The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 9, 1918, Page 1

\ ‘O The ‘allie sare doing | NTO BERLIN! THE GR Entered as Becond Class Matter May 2. TH E UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS FIGHT ON DEFENSIVE U. S. Consul Poole Confirms Action Taken by Soviet Chiefs oa A \ their level best to get there. are : { you with them? Sure! Then, of course, you'll be prompt with your war savings | i \ stamp pledges. Keep your money work Ip Sing for Uncle Sam! hoot FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT OF . de ines: hi 1? : « : VOLUME 20. NO. 139 8 NASSOCINTIONS r of lia = alee opa- pany is of nfair » ins ed tore, tupt. son- the tory ws j ae ae eee) a to wt at About Rents: ? this , said { po BY THE EDITOR ) king that a rent question in Seattle is alarming. ar There are in this city today great numbers of vail. tenants actually at the mercy of greedy landlords. was They must cringe and bow to their whims. They dare not complain. They CANNOT move. For every vacant d house and apartment, there are a half dozen or more applicants. = Whenever the landlord wants to raise the rent, he raises it. He did it in the summer months. What is going to happen this winter, when the campers come in from the outlying sections, back to the city, making the housing conditions even more crowded? It is time to look ahead—and look at this question boldly and bravely. DNESDAY night, the labor council adopted resolutions offered by the metal trades, suggest- ing an authorized committee to regulate rents and commandeer houses, if necessary. Fine! The resolutions, however, will not of them- selves accomplish the desired results. They will be for warded to the labor department at Washington, D. C., or the shipping board, or some other board. These boards are swamped with resolutions—and so far, tho they have promised to deal with the rent hog, they have not bestirred themselves to any extent to relieve Seattle sufferers. It is plain that we in Seattle must help ourselves. The Star, therefore, repeats a suggestion made earlier this week, namely, that the city, thru the mayor, council and board of public works, tackle the problem. THE CITY CAN WIELD AN EFFECTIVE CLUB UPON THE PROFITEER LANDLORDS BY LAW. FS il ing ke ET the council pass an ordinance authorizing the appointment of a committee to whom landlords ust apply for permission to raise rents. Unless such permission is granted by the city, the old rents must prevail. Let us, in all fairness, recognize that it costs more to heat an apartment than it did in olden days; and that it costs more to make repairs on houses. Let us grant the landlords increases that would take care of the various extra costs. BUT THERE THE RENT IN- CREASES MUST STOP. ea Of course, some court might knock this ordinance . out as unconstitutional. It might. Or it might not. In the meantime, the city would be boss, and the city COULD insure fair treatment. Make the landlord show cause for his rent boost- ing. A fair landlord will lose nothing by it. The greedy ones will be despoiled of blood money only. bare 53459 FRav esa oh —— + A) HE STAR recognizes that it is proposing a good- sized job for the city. There will be wails galore, and fuming and raging, and kicking from various sources. There will be the usual protest that such things are “not being done” and may unsettle the realty market. | But any tempest that may thus arise will be as | nothing to the multiplying unrest among those who | MUST have a roof over their heads—and are beset by conscienceless profiteers. It is no job for “weak knees” Star proposes. \ It is a job for officials who have undaunt- ed courage. And the job must be done NOW—before the fall and winter. _ TENANTS ORGANIZE TO FIGHT RENT HOGS saat which The ests against ever-increasing rent | courts. demands. Altho they per cent have been forced to pay rent ses, notices 1 $7.50 month word that re received ¢ ly increase, and later t You are as close this would be ed to $15 to The Star as you | "°"" ‘The tenants’ committee, headed by are to a phone. H. W. Scranton, of the Pacific Coast Co, and R. C. Chapman, of Perry Bros, has addressed a letter PHONE to Philip Brenner, of Bellingham, owner of th artments, pointing out the increases that have been put “While we appreciate the fact that costs of ma and operation have increased in the last year to a material extent, on the other hand they have not increased to an extent as to apparently warrant such in creases in rent as have been made and which have resulted in an appar ently umreagonable rent for the fa cilities and conveniences furnished “Being desirous of taking such ac | (Continued on page 5) tenance 600 End tell your : wants to the lar- gest audience in the Northwest. « ‘Tenants of Rialto Court apart- intend, if necessary, to go on ments, 1729 Boylston ave, have | a pied strike,” refuse to move, and organized to protect their inter r y carry the fight into the! | ALLY ENVOYS ARRESTED x By United Press Leased Wire | | Direct to The Star | x“ " a WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 took a new turn toduy when the American gov ernment was officially informed that the Bolshevik regime of Rusxia con red itself in a state of war with allies. In & mesnage from Mow 31, American Consul F that Lenine, in a public © membery of the soviet Russi and sense th dated July ple said wpeech be had clared that a state of war ext mmiseary for foreign affairs for an explanation. They were told # declaration did not nec easarily mean hostilities, but that it implied a state of defense, rather than a state of offense. He added that Russia wished to continue relations with the allies un. der similar cireumstances as with Germany A message from Archangel stated that the authorities there had de. manded an explanauion of the land ing of allled troopy at Onega. The message added that the Rolsheviki evacuated Archangel in great haste after allied airptanes sailed over the town, dropping fropaganda Inland batteries at the mouth of the river were captured by the al lies, Comsacks who came to ald the Rolsheviki against the allies, desert ed the Rolsheviki and led a counter revolution on August 2, the day the Rolsheviki left Archangel This counter revolution was com pleted on Auguat 3 and the Pritiah American and French consuls, who had been arrested were released. The explained the arrest of these officers by saying it waa for the officers’ protection. The Ameri can consul, however, reported that the arrest was made with such haste and violence that he thought to burn his code books Rolshevtki it nee essary LONDON, Aug. %—Robert Lock hart, British agent at Moscow, was the Bolsheviki on August retary of announced arrested by Lord Cecil te for foreign affa s afternoon assintant th MOosCOW er and captured Dalakovo. r east they captured Nicolaje In the northern portion of the Don r gion retired before Krasioft Soviet Agents to Plan Big Meeting of Seattle th 30.—(Helated } crossed the Volga Far k July So. The “Soviet iming to be sand organizations the | States co-operating with the overnment Counc one of several in ni present ned Russian has the Moore theatre for a mass meet Satur night John Reed, r Butte labor Labor Counc! will » Central speak “The object will be to post people | poperate with Russ Green, soviet secre on how to announced tary Curtis Thought Dead, Found in Hospital W. M. Curtis of Seattle, recently reported dead of wounds received fighting in France, is still alive. This announcement was carried in list ed by the official casualty ine the war depd nt Friday, which stated that Curtis, altho previously reported in the “died of wounds” list, American lines, DARAAAA RRA AAR Ree ( } Seattle Man Again } } Honored by France Kdward Bickel, University of ) Washington man, decorated with { the croix de guerre for driving a { bullet riddled ambulance for seven } days and nights, without ) for rest or tneals, has a ) honored by France ( He has been awarded the “ { rogere,” according to word sent } i ( chan in been i N his parents, Mr. and Mrs, Wm. ¥. } Bickel, by Ds Arthur Priest, 5 ) ) ! ) ) representative of the I ts’ as ) sociation in Paris, The latest award followed weeks of atrenu ous ambulance service with the S Qu Rienes Zouaves, famous ) French regiment Youn Biekel ting at the ia now in a hospital back of the | | rapidly | thru Meziet {| men were killed and three others se-| ty 1899, at the Postoffice at Hoattle, * under the Ac ‘anh. COMPLETE ATTLE, WASH., shims’ ds AUGUST 1918. SERVICE Bolsheviki Declare “State of War” Against the Allies | RRR tee RPP PPPS PPP POPP The Seattle Sta ATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST 1 of Congrems March &, 1879. OF THE N x ALLIES WAGE TRIPLE ATTACK Penner nnn, ‘This shows three zones | rn front where a , against map 1 points front, whe 1 French are to the Amer suing Aisne pera tions against the crown prince { > 2 is the Pranco-British { drive in Picardy, where a gain of 12 miles has been made No, 3 in the ace of the new drive started today by British | troops in the Flanders area, It began on a front of about eight miles, five villages being captured in a twor » during the carly ntagen The Hindenburg in xhown to the right, from which the Germans started their drives in the spring. It now »e ' nib that the Germans may find themaelves k of their old front 5 before anow flies. le adv FERE EN TARO? 0 o Lee gl out” FRENCH TROOPS YANKS BREAK UP = ADVANCE FOUR TEUTON ATTACK MILES ON AVRE ON VESLE FRONT *: ie Dispatch From Dispatch From Fred os Lowell Mellett S. Ferguson By United Press Leased Wire | | By United Press Leased Wire Direct to The Star | Direct to The Star | “FRENCH AR- WITH THE AM E R ICAN MIES IN THE FIELD, Ang. 8. ARMIES IN FRANCE, Aug. 8. —(Night.)—One thing apparently —Night)—The — Franco-British revealed by the German lack of resistance at some points on the Albert Montdidier front today was the degree with which the enemy line was stripped to fur. nish men for the disastrous Marne campaign. attack in Pieardy is likely to have a big influence on the Aisne Venle line where there has been no great change in the past MM hours. The Americans improved their po- sitions slightly by heavy attacks but The part pl 1 by the French in! for the moat part were busy repuls today’s battle was comparatively | ing German counterattacks. Five ema, mere sustaining the right of these enemy assaults were broken win f the British advance They up today Our artillery stopped the started on a front of only four kilo first two The third reached our meters (two and a half miles) but) lines but the Infantry threw them later this wan widened back in hand-to-hand struggles. The next two were repulsed by rifle machine gun fire The bridgehead at Fismes was widened during the day. The city in entirely cleared of boches, who have b hunted out of cellars and dugouts and captured or killed Heavy artillery exchanges tinued during the day. The rains have passed and the roads have dried out, simplifying transportation. How. ever, the Germans are strongly en. trenched on the heights north of the Widen Attack Line At the beginning the French line between Bourges and a point t of Morizel, south of the Amiens Roye road, With the widening of | the line. it included the whole of the Avre river as far as Hargicourt (four | miles north of Montdidier). Three hours after the French in fantry hed forward it was hold ing the wood northeast of Moreuil and the town of Morizel. In the lat wi w now con. ter place, stiff resistance was en countered, necessitating a flanking | Vesle In caves and deep dugouts, Our movement from the northwest. | *ftillery will lteralty have to blast the sides of these hills before the vance, News of the Amiens attacks is be ing re with great enthusiasm, | Four hundred prisoners were taken there and many boches killed The Avre waa crossed between Rraches and Castel (a front of about four miles), the infantry wading, | One doughboy expressed the senti-| swimming and utilizing the new} ments of bis companions as follows brid "Recause of the ateep bank ‘The boche is getting like a horse. opposite, aa well as the sloping| Now he Is begimming to kick. The ground beyond, this was a difficult | British ought to put a twist in his feat under German fire, but the| Ose and shut off his wind. Then |poilue accomplished it and threw | We'll start going here again.” bridges across afterward so the ar * sisauied tillery could come up 15 Foe Airplanes Germans in Panic | After the fall of Moreuil, the Ger. | mans became panicky and fell back | the French taking Braches Laneuville and the heights north of it in quick succession, Later they took Villers-Aux-Hrablis and carrted their line forward to a line running snd the heights east of ng Hill 102, mak e of from six to three and three a th miles.) | r | CORPORAL Aug. 9%—Two! Corporal Helm employed at in France Downed by Allied Bombing Squadron LONDON, Aug. 9 factories at Rombach were by British bombing squadrons, Hritish alr = ministry stated Fifteen hostile de stroyed and seven driven down out of contrpl. Two British machines failed to return | ATTSON DEAD | rv Mattson former. | inner & Eddy's, from pne Explosives attacked the today report airplanes were Neuville, inclu total adv: sven kilometers quarters to four and WASHINGTC boiler of | j onia, | riously injured when the a the U. SS Nopatkin blow up, Au-| according to word from his parents, gust 7, in foreign waters, the navy! Mr. and Mrs, John Mattson, of Prin department announced today ville, Ore. The dead are W. Renham, fireman,| PARIS, Aug. %—The long-range Thomas Freeport, 1. 1: man, New Haven, Conn. Roger Hackett, fire: | bombardment of Paris was resumed today. THIRD DRIVE ON; BAG 20,000 FOE “HAIG’S MEN GO 8 MILES IN ADVANCE Drive Wedge Into German Front in Montdidier Bulge CAPTURE HUN OFFICER * Dispatch From William Phil Simms | By United Press Leased Wire | Direct to Th Star —* BRITISH WITH THE ARMIES IN FRANCE, Aug. 9. 1230p. m)—The British fourth army and elements of the French first army, under Mar- shal Haig, have driven their wedge Into the west wall of the Montdidier pocket from six to eight miles. They have captured a large number of guns, many prison ers and considerable material Great confusion has been caused behind Crown Prince Rupprecht's fro in Gen. Von Der Marwits's second army and Gen. Von Hutier's 1sth army Airmen report flight of enemy transport eastward along the Somme in order to escape capture. MANY OFFICERS TAKEN; TANK CHASES GENERAL A number of high officers have | been taken prisoner. The last seen of one German genéfal, he was run fing headlong down « road with a tank lumbering after him, spitting machine gun bullets in his direction Our artillery had to limber up and advance in order to keep the retiring enemy within range The Paris Amiens main railway line is now well out of range of any save the heaviest German guns, nite the Paris-Compiegne-Amiens pad in cut only at Montdidier ‘Tha latter city is now directly threat- pian airmen. despite heavy weather, low clouds and showers, are hampering traffic Into and out of the eneny salient, expecially along the Peronne Roye and Amiens-Ham RE sg junction at the Chaulnes across the Somme, over which every ounce of supplies and reinfore ing divisions must pass, likewise is being harried While the allies’ heaviest guns pound the German military centers | far in the by infantry, (Continued on page 5) ‘United Press } | Summary of | | War Events’ rear, Rupprecht’s reply FLANDERS British suddenly advance on an eight-mile mt on the southwestern portion of the Flanders front, penetrating a maximum depth of two miles ind capturing five villages. The RONT — a to he lay British war office announced that Locon, Le-Cornet Malo, Quentin, Le Petit Haucaut and Le Hart had been occupied, Lo s two miles north of Bethune ‘ et Malo is a mile north west of Locon. Quentin is two miles north and st of La net Malo. Le Petit Haucaut is a mile and a quarter north of Quentin and a mile south of Merville. Le Hart is a mile west of Merville. ARDY FRONT—British troops continue their advance today over a greater portion of the new 20-mile offensive front astride the Somme. Unofficial dispatches reported British cay alry at Chaulnes Junction—an advance of four mil and a total per beyond the original line apparently has been captured, while the import ant center of Chaulnes is in im er. It was also un that Morlan since tration of Rosieres minent dan, officially court, where the Germans held up the British left wing yester day, had fallen, The British war office reported 14,000 prisoners and a great number of guns. AISNE-VESLE = FRONT— American and I h troops continue to improve their posi tions north of the Vesle and are breaking up contmuous counter attacks. The Germans are report ed #0 heavily entrenched on the heights between the Vesle and the Aisne that the allied artillery will have to literally bias f the face of the hills before the Franco-American advance can be resumed. SWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION rapid | artillery and air, is very | NIGHT EDITION ONE CENT IN SEATTLE Per year by mail $5.00 to $9.00 Tonight whowers; and Saturday, moder © souther Neather Forecast: Forecast: probably BRITISH START NEW SMASH ON FLANDERS LINE LONDON, Aug. 9.—British troops h ‘started a new drive in Flanders, and already captured several villages, the office announced today. Locon, LeCoi Malo, Quentin, Le Petit, Pacaut and” Hart have been occupied. This attack north of the Franco-British offensive Picardy Initial progress of two miles on an \mile front, along the southwestern po lof the Flanders salient, was reported. Haig’s statement today indicated the enemy retired from his positions on the whole Lys valley and that British had advanced northwestward to | ville to a depth of 2,000 yards. “In the Lys valley, fos the past few days, the emy continued to evacuate his forward positions, ‘é statement said. “Our whole front line has from the Lawe river to the river Bourne, north \of Merville, to a maximum depth of over 2,000 Allied forces on the western front are today waging « triple attack against the Germans—in Flanders, Picardy and on the | Aisne-Vesle front. Fighting is * |ing satisfactorily. ‘The Picardy offensive has oped some hot fighting north of | Somme, but the British ahead, the latest estin 20,000 prisoners captured ont al ‘of 12 miles.maae into. by the enemy and counter | Hich German officers fled smashes by the French and ately at the approach of the Br Americans are the feature. The French are right wing of the Britt Picardy. They gained four : the initial smash and x Huns in a panic. Americans in the Aime Vente gion threw back four G tacks in hand-tohand fighting. — sitions in this zone have \ proved by Franco-American @ Field Marshal Haig sprang a new surprise on Crown Prince Rup precht's forces when the British sud- denly advanced in Flanders on an eight-mile front, capturing five vil- lages in the first stage of the new attack. The surprise in this area, as lin Picardy yesterday, was complete. Dispatches say the push is continu Somme Roadways Are Tangled With Foe Troops and Guns BY WM. PHILIP SIMMS tain a constant machine gun fire, ac United Press Correspondent ance sackon ck and ‘ “in. " ea n the rv of Morlancourt, WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES | potish were unable to maintall IN FRANCE, Aug. 9.—(12:30 p. m)—| positions. The Chipilly epury British cavalry detachments are re | the foot of which flows the ported approaching Chaulnes, in the | is the scene of very heavy fight Picardy drive. |The Wurtemburgers there were OF Prisoners taken to date exceed |dered to hold, despite any losses. 20,000, according to the estimates. | Farther south, French and B | The cavalry today took a number of | cavalry seems to be everywhere additional villages from the Ger-| once, cutting retreating columns mans pieces and rounding up prisoners. — The lo: to the armies of Von| Armored cars are dashing up am Der Marwitz and Von Hutier in mu-| down the roads, adding to the nitions and other supplies alone con-|my's dism while tanks stitute a vy blow to t } “whippet aneuvering across ‘Ten different enemy divisions were | fields and co-operating with the eave — identified in yesterday's fighting. (A| alry far in advance of the it : German division usually numbers} are continuing their deadly tr 12,000 men.) Other divisions have Many bridges have been di . a been thrown into the battle since | including those at Peronne and Brig, j last night. French cavalry, tanks and ‘The whole area included in the| try are fighting brilliantly on great bend of the Somme is a nasty | British right. Chauines, which British cavalry | of German transports, artil lery and troops, all struggling along | the same roads. These m: es of| now reported approaching, is | men and material are being attacked | miles from the line where the by low flying airplanes, which main: | fensive started Franco-British Advance Is Nearing Important Towns BY JOHN DE GANDT |menacing Chaulnes. Progress in the | United Press Correspondent ion of Foucducourt may menace | PARIS, Aug. 9—44:05 p, m.)—The| Peronne from the south, the dispateh | | Franco-British advance is continuing | said losses have been suffered — in Picardy, Bouchoir, south of| Terrible Rosieres has been reached and the /by the enemy, The 27th, 108th and \allies are making progress toward | 43rd German divisions were among ~ | Neale, according to press dispatches | the hardest hit The 117th division, which arrived tangle to Paris papers this afternoon. The allies are reported to have on the battlefield the night before | progressed thru Rosieres-en-Santerre, | the attack, was practically deci. as far as Lihons, where they are | mated. Allies Take Morlancourt and Approach Foe Base at Chaulnes LONDON, Aug. 9.—More than nes, and represents an advance of — 14,000 prisoners have been taken | more than 12 miles from the original” in the allied advance in Picardy, | allied line at Hangard, and an addb the war office announced today, | tional penetration of about four The number of guns has not | miles yesterday been estimated. Haig's official report last night de: | Rritish troops have captured Mor-| scribed the allied line as extei }lancourt, the tmportant town north | from Braches, northeastward of the Somme, where Ge! resist- | Plessier-Roseainvillers, Beaucourt ance held up the left wing of the al-| and Gaix, to Framerville, then north: 7 |lied advance yesterday. Resistance, westward thru Chipilly to a point | \continues in this area, and heavy|west of Morlancourt, a front | fighting is under way between Chip-| about 20 miles ily and Morlancourt. amerville, the apex of the aed |v hhritish cavalry is near Chaulnes | salient, is about nine miles east Of | junetion, miles in advance of | Villers:-Bretonneux, and rept \the infantry. British patrols have |an advance of about eight miles, passed Poucaucourt, four miles north | highly important railway and - and west of Chaulnes (entire gain, 12|way center at Rosieres is men miles). by the allies, as the newly captured Chaulnes junction is about a mile | town of Caix is only two miles to the: south of the important city of Chaul-! westward. ‘ four “ee