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

MORE THAN 70,000 PAID COPIES DAILY _THE ‘RE , AT D ML SE RATTL E, WwW ASH, _. ould Renew War If Allies Will Help BY FREDERICK M. KERBY AN ATLANTIC PORT, May 22.—The Lenine-Trotsky Bolshevik government of Russia fall within a few weeks, Either of two things will bring this about. One is further German military penetration of Great Russia. The other is Japanese penetration of Siberia. But counter- revolutionary activity against the Bolsheviki within Russia is not even remotely probable. | These facts I have secured today from Americans just arrived from Russia. The information they bring throws unexpected light on the confusing and contradictory new bled from interior Russia. If the Soviet government is not crushed from with- t, the Red Guard forces now being organized by Trotsky may get back into the war to the extent of keeping a million German soldiers busy on the Eastern front next year. This result, however, depends upon the attitude of the allied governments—particularly America—toward the Soviet government. President Wilson’s opposition to Japanese intervention in Siberia has produced a distinctly favorable result in Russia. The volunteers being organized by Trotsky already | number. nearly 500,000. The Botsheviki inherited an army ready to go home, and only by super. human cffofts were able to keep the starving troopa in the trenches the first Month of negotiations at Hrest-Litovsk. When the German army started Its invasion, the old army melted away. The ex-soldiers are now} wandering about the country, or slowly making thelr way back to their _ Villages to take up plots of land. Z The military strength of Russia depends entirely upon the new Red | army, organized not of socialists, but of workmen-volunteers. This force Mf adequately armed and supplied, may be depended upon. according to men who a few weeks ago were in intimate touch with the Soviet gov > @fnment. to fight against the German invasion. It will never fight, how: | | ever, as an army of the allies. The allied governments are hated by the Red guards and the Reishe Sha only slightly less than the German junkerdom” The masses of Hus, we are entirely opposed to the war They are. however, equally in-| 4 against the military ambitions of Germany and against Japan. d” Army Ready to Fight German Invasion Russia is socialist from top to bottom. A monarchist or bourgeois Seycttcan, jn: gotey remnrded ja Russia s0-an-opemy of the sotibtahed The only considerable opposition to the Bolshevik regime comes ee ee, ee ne Lenine are conservatives and reactionartes. ‘The Soviet government has secured peasant support by actually dis. tributing land. Any peasant in Russia today may have land. If the Rol: | sheviki are overthrown, any government which suceeeds it must carry | out this land distribution scheme; otherwise the whole peasant class will| rise. The industrial workers, too, have been given actual literal control of the factories, in most cases. They control thru shop committees Under such circumstances there is little disputing about wages, for the workers’ committee knows exactly what the output is, and the workers | take it all. Germans Rush New Army to Complete Ukraine Domination Not a German soldier has as yet foot in Russia proper—Great Funmia The German forces are in Finland, Esthonia, Livonia, Poland and the Ukraine. In these border states the Germans are co-operating with the upper and middie classes, And in every case the Bolsheviki are encour aging the working class and peasants to organize Red guards and oppose | the Germans. That the Germans recognize the menace to their plans created by the newly-developed situation in Russia is indicated by the reports that large | detachments of Bavarian troops are being rushed from the Flanders front | to the Ukraine. Resumption of active warfare in the Don Cossack region : ted. The Germans appear to have abandoned as hopeless their plan for economic domination of Russia, and to have decided upon new efforts for military occupation. A German ultimatum to the Bolshevik government threatening occu pation of Moscow has forced Lenine and Trotsky to consider the question of moving the capital for the second time, in this case to Nijni-Novgorod which is 250 miles east of Moscow, and comparatively safe from German | encroachment. | In the Ukraine, hatred of the Germans is being intensif fusal of the Teutons to permit the reassembly of the rada, arming of the Ukranian army Million Red Guards if the Alliés Want to Take Chance Russia, according to the latest arriv: here, can never be drawn back into the war on the allied side. But, if the allies are willing to take the chance, they can instigate renewed resistance to Germany on the Eastern front by supporting the Bolshevik government. This involves the immediate withdrawal of Japanese forces from Vladivostok, and the offer of supplies and munitions | to Trotaky, absolutely unsecured, and without exacting promises of any kind. Trotsky believes that from a may 7 oa. Se i million to two million volunteer guards can be organized in Russia. A million Germans kept on the East ern front in the 1919 campaign means a miilion leas on the West front. If the allies are anxious to gamble, the chance is here. GRAND JURY IS __ \WILSON THINKS IN SESSION ON | NEW WAR TAX MANY HEARINGS IS NECESSARY The federal grand jury went into} WASHINGTON, May -Prexi secret session at 11 o'clock Wednes | gent Wilson regards a tax bill neces United States | day morning in the United States sary at this session of congress. It district court of Judge Jeremiah Ne- cory court NT? aa aaa officially learned today that Sec tar dan retary McAdoo at a conference with foreman of t the president won the exeeutive'a ap-! proval of the proposed new re | bill of the courtroom wide was filled with men bound over on One entire Various charges for the grand jury. die + rs TEUTONS TO ABANDON AMillion Russians + + +++ 4+ +4 +4 ++ THE ACID TEST The SeattleS CIRC UL ATION OF WE DNESDAY, MAY IN THE PAC. IF 1c 1918. ANY P? AP 7 NORTHWEST 22 SUB BAS ! + “Down in your hearts you can't take much satisfaction in the last analysis in lending money to the the United States, because which you will drau pockets, of government of the will burn interest your But when you give, something your heart, something of your soul, something of with the gift, particularly when it ia given in such form that it never can come back by way of direct benefit to yourself.” yourself goes + —From President Wilson's Red Cross speech Saturday night. * * *© * * & There, on the battle-torn fields, the Red Cross nurse is giving, even as the soldiers are, to the very last ounce of blood. Can we at home be content with mere pawn- broker patriotism? is calling. ett tt ttt ttt |U. S. PLANS TO BUY SUPPLIES FROM RUSSIANS} BY CARL D. GROAT | United Press Correspondent | WASHINGTON, May The department has under consid for atate definite plan of aid on a Russia that this | It becarne known today contempla a form of financial as sistance which, while heiping Russia to struggle back to a place in the |sun, would also foil Germany's grasp ing machinations | The department plan is to furnish a vast quantity of money wherewith to buy up supplies in Russia, includ ing cotton, oll and other commodities much desired by Germ Germany will seize them without pay if America does not step into the breach, according to proponents of the measure. With the money which America would pay for these sup- plies, Russia would have an oppor: | tunity to do much toward rehabilita | tion, it is argued “We are holding the Hun, have not given him an inch, nor shall we so long as one of us re- mains.” Out of a funk shell-pocked rim comes this from one of hh hole, in the of civilization, message her so Keenan, a machine gunner with the Canadians, and son of 8. A. Keenan, attorney, at. His letter reveals th: just Koy grim deter mination that ix blocking the West ern drive of Altho wounded three times, during service " s He wrote lull in the battle. ‘The letter, in part, follows “Just time for a few lines the best of health and fi We a volding the of un an is during Am in ing fine cours [Mountains of Dead Bar Way of Kaiser | but the allies inflicted so many cas | ualties on his army that we consider | HOLLAND SAYS U. S. ANSWER IS INSUFFICIENT WA NGTON, May 22.—An. the Dutch ship seizure, informed the state depart that she regards as insuffici he has broken thru in a few pl his gain a victory for us, He made! the explanations made by this one of his famous drives on a| government. Canadian front. Our Lewis guns, A dispatch from The Hague today brigade guns and field artillery, further declares that the Duteh gov killed #0 many of them that we gave ernment has ordered Dutch steam him 12 hours to bury his dead ships to refrain from leaving home “It was terrible, thousands upon ports (Continued on Page Five) The United States government has notified Holland that her requi SWITCHMEN MAY STRIKE |" the ships to carry the remainder 3 grain promised by President Wil The appointment of T. E. Flaherty! son cannot be granted, It is sug-| as trainmaster of consolidated ter: poxted that Dutch ships be sent at minals in Seattle threatens to disrupt onee to comy the grain move the yard forces, according to railroad ment men. It is said that more than bite Sixty switchnen are ready to quit tons of shipping are tied up June 1, according to their announce: | Dutch ports ment sey take exception to the a man picked by J. J, McCullough si [Joint terminal superintendent, for the | You hear | the acc Tan H, job of trainmaster ea By Hazel B cas tages stage, where all the little doors | | open out when the people within To ask a man if he is a slacker is| don't want them to. not safe When Fred Fulton loomed in To ask a man who ia not a slacker,| sight clad in a very fuzzy red and nd white dressing a | green and yellow | gown the rest of the landscape did if.ye in a slacker, is to invite disns ter and disorder Th And to ask a man who is crazy to| quick fadeaway, Fulton's arma Me hang Jess Willard’s hide on his| were full of gloves and ropes and of § Blothesii if he is « slacker, is to, some things that looked like hand fy automatically for member-| cuffs "YT in the Bulcide club. There is| He Thunders “No” tH Only one shorter way. And that is| Fulton sat down quietly enough at wy to antagonize the city editor when|a table that was too small for him he shows the way and gathered up some cards that had So it came about naturally that a| been @pread for a game of wolitatr few moments after the city editor | He shuffled the deck while he wait said, “Go ask Fred Fulton at the ed, We both waited, feeling that the vd Pantages if he is a slacker,” | awak-| situation demanded somethi a ened in the hallway under the Pan’ “Are you" 1 begun apologet ical ! Lovely weather we're having, | iwn't it Fulton interrupted. Awful, isn't it?” Business of waiting Are you a slacker, Mr. Fulton I settled back and waited for the | | blow to fall | NO!" There was a silence after the ex plosion in whieh the dirt and flying scenery began to settle down | No!” it went off again | Then, while the act be his | was going ortentally on rs Fred Fulton, the 27-year-old heavy ht who says he ean lick any nin the world, gave these reasons why he is not a slacker. { “To begin with, I'm married and have nan ‘Over little boy orman, There’ until my wife leave Next thing—the Willard and 1 n't slackers, married, And to call us slac himuelf— twice. He think “Fighting ts or any other plasterer. Now is more money in It ever hud | eM GOING ‘OVER THERE’ AS SO ON AS IM IN SHAPE TO LEAVE MY WIFE AND KID, és ‘SAYS } FULTON | only ‘6 t 1 profession 4 years old. I' i 'm not know and child fixed right over no man has who ain't hen used I'm a fighter, y money. thing agree on is that we a ri lke to be his going 1 can Jess 40 and ter There just beginning to make # little for the first time in my life, And believe r it seems good to bo | able to do things for wife |deal. “Naw, This is only filling in and kid, Last year 1 made | nd making a go for the wife and $4,000 on a fight. 1 bought a | boy. 1 don't know what I'll do after home in Minneapolis and deeded [it, My manager, Mr. Collins, he it over to wi | knows better than I do. Never Had Education “IT want to stage a fight for the “I never had any education, When | Red Cross while I am up here, but I was 20 T decided I had to have nobody seems to want to t me more money than plastering would/on, I've done as much as I could get me, so T went into boxing I for the Red Cross wherever | have was lucky, I beat everything. Now) been, I'll fight anybody up here. I'm just at the point where I can| I'll fight Jess Willard if he will » good,” come, And I'll fight the man who “Do you like thi 1 waved in| says again that I'm a slacker the direction of the mu dressing rooms, which w ing brownskinned girls in Or trappings and the swallow ntal | tapped Fulton on gol ‘Over There’ just as soon as E'm in shape to leave my wife and kid.” the big man finished. Fulton said emphatically while he cut the cards and started to is ia iss a at ae +++ British Force Enemy Diver |brugge and Ostend as of the recent blockad forces, and the constant harassing of British bombing planes, according to mation from Berlin t 5,000,000 MEN IN ARMY NEXT YEAR, HE SAYS; dicting that the will have between 4,000,000 and duly 1, Charies Caldwell, New York, member of the military commit- tee, today gave the house an of- fiekal summary of America’s ing strength. thin one year after the first American left for France, this nation BERNE, May 22. |thorities are preparing to abandon Tonight and Thursday, fairs Keverwh in Seat to Quit Stations —German naval U-boat bases, beca: les effected by B today. HAIG REPORTS RAID ACTIVITY. IS SUCCESS LONDON, May £ British raids in esa sectors, German artillery fire south of and in the western and sou! tions of the Flanders front ported by Field Marshal Haig “Successful raids were ¢: last night in different parts front,” the statement said. | “Phe enemy's artillery was mt in the neighborhood of D (two and a half miles south of Al a will have 1,000,000 men on the West front,” he asserte | “During the first ten days of Ma: the {roop movements totaled 90,000 men.” Caldwell quoted official figures showing that the army by June 1 Will have 1,589,594 men and 148,328 ‘officers in the service, or a total of 2,038,222. LABOR MISSION HEAD IS PROUD “OF U. S. IN WAR | LONDON, May 22.--“To the Amer- fcan people I can say: ‘We vare | proud df the part we are playing in | the war, and I urge the speeding up of every war necessity, so the ter rible conflict may be su | concluded as quickly as possible.’ ” | This message was delivered to the United Press today by Jas. Wilson, head of the American labor mission, | which has just concluded a tour of Great Britain and France | “We have witnessed the war ef | forts of Great Britain and France,” | Wilson said, “and I can say that ery resource at their command 1s utilized in speeding up war When the delegation left London jit was absolutely unchanged in its | determination not to confer with the/ | German laborites until Prussian mili | tarism is crushed. \THINK GERMANY WILL DISCUSS WAR PRISONERS WASHINGTON, May 22. — The state department officials were con: fident today that rmany will an. swer favorably the American re. |quest for an American-German con- |ference on the prisoner question, | This confidence was inspired by the fact that such conferences already been held between Germany nd England, France and Italy, the atter conference being only recently | completed ‘Says Horse Meat Meat | Is on Sale Here | Is horse meat being sold in Seat-| tle? | | Charges to this effect were made | this morning by a reputable physi clan. A few days ago, when a shipment lof horse meat was reported, city health officers quickly put a stop {to it | Maybe some unscrupulous dealer has smuggied some in in spite of this | —- PORTLAND, May 22.—The sailing ship Tacoma, bound from San Fran cisco to Alaska, has sunk, followin an accident in the Bering it was esefully | the| [Juncheon, candy and cigarets by the and in the Nieppe fdrest (on. ern portion of the Flanders jortheast of Bethune southern portion of the front), the enemy heavily us with gas shells. “Our raiders captured 14 — @ tnachine gun southeana vecOther Prisoners were ti neighborhood of Nieppe ft and canal, aE Meteren sector, north of Albért Thst night” — A German counter attack pe siderable strength on a 1, front northwest of Morvill | pletely broke down yesterday 1 B ling, Marshal Haig declared. lreported repulse of two enemy & north of Bailleul by French ti The French war office said @ | patrols made successful raids west of Lassigny, in the Verdun i tor and in the Lorraine. Regarding the operations in ders, the German war office “A strong enemy attack near | mel broke down yesterday with, guinary losses.” In the past three days Berlin’ | the allies have lost 59 airplanes” | three balloons, SINN FEIN PUSH _ PLAN TO STAR NEW MOVEME BY WEBB MILLER | United Press Correspondent | DUBLIN, May The Sinn in Ireland is recovering from | first shock of surprise and nation, It is determinedly pu plans to resist conscription, ing its shattered organization, pointing new leaders in the co districts, and strengthening its places The organization's headquat boasts that Sinn Fein companies | drilling in the more remote of the country. Several raids in effort to steal arms and ammunition are reported. a | There are rumors that the goy ment intends to confiscate he ae lion dollars in the anticonserip }fund. As a result the Irish I pendent advises local treasurers take ne ‘sary measures to p the money. | 80 MORE DRAFT MEN LEAVE HER On their way to join the n: army at Vancouver barracks, more select service man from | met at the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ ctub, 11:30 Wednesday, and later marchs ee 1 thru the business section to the ~ reat Northern station. At the club — they were presented with boxes of defense council and comfort kits by arned here today. No details are known the women's suxitacies, "an Seattle district of the Jas the a citie Cross was past the $100,000 ane in the war fund drive Wednes- day. This means that approximate. ly $400,(00 more must be raised by next Monday. “Business men must wake uj | City Chairman Joshua Green has told his committeemen. “If we fail it will not be because of the men. They are meet- bilities and giv- | ing their respor ing their share. Se ttle's workers are meeting the s of the Red Cross with cold cretary Geo. B, McGillivray |of the industrial committee says. Organized labor, almost without ex ception has pledged a day's pay. of over 30,000 ine habitants to exceed their quotas, ee . At the Pacific Coast Steel mills at Youngstown Wednesday, tonnage: | (Continued on page 5) Red Cross Kiss Brings $22, But Causes Trouble WALLA WAL May 22,— One kiss for the sake of the Red Cross brought $22 here. William ton, insurance man, bought it. an auction from a pretty show girl, It was worth the price, he said. Sheriff Barnes paid $14 for Kiss, ‘The girls first similar a | | ‘Tacoma is over the top, with the |} tried to make the money roll in campaign only two days old, Aber: || by. selling candy kisses, but got on, Everett, Hoquiam, Montesano, | no bids | Mount Vernon, Spokane, Vancouver |} Club women opposed the auc: jand Walla Walla have already sub-|) tion on the grounds it would be ‘scribed their quotas. ') insanitary and immoral. Tacoma and Everett were reported