The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 24, 1918, Page 1

. i] ! | i | = cali d “ws wee UTE — eae Te —Jap ot be | aa. » and * said {STEPHENS ISSUES MOONEY STATEMENT oo, | The Seattle Star we 2™ THE GR a _Vouu ME 20 PULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1918. PRIC “E ONE CENT 2° BATTLE ON 9-MILE NAVAL ATTACK ) THs GERMANS ARE BLOW TO HUNS cece AFTER AMIENS LONDON, April 24.—The Franco-B sh naval raid on the Belgian coast yesterday morning—one of the most dar- ing exploits in history—was believed to have sealed up the} Zeebrugge base The blow is a hard one to Germany, ina ch as two $00-foot ships, filled with hundreds of tons of cement,| hardened like stone, which were sunk in the channel, will require weeks of labor to remove. Meanwhile, many subma- ines and other craft thus will be blocked from the open sea. | Survivors say the approaching ships were discovered near the mole and hundreds of guns from the shore batteries opened fire on them. The ships were partially protected by the mole, altho numerous hits were scored on them in the | upper works and other not vital parts. When the landing parties d arked, the German garrison on the mole fled, crying, “It's the Americans The stormers destroyed cannon and in se quantities of munitions on the mole, with the aid of bombs and flame throwers. | | SEA RAID MAY CUT TEETH OF U-SHARKS BY J. W. T. MASON ST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHW | Following an intensive arti illery bombardment, cov- ering the entire British front from south of Ypres to |south of the Somme, Hindenburg today apparently has | resumed his west front campaign with a drive against — Amiens. Haig in his report today said that “strong infantry, attacks are progressing in the Albert sector and between |the Somme and the Avre. i The Somme and the Avre are slightly less than ten miles apart, where the battle front crosses them, The? Somme flows directly westward thru Amiens while the Avre, flowing northwestward, converges with the larger river less than two miles t of that city. r STRIKE AT TWO POINTS 9 Between these two rivers the Germans, in their last” drive, progressed to within less than nine miles of Amiens, A resumption of the drive against this important point has” ~ been forecast by allied military officials. At the same time Hindenburg is thrusting westward from Albert, which is about six mites north of the Somme, | A heavy attack in this sector last night was broken: fe [uP by rifle and machine gun fire, Haig reported. . On the Flanders front, the British commander |there was “h y hostile shelling’ between Givenchy | Robeeq, i | western edge of the deep Ge lient. E nemy concen= many ss iind trations of try near Mervi in the center of the United Press War Expert would wut Flanders w were broken up by British artillery. NEW YORK, April 24--If the) mar , rth The French war office communique, € daring Br r wa ee nee ° before Haig’s report, described a “terrific se Mileage bardment between the Somme and the Avre Ostend and Zee those harbors ag submarines. a b Th to the jfantry fighting around Albert was already in progress” of merchant by U-boats| Irish coast is only ¢ and it |when the French statement was issued, as Paris mentioned — vin > be the immediate result s wi his area that most of the —_ y other ports German sub-| submarine attacks are ma Ry tae can use for their bases, if| adding 300 miles to the U-boat jour-| in Vitend and Zeebrugge have been bot-| neys the reserve power of the pirat-| tied up, are those off the German| ical craft would be seriously dis coast i furhed. © STRIKERS WILL NOT | SWAY MOONEY CASE FRENCH AND BRITONS — _ MEET NEW HUN DRIV LONDON, April German attacks ing early today front directly east nfantry left their = hes northwest of Albert at dusk, Their attack was met with heavy BACRAME the firwt nt that Field Marshal Hai; rifle and machine gun fire, and they Stephens bas the the same time, # were driven back i Wiliam D. sued idecnis:. onli assault was under way in the In the neighborhood of Dranoutre the follow case 4 Albert sector north of the (three miles northeast of Bailleul), WASHINGTON, April 24.—Judg Somme: » attacks developed in German artillery was b barding the whole British f north of Albert junction of British and French artillery ine the British and French lines, south flicted severe losses on the enemy, of the Somme, on a fron ut “In the neighborhood of Merville, }15 mit our artillery dispersed concentrationg on . . Se . . ity iscovered, in a clothes “There was hostile shelling early of hostile infantry. French soldiers, after having seized and killed the German garrison, discovere thin morning between Givenchy and| “On the majority of the Heim closet, the body of a French girl of 18, tortured by the soldiers of the Saxon Guard, and nailed | roveca," Haig said front, particularly in the Somme and | “On the whole British front, from Ancre sectors, the valley of the to the wall by a bayonet.” —From the French official report on German atrocities at the farm Of | north of Albert to the junc |the French south of the y bom nt from them. The French repulsed 7] nd who has petition rnor for pardon on the he was convicted on Iy fashion view the evidence and read the briefs. In the r No attention wh: is of t to strikes or designed to influer matter.” mary to re jon with Scarpe and the sectors north of ) mn mme, the Bethune and north and northeast of M———,, Aisne (military file), September 26, 19 15. enemy's artillery was active thruout there was hostile artillery ? ’ \the night. At an riy hour this fire sterday afternoon and evens morning th was a heavy enemy! ing.” ntime I shall pa ver to organized The Huns did this—and what are you doing? If you are not going the limit in your Liberty bond contributions, you are not even doing the least this country has a right to expect of you. Ino PEACE NOW, | TRISH STRIKERS py ——, IS WARNING OF | RESUMING WORK SECRET QUARTERS OF SEC. REDFIELD = (THERE OUGHT TO BE 1,000 seer cree e| ace int a A Message to I. W. W. 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War-| of Noyon, but there were no infantry come up for con ration Wednes The Minute Men of Precinct No. Minute Men of Precinct 5) will! participated in the raid on % plane was brought down and its crew Austrion powder factories at Glazen-| ner and Cadet Kdward J. Schrier | action day afternoon or during Thursday's |134 will meet this evening at 7:30 an organization Wednesday | brugge said today that two German | of three taken, in last nights Ger= bach were blown up, with numerous| were burned to death today when| “Fighting activity was limited,” | session Jo'elock in room 104, Broadway high at Gatewood hall. Judge Clay | destroyers were sunk, one in the| man air raid, it was officially an Castalties, according to reports today,| their airplane burst into flames, 60/ the German war office said | Secretary Redfield opened the | school Allen will address the meeting. | harbor and one alongside the mole. | nounced. ‘The raid was frustrated, WAS Se a Tia a Y