The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 8, 1918, Page 1

bt be MORE THAN 70,000 PAID COPIES DAILY THE POSITIVE AMERICAN can is to enlist for home war work by joining the Council of Patriotic Servi ice. ARR AAA AAA ene l'o be merely American is not enough. One must be a positive American. It isn’t sufficient to be anti-German. One must ed be pro-/ American, to be a real American. Negative Americanism, if it may be ¢ It isn’t a help in winning the war, and ma ‘Decide now how you are to be classified in the high test of American citi; enship. e Seattle Star ““2™ THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY winds, mow’ PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST lled that, is 50 per cent anti-Amer- y bea hindrance. And one way of showing you are a positive Ameri- weaterly EDITION 9 FULL LEASED WIRE aERV _ VOL UME 20 UNITED PRESS ASSOC! TATIONS SE ATTL E, W ASH., SATU RDAY, iat ian | 3 yL00K FORBLOT OUT ' BIG SEA | OLD SOL TODAY — High Teuton Naval Officers) Thousands Watch for Spec- Called to Base to Prepare | tacle of Ages in for Fight | Heavens | EXPECT BATTLE SOON. | ASTRONOMERS ON JOB MILAN Italy, June —| The news center of the uni- irculati verse shifted today from the bat- . tlefields of Europe to the solar German admiralty regions above these United a huge naval! states. stroke against the allies. All America watched the Orders are said to have| slime. . Roads to Chehalis were clogged the Suse | with auto partion hurrying to reach instant readi- |. sone of total darknoas. we. Numerous! A: Gottendate, Wash., scientists igh German naval officers | rom tnruout the nation were assem ie have been recalled from | bled with instruments ready to ob | | tain evidence that may prove or dis and all leaves | onove dozens of scientific theories. | Switzerland, | ape said to have been sus-| ., . ctoutvolced sailor from the | pended. Bremerton naval station called off leach second of totality, each member of the government party was to per form his allotted task. | by — the 113 seconds of totality hotographs were to be taken, in | cease a string of “movies.” | | The government astronomers were on hand. | By direct wire with Washingtor they checked up their time-k curacy JACKSONVILLE, Fla, dune (re moon began creeping be $—Enemy submarines are oper: | tween earth and sun at approximate ating off the east coast of Flor- ly 237 p. m. | ida, according to reports here to- The sun was to emerge clear at| 5:08 p. m j Se. The copeee of 2 pence Fighting went on as usual in the trenches of Europe. The eclipse was not visible to the sol- | diers on the battlefront, | Put many credulous people no Fla. doubt wondered whether the | would have any effect on the wor seven miles off Biddeford Pool, | Nong Be Down the ages, it was recalied marine near his vessel. Several | (Continued on Page Siz) members of the lightship’s crew saw the U-boat. The lightship | has been ordered to put into R E NEW YORK, June 8—Ten | vessels, totaling slightly more than 22,200 tons, were lost as a | result of German submarine ac- | tivity in American waters during | ERICANS: the week ending | | + ees LONDON, June &—“One of | here. During the week ending , the most encouraging thingn is aeee +, mevenienstety 2,109 ‘tone the superb valor and trained phy aap tell ships sunk was | Skill with which the Americans New York & Porto Rico liner| ave participated in the struggle Carolina. The Herbert L. Pratt,| 22d defeated the foc,” declared tanker, of 7.200 tons damaged| Premier Lloyd George, in speak: by mine or torpedo, but was brought oe er sre pire into port, after sinking in shallow| | : : It fs most encouraging because water, ‘ they are coming steadily in a great The toll of life so far ax known | row We are depending upon them totals 13, ail from the Carolina When in France recently, I met a tatesman who had just returned| STEAMER WESTERNER = [from the front, te said he wan tu NEWPORT, R. 1, June §—Capt. | aging, Parker, of the steamer Westerner, We are passing thru anxious a times, and the crisis ix not passed, | b submarine 100 miles off Nan-|but with a stout heart we'll pull| tucket shoals last Thursd al | thru | patrol boats appeared and the U-boat Emphasizing the moral lasue of the vanished. In cnidocean, Parker said, | struggle. the premier sal another submarine chased him, but If the allies do not succe sorry world to live in as too fast for it be a sorry wor asi . _ world, the of men, the nanny, | lives of futur ns, will be fashioned by the failure or triumph Machine Gunners =} ot our caus | Are Seen in Movie | digi berty Weekly, start | WOMAN SCALDED WHEN | eat site catenice ee} BELT CATCHES HAIR a company, from Camp Lewis, ona $| OROVILLE, Cal, June & Mre. | isit to Mount Rainier. ‘The sol- §|H, Hamilton was sealped when her | ing the steep | hair caught in a belt in the vegeta nt of Horst Bros., at § ity women em-| the accident and many be- niestricken, Mrs, Hamilton | lared tor his ship was at diers are seen cll slopes and coasting down the )| ble drying pl long snow slides in Paradise val- {| Wheatland. ‘yy. Other features are Side- (| ployes # ghia on the eclipse of the sun {)came 7 saturday afternoon; Red Cross }/is in a serious condition motor corps women learning to change tires on automobile nd other Jocal news feature PRICE ONE CENT frearas 14-YEAR-OLD GIRL CARRIER BUYS LOT WITH HER MONEY} SAVED BY cores, MADE IN MARNE 'Gap in Line ‘Defending Paris | a thousand Americ | ly-La-Poterle, Another attack was | exy | mile trip and returned with ammuni to earn some clothes for me in six years!” aves $5 a month and buys thrift stamps Carrying Th Star gives me 1 route to a girl? name is Car- old daughter of Mr Parish scratehe But she's not th carries Stare only girl who She owns the garden So Carol started carrying The better carriers Annee ESCAPES SUB ATTACK | ‘hut 'ineis tisnting was mont encour |} | MARINES WIN “SECOND LIEXINGTON” | suid a grinning lieutenant to whom heroism might lances, rolling toward Paris r than wheat stalk GIRL DROWNS NEAR SAFETY, a school teache Sacramento rive Our rifles ce ves in’ this fight - lives for eiviliz of many Huns France's spontaneous expres drowned in th ede SEAPLANE SET AFIRE, SINKS IN OCEAN) | tels and clubs will be in Seattle [tending wounded in the open until} Caught in the swift current » was rescued by When within lently waving 4 man seaplane was ifire and sunk into cheers whenever » raised himself on his the girl fought off her ers, slipped back into the current and ish seaplanes fought a off Vileland island was resuscitated after an hour's ef-| Dutch territory and their crews were history may term “Asnerica's = YANKEES PUSHING FORWARI ) German Fleet Is Ready to Attack ‘gaveo by NEW ATTACK IS Filled by Americans in Nick of Time inl HUN ck LONE BY AL ES BY FRED 8S. FERGUSON United Preas Correspondent | ye MARNE, June S—Amert_| BY LOWELL MELLETT : | irnatic mame basi |_| WITH THE AMERICAN ARMIES | figmting’on s Temi trent rth» FRANCE, June 8 (4 p. m.).—Am The Americans and French now Vinly, thru Bussiares and Belleau to ‘resents an advance ranging from |iees than a mile at some points to|the American advance. nearly three miles at other points, Artillery ire, w! had been incessant along The eet Ne esr ade an-|Wood thruout the night increased violently about re eit About that moment the right wing of the marines jother chapter to the accomplish: | ments of our troops, which are play-|in the south part of the wood, where the Germans ling the role of Gen. Gailient’s f-/ tained a foothold. mous “taxicab army” in this second | The su ss of this attack has not been fully ‘altho numerous prisoners have been sent back. | battle of the Marne The official report of the com: |manding general reveals the feat is vations are that the Americans | rully as impressive as first reported. | eliminated the enemy north of the Receiving orders to move from/ sunken road between Torey and Bel- lthe region of Gisors at 5 p. m. on |leau, a front of about a mile | May 30, they departed by rail and Face Poison Smoke motor truck, At 5:30 4 m. the next| At 1230 the enemy attempted to/| day the first of them had arrived in | advance Their infantry was sup the rear lines | ported by artillery and machine guns | Gisors i# an important ratiroad!and their attack was preceded by a junction 35 miles north of Paris and barrage of gas shells and clouds of sniles west of Chateau Thierry, in | poisonous smoke an air line. This is « new weapon intended The journey by rail and highway} to discomfit the fighting m probably was more than 100 miles. | rines. The smoke differs fro Sammies Rush the usual gas ds in that it Late that afternoon the situation comes over in thick, black | was most critical. The French ure | waves. The only effect which ed that the Americans be sent into} can be observed thus far is a the li immediately, as the enemy| nausea, tho the enemy is mak- was marching along the road to} jing a practice of mixing gas Paris | shells with the smoke clouds. Our men went into line at mid-! ‘The marines donned their gas | night taking up positions at Cha | masks and stopped them 400 yards teau Thierry At 9 ™m., on June 1./ from the trenches, with artillery and s were barring |rifle fire the road. F days’ rations ar ammunition tacked an adjoining unit, losing a On the night of June 1, the French | jundred nen and suffering a com- reported a gap of four kilometers | piete repulse, The American loss 4 miles) in the line near la, | was inconsequential. Huns Lose Heavily west and north o! rry and a mile northwe Ger Less than an hour later the ted any mome A regiment of machine gunners |¢#St of the previous attack against and engineers were aroused from| the marines. ‘The marines, who had Then | been strengthened during the night their sleep and filled the gap. ¢ n urgent call for artillery am ulsed the enemy with sanguinar munition, A truck train made a 45 ns here are evidences that the Ger- man elements are again re ng fresh reinforcements, in an effort to aoe — jhold the Americans. tion in 13 hours, bringing in 32 truck | ly | Pershing Leader ALLIED TROOPS | IMPROVE FRONT attack which resulted in the cap ture of Cantigny, a few days a BY HENRY Woop Against Cantigny the senate mititary affairs com- | United Press Correspondent mittee was told today at the meet- | WITH T FRENC AR- ing of the war council MI ON THE MARNE, June And, at the samg time, it was re! 8, ¢ allied attack in the re- vealed that the Americans stopped) gion of Neiully-La-Poterie, in e German advance just in time. A} which the American marines few miles additional gain by Hinden-| played so spectacular a role, was burg at that point and some of the! for the purpose of reducing a French munition factories would! sharp salient which the Ger- have been within reach of the Ger-| mans had driven into our line man long range guns. south of the Clignon river. Pershing's pre at Cantigny| The combined French and Ameri shows the victory there t the} can line has been advanced until it trademark Made in America, the commanding officer down to the|Ciignon river; Neuilly-La-Poteri, the rookie. Jheights south of Hautevesnes (two mi | 1,000 Soldiers to | Belleau Reports of the fighting rec Here's a chance to show your |afte Americanism, an One thousand. more\iservioe [apt Brought back the gun. men than can be cared for in ho: {American ambulance driver, after re leaping from byw lines, killed | urday night heavy fire forced him to seek shel welcome in 1,000 private homes, | with him, Go to the Soldiers’ elub, Fourth p.m. and nd Sailors’ soldier or sailor. a plant in Africa that literally Five hundred were unable to |coughs to clear dust from its leaf find beds last Saturday night. pores nie Bas ehcp Wd | marines and adjoining units again drove fe hold a line extending northwest of |ward northwest of Chateau Thierry to . southeast of Bouresches. ‘This rep German counter attacks were bloc! |further advances on the no ery man carried two/| At the same time the boches at-| t | mans attacked the marines who are | S. Men Fill Gap holding Bouresches, two miles south- | from| now includes Vinly, north of the | Be Taken Care | French headquarters in this region | * * are replete with feats of American | of Here Tonight heroism, One American lieutenant, | against Bouresches and Le | miles southeast of Bouresches on hey should, of course, find |ter, brought back four wounded men | lly heavy cannonading near | verolies (16 miles southwest of nd Cherry, at 11 A French botanist has discovered United Pre Summary o ) | War Events : 1406th day of the war day » big offensive) FRONT—French i e with the Am northwest of Chateau Thierry, portion of the front, at the same t repulsing two violent attacks on | southern portion ‘The French also improved their sitions west of Soissons. Artillery was active in the region of the front. PICARI FRONT—The made a successful raid near loch, between La Basse and The German artillery was north of Albert . FLANDERS FRONT—British rols inflicting casualties on the my in the Strazeele sector, in northern portion of the front. FRANCE—A special comm has been appointed to arrange the defense of Paris as a preeaw The Germans continued to bom that city with long-range guns. Reports from sources persist that the Gel + navy is preparing for a major st against t mbined British, and American sea forces. ‘man fleet is said to be der orders to move at any time, RUSSIA—Ukrainian peasants burning the forests, seizing ar and opposing ENEMY ATTACKS | ARE REPULSED: BY FOCH'S MEN Eh ARIS, June 8.—French troopa, ea | anes with the Americans west of Chateau-Thierry, to advance on the northern j vf that front, the French war of | announced today. Two violent G ‘man attacks in southern portion iT th in that region were with heavy losses. South of the Oureq, the progressed, pressing the Ge back, ‘The French lines now jes northeast of Vinly), Torey and|the west borders of Dammard, of Chezy and one kilometer north rie,” the report ‘ifty prisoners were taken, urther south two violent att | were broken up with heavy losses, | (Bouresches is five miles west, Chateau-Thierry; Le Thiolet is main highway leading west from Chateau-Thierry.) “On the Aisne front there was ff Ons.) “Southeast of Ambleny (six directly west of Soissons), positions were improved.”