The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 7, 1918, Page 1

eas a? ie MORE THAN 70,000 PAID COPIES DAILY IFTY MILLION DOLLAR GRAFT IS CHARGED IN AIRCRAFT PROGRAM, AND THE CHARGE IS NOT MERE RUMOR.--CLEAN IT UP, PRESIDENT WILSON, THE COUNTRY EXPECTS IT OF YOU} ——eereeenr ams > The Seattle Sta THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST NIGHT EDITION and Wednesday, erly winds w eather Voreeast: Tonight Nol UME. > r 20 | AERVICR SOCTATIONS TOILERS REBEL | AUSTRIA ZURICH, May 7.—Reports from various sources declare conditions in Austria are becom- ing = serious. Revolutionary tendencies are continually crop ping out. The Austrian government denies the reports, saying the situation “is eam,” and that it has taken no Measures to nip in the bud these revolutionary manifestations. Despite this, a dispatch from Vien- Ra says the government has issued A manifesto justifying ite attitude in the extraordinary measure taken by = Premier Von Seydier. The govern ment evidently is preparing tor an AUSTRIAN REICHSRAT important move, but it is not known Just what this will be. a isc eats STOP ALL WORK FOR MAY DAY STRIKE; COPENHAGEN, May 7.—All “week in Austria ceased on May BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS United Press Correspondent WITH THE BRITISH ARM- TES IN FRANCE, May 7.—The allied guns for the past 24 hours beve been steadily strafing the German back areas. ‘This is not conducive to the quick movement of men and m2 terials across the warmade desert arens around toward Noyon. The infantry Iull continues, only faids and petty exploits being con ducted. On most of the fronta there nly ordinary, mutual cannonad fing. The terrain is being drenched by May time showers. ‘The Canadians pulled off a raid at Neuvitie Vitasse In the Hazebrouck, Strazeele, Mor. Becque, Ypres and Meteren areas, all f® Flanders, the Germans laid ¢ fonsiderable high velocity shel Meir artillery searched the roads round Poperinghe and Viamer linghe. in Flanders. HUNS WORRIED ON LINE HELD BY U.S. TROOPS BY FRANK 4. TAYLOR United Preas Correspondent WITH THE AMERICAN ARM¥ In ix INE. May 7.—The enem fe showing uneasiness along the left bank of (Verdun sector) This is manife night by the use of brilliant lights and by ch artillery and machine gun fir ing and aerial activity io Meuse a every In the sector northwest of Toul there ix heavy firing in the Vicinity of Seicheprey (which the temporarily captured re- from which they were Special to The Star OTTAWA, HL, May 7—The first great eye-witness pietare of the German drive, by # partici pant in the fighting, has reached the world via Ottawa, Il. It’s the story of a soldier—an American officer in the thick of the battle. He is First Lieut. Roswell T. Pettit, recently tran ferred from the British medical corps to the American Expedi. tionary Force. It is contained in a written to his father, Dr, ttit, of this city Altho he saw only a small part of the battle, which resulted in the retreat of the Fifth British army at St. Quentin, Lieutenant Vettit’s account thrills with the stress of one of the greatest con fliets of world’s history, as the letter was written immediately alter he had left the firing line, os is pot confused with with after letter dW. ’ | | | ceived in this country that the dem ALLY ARTILLERY 'SAYS SIBERIA STRAFING HUNS’ PLANS TO QUIT ACKYARD WORK RUSS NATION | Todabuss, of St. Louts, | American embassy in Petrograd, de 4 Franeo-American attack). ¢ 110 divisions to our one; | body, has been adjourned to June 18 1918, DAY, MAY 7, Kverwhere in Seattle Pi RIC) 5 ONE day, according to information here today. The workers passed a resolution demanding an eight- hour day. ‘This is the first information re onstration planned for May day (May 1, the European Labor day). Was carried out successfully ‘The one-day walkout, organized by trades unions and socialists, was in tended as a demonstration in favor of promised electoral reforms and better conditions. HAS BEEN ADJOURNED THE HAGUE, May 7—The Aus reichsrat, central legislative |to permit Premier Von Seydier to | bargain with the opposition for the purpose of securing a working -na Jority, according to ota received | here today, } A PACIFIC PORT, May 7. ttache of the clared his belief today that Siberia soon will attempt to separate from Russia and set up an independent re public. | Todabuss said such a movement has gained considerable force in St-| beria, where opinion generally {« strongly in favor of active participa tion in the war on the side of the al lies. Bearing reports for the state de- | partment, Todabuss arrived here to- day on an Oriental liner and will go to Washington. “When I left Russia.” he said, “there were many reports of a move ment to put the grand duke back in) power, and I believe they had con siderable foundation.” GERMAN PAPERS | PREDICT GREAT DOUBLE SMASH AMSTERDAM, May 7.-The Ger man press declares the resumption of the West front offensive will be aided by a huge offensive on the Italian front, it was learned here to- day. “The combined effort will thus bring the longed for German peace the German papers say The beginning of the West front offensive was forecast in the Ger man pres TALK PLAN TO KILL SALOONS IN CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES, May 7.—A special seasion of the California legislature to abolish California's saloons as a war measure, will be called at once by Stephens, if pledges of suf. ficient votes to dry the state are made, it is persistently reported to Gov "BiG DRIVE FATAL T They're mad has happened? & rotten decision, funny. And Cart Intent addition to The Star's group of comics appears on page § today That is evident ply oniat Topliffe is You bet something has happened but they're —WAR EXPERT MASON” ‘Predicts Sacrifice of they're sore! Something} The umpire has given het up.” They're so mad they're Johnny-on-thespot. Topliffe in th of funmakers, His first of a series Oh, but Colored Gent in the Telegraph | It is inconceivable that the Western Union and Postal Telegraph officials are so dense that they fail to recognize the inalienable right of employes to or- ganize. It is inconceivable that these companies locked out 200 men and girls in Seattle, and imported strike- breakers here, simply their employes into the abject submission of feudal slaves, eae must be a deeper purpose than that, for ig plain. to all intelligent people that these are no It is plain that in this day and age the right to organize is no longer debatable. It is plain that on these industrial questions the J monopoly is bound to be defeated. , then, the lockout? Does it We in the fact that the Western Union and Postal Telegraph companies are anxious to have ies days of slavery. telegraph the government commandeer their systems? When the United Stat it guaranteed the average dividends of the three pre- It is a fact that the past three years have been the richest in the history of the telegraph companies, tho the employes were retained at starva- tion wages. Is the telegraph monopoly playing for a war-profiteering guarantee from the vious years. This may be the dark Sooner or later the government must take over a public service of the character of the telegraph. in The officials of the companies know that, and it looks very much like they're trying to get out NOW at a war profiteering price. BUT THEN, AGAIN, FALL TWICE IN THE SAME WAY. for the purpose of beating BY FRED 8S. FERGUSON WASHINGTON, May 71.—Fifty | Correspondent IS INEVITABLE. oan pee Ae million dollars worth of acro | ‘Hindenburg, Intoxicated With Lust, Fails to Follow Up His Advantage at St. Quentin Written Especially for The Star. BY J. W. T. MASON, The Noted American Military Critic. * Monopoly! pst German militarism has lost the war by its stupendous mistake ‘in taking the initiative in the destruction of mane ‘ MMIES SPRI '$50, 000, 000 power along the West front. : CERMANS WITH AIRPLANE MONEY » sssosct caet"sltne te, octet SHOWER OF GAS WASTED, CHARGE BY THE WAY, have you noticed that the Ger- man communiques lately aren't saying anything about the crown prince, who commands the southern half of the West front offensive? It looks as if the Hohenzollerns don't want poor, precious Willie to be associated with another stupendous defeat,’ following so soon after his suicidal fiasco at Verdun. the life and death of a great nation’s manhood. A reckless gambler with death Von Hindenburg has proven himself to be, like all his kind. HIS REPUTATIO ALREADY HAS BEGUN TO TOTTER; ITS COLLAP This reputed superman set forth to win the war German autacracy by breaking the allies’ line in P dy. Had the line held, Von Hindenburg’s reputation ht still be secure, for it is always legitimate for a general t4 production,” according to pub |take such risks as this. But the front gave way, Dp ee Shee. gga Si Here |}YET VON HINDENBURG LOST. aviation Investigator fie ene Marne.” tne tranacende anyother wccurrence since the} contracts have been given men who “had neither rhyme nor reason for the remotest connec’ tion with the emergency airplane ARMY IN PICARDY, May 6— The rear German organizations have been bathed in gas, in retal- fation for the gassing of Ameri can areas. The guns roared all night. ‘The boches threw over more than 15,000 “yperite” mustard gas nhelle | Saturday night. gassing one village “aad el) roads in the #i0inity Instead, according to Borglum,' series of combats began. ubsequently there wan bh three these men received the favors be The decline of Hindenburg’s reputation must date from the hour bombardment with high explo Cause they had pull of Deeds"! events that happened immediately after the battle of St. Quentin, nives, the Americans keeping under en ee ne eee produc: | ‘The allied line had broken! Here was the golden opportunity cover in thelr newly constructed dug: Yon #n | for which Germany's militarists had been planning during nearly es took over the railroads, outs. The concentrated German gas) Stung by President Wilson's ex four years of warfare. Makang attack was like a rain of gigantic bad eces Lieut. Morgan, of the medical corps, heroically stuck to bin post In a shell hole. rendering firet ald un tl he was exhausted. He threw off his gas mask in an effort to work faster, as mustard gas principally affects the eyes temporarily The American patrols are bringing pone of correspondence, tending to| show he had been only a volunteer in exposing the airplane work, Bor glum came back with a hot retort today Asserting he had been balked in hin investigation, the sculptor-prober declared there was a conspiracy among the “higher ups” to deceive and mislead him But the great German war machine collapsed when confronted i with the sudden test. h ours the history of the world might __ ‘ During that fateful ave been changed if the German leaders had been the geniuses _ they announce themselves to be. . 2 But it was democracy that won the victory, not antecracy. _ The allied line was restored and held fast. That is the sume ming up of the whole Picardy offensive. Von Hindenburg’s failure at St. Quentin demonstrates how madly ¢ loeived was his entire plan of campaign. In sober truth, Von Hit government? gent in the woodpile. German prisoners every night “I have said that the aero di- | burg’s objectives were secondary purposes with him. To break the They are also déveloping the deem vision is full of profiteering, that | line, to reach Amiens: to capture Ypres; to advance to Dunkirk, G est hatred for the treachery of the hondreds of millions have go and Bologne and dominate the channel coast—all these were given that factories have been created where no factories were neces sary.” Borglum's statement de clared, “and that contracts to | the extent of $50,000,000, given | to men who had neither rhyme | Jominant reasons for the costly offensive, and were believed to be # by the German people, But they weren't the dominant reasons, was only one dominant reason INTOXICATED WITH BLOOD LUST Von Hindenburg started his Western advance solely because he be for the remotest con. |t7USt under his control a sudden abundance of German soldiers, nection with the emergency air. |{eleased from the Russian front. IT WAS THE INTOXICATION @ boche One entered the front line alone. yelling “Kamerad’’ The Americans’ | suspicions were aroused and they | surrounded him quickly UNCLE AM MAY OT They found, he wan loaded down with hand gren ades. He tried to escape, but was |BERLIN CLAIMS | U.S. TROOPS ARE | TAKEN PRISONER | LONDON, May 7.—Capture of American prisoners in “forefield en gagements” southwest of Blamont was claimed in the night official statement of the German war offic Blamont is 16 milea due east of Luneville and two and a half miles routheast of the German border. It is four miles due north of Anocer viller, where Americans were gaged a few days ago Field Marshal Haig, reporting on the Australian advance in the neigh borhood of Morlancourt Sunday night said that taken, Enemy raids were repulsed south of Locre, in the northern por tion of the Flanders battlefront Sun day night and Monday morning The French war office reported heavy cannonading on both sides of the Avre, but no infantry actions. 200 prisoners were START SALOONLESS SABBATH BAKERSFIELD, Cal, May 7.—Be ginning Sunday, all Sabbaths will be “saloonless days” in Bakersfield ordinance closing all Sun days. saloons impressions. The letter follow: March 20. Dear Father: Now that the for me for the time 1 have time to breathe nd eat and write, I'll try yut the battle. Before this you will have you re had the but I c4ive whole story from the papers, know you will be interested in know ing what I did in the affair the things I saw were of a gi Of course, an infinitesimal but part whole, and it would be im pousible for me to give a correct description of the battle, And as L * this, I do it with no knowledg whatsoe going on even British Outnumbered All 1 know is that on this part of the front the Germans attacked us in places in overwhelming numbers, that they) From the Thick of the Fighting in German Drive, American Officer Writes Vivid “Close- Up" of the Greatest Battle of World’s History | #222 ise eee ee but finally lines of defense, oF and fighting for the af guard action, we about 15 miles in a have straight line k before the battle start been expecting it; we to move on 30 minutes! For aw ed we had were ready notice ant as well as medical officers on tours of reconnaisance, definite methods of evacuation of the wound ed had been worked out, and our plans of counter attack been made four or five a of waiting the storm finally bro opened up on with the heaviest barrag heard, “Stand to,” wan sounded, we turned out dressed, and had all our equipment packed in 30 minutes, Then we wat down and waited for orders to move The barrage kept up continuously, 1 had been out with combat: | 111 SEAMEN ARE overpowered | The German infantry is displaying |atens of nervousness, increasing its 9800 ction, but who had |THE GERMAN BLOOD LUST, due to the fresh cannon fodder, # 89 fy pig cota and who are '"0Ved Von Hindenburg to order the butchery of the Picardy plains, Every offensive must have its formal objectives; but the appetite & e and seni > nt ‘ock-| still floundering in their ignor KILLED AS U. S. fire an re ding up numerous rock:| ee aad incompetency, unable |siushter that has dominated leaders of the Von Hindenburg type th atin history always finds self-deceptive objectives when there are and incapable of fulfilling their contracts, but still drawing, un- der the cost-plus system, on the SH. SHIP IS SUNK, meRICAN SHIP enough to be sacrificed Von Hindenburg chose to challenge the allies to a test of sheer NEW members of the crew of the Ameri-! ” ling. The rest was incidental nS 8. Tyler were killed when the DOWNS U-BOAT page praia fe ee Of his ostensibly proclaimed objectives, Von Hindenburg won beg —_ torpedoed and sunk off WITH 3 SHOTS public view, the department of jus the first and by far the most important at St. Quentin, but he | the Fr inch coast May 3, according to WASHINGTON, May 7.——With| Uce proceeded with its preparations didn't know what to do with it. | word received here today <n i. a hits the American 0F the probe ordered by the presi He knew how to slaughter his own babe ic Fes not how te The Tyler wax formerly an Old peri oe fk earconl ra eee | a take advantage of a break in the enemy Dominion line freighter and was of ongress will take in the No more damning fact has ever psd. -y a military lead- 3,928 tons, She was built in 1913, | submarine, March 17, the navy de ie oni reeaie os mealies. be partment announced today, The sec If it so happens that Von Hindenburg c: : “an : ; for some days denburg captures Ypres, or evem Anti-Sedition Bill 5 Hepp sbdhty talib plicok fede it Amiens, or should his tactics of slaughter finally carry him to, the eam boat, the Tidewater's commander re- In he will be unable to use these successes to achieve victor | m ou coesses to achie ry. He has” Picts Hovse| ce START 3 PROBES |i tei ee ¢ ame ‘The captain, the chief engineer. That conclusion Von Hinde! idea ae WASHINGTON, May i clusion Von Hindenburg fully demonstrated at St. Quentin, ASHINGTON, May 7—ty va! The captain, the cnet sowtneer.” OF CHARGES IN | 7! conclusion von Hintennurs fully demonstrated at Bt. Gum gave final congressional approval to a ee fective,” he report AIR CRAFT WORK hetter fo allies that Von Hindenburg remain on the offensive thal the sedition Bt by adbeting the edn | ™ age hat the a themselves take that position before the American a ference report aiready approved by! The action occurred shortly before | | “i cough gfe a psi Three | ave received their full strength in France ° kenee. S86 mady. ADE midnight, March 17, distinct anc narate probes ; : : F tne nenate. Meyer London. New ithe ship barely cnissed the U-boat America’s aireraft production were UNABLE ‘TO TAKE ADVANTAGE i Ing vote. Lundee, Minnesota, and| While turning. The submarine then | being developed today | Von Hindenburg’s incapacity to make use of his advantages has beet Church, California. voted present was submerging, and the guns were The Department of Justice, the | #0 conclusively shown that continuation of his attacks means no more at brought to bear, with the result that | house and the sen military affairs |most than the temporary relinquishment of a few additional miles of AUTO CRUSHES WOMAN the firt shot hit some distance committees have determined to look | French territory in exchange for still more appalling German casualties, ahead of her wak into charges of graft launched} — It is an exchange that Germany should not have started, and cannot WENATCHEE, May 7.—-Mrs. Wil Three shots in all were fired, after against aircraft officials afford to continue, If the positions were reversed, even France could liam Dahike of Waterville is dead | which the Tidewater proceeded with Senator Chamberlain, of the sen-|imake a similar exchange and retain any assurance of preserving en and two others injured as a result of out again seeing the submarine, tho ate military affairs committee, prom. | of her own + manhood to start the French nation going again whem the overturning of an automobile all preparations were made for a tat. ised a probe that “would spare no. | the war is r ‘ unday afternoon, erat body se Most of the German casualties in Picardy and Flanders this spring? —— —— | have been inflicted by the British. In return, the British casualties have: been heavy: but Grewt Britain has lost far less men in the war than ba | Germany, and can afford new casualties where Germany cannot. | AMERICANS BRINGING UP RESERVES And now, piling into France are thousands upon thousands of Amere fean soldiers ready to take up the killing where France and Great Britain leave it. America alone can pay a new cost in casualties that <n to approach when he began his West front offensive “relying on German man power 4 he he like | Win world-power for the Hohengolierns } sometiv Intensity, sometimes Its Bs Bagi Otte eae | mad, took up a position to our right,| 7 here whould be no pessimism among the allies, ‘The cold shivers Wa to the north of us and then sudde whore my brigade hat its eantesbly |SVUNS into position, untimbered, and | Ave felt Pushing Up aoe down Our cuines Cuent wea to Se it switched to the south paint. As we approsstied our little |i® two minutes were biasing away. | "h* Brett Tee ty Pe ett et eens ten ott tonne ae Our bslicons were up as econ as|Sonee we. could. ull thi out) t Was a thrilling sight and th Germans who haven't gone mad with blood tust are feelings : alle 94 anne them very much worse than we 4 Rightly inte ed, they meat it was light, and the airplanes were sant sensation to feel we were In going forward, we went around | yon Hindenburg's Western offensive was s : buzzing over our heads, The ground ching straight into it the end of the larger wood in front | jam ‘d aa a suicide’s choloe thet ta und marching straight in democracy’s triumph and the overthrow of militarism mist gradually cleared and the Ger | of us, over ground that was torn te] ss cas mans put a hail of abrapnel on our| All the battalions arrived and in| iity by the heavy sbelifire that hi camp and we all took co but| that little copse the: must have | juyt preceded, over another I three men were hit. Why ts ita fel-| been at least 2.000 men. What @ | gorogs a valley, and under the OFFIC AL . WAR REPORT | low always, feela wafer with a roof|chance if the Germans only knew!| of q ‘nil, And here we found the RNS a over hin hi even if he knows|But the shells continued to drop 11! tanky going over the top of the hill shell will go thru boards and corru-| none landed pene. and aft point we were still about a mile from | : —eae 4 ron just ° er? | w ny ere for three hours, ex-| spe ty, ry ec 4 deme rendeee ein otine 40 he Ba to mite cope | eee LONDON, May Raiding activ PARIS, May There was & Our orders to move finally came) Pecung At this place I opened up an aid! jtiey were reported by Field Mar- mutual artillery fi and we marched off to the brigade! 0nd. we finally moved forward. Just) yost under the crest of the hill to! yhal Haig today of a ay a “f . on both aide assembly point. several miles aw an we left Hie goPag from behind war | take care of what wounded came in] “We captured a few prisone a} repovtaa ae » Sreoh e ore In a large wood there was a bat Aine chine , came A STEAM Of While we were getting into position. | three machine guns in a successful West of Hangard-en-Santerree tery of heavy artillery 1 shells | 4 | looked back across the valley we | paid last night, in the neighborhood | (where American treops are in the 3 were dropping in th two or three | Artillery in Action had just traversed lof Neuville-Vitasse (three miles. line) a German surprise attack failed to a minute, and it was heavy stuff,| “It's the cavalry,” some one| The drumming of the guns contin-| southeast of Arras),” the report said, Our local operations there reeulteda too. shouted, but soon I made out lim [eet twilight gradually deepened in| “Our troops suffeged slight casual-| in the taking of some enemy prig (Continued on Page Siz) ties. | trom some distance away, and it was| bers and field guns. {whee