The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 12, 1918, Page 1

Full Leased Wire Report of the United Press Associations ie Complete Service of the Newspaper Enterprise Association EGISLATURE—The legislature iu} N ( : i | D O} have important measures before it} I T E ITI in January. Do you want to stop the rent } ) hog? Well, be sure you're voting for the } right candidates. noe, ONE CENT IN SEATTLE 5 Lanne nen! THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST j Per year by mail $5.00 to $9.00 I Entered an Becond Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Meattie, Wash, under the Act of Congress March %, 1879, ween DAR ARAR ARR AAR AAA AAA ARR nnn VOLUN 20. NO PULL Le IRM SERVIC ab gig 929 > stp AAA mannan ARAAAARARAAR DADA RD D DDD ADD DDD DAP DEP PDD PLP PDP PPD PD PPL PPP _ VOLt Al x NO. tat UNITHD BRERS ARSOCTATIONS SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1918. Weather Forecast: Tonight, and, Tuesday, fair and KEY TOWNS DOOMED! TEUTONS FOCH IS maw, team, tame 14 TOWNS: ALARMED JOINING =< < ) _ MENACED 400 °° I AT LOSS 2 FRONTS: _BY HAIG PICARDY ZON BY HAROLD EDWIN BECHTOL ra European Panne the Newspaper Battle Analyse by | by SOC | 4 LONDON, Eng. Aug. 12— | J. W. T. Mason Miller While reports from the Picardy battlefield today state — ABS gy ol yer ge | Pee nee wwe: | | By United Press Leased Wwe || that the allied advance has slowed up somewhat in the fee term of things on the wet |@—— ne ih in ens Ad Direct to The Ser 4} ter, owing to desperate German counter attacks, the frent; ever the thousands of | NEW YORK, Aug. 12.—The PARIS. —o | still continues favorably for Gen. Foch’s troops. Be nna age |) PARIS, Aug. 12—Chaulnes, Americans reculerty sutfighting | reached their final gt Benne || Roye, Lassigny and Neyon— Allied guns are now shelling Peronne, vital enemy b és of Americana at agned west of the Somme front, which pore ry Reng ogy Lag in the Picardy region, as well as pouring a stream of @} get into the line; over the mil. | !" its turn forms the last rest { ooo Seapecinaly stevia $0 plosives into other places back of the German line. o recover their balance and stem re drawing near Peronne. the on-sweeping allies, The French are advancing on the southern end of Gen, Ludendorff i» pulling in re drive and now threaten the capture of Lassigny, serves from the entire region and 4. eee eee rekion an’ being within two miles of that base. Likewise, the Britt while, he is trying to reorganize the have advanced on the way to Roye, taking two villages divisions hurled back by the French reaching a point four miles from the city itself. and British Not only are Lassigny and Roye closer to the Wheth the G h decid ‘ od to make @ real stand on this line, |STippers, but Noyon and Chaulnes, two other key positi or only a temporary one, to enable in the Germans’ defenses, are threatened with captun Gen. Von Hutier to withdraw his The enemy is desperately attempting, by hurling in m heavy guns and material, cannot yet | divisions, to hold his line until the heavy artillery ¢ be discerned. The allies are now h S Th f 1 f thrusting wedges between these four |eScape across the Somme. The fall of one of these to bulwarks in the German line in an Would seriously embarrass his hopes. sc? effort to make them untenable German casualties in the Picardy battle are estim win the four. chaulnes and ‘a* at 100,000. Prisoners up to date total 40,000. More If these fall, it can be assumed that 700 guns have been captured. the others will be captured shortly. oe lions of other Americans “ ing place In advance of the old ~ - a “Hindenburg line.” This information comes from an| ,Th¢ Germans are fighting desper allied source whose business it is to | *tely with their backs to the Som know conditions in the enemy coun-|"@Uth of Peronne. This situation tries. requires that they move their heavy She's frightened about Austria, | *ftillery acroas the river immediate She doesn't know what moment Aus. | ¥ °F cise risk its entire capture by trim may blow up. She knows what |‘P¢ allies if Field Marshal Haig {a known and conceded in official al. | 0¥*# his front forward with a sud Ned sources—that the Austrian eco- | den lune : omic situation ie worse now than 1c{ The principal German resistance has been since the opening of the|%t Present, therefore, is by machine war, and the people are bolder. guns. The artillery on the east bank She's frightened about Russia. Al. | % the Somme will become effective led warshipa and American troops | *Bortly and may prevent Foch from Wp north have puffed out her hope permitting a front attack on the of getting her hands on the hun.| S°mme line, in accordance with his @reds of thousands of tons of mili. | Policy of sparing lives as much as pas bbe tary stores at Archangel, there since | P°**! the revolution; she can't take a step Start Flank Move ‘e toward Petrograd or the northern| Th¢ British and French. in fi Pailway lest these allied forces swoop are now beginning the development geuth: and, for all she knows, they | 0 % Manking operation against the dety be going to swoop south with.|SOmme positions from the south out waiting fdr that menace: she This is one of the purposes of the ‘t spare men from the west front British advance toward Roye and % ‘armed intervention by Japan| ‘he French movement in the direc tion of Noyon. If these tow! faul fand’the allies in Siberia is a fact. Into possession of the allies, a slight sm , ing from positions where there had a | Side mares ever the benting | porate scien 4 pork oa eat “ - | been bayonet fighters only 24 hours | Miles of that place. They have captured Gury (less # a <r ‘over hee munition centers und | fect pocket of the Somme poxitions J | before. two miles to the southwest) and have advanced and will compel the Germans to re ; Between Ham and Peronine, where Loges wood (two miles northwest). fortified towns along the Rhine, she} 3 ‘the Ger: ° ‘ * fears to think of theetfect of these | re to the “Hindenburg line” Girinmna the ate Ee bombing aod There is little change in the situation eteowiigll ‘ | This mme flanking operation rely tied orsgae POW | cone! the’ edeme tvoh’ Une, eemth ‘amagning bridges. while the -Ger-| tact between allied and German forces:continues west | “ a re trying frantically to repair | Roye. after which the Germans would have &———~———~ no line thiv wide of the Sotmene upon | DISPATCH FROM LOWELL which to stand. | (By United Press Leased Wire, Direct to The Star) The extraordinary rapidity with %———— — which the French are bringing up WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES IN THE FIELD, oo cor vA on Bd the ar 12,—(2:40 p, m.)—French troops, closing in upon the that frequently the “heavies are fir’ portant base of Lassigny, have advanced to within ia beginning to menace the western man: ie frightened over the Mat/ flank of the Germans between the oY, & them. Some of these are knocked ARON Gant charge fice itaren wy a Veale and the Chemin Des Dames. Pod > out and repaired several times a day mer POAT MOREL IE MAINE NE feuunt rowtes: che expected her con. | Marshal Foch ie here developing & Avintors’ Toseyt the say peek DISPATCH FROM JOHN DE GANDT t double strategy He ts linking beth — areas choked with retreating trans \ (By United Press 1 Wire, Direct to The , allge nt Rig Rae eden F Picardy and the Champagne op ” | erations so that in reality the drive in a “receptive mood. Bcicket Prete Ge in frightened over the failure | Om Montdidier shall form. ® sing! of the su ines: aa against her campaign with the drive from the boast that the U-boat would bar | Marne American troops from Europe, the rr ae Yankees are coming over thousands ULTIMATUM IS of them each week—and the losses thru sinkings are less than any of prospects, being constantly warned rs ; ithe Dispatch From Frank Russian Bol sheviki ea sent in public by her own thinking men that her position among nations aft Sage timatis °16. Sepan, according ‘to J. Taylor Swedish press reports here toda » (Continued en Page Ten) eg } ‘The nature of the ultimatum is not WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY disco Reports from Kieff 4 ON THE VP Aug. 1 Amer clared that the staff of the Don Cos- can and French troops opposing the sacks has announ tire Don region h Bolsheviki, and is n a wellequipped army of several thou AMSTERDAM, Aug. 12.—Three) 014 a German generals, who led troops ports and columns of troops PARIS, Aug. 12.—(4:12 p. m.)—French shelling both Roye and Noyon, rendering both towns pr tically uninhabitable. In the Lassigny region progress continuing. Our lines are now within three kilometers” the town, the French penetrating Thiesecourt wood (whi ‘United Press extends northward to within a mile of Lassigny). Summary of | 5 _ Premier Clemenceau, returning from the front, is me War Events) onimist ar ————— LONDON, Aug. 12.—(9:40 a. m.)—German PICARDY FRONT—u hile the on the new Picardy battle front are now reliably estim apes een ore’ ~|at more than 100,000. » in the center, as the result of the induction of new German re serve divisions, both wings con tinue to pr se American and. British troops are reported to be in the western outskirts of Bray, on the north bank of the Somme, which is the q most important town before ched, nine miles to LICENSE LANDLORDS?) City Attorney Kennedy believes the city would have authority to license landlords, but is doubtful if the city has the constitutional right to qstablish a commiSsion, such as The Star suggests, to whom landlords must apply for permission to raise rents. Under the Kennedy plan, if a landlord became too intolerant in rent boosts, the city could with- draw his license. The Star’s plan, on the other hand, would not give the landlord a chance to become intolerant. 4 that the en been freed of Germans on the heights north of the Vesle have encountered freah n divi ing in the Americ n this region yesterda ‘an sectors d consis - near Montdidier, have been relieved 4 bes ay pre Ae eon Lisi — It is one thing to put a thief behind prison bars after ite seatwrard ; —______—___—_—_—_—_—| the somme. : ngeghe ncreased German artillery ac K ; n the center the Germans are ] r 4 - ng gar orev dean = SAY RUSSIAN The Germans threw dows he has squandered his plunder. It is another thing healt Geemntée uttantdinn aroand "Dispatch From William |} sah bedare, Eeeon oe titel Brit. They were charged with neglect of nse barrages before the to prevent him from stealing at all. The latter Roye, but the French have taken Philip Simms || Sowth “ot Shemp "thee Avraine ae duty. Seasons, cemeoey ore : I " L’Eschelle, whi! the British || By United Press Leased Wire | pushing on slowly, despite increasing Many soldiers at St. Quentin were 6 ADTMIPOY seit, HERS. method is the better. have recaptured Lihons. Reports | | Direct to The Star | opposition q tried by court-martial Saturday, on pinged ae ae If rent profiteering is to be done away with, let that Chaulnes and Roye have | %— over The Somme makes a sharp charges of high treason, Belgian ad ARIS hetort agli sneay ago or ; ‘ been taken are incorrect WITH THE BRITI east of them and the sluggisti si rat pb ha ~ b erpedlrgomgre PAR A R ports may Le the American smal us knock it on the head completely. Let there be Between the Avre and the ARMIES IN FRANCE, Aug. 12. | is paralleled by « canal flowing thru ic d ne be or nine a ave fle rom! arm fire boche’s inability to - ; ®, Aug. 12. . a Brussels Moscow to Kronstadt et fb. steam, ” no half-way measure. There cannot be any world eee a a addi AG he battle has | broad salt marsh. It is dif tional gains on a front of more a in the | to cross save by built-up roads \ - ; F i American infantry advanced nafft peace as long as the Hun has any power to abuse. than 18 miles, threatening Ribe gery lee hay stains bridges | which hheot ti ronstadt is 20 milex west of Pe ay up the sic a p bill he . ie o | = =a % FO ECA area ta Kronetadt bay, an arm of be Fonalon vost encounterin rong This is as true of the Landlord as of the Kaiser court and Lassigr Von Ludendorff's reserves | dangerous by allied artillery and aire AISNE - VESLE FRONT— have been massed in front of the | plane bombs. he If of Finlane heavily armed Ge: an entrenchments Th ugh - acid Pataagdiy ny awe ares mates 66 tenia thee: tate Hun. . : American and French troops and have attempt. |. Unless Von Der Marwits's arme iaaml ENEMY RETREAT - ny positions owing to the intensity Resolve all doubts in favor of the city. These continue to harass the Germans -attacks be: sue- | (Continued on Page Ten) Le: “et n« of the Vesie. New Prus . The allies are maintain- é Bolsheviki Lost of: the enemy fire, and returned te are war days. It needs heroic measures to protect Sian dlivisicow here peice a thelr positions thruout. the heir former positions at the foot of AMSTERDAM, Aug. 12.—An offi . . . t i Gaal interview inthe Stuttgart New Heavily in Fight tne sve Atblatt is believed to be for the| COPENHAGEN, Aug. 12 fets purpose of preparing German opin-| have been overthrown and councils fon for evacuation of considerable of Menaheviki and social revolution t nd t « extabliehed in Kazan and Otste territory between the Avre ur Somme, according to advices today. | hir aceording to reports received here toda the people against abuses. An emergency situation exists. The city has a right to protect itself and its people against any possible state of dire unrest and suffering. Is it constitutional to correct abuses? Let the courts decide that, if necessary. The city attorney and the city council must not assume . | tered whole line. LANDERS FRONT—hritish Whatever the future may bring, re the first phase of the fighting is « improved their positions east of F 1 and between |over. The Germans, at their ne: ‘ Vieu-Berquin and Merris est point, are 7 miles from the RMANY — Newspapers re. | Picerdy capital (Amiens), while they! are no nearer than 16 miles to the} the neriovs effect of the re | Amisns-Paris railway biol nt hadacee Racal date esl ak ae Prisoners from divisions just ar-| RUSSIA — The British and | rived in the line declared they were| and Somme, rough! Judes most| In the Ftjesan and Novgorod dix that function. : : . “gies 7 ; of the territory in the present battle |tricts the Bolshevik! were defeated rench consuls arrested by the | ordered to hold at any cos x 2 arent e with great losse On with the battle against the profiteers! heviki at Moscow have been | ¢ aptured man officers admit} LONDON, Aug. 12.—(:50 p, mje) - released Premier Lenine and | there is considerable disorder behind | Allied troops have taken the western 7@ edge of Bray, it was learned this atts i i Nore 4 2—De War Minister Trotsky are report he German lines, the officers know Baggage Men Again Execute Dankos as On thine suche. Fon : ma | ed to have fled to Kronstadt. Ae aerate what ie teaneniring. They | ernoon : Ask Rate Increase Slayer of Eichhorn %)."\iunue wont van ot Candidate Earl City Starts Probe were thrown into certain positions] "(Bray is five miles southeast @ Al t z ; r - dey, The und told to stay | bert, and is the most {mporta: Baggage 1 en of Seattle again ap-| PARIS, Aug. 12.—The Russian so- | was officially announced t nay. ‘Th Walters Pledges of Rent Problems Vote 2-Cent Tax hae jbert, and is the os, ee etore ity license com: | pia! revolutionary Dankos, accused | British steamship Penistone was tot f r Spa [on the Somme wert ot ae Monday morning, asking that| of ung Field. Marshal Von, Fieh by a German submarine Au Fight on Rent-Hog Confronting Seattle : pon. Ice Cream Laudendortt is obviously trying | Norted appronching Bray ast Rlged ie be eile to Increase horn, Gerndn dictator in Ukrainia, | gust 11, 100 miles east of Nantucke sted tee Wace X8 keel G yout| ROAR © Geeta Colin: § , ug 1¢| gain time to bring up reserves, pre:| Pry. Germans are. reported. #0: Be transfer rates fro 15 ce wan executed Saturday, according to avy department stated yon" | Meter started Monday afternoon on | house Ways and means committee sumably to permit withdrawal of Ts) neavily counter attacking in front Be hauling trunks in the central portion advices today ur 4 American schooner |question, “How do you stand, Mr, | Melon mart today voted to tax fee cream s artillery and stores to the right of Rove The French, howaesa tion of the problems the unk by German submarine gun | Candidate?” I wish to reply that If 1) city wilt have to undertake in its SUdaes and other delicacies sold at helle (three miles west of Roye). ~ RELEASE ALLY CONSULS “'* onthe morning of August 11 |am elected to the legisiature, I here: | plan to regulate rentals soda fountains at the rate of 2 “The French have thnse sUuMae A Swedi teamer was reported) a. myself to vote for a bill| His opinion on the legality of the|cents for each 10 cents, or frac \eayanos on an 18-mile front, between rust 10, 100 ARRESTED IN MOSCOW bombed and sunk A council's action in the matter is ex-|ton thereof, Jn addition to thts, the Avre and the Oise, while the situs TOCK Ht peed ee gales : ; 1 | bected to go before a xpecial meeting |the committer adopted. a 10 per ation between Roye and the Somme | hres big ov me it ood the ith sufficient teeth in them to end) of ayor and council before the end cent tax on bottled soft drinks, to |has become more stabilized, owing: agents in € u ¢ the rent evil, And I further pledge fe Ret Es cha _omenutnoeives has become more stabliieed, (5 of the week 4 S rvice release of the British and Fenech Threaten to Revoke If to vote for any other measure With Becretary McAdoo expect-| \asHINGTON, Aug 12--An at-| The British have taken Zina consuls, it} was announced toda . that will effectually curb profiteer : A . ‘ TO? 2.—An at] The Setian pee e Poolroom License (7. iver form, or that witt| FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT ea to return to his, dosie today, is tempt to amend the army bill to pre-| ‘They Dre aly | vere en f q COPENHAGEN, Aug. 12—-The! they're a wild bunch, all right.” | help to conserve the resourc this ght to force an 80 per cent tax| vent drafting of men less than 21 | Have Caplures city, t Readers of The Star are}! German eribamay is to remove to Bey ee John ro Mataon witch the Hy iH ARI Ww ALTERS i MEETS ITALY PREMIER on war profits wilt begin seary ‘cid wan dateated by sib senate | wore driven out tn the German coun= iri in 6 *skov from Moscow, say Berlin ad ; tee te 0 ¢ tOME, Aug. 2.—Franklin Dp A military committee today by a large | ter attac’ are, 7 g00\* f M I n Aad city n ommittee told him, Mon RF. D, 1, Kirkland, Wash ROM Aug 1 klin int a inbbited to phone Main 600) in en eee (00 mlee. Cat ot eee ne he tolls who |Candidate for’ Representative, 424 | Roosevelt, asuisiant secretary of the| Habeas Corpus Writ | vow nenererta. tak Chane ae d place their Want “Ads” | Moscow hung around his poolroom, at 406) District, Subject to Republican | United States navy, is in conference : So far as the committ neern corrects ‘siege 2 \, mye with Premier Orlando. Is Denied Woman ed, the bill will b orted with ages addicted to the us \ Main st Primaries: T TO DEMONSTRATE a mixture containing Jamatc gin Sutherland of the United ger, Hoffman drops and hard cider.) grppisn DOWN HUN AIRSHIP More U. S. Troops charged with vagre Mary E, Sutherland, of the United | from 18 to 45. No decision was SPAIN TO KEEP NEUTRAL ney. was denied a/ reached on the “work or fight” MADRID, Aug. 12.—At the conelt® before the largest audience EXS in the Northwest ( habe: pus by Judge F 1 t introduced, with the|sion of yesterday's cabinet rf States food administration, will give |"I can't control them, nohow he : °: writ of habeas corpus by Judge Ey- | amendmen 5 meeting: { “ a demonstr ied. oe be city wheatless | added LONDON, Aug. J A German Will Go to Italy erett Smith Monday morning, as the | view of preventing strikes and loaf-|in the *, & semiofficial ‘stftes » Have your Want Ad eads and cakes at the Deaconess The license committee » John igo) by hid vi eG be bod ROME, Aug. 12.—More American | court dectared yeep be net ae $0 sia Ghambavial Ay ae pons cao Sa omen Rai charg ettlement, 150 ainier aye. Wed-|an extra w j- | tle 0 ne coast of Holland yester:| oo. wil be wont to Italy, Franklin | it) because she had been arrested un-| Chairman Chamberlain said he ex-| Spain's foreign, policy will not al charged. men 4 Rainier aly day in which British light 1 D. coaee of | der @ warrant and that bail had been | pected to be able to report the bill| tered, and that maintenance of its. Roosevelt, assistant se: | the navy, annouttced today. nesday, at 3 p.m. Mrs, Legis will be | news to a snore tron-like p jim charge. lor the license would be revoked. ‘orces and aircraft engaged German aircraft. | offered and accepted, ‘Thursday. | neutrality is vital to the country,