his commission, his” ;| friends here do not know. They know he was determined © /to get to the front, and learned later that he was command- F ing an ambulance company. None of his relatives could be, | reached in Seattle Monday. ¥ SEATTLE BOY IN SHIP LOSS WASHINGTON, April 22—Offi. From the Lake Moor, five officers cials are today revising reports of {and 3% men were reported missing two American ships lost in war disas-|in the first statements of the sink. ers ing. ‘The loss includes the name of | — ‘The steamer Lake Moor was sunk | Chester M. Iverson, 723 Thomas st, by an enemy U-boat in European wa- | Fvattle, 1 an, misaltig, ters at midnight, April 11, and the| Five officers, led by Lieut, Com- steamship Flor H. was blown up| mander Kinchen J. Powers, and 12 by an internal explosion while in a jonlies men were landed at an Engy French port lsh port ——-