The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 6, 1918, Page 1

MORE THAN 70,000 PAID COPIES DAILY ASED WIth st RS ARROCIA Pau 1c) NITED 1ONS VOLUME 20 THE URL FOE BACH ENEMY MAY BOMBARD U. S. COAST CITIES GREATEST DAILY ANY PAPER I} PACIFIC THE 1E 6, 1918, ¥, JUN NORTH WE. The Seattle Star CIRCULATION OF Divers ‘Yankees Duplicate Fa Get Aid of General Gallieni, i '336 FOES | DOWN IN AIR WAR BY WM. PHILIP SIMMS L-of Spies Believe U- boats Communi- cate With German Agents Along Atlantic Coast SECRET SERVICE BUSY) Winn rr ‘inivisi “An —- MIES IN FRANCE, June 6.— LONDON, dune 6. —Kngtish | ust ag events onthe ground rine operations an the Amer. are shaping themselves for the jean coast are intended to lure final crash, which must inev- back American destroyers and itably decide the fate of the patrol beats now in European world, the aerial offensive is . ; a. ‘The mutual struggle for mastery eats cities td Sia entire | f the alr since 1914—a stupendous battle miles above the earth—has| scarcely ceased day or night. . dune 6.—Secret 336 Huns Down | have started brought down 336) | British airmen | Germans in less than three weeks, up to June 2, of which 283 tally destroyed. In many cases en emy planes, spinning from the sky | toward the ground like rockets, crashed and burned until only black smudges were left. Sometimes in their agony. pilots and observers leaped from their flaming planes in mid-air, whirling over and over and landing far from the wreck of their machines During the same period 526 tons of were to Bid by seamen who were captured and held aboard, had wireless com: munication with some point, and it {= believed tt may have been in touch with German agents ashore. A con cealed radio station !s being hunted. Ge a is suspected of being in- FUVY SEARCHES FOR DIVER BASE ON U.S, COAST BY CARL D. GROAT high explosives were dropped be hind the German lines, or well over a million pounds. The Zeebrugge | mole, the Bruges docks and railway tations and munition works in cities far inside Germany like Mann heim, Landau, Karleruhe and) Cologne—were attacked repeatedly | and set fire again and again In one day, British airmen, often mere boys, shot 24 Pruasians from the sky and dropped 69% ton» bombs on enemy military « going as far as Bruges the anti-aircraft shells oom ing low to the ground, ¢ ated @ disactrous fire along tc water! front. ‘The next day the same sky raiders charged a number of German air fleets, demolishing 26 craft, the wrecks failing in somersaults to the ground “Ww. ‘ ‘e Are Coming, ) Father Abraham, || Millions Strong” | LONDON, June 6.-—The mans may read certain doom as @ { result of this engagement, which ix a clarion message to Ameri the Daily Express declared toda up. ‘There are sufficient boats in the coast patrol to maintain ordinary) vigilu, but to dog a submarine effect: | ually with the resources on hand ts a| large problem. Officers, pemever: | declare it is possible to nddamotias | the purpese desired with the present materials. Waters around the Virginia Capea 0 | | 1) Ger are believed to have been well chart ed by the Germans when the cargo submarine Deutschland was here. in an editorial, on the American { One great danger remaining in the |( victory at the Marne, headed situation is that the U-boats still “WE ARE COMING, PATHE have untouched a supply of torpe-|) anaHAM, MANY MILLION || does to use on big craft. All their|) ornonG H victims so far have been sunk by tthe fates have ordained: that+ pense If ¢his ta.the honor. of finally free } PES ey | ing the world from the militar ists. the editorial said ‘The ( Americans are the last reserve It is th last rese a which set tle every war.” ‘AMERICAN SHIP RACES TO PORT, DODGING DIVERS STRUCK; 332 | ESCAPE DEATH. AN HH PORT, June 6. | —The Kenilworth Castle, with | NEW YORK, June 6.—With her 78, 252 poneteee fag ral eT passengers wearing life belts and all here today from on deck, where they had been all port, in a damaged condition. It sa an Sond n steamship reach is not known whether she was [1 from Havana attacked by submarine, or struck a ynine. ‘Two explosions followed a collixion with some tb object me of} ora the crew and passengers were lost paint. gout One lifeboat, in which there were a| TO lr tou uit number of nurses, overturned The the peasengers to. don life inrush of water drowned some of the be pre red for emergencies i were issued that no one should even The collision occurred shortly after approach state rooms or go below midnight, and the Kenilworth Castle | #PPro r began going down Oy tp with water, GERMANS GOT SURPRISE IN ATTACKING U. S. MEN a ru the ni and the age th Hook | exciting zome off Sand ia Capes Virgin after reaching a andy Hook, they no chances, but told belts Order and The bulkheads held, howe and ed an even keel, al-| the vexwel regal tho her bow was torn and twisted.) PARIS, June 6 Germans Four lifeboats took to the water.| got disagreeable i wher Several of those who were thrown) they struck the Americans at two into the sea when one boat over-| points on the Marne battle front turned, were rescued by destroyers.” | declared the military critic of th ‘The Kenilworth Castle displaces| Exchange Telegraph Co. toda tons, was built in 1904, and| “Undoubtedly the enemy will be 570 feet long. yle to draw «a moral from this and pwd — _———— wf! realive that American participa OUNDED FRENCHMEN tion is not mythical, but thot ix wi hurry the hour of BOY SCOUTS SELL Franco-American Relief of Seattle '$56,874 IN STAMPS hag received a cable of thanks for! Boy Scouts in Seattle the check forwarded by the local or: | $56,874 th of Thrift stamps it ganization, With the funds, 1,000|was announced at the regular meet- refugees are being cared for at four |ing of Seou stors at the ¥. M. C | THANK SEATTLEITES vietor From American fund for Freneh wounded headquarters in Parin the | recetved | start for the critical spot ‘ SAMMIES RACE TO COMBAT BY FRED S. FERGUSON United Press Correspondent WITH THE AMERICANS ON THE MARNE, June 6.—Ameri- cans fighting the Germans on the Marne furnished the most dramatic moment of the war since Gen. Gallieni'’s “taxicab army” saved Paris. Rushed from a distant area, under French command, to Chateau: they did work on the battle line at that point that is surpassed in history only by the exploit of Gallieni’s troops. Americans now confronting Germans along the Marne, at point of the farthest advance toward Paris, and who drove back the en omy after the river had been crossed half an hour's notice to] the Railroad trains, automobile truck French camions and every ponsibin| vehicle was pressed into service and! speeded off, loaded with Americans. | baving the full right of way over all| roads. They arrived at the battle Ime at night and were fighting in! the morning | Soon after the Americans arrived! - the enemy attacked. Our troops.| which included marines, were in the reserve. The marines then took up the fight. It was clone, open field warfare. Americin fighting brawn was matched arainst that of the Ger mans in a bitter struggle, which the Yu ‘von. ‘The | heaping the high oat pray te Americans. They are | of their stand at the 1 ere civilization was saved ving back the Germans in and where the foe munt an | thrown back themselves like veterans were captured in Monday night's fighting. which extended back into al TELEGRAPH STRIKE orders for a nation-wide strike 8. J. Konenkamp today. Oper ators are instructed as to pro Privoners | Wilson or the war administration. Confidence in President 4| it comes to a showdown on the prin AMNOusS Race Make It 50,000! You've gone over the top for the Red Cross and the Liberty Loan. You've done well for the Y. M. C. A., the Knights of Columbus, the Hebrew organi- zation, the Polish relief, the Belgian relief, There have been many calls on you—and you've } responded. : | DO NOT FALTER NOW AFTER MAKING | SUCH A SPLENDID RECORD. The Council for Patriotic Service is calling on you this week, making a house-to-house cahvass for t membership. It is asking little. The monthly dues ae are nominal. It needs you and therefore asks you to eS enroll as a member willing to give active aid in pa- nag triotic service. WITH T MIES ON THE MAKNE, dune 6, American machine gunnets, sup. ported by French artillery, are still holding the south bank of the Marne between Chateau- Thierry and Jaulgonne, a dis- tance of seven miles. An a remult of the Americans’ deadly the Germans have re. frained from occupying the southern Chateau-Thierry constantly “Taxicab Army” Feat to Marne Battle Line 'U. S. MEN PRAISED BY ALLIES | SUMMARY OF WAR EVENTS - BY HENRY WooD Correspondent nited Pre. manship on of would be | Americans’ fire There are home duties in war as well as duties | vt hag the’ mec , ok” eee erals in unt across the sea. The Council of Patriotic Service at- bss elticdency, tempts to co-ordinate these duties. It attempts to supplement the work of the Red Cross and of all other patriotic organizations. You, who have done so nobly till now, cannot quit now. Seattle’s quota is 50,000 members. Make it more than the quota, as we have always done. ORDER IS ISSUED CHICAGO, June 6—*"Blind” to gu The Central Labor counet! followed | Plane | the action of the Metal ‘Trades coun of commercial telegraphers were | ci! in concurring in the resolution of | C¢ issued by International President the telegraphers, that a national | (he A ons strike in jugtified if the telegraph | | companies do not submit to the prin: | at the Wednesday session of the con-|) rng vention, The protest was submitted |) to the American Federation of Labor | convention in St. Paul and the U. § Wilson, if in vision in { barred by hope FRENCH | the Huns. ble unless the food situation is owt famous French| British and French military ex-| proved. ‘ inted in praine Of | perts believe the Germans soon will ITALY—The food situation | hine gunn line. under AR where the coolness and bravery | resume of the Yankee m have covered themselves with glory | didier, where other Americans are in ince they entered the | ern, who ard attacks. The estimated June 6 cont BAKER ASKS FOR AERIAL DEFENSE * ONEAST COAST - WASHINGTON tary of War Raker today Ee pro- man the new fortifications bill | for 16 coastal aerial defense stations, | “North of the Aisne, the French sensibly against submarine and air- is $1,000,000 | Northwest of Fontenoy). Thirteen of them will be on/ tlantic coast have enemy to break already now finds a line which he cannot the me This Year, Experts }| of War Predicting }| FF merican infantry es under cover| Sedure during the walk-oat. ee ae eee eererene take trae de Wavine fielie of xreen grain, torn|. The date iw not set, but Konen-| upheld by the war labor board Baker ead. up by shell fire, and amidst other| py 4 yr it — ye oe hg | | fields and drcharda the American ar-|OF the forepart of the nex r) Ulery hurlw shells at the Hun. Be| "tke orders will affect both the |WIRE COMPANIES ARE Bloodiest Summer hind the lines the villages are de.| Western Union and Postal com SCORED BY RIGGERS) pos panies. Konenkamp today con. | ? From the first enemy assault untit| ferred with E. J. Thomas, represent:| Pacific district shipyard Inborers, that 6f Monday night, when the re |!%e railway telegraphers. pe an Denpnete genes ee) : Two pousibilities for averting the | "elves on record as opposed to the|! wor pH pulse was followed by a successful lattitude of the tele: h al T counter attack, the Americana bore|U@-UP are intervention by President | Sttitude of the telegraph companies|) y¢1 without ‘CH IN THE FIELD, June 6 his way Sites for the sta-| (eight miles southeast of Soissons and Neuilly been selected. | | They can be built within six weeks | are available, AR village, where a fierce hand-to-ha war labor board }) dium of heavy artillery which, as struggle between American bogn and| “ple of the right of Iibor to or Wit, mul a ee |} yet, he has not had time to bring , resulted the | Sanize 4 bargain collectively " invention urged all working|\ \,,, helmeted Germans resulted in the} wae ane cknowledged people to pay the closest of attention ‘ating of the Huns. There were| Which he has already acknowledged w ousting 0 ys ‘ »roclamation, was expressed by C, to all legislation, and to do their duty hin a very few days the three strong enemy attacks preced. |!" Proclamati as expr y le t i this, all of which were repulsed,|O- Young, organizer for the Ameri-| at the polls present battle between the Aisne | ing - on orcas ip whe rg pi tert | Can Federation of Labor, speaking as| l'tiday morning the convention will |? and the Marne must expected | h etigy eB Ma a thh Mahan cn.|% Teprenentative of the locked-out| ™ to elect officers for the Pacific|{ t® reopen with greater violence Dientendl "American hachine gun-| URion telegraphern Wednesday even ‘etates and for British Columbia $ age Brice ro “i odds baie ef aoe " ss : na, before the € tral Labor counci! m caver oO od sues, as sur ners. They lay coolly at their gis | 'M® brcuira shane hesassastet } prise phase is past while the Germans came on, then = } ‘This will be the bloodiest sum. opened up and riddied the enemy| t anee Shanene’ Nab ete Sescwe (Continued on Page Four) Make Merry Here, 5 ) Reet U.S. M ARINES | Says Mayor Bolton (N AUGUST 23, FIVE ENGINEER ; Attend, make merry and get | } the whole national patriotic spirit | REGIMENTS TO invitation went out to every city and town from Rellingham to Ta: ) SAN FRANCISCO, dune 6.— WASHINGTON, June Tive| |( coma, Acting Mayor alton } new regiments and nine battalions of BY F RED S. FERGUSON ‘ ; - yaly.2 fixed by 1 engineers, to augment those wines Means. on|) Thursday, for the Fourth of July. {! Superior Judge Griffin in u death fs E 0 | i “\{ The Fourth of July committee, { are to be com, TH ne Mes ‘Two enemy ? warrant In the hands of the of Military Rail ttacks have been repulsed by |) Deaded by Charles Davis, wants clerk of the court teday for the f Military Rail} pit 2 lagen eager ) all surrounding districts to come }| tusk oh ae, | When organized, American marines on the Marne|) 1, ceattie and nee the big celebra- )| eas swan ll 50,000 American railway men will be battle front. A German battalion |) Ton that Ja to be ataged at the )| 0" rant aebich was signed on construction and operation work | ‘orward 4 st the \ esterday, specifies that the exect “i swarmed forward against the ma-|) oouest of the government $] to . * lin France rines’ position in Neuilly wood last |} tion take place at San Quentin. Un night under cover of a bombard. | www | ler the orders, the warrant will be | on stp reyes grt UNITED POLAND The boches were met by a counter je in directe 0 delive o the resco wore cover TRAININ verte, meaning what soonest LS FAVORED BY ‘and a storm of machine gun and rifle remain in the county jail ecaporar | fis, Whe tation Beate ant ot fly at least | ALLIED COUNCIL fled in disorder No was ee LONDOD June 6 At the inter made to renew the a allied war council meeting in Ver-| This afternoon the marines shot! ji swing a recent investigation Yeomanette to sailles, June the British, French up a Hun patrol which attempted a| Follow oa ‘have pronounced ‘ and Italian premiers agreed to the | raid, Then they rushed a [ae nt crating! caeipy on thestinl | Help Raise Fllag | tcntowing dectarations, it was official machine gun position behind a hay. | the nay rps id rag sempus and |.,M#8* -¥. Bathurst, chief yeoman: |1y announced today tack, killing we and capturing| Yersity ‘of Washington campus 24 ete ut the naval trainin mp on] Wirst, the creation of a united and one of the crew ey brought in| at Bremerton to be the most health | the University of — Washington | independent Poland, with free access the gun ful yet i plia ee ae re, | Campus, will officiate at 4 flag-rais:/to the sea, shall be one of the condi Lieut. Walter Flannery, Pitts bene heat: 7 sods prey from | ceremony at the Walla Walla] tions of a solid and just peac . and | burg, was decorated with the cros asp veg’ ~~ see ad nt | School Friday. In an address | the rule of right in Burope of War in an impressive ceremony | 4/seane oF accident hi Atl will outline the work the y ynd, the allied governments just behind the lines with shells| “ther camp. sas adton: photic sent? ee jo for Uncle Sam noted with pleasure eretary Lan passing overb ve Peg CNY of fhe nen) Miss Bathurst is a graduate of the |sing’s declaration ire to ex Plann swam the Marne river | tke sah a ey lun at 4) Walla Walla school, from the class| press their earnest sympathy in the with a French soldier who had been | 0S \when every man is te rk at Sj of 1908. | nationalistic aspirations toward free wounded,’ ‘The Frenchman had been | 2 °1ck eer bere sap hth a dom of the Czecho-Slovaks and the ri saesgo en tha | mente, any are evide e el bo enkad “dd ge “ os 1 2 ppan a on ves ‘the t of medical at FAVORS TESTING ugo®! poches were beaten back from the tention river he signaled his oredicament . ; THE SKAGIT SITE)LIEvT.-COL. VAN ‘DYKE NIGHT EDITION __ PRICE - ONE CENT f% French i Regain | Ground in Hot Counter Fight By United Press . 1.404th day of the war and) ments and raiding of positions oom tinued, FLANDERS—The British prisoners and lost pristners in ENGLAND—English believe the U-boat raids along American coast are designed scare the United States into ing destroyers and patrol bosts European waters, but are fi this will not be accomplished. AUSTRIA-HUNGARY — ists warned the government of t | (The 78th day of the big offensive.) MARNE FRONT—The allies not only are holding the Germans on the new front, but have assumed the in | itiative, driving them back at two | points between the Oise and Marne yesterday Enemy artillery heavily bombard ed the allies’ lines west of Rheims and in the Neuilly-Poterie sector where Americans recently stopped greatly improved, grain receipts above normal. A—Bolshevik forces ed German and Turkish forces in ic bombaré | Caucasus, capturing Kars. 3 their drive, probably extend. r attack westward, to Mont jing the she line. PICARDY — Spasmod: PARIS, June 6.—Allied forces assumed the initi on GeARMS, June Somvhind fegese sonnel eS French Communique today. = Germans werv driven back at two points on t fern portion of the front, losing 150 prisoners. “aher cannonading was on the western ai io wings. East of Sempigny (two miles south the French yesterday evening pressed back | Cue which had crossed the Oise, taking 100 qners,” the statement said. | their positions north and west of Hauterbraye (three Fifty prisoners were taken. “Artillery fire was particularly sharp around near where Americans defeated the Germans) and “a jor FRENCH ANNIHILATE PRUSSIAN SOLDIE | WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES| which are indicative of their ON THE MARNE, June 6.—The|in general, involve 28 reserve . Loorragper company of the Second di-/ ions, which were engaged June 1,» 7 vision of the Prussian guard was| One regiment lost 30 per cent of its |completely annihilated by a French |effectives, while individual compas aerial bombardment the night of | nies of other regiments were reduced | June 2-2, it was definitely establish-| to 70 or 80 men, The Third ed today 1% the 98th regiment lost 56 men out Other of a total’ of 150. ‘GERMANS MAKE EXPECT BATTLE NO BOASTS OF — WILL FLARE UP | MARNE BATTLE IN SHORT TIME German losses established, | LONDON, June 6.—The WITH THE FRENCH AR Jonly continue to hold the MIES ON THE MARNE, June Jat all p on the Marne battle | Despite the present stabilize. ront, but appear to be assuming the tion of the Marne battle front, OA TENE Ot el Tacs uinee | Chateau ‘Thierry to Noyon, there indicatec see aan eas eras is no indication on the part of the Germans either to entrench | or to fortify themselves, which might show an intention to rest on their present line. Consequently the battle may be » failed to claim any ‘rench communique said that numerous attempts of the enemy to advance at different points were re pulsed with serious losse [resumed with increased intensity at | North of Aisne between sdanakt sne and the Oureq, French |“, momen |the Aisne and J ‘The Germans have brought up ar joounter attacks Ained some ‘tinery and have relieved their deck 1 resulted in the captu ground ar mated forces. of 200 prisoners In the meantime, the allies have Herlin claimed “successful ad-| been strengthening their positions, vances and some prisoners” in Flan-! sepecially along the Marne and the jders, but said the situation in the|\ijersCotterets forest. Both of Champagne was “unchanged.” these positions, are indispensable to Field Marshal Haig reported the | the German specially for the pur- pose of protecting their flanks be fore undertaking the march toward Paris, along the Oureq and the Marne. MORMON CHURCH OPENS IMMENSE WHEAT STORE usual rai and artillery activities Jon the Pi and nders fronts. There was limited artillery firing along the whole Italian front |No, 80,000 Huns Not Taken! Too Bad WASHINGTON, June 6.—The ru WASHINGTON June 6.—The | mor factory, busy yesterday and to-| granary of the Mormon church tn }day has produced the following Utah, holding 000 bushels of | The crown prince and from 59,000 | wheat, has been emptied in response 7 | to 80,000 of his men have been cap | tured. Rut the war department said that unfortunately this was untrue as far | as the information here goes jto appeals from the food administras \tion. All Mormons are required to | give one-fifth of their harvest.to the church and the wheat thus obtained, | was stored against want Flannery tied a rope about his waist} | ind nwam the fiver. He then tied JEROME, ARIZONA, IS | he puile wuities committee of! ~ EXBECTED HERE Topay RUSS WIN OVER 184 SICK SOLDIERS : the rope abou 6 Frenchman, an¢ ‘the city council decided Thursday to eld ti ne While thes ware noth | — THREATENED BY FIRE | recommend the appropriation of 815. | Lieut-Col. Henty Van pyke, Unit} TURKISH FORCES — RETURN FROM FRANCE pulled acron# | JBROME, Ariz, June 6—A fire] 000 for the preliminary examination |ed States minister to Nether-| MOSCOW, June 5.—Russian re) WASHINGTON, June 6—One When as by the United Pres«| which threatens to destroy the entire | of the Gorge creek power site on the | lands, is scheduled to arrive in Se-| serves are concentrating for the de. hundured and eighty-four sick and what the Frenchman sald, Flannery | cast # of Jerome is raging Fire | Skagit river, The work will include | attle Thursday, to address the mem-|fense of Kars, which was captured wounded American soldiers were sent rewied fighters are being rushed from al} | drilling t holes to determine the |bership luncheon of the Seattle Cham-/from the combined German and to the United States from Frany He said a whole lot, but 1 don’t| near-by mines and shelters to aid the | foundaitons for a dam. City Kn-| ber of Commerce in the Masonic club) Turkish forces in a big battle May | during the week ending May 31, know what it was, He did @ lot of |lacol firemen in checking the blaze, | gineer Dimock is already proceeding | rooms I'riday evening. Dr, Van|24, The Germans and Turks are re-|war department announced hand shaking, #0 I guess he was say-| which threatens to wipe out a big} with survey work under.a former Dyke will speak on “Fighting for ing he was glad to get back.” section of the business district. $5,000 Oy atcathnny a > Peace,” the title of his Jatont poe gacring the population, Uring along the Ardagan road, mas | Sixteen were sent here bien y week ending May 24,