The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 29, 1918, Page 1

‘ re MORE THAN 70,000 PAID COPIES DAILY VOLUME 20 FULL LEASED WIR seRVICR UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS THE G REATEST DAILY SEATTLE, WwW ASH., 000 SS 8 The Seattle Sta CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPE Rr IN THE PACIF. IC WEDNESDAY, NORTHWEST MAY 1918. ote What Tales a Park Bench Could Tell if It Could Talk! Well, Cora Moore os Mies It Talk, and You'll Enjoy the “Confessions.” First Chapter To ——3 ——_— — Orr nbd NIGHT EDITION Weather Forecast: Tonight Thursday, fair; moderate westerly winds. and PRICE ONE CENT TAKEN oes Americans Hold Cantigny Against Assaults Enemy Town Is Taken in Dash : By U.S. Troops PARIS, May 28. ” the newly captured town of Cantigny, e French war office announced today. WITH: THE AMERICAN pum ei a ERANCE, May 28.—Ameri®aii losses of Cantigny were light, it was ee cially announced today. Artillery activity has increased in all sectors held by Amat can troops. f BY HENRY WooD United Press Correspondent The Amer meters (near y preparation ans harged across 600 half a WITH THE FRENCH ARM. |e) im JES IN THE FIELD, May %— | pachine gun (Night)—An American regiment, of band grenades tacking German positions west Frencti tanks aévancing simb of Montdidier this morning, cap taneously with the American tured the village of Cantigny. ( ¢antry destroyed machine gun penetrated to the enemy's sec the Be ond line, and occupied beche po- sitions on a front of two kilo meters (1.24 miles), all in 15 minutes. An American regiment con: 9.652 men and 125 officers The attack followed a vi } O TEN TO HUN PRESS AGENT | “SLOP OVER” ABOUT KAISER The they murmur gratefully with its august passengers, from view.” FATHERS PLEDGE . tex, capturing « Germar position with the use Grivesnes 29. kal-! as the o press a AMSTERDAM has Ma a spec nt fer now whose business it is to keep the Ger man people in a properly worshipful attitude toward the ull-highest crib Here's bis latest effusion. ¢ ing how William, the Head Hu Hindenburg Assi Head Hun, started out for a motor tour of a battlefield “The suprene war lord clambers into the car. He summons Hinden burg to take a seat alongside of him. and even spreads the laprobe over the field marshal's knees with his own imperial hand “How knightly that is! than that—it is a token of respectful solicitude. Cries of ‘Hurrah’ rend the air. the First University of Washington a-nt » men who have lentown, Pa of the war, will heen static since the outbreak SOON Bee acti t in, made up telegram Wednesda id in part all be borne unsu It is more hed » flag 4 and kaiser and Hindenburg ur boys ‘What a spectacle! Ah, the sight of 0 these two men together is enough to | their tell us that all is weil. “The troops are beside themselves with ‘What a bit of luck,’ ctorious in the battlefield fathers shall defamation and as Godspeed lwith you er ever — ota a defend it from quit. and God's blessing fervor. —“American troops |! have broken two successive German attacks |} = mile) of No Man's Land in| HOME LOYALTY :: ~ | fo today [HERE'S FINE. SUGGESTION There are 100 graves of soldiers at Fort Lawton to go without dec Memorial in the com 5 ) a the ) iggestion of Mra would be fine Mra. Ma I think it cople would take a to the cemeter adquarters. and wea of the soll tve the Mc to regimental h at the } fort. Thursday pe schogg ss ; ers \ were to aid ‘FRENCH LEFTIS _ DRAWN BACK IN TERRIFIC FIGHT May 2%9.—“The man rush, with the errival of fresh divisions, continued night on the two wings of the Soles Rheims fron the French war office reported to day “The French left was drawn hack to the eastern border of Solssons, where the battle is go- ing on furiously,” the commu nique said. (This represents a maximum retirement of about nine miles on the extreme French left) ‘On the rik fenne of the Masnif (itera of St. Thierry (fow PARIS, Ger. last t flank Fre miles nor ms), were drawn b and the and southea: lerman Aux ns are Hers American Lune ctor (which includes the ALLIED AIRMEN DOWN 252 FOES _IN SEVEN DAYS VASHIN N 29.--Allied airmen broug 252 German week between Ma war office reports received b; British military attache The Western front nd dest uirplanes during 16 and May 23 the here stated operations include only nt Y Bis TO THE COLORS! ~~ P?ARARARARAADAALA, Autos Needed to Carry Veterans arry G. A. R. veterans and are now too fee to stand the strain of a march anked | to their wives, who ) ) ) ) The Seattle Elka need 200 autos ) ble on Memortal day report with their machines at Elks are ib, to be sent out to ick up rans. Other owners of machines who assembie, of their Lenor Third and on Fifth ave anchard and Bell ats. to help are to to the make Blanchard ate and Virgin between and Fifth as between E at 10 a. n. “Great Ball Game, Doc,” Says Wounded Sammy After Cantigny Victory; His Pockets Bulge With Grenades or ae aaa Jimmie Hopper “Captor” of 20 BY FRED 8. FERGUSON United Press Correspondent WITH THE AMERICANS IN . PICARDY, May 29—American . troops charged to the capture of “Now, we're in Battered Boches WITH THE AMERICANS IN } PICARDY, May stance of the bochea’ 29--An anxiety surrender in the Cantigny was furnished when a group of in } 20 tried to be captured by an un , ? { ) i i é to battle ¢ Back at headquarters, when the boys went over, officers waited anxiously for news of the attack, After 435 minutes of fighting, a voice came over the field telephone: “Hello! This is And armed correspondent, “Jimmie” Hopper, farnous mag azine writer, went over the top with the Americans. As he was entering Cantigny, a crowd Germans rushed at him. earnestly to be t Hopper was called to an officer “Come and get ‘em.” headquarters knew the Amer. 4 taken one of the most im-| nt towns on the Amiens front | d had won their biggest victory of war to date Was Fast Work The report came from a signal vaptain. re carriers, ignor. the German counter barrage, fol American infuntry and /rench Ss ot begging ken prisoner onplussed, i H but j ( ‘ nner tanks in the attack. When Cantigny [fell the field telephone station was | )] read: }) line {| tory | for business. The attack took place over a front of more than a mile. Within 45 min utes er the infantry had ¢ ver Canti the chateau and several hundred yards of rman second trenches were American terri The regiment went back 182 prisoners, including five officers The wounded seem to be the hap plest Americans in Picardy. I saw them in a tent field hospital today, laughing, and cattering like m Those in another tent had laughed and talked until they were tired, and were sleeping Jike babies, Among the talkers, such ex- pressions as these aro illustra- tive of their spirits: do it every day.” “That trench stuff made me think war was a foolish game, but this is real sport,” After reaching the enemy trenches it was a game of hunting the boche machine guna. A corporal attacked an enemy machine gun crew of four men, The corporal was wounded five times, but he Killed three boches ind captured the fourth. He carried off the machine gun on his shoulder until his wounds forced him to lay it down The boches hid in the grass rye fie in dugouts—anyw where there was the slightest ¢ Then came the work with bayo- nets, grenades and flame throwers, in Thirty Germans were incinerated in| one dugout when they fired on the Americans after crying “kamerad.” Rig cellars in Cantigny, where e to conceal a hur hed by A artillery. Enemy losses were prob (Continucd on page 8) | | | | ) Py) THE MI CROWDER wee * “ e awit) APOLOGIES 7 “Be Ldmund Vance (Goke W.S GILBERT 7 some day it may happen that new victims must be found Who ought to go to work, who ought to go to work list of people who are simply stalling ‘round, job it is to shirk, whose job it is to shirk first there's that who's 1 don't know what his name is, but I think it's ¢ And likewise his And who'd be muet “mechanic,” “employed” in that garage, mouflage, is the 1 fa till; Turk n shirk, assistant and hix boss who se re respected na the tapper the same regard for him as tho wer I'd make him go to work; I would let hi © loafers who are sho-fers and whose engines idly V'd make ‘em go to work, I'm mak They're simply wasting gas which should I wouldn't let ‘em shirk, I wouldn't let ‘em shirk And thone aninisters and preachers who are “helping win the war,” Using and vicious language we would spank our children for, And those other patro-maniacs whore chief job seems to be Abusing all who aren't “het up” as they prociaim to be, I'd put me safe place where the wary wardens I wouldn't let ‘em shirk; I'd make ‘em go to rk. run, m go to work used against the Hun; em in lurk Those speculators grabbing land to keep it out of use I wouldn't let ‘em shirk, 1 wouldn't let ‘em shirk; T'd chain ‘em to a hoe until they made the land produce I'd make ‘em go to work, I'd make ‘em go to work Those farmers who have 1 to town and simply gon But who hav » their struggling rente Those profiteering patriots who've coined the war to kale Until they h so much they have to count ft by the la e their fattened faces and subtract that smiling smirk wouldn't let ‘em shirk. I could keep this list a-growing, but it's time that I was thru, Tut still T musn’t shirk, I really mustn't shirk It's likely soon I'll name the job you think is crowding you You ought to go to work, you ought to go to work There are so many people who are stingy of their bit But some | really must put in before these verses quit; All poets who write parod t's ancient verse And other poets I might n: whose stuff is even worse; I'd put ‘em in the sho ps with a dagger and a dirk; 1 wouldn't let ‘em shirk; I'd set them all to work! to seed, need; es Berlin Makes Huge Claims; Gains 15 Miles Continuing their evident purpose of ing a wedge in the Franco-British line tween Soissons and Rheims, German tra are today struggling furiously to i their gains on the Aisne battlefield. | The Western front ting reach new crisis with this effort of the enemy. The boche advance to the vicinity of Fismes, az important railway cénter, provides a ni menace comparative to his smashes up Amiens and Ypres in the earlier thrusts. A gain to the deppth of 153 miles places is declared to have been made by German armies. However, it appears likely that the Teutons receive a check. Reinforcements of the allies are tinuing to come up, and it is believed possible with renewed strength, the British and French counter-attack. That the allied lines between Soissons and Rheims jwere lightly held appears the case from the boches” rapid advance. Tv-2nty to 25 divisions were emplo jto make the push. This was superior to the allies, who |gave ground as in other thrusts. PARIS, May 29.—“The German ad- vance, at certain points on the Aisne front has reached a depth of 153 miles,” the Echo’ De Paris declared today. between selle.” This is the so-called Toul sector, Allied communiques have mentioned only enemy shelling in this area, "8 ” ALLIES FACING “cents ENEMY WEDGE ints in th cen: | new drive, The er y ad-| n the shape of a double tri | WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES se extends from| IN THE FIELD, May 29.—Develop- distance | ment of the German offensive up te the hour of cabling appears to indie cate that Ludendorff intends to drive the Germans have crossed the @ Wedge thru the Franco-British river on b »s of Fismes. In| lines midway between Soissons and Jattaining th vance, the Germans | Rheims. crossed the Chemin des Dames and| The Germans apparently have en lthe Allette, Aisne and Vesle rivers, |&ased a cninimum of 25 divisions be | the allies have thrown | fore which the French and British |iarge for the |in the front lines are putting up @ bo ich is an im.| dogged resistance, in order to permit portant railroad, ce |reserves to intervene and turn the The other triangle has for its base the nine-mile front from Rerry-au- | Bae to Brime The British, whe are ending this sector, have held the enemy to a penetration of less | than ten miles. French office reported jermans the Aisne rreatly outnumber the allies, but de jared the latter are inflicting great AMSTERDAM, May 29.—The son th y kaiser is on the Aisne battle front, ita point south of Laon, according to a dispatch from Berlin today, Laon is 47 miles north and east of Soissons and about nine miles LANDON, May 29.—The Ger- the Meuse mans have penetrated a maxi- mum depth of about 11 miles into the allied positions on the Aisne front, according to the s of the Berlin war office, ‘s and last night's The capture of 15,000 prisoners also was claimed. and the Me » maximum pe larger one's Perry-au-Bac, a Its base is southern bar Vesle, | niles in an air ¢ of the | where reserves into th nse of Fismes, v Wilhelm Wins, Is Kaiser’s Note to German Empress war on Americans Praised Meantime, Americans holding the sctor west of Montdidier captured ntigny in a brilliant attack yester- / behind the original battle jine, ecupyin Telegraphing from this point, sitions on a front of two kilometers, | the kaiser sent the following mes- and taking 170 prisoners, the French © to the kaiserin report said. Wilhelm (the crown prince) at: Americans were aided by |) tacked the English and French French tanks. Several counter at-|) along the Chemin des Dames, tacks were repulsed completely surprising them, On the nders front, Field Mar “We have crossed the Alsne shal Haig reported re-establishment | and are approaching the Vesle, epnch and British lines east of | Fritz (Prince Eitel Friederich), kebusch lake, with the capture of ) With the First guards infantry many prisoners, and inflicting heavy |} division, was one of the first to enemy casualties, |} reach the Aisne The German war office claimed, “Our losses are slight, Tomor- also, capture of 150 prisoners “be-|) row we will make further prog longing to French and American .” regiments” on the Lorraine front, rh ies Ba