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

} 50 00 it estimated this } ’ amount can be saved by the board of public works and the city council on the Rainier paving, if concrete instead of brick is adopted. Why pile up § 5 ) extra taxes? is FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT OF TI! emer WIRE SERVICE ASSOCIATIONS RESS THE GR IE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION * SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1918. SURPRISE | 3 BOCHES STRUCK ON “AISNE, VESLE AND IN PICARDY REGION . The allies began a double drive on the Picardy and Aisne-Vesle fronts toda While French and American troops renewed their at- tacks on a big scale against the crown prince’s armies, driving toward the heights between the Vesle and Aisne, a the huge Picardy salient, southeast of Amiens. ress was reported in both drives. Staff dispatches from the Aisne-Vesle front announced that American and French troops had crossed the Soissons-Rheims highway north of the Vesle and were steadily pushing on toward the dominating heights which form the German defense line south of the Aisne. Counter attacks were broken up by allied artillery fire. This attack apparently centers on the front between Braisne and Fismes, where progress was reported in last night’s Paris statement, but is spreading, as the dispatches said that more bridging wiaterial, was being rushed up and ATTACK ON 15-MILE FRONT new crossings established. ‘The Picardy attack began at dawn on a 15-mile front pitride the Somme river, several hundred tanks leading le way as the troops swept forward. The Germans were completely surprised, several villages being reached in the early stages of the drive. A most significant feature of the Picardy operation is 1 it is evidently being carried out principally by the Brit- with the French co-operating. The most recent in- : tion showed that the British | ) far south as Hangard, on the Luce southeast of Amiens. The ‘ine from there to about Grivesnes was held by _ the French, while Americans held the sector from Grivesnes to a point west of Montdidier. , __ The Paris communique may indicate that additional b British forces have been thrown into the line here—enough 9 preponderate over the French. The fact that the Ameri- ms were not mentioned in this attack, or in previous ad- f¥ices around Montdidier, may mean that they have been drawn out of the line to participate in the Marne fighting. Further allied success in Flanders was reported by Field Marshal Haig last night. He announced that British troops advanced their lines more than half a mile on a five-mile front, between the Clarence and Lawe rivers. British Capture Several Villages in New Smash LONDON, Aug. 8.—(3:33 p. m.)—British troops have river, about nine miles it was reported this afternoon, including Moreuil, Antoine and Aubercourt. In addition, the heights south of Morlan- court and west of Cerisey are reported to have been taken. Pershing Reports New Gains Made North of Vesle Front WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.—Further progress by Ameri- cans in the Vesle sector was announced today by Gen. ae i Pershing. iJ | “East of Bazoches our troops have crossed the Vesle gained the Rheims-Soissons highway,” the communique said. “Hostile counter attacks broke down under our fire,” McAdoo Will Name New Loan Figures CINCINNATI “The the United Press Summary of War Events APLAR Aug. 8 amount of next Liberty Loan will be upon my Washington,” said Secretary McAdoo here today n route from a California health re- sort to the capital de arrival in gnated immediately { 5 } i 5 H ‘ ( { “I'm feeling fine,” he said. “I) PICARDY FRONT—British and have recovered my voice and am/¥rench troops began a drive on a again in shape to go to the mat with | wide front east and southeast of "em." Amiens at dawn British and ed that a thi today. Both the rench war offices stat the attack was developing P satisfactory progress was being made. Marshal Haig onally directing the announced AISNE-VESLE FRONT—The lied attack was renewed on You are as close to The Star as you are to a phone. ia per attack, London al a large weale today. Amer’ and French PHONE troops, crossing the main Soissons Rheims highway north of the Vesle, ashed against the German de MAIN a in "eran and the Aisne. and counter Progress was attacks were , 600 tell © of Lieut. Quentin ® and j your elt a found in Chamery wood \ east of Fereen-Tardenois. | wants to the lar- | yxcraxp—rne king ana quecn i gest audience in fag Rho 0 Ade eae GERMANY—King Ferdinand of the Northwest. at German headquarters. ALLIES GAI British and French suddenly smashed against the tip of %— ine extended only as/| captured a number of villages in their.new Picardy drive,| BBREAK PACKERS’ TRUST, ADVICE OF U.S. BOARD PARRA A AAA AA LDL LPL LALLA P PPP PPP ae The Seattle Star VATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWE. under the Act of Congress March COMPLETE SERVIC WAR AARARARALR AADAYS NIGHT EDITION ~ ONE CENT IN SEATTLE | Per year by mail $5.00 to $9.00 ' oT 1879, CF OF THE NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION Weather Forecast: Tonight and Friday, showers; mode westerly winds, AT AMIENS B. New Move to Cut Off Retreat Foch Strikes at Amiens While Enemy Is Running in Another Sector UNIQUE CONSPIRACY AND MONOPOLY BARED IN TRUST PROBE ‘How Federal Trade Commission OPPORTUNITY | Would Smash the | Packing Trust —--—_——_—-~ the railroad administration, { of meat animals, making § Have the government acquire, thru rolling stock used for the Cransportation such ownership ent monope t acquire, thru the railroad administration By United Press Leased Wire to be treated as freight depots Direct to The Star to be operated under such ax will insure open, competitive * % ) markets, with uniform scale of charges for all services performed, and NEW YORK, Aug. &—Mar the acquisition or establishment of # additional yards from ume to time as the future developments of livestock production in the United yards ) States may require. This is to include customary adjuncts of stock yards. 3—Have the government acquire, thru the railroad administration all privately owned refrigerator care and all necewmry equipment fer shal Foch's new drive, becun this morning, cast of Amiens, is for the purpose of creating s new salient beyond the Ayre river and, at the same time, em | croaching upon the principal | their proper operation and that such ownership be declared a govern railway which feeds reserves |) ment monopoly into Hindenberg's southern — 4—Have the federal government acquire such of the branch houses, front wae. |) cold storage planta and warehouses aa are necessary to provide facil! Hindenburg haa undoubtedly | Uew for the Competitive marketing and storage of food products in the weakened his lines between Mont-|| principal centers of distribution and consumption. The same to be oper didier and Amiens for the purpose|) ated by the government as public markets and storage places under of securing reserves to prevent his) guch conditions ase will afford an outlet for all manufacturers and han Soissons and Ktheims flanks from) diers of food products on equal term } being crushed in. | { Supplementing the marketing and storage facilities thus acquired, At the same time, the kaiser’s|( the federal government will establish, thru the railroad administration | general staff in now primarily con cerned with trying to get ita re treating army over the Aisne and in position to defend the Chemin des Dames An opportunity, therefore, unique} since the first battle of the Marne, has offered itself to Marshal Foch to strike along a new sector of the Western front, while elsewhere the Germans are in retreat and on the) | defensive. Strikes Junction Line The area selected for the new of ive offers the most promising at the terminals of all principal points of distribution and consumption, central wholesale markets and storage plants with facilities open to all upon payment of just and fair charges. | ators now owned by the packers and all icing plants located along the railroads thruout the country ‘This would leave the packers the Jone business of slaughtering and skinning. Thru control of the trans portation, storage and distribution facilities, the railroad administra tion would break the alleged priort ties the packers’ “trust” grants its members now in all phases of the | By United Press Leased Wire | Direet to The Star | WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.—Mov- ing to break the called “packers’ trust,” eral trade commission has rec x fe probabilities of any along the west front. The great railway line ran ommended that the railroad ad- | business. Incidentally, the control ning eastward behind the German ministration be given « monop- ot retrigera cars ¢ natit a front from Amiens, in the dividing oly in the transportation and dis- | side swipe at the California canners 3 : trust tribution of meats ne between the armies of the Ger 1 crown prince Im the mouth nna| The report of the commission de| The federal trade commision, in ie sane packers are international in scope Mis written | request wee Rr If the British and French troops|and that their practices will bring | leaves it up to congress to pasa the succeed in controlling it for any won| discredit upon the United States if momar pancatiin, wales We) . siderable distance, Rupprecht and they are continued calhe ate ike Sennene Goa the young Hohenzollern will have The commission says the probe re % their areas of contact very danger-| veals unquestionably that there ex The commission charges, In its re- ously shortened, necessitating al ists an “Intricate fabric” of monopo-| port, that the five great packing considerable detour for troops to| lies, control, trusts, combinations, | concerns of the country—Swift, Ar mour, Morris, Cudahy and Wilson have attained such a dominant po- aition that they contro! at will the move from one sector to the other. At the same time, a sharp pocket will be made of the German crown conspiracies and restraint of trade out of harmony with the law and pub lic interest prince's front between Amiens and| The report of the comminsion| market in which they buy their sup- Montdidier, which will threaten Hin-| made public by President Wilson to-| Plies, the market in which they sell denburg with the ponsibility of a|day. urges that the far-reaching) their products, and hold the fortunes of their competitors in their hands.” To break this power, the commis: sion chose what it regarded packer influence on American busi emasculated by trans ckers to the rail | duplication of the Marne disaster | id Marshal Haig back mans to the accomplishment ness can be ferring from the drive as a of these immediate objectives, he| road administration the following: |*!mple and non-spectacular remedy will have drawn Amiens beyond| All stockyards in the country; all| It holds that since cattle cars are a danger of a new enemy offensive| so-called branches houses, storage) Necessary part of the equipment of and will have rescued the important| houses and warehouses of the pack-| Tailroad, such cars should be un used in the distribution of er federal ownership and operation, meats; all stock cara and refriger COUP DE MAIN | Amiens-Paris railway from ors | menace of the German artillery LIONIST LEADER the| (Continued on page 10) ALLIES PUSH | Sh a ——E _ - —_ _ elled and Sunk |" ——DispATCH FROM JOHN DE GANDT TALKS TONIGHT REPELS ENEMY ON T0 VOLOGDA by German U-Boat 1 (By United Press Leased Wire, Direct to The Star) | WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.—The | a Ami steamship Merak was PARIS, Aug. 8—(4:05 p. m.)—The Franco-Bri Max Fhoade, vice president of the| ROME, Aug, §—Defeat of an) LONDON, Aug. §—Allied forces, | shelled, torpedoed and sunk by a sub | advance on the Picardy front is continuing this afternoon. pisaedntgy on vio ngprgenpe of other Austrian attempt to storm eagle 2 A sda a ngs toate Fiat ala wo Sate ‘. i: The Germans were completely surprised, some divisions America, and journalist of hinge a nositions « ‘ornone was ‘ard Vologda was ed miles northeast o lamond Shoe : hile A - fits too Dik, wal minaieda 4 ee ‘a rt : sine per today. In taking Archangel, the al-| lighthouse, off Cape Hatteras, the | being caught while being relieved. p veils Boaondley sagt aaioougea by the Italian lies defeated 8,000 enemy troops and navy department announced today, | At noon the depth of the advance was reported to be at, on “The Re-establishment of the | rhe enemy, after brief artillery Sere tate tere ae The Merak was a vessel of 3.023/“most satisfactory” and the attack was developing on both dears ; vey Sis in Palestine.”"| preparation, again attempted to! o¢ Finland 50,000 Gaetans ‘algae hig Lage GO ES |sides of the Somme. \@ Dp. m nUrecay Or po positions at Cornone 71 Monday wight he addresbed'a large | STD. OST positions At! | ported to be concentrated, ready for Huge Generators | The enemy has.been hurled back upon the Avre. Im- kathering of Jewish soldiers at Camp) ‘pimeiy intervention by our ar-| Nostilities S ly P. portant units of British troops are assuming a considerable Lewis on the Zionist movement. H6|tnery and prompt reaction by OUF| Votogan is 400 milea south of Arch to Supply Power lrole. The first apparent result of the new offensive is the h interviewed leading Amerte: ala ¥ a 8 outh of 4 tent . git fireigh si enilt on Xai Rete | ee, ee ee angel, 260 miles north of Moscow on New Elevated | wiping out of the menace to Amiens. “North of Col del Rosso an as and a successful coup tude toward the possibility of Pales: 50 miles east of Petrograd tine’s restoration to the Jews de main, drove back the enemy from { PPL PPE an advanced post and took some B k D A; \ : : risoners and a machine gun. }Ban oor Ajar City Is Not Liable 7). Titarina valley, the Vail } All Night Long; )} But No Burglars The front door of the Bank of California was ajar Wednesday night, but Seattle burglars passed araa and the Asiago basin we shelled for Persons Hurt |columns of motor lorries and also Coasting on Hills| centers of nostite activity.” City Attorney T. J. L. Kennedy re-| Council Meets to court at Olympla Thursday, inform. . it » - : | >. Patrolman F. B. Li ling Seattleltew that if injured in Buy Railway Cars teouh &b auien ate a mend jcoasting down paved streets they) mne city council met late Thursday |) covering his beat. j cannot collect 4 es from the city. | to pass an ordinance calling for the |} even tho a poll n failed to Stop! purchase of street rallway cars, ap moms them coasting. | * ae . propriating money from th a The parenta of Frank Fluckinger, | Brepriating money from the keneral) Humidity in Wake boy Injured in ‘coasting with "foun, ‘and. appropriating. mone of East Heat Wave from the water front to construct CHICAGO, 8 4 superior court disminsed the | (rom Whe Water iit ave HICAGO, Aug It's the hu. midity today The wave of PARIS BOMBARDMENT ON | which caused eight deaths here in 48 PARIS, Aug. &—The long-range | hours was definitely broken after one claim supreme court, which has now h that the city is not responsible if trolmen do not restrain persons from was appealed to the | ing illegal acta experienced here. BAGS THOUSANDS oe oe 8 8 N 5 Ml | |95 Volunteer for 100-degree weather | Bulgaria is reported to have arrived | injuring themselves while perform-|bombardment of Paris continued to-| of the cnost oppressive nights ever|full quota before the present drive| developing under favorable condi- ‘tions.’ - * & cd Yanks Jolt Foes Along River Line Americans and Poilus Driv- ing on Toward Heights MANY ViL RETAKEN; TANKS vcore" LEAD NEW PUSH CROSS SOISSONS ROAD LONDON, Aug. 8.—(6 p. m.)—B Hf «———__________4 troops have reached Harbonnieres (an | Dispatch From Fred | vance of about five miles and a half), it as vod, Ferguson =| learned this afternoon. Several thousand prisoners are repe to have been taken. ARMIES IN FRANCE, Aug. §. Direct to The Star FS lla is aly re DISPATCH FROM WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS 42 cecal es nag Gee, bo 1) (By United Press Leased Wire, Direct to The Star) fae Verio en te ase WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN FRANCE, Aug. Desperate Santee attacks broke) Franco-British troops stipend bo dene ie ~ Sour et merce © arullery!tween Morlancourt and Moreuil, on a fron about tee alum are hatin ol heroes’ astride the Somme. Several important villages steadily pushing on. Heavy fight-/been reached. The battle generally appears to be fag So -Scne: on, along avwide ‘fret! well for the allies, Abditaeat: bears % % Several hundred tanks led the way, fast “wh Fo satan ap ak dois efeninge ate supporting. The “whippets” raced and dodged across being established. The weather bas| fields, terrorizing and running the Germans down 6} cleared, which Im regarded as favor’ where, able to the allies, . ° aay The French are attacking in the region of Find Roosevelt's G " American airmen have Sune the Reports received from that front are extremely opti Krave of Lieut. Quentin Roosevelt. stating that the Germans are offering only slight who was brought down in an aerial A bombardment of but three minutes preced batth back f hi Go it see —) before the counter offensive started British attack. The French attack by agreement was m The grave was marked with a wood a few minutes later, the artillery smothering the tel = ones It was located at the edge south of Amiens-Roye road beforehand. age ge idllg as soar ital Prisoners declare the attack was a complete surp Insert Ferguson—Americans and | A number of guns are reported to have been captured. After 4th paragrat The attack was begun in fine weather but rain is no found by Lieut threatening. s aertal squadron, of s The grave was Worth of the which Young Roosevelt was a mem-| Swarms of Allied Airplanes The boche airmen had marked the Aid Ground Troops in Drive Krave with a cross, on which was printed in English As this is cabled, all first objectives are believed to have _ “Lieut. Quentin Roosevelt, buried been attained. Many prisoners are coming in. attack, Be * WITH THE AMERICAN a3 ag by Germans, July 14, 1918 Swarms of allied battle planes are engaged in the Oe eee ce weverdi dave it A thick haze made flying difficult in the early Hours of will be marked carefully and will be battle, but this was advantageous to the other branches appropriately honored by American the service. des, airmen All tanks kept their noses well up against the i Th Americans late yesterda: A ; r Peg rile eget: ee ¥|wall of the creeping barrage. The country is hilly, but ~ reached the railway and main high ly free f: ideal terrain for the way north of the Vesie. They cross-| Mostly free from trees—an ideal terrain for the tanks, which ed the river on foot bridges made| crossed the Avre without trouble and led the infantry into co from the trunks of fallen trees|battle.’ As I write this the Franco-British troops are still lashed together. ‘ Fy vay aT j Se Wactiten’ wien’ taraie blasting their way forward with machine guns and cannon, marshes on the south bank and charged up the high northern bank Morlancourt is between the Ancre and the Somme, four in the face of heavy machine gun! miles south of Albert. Moreuil is the most important ey nie counter atackea, between Montdidier and Amiens. It is on the right kc but were completely repulsed. The Of the Avre, 10 miles southeast of Amiens. The Amiens= advance yesterday was made in the) Roye highway crosses the original battle front on the Luce midst of a heavy rain, but when the/ river, about a mile and a half west of Demuin. attack was resumed on a larger ~- —_ a —_ scale this morning the weather had es e@ = cleared Hun Divisions Surprised by Onrush of Ally Troops Two huge motor ators of 1,000 kilowatts each, are being pur chased by Superintendent J. D, Ross for the substation which will supply the power carrying city cars over the new municipal elevated line: Ross Thursday sent a letter to the British, French War Offices Flash News of Big Offensive _ "Battle Report From "Battle Report From city utilities committee recommend. ing that Seattle purchase 32,236) | Paris Today | London Today square feet of property on Spokane|| py United Press Leased Wire By United Press Leased Wire ave. for the aubstation site | Direct to The Star } Direct to The Star The power generators which will 0 ae “i See move the cars on the elevated cost PARIS, Aug. 8—(Noon)— NDON, Aug. 8.—British and $17,000 each French troops, under command of Field Marshal Haig, attacked on a wide front east and south. French and British troops open- | | | ed a drive in Picardy, southwest of Amiens, at 5 o'clock this cast of Amiens at dawn this U. S. Nurse Reserve) morning, the French war office | morning, the British war office Ninety five young women so far! a»ynounces. The attack is devel- report have ans 1 the call of the King ia’ At dawn this morning the British County Council of Defense for 150, °P'"® , Fourth army and the French First volunteers to train for the U. g§.| “At 5 o'clock the French, co-oper| army, under command of Field Mare Nurse Reserve. ating with the British, attac| Local officials of the council are| the region southeast of Amien: making a final effort to enlist the|communique said. “The attack in) shal Haig, attacked on a wide front the |east and southeast of Amiens,” the is | statement said. ‘ “First reports indicate that the 4 successfully.” tack is progressing ee on August 1