The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 14, 1918, Page 1

IRINA SRNR RRA nin RR i Ml /MAKE YOUR MONEY GROW! RARE TREAT—It isn't often that Everett True ge ally does the swatting. But today—read- ers of The Star, by turning to page eight, rare sight of Ev getting will enjoy the VOLUME 20. NO. 143 ts swatted, He usu- Stamps. AAD L eS ALARA DA { That’s what you can do by putting that extra two-bits or that dollar in Thrift You can’t buy as much now for that money as you will AFTER the war. Why not save it by investing it with Uncle Sam? He'll pay you interest—and he’s as safe as the safest bank on earth. The Seattle Star THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST Mntered as Becond Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Heattie, Wash., under the Ac’ t of Congress March §, 1878. NIGHT EDITION ONE CENT IN SEATTLE Per year by mail $5.00 to $9.00 LY Te ASED WIRE SERVIC PRESS ASROCTATIONS SEATTLE, WASH., WED} NESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1918. LASSIGNY FALLS U. S.NAVY TO FIGHT — CHECHS IN STRUGGLE “F EEL MY MUSCLE!” AUSTRIA WITHREDS Franklin Roosevelt Tells of Plans to Crush Enemy Craft y, INSURE ITALY VICTORY ‘By United Press Leased uel Direct to The Star nome. Aug. 14. eageretion of the Italian and American na- im an interview with the United Prees. “With the intention of pa ays Our assistance to Italy,” he said, are now endeavoring to solve the Problem of using Italian porte, ts to! ir fullest capacity. Hencef: shipped to Italy must Se ae ‘aie | charged at Italian, instead of French | ‘ports. “Tt is imperative that we do this | in to relieve congested traffic od French “roads. To put the — into effect the Mediterranean Must be made safe from eubma- American and Italian fleets ean easily accomplish this, We should also close the Adriatic and Prevent the exit of enemy craft as well as paralyze the exploits of the the States is prepared to send to the Italian front enough troops to in- sure victory for Italian arms. From the North sea to the Adriatic, the in itiative, both on land and sea, has) forever passed to the allies, he de clared. RENT PROBLEM IS DISCUSSED BY CANDIDATE Candidates for the legislature, both for the senate and the house, are in favor of some action, such an outlined by The Star, to curb the ever increasing and unceasing burden of excessive rents. Recognizing that landlords are en- titled to a reasonable return on their investment and that the cost of oper ation of apartment houses has partic: ularly gone up on account of the war, they nevertheless are satisfied that in many cases the rents do not stop with legitimate increases. Prof- iteering of the worst type is making conditions here unbearable Members of the legislature from King county, according to their pledges, may be counted upon to give every legislative assistance ponsible to remedy the situation. The following are some of the opin. fons given The Star RALPH A. HORR, 24th Senatorial iet—Am very much in favor of Star’s plan; if it is not legal, will do my best to make it so if I reach | Olympia. FRED W. HASTINGS, 36th Sena torial district—I stand with The Star against profiteering, and if the rent Metal Trades to Ask U. S. Action Members of the metal trades coun cil Tuesday evening decided to fol low their past policy in regard to rent profiteering—continual urging of the government for action. No parade will be held. The Star's plan was discussed but it was generally held that the gov ernment, instead of the city, could act effectively FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE Classified advertising dy be left at Bartell’s Drug Store, located at 610 Second avenue up to 11 a. m. each day, for regular afternoon edi- tions, or Telephone Main £09, {| Pay United Preas |! United | demand was in the nature of an ub| Slovak Patriots Large Army of Bolshe- | viki on Volga ARE SEIZED, | WARSHIPS ~ * Leased Wire Direct to The Star ] ~ * AMSTERDAM, Aug. 14.—A battle is raging between Czecho Slovaks | and Bolshevik! along the middie Vol ga, especially around Simbirek, ac cording to dispatches received from Germany today | @tmbirsk, 400 miles east of Mow | cow, is one of the key positions on | the new “Russian front.) | The soviet army is said to number 150,000 men. The soviet'’s fleet in Volga has seized all CzechoSlovak vessels, breaking the latter's commu nication with headquarters at Sim | birsk | FINNS TO MARCH ON ALLY TROOPS, WASHINGTON, Aug. 14—Ger. Many has demanded that the Fin nish army prepare to march on Mur mansk within two weeks, according to reliable advices to the state de partment today | by allied troops, including Americans | The advices stated that the German: timatum. Allies Recognize Slovak Warriors WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—Recog nition of the Czecho-Slovaks and | their armies as allies of the demo- | cratic allies fighting Germany is ex | pected soon Great Brital has France and Italy in officially ne | nizing these fighting Slavs and this | nation is believed certain to follow Caecho-Slovaks in Bohemia are ac. | cumulating guns and ammunition in }large quantities in aby gh sonal for serious steps, according | cables today. RUSSIAN EASTERN (Volga region)—A great anes tering about Simbirsk, is raging slong the Volga, between the Czech-Sio- vaks and Bolshevik army of 150,000, according to reports from German sources. ALASKA ENEMY ALIENS JAILED Recause they got too near Valdez, Alaska, waterfronts, Albert Strye, | William Meinberg, Preisner Gustave |and Paul Minnieh were brought down to Seattle for internment Tues |day by the deputy United States |marshal at Valdez. All four are alien enemies. A fifth alien enemy is now on the way down from | Alaska for internment | Interpretation of alien enemy mis demeanors in Alaska is strict, pro-German activities In Alaska are negligible under the stringent police system, says Clarence L, Reames, head of the Northwest department of justice. Soon Gomenioniettnsnaeany Lawyer Released; Thomas R. Horner, Seattle attor ney, was released from the city jail today on his personal recognizance, | following his arrest last night at the Baden hotel, where his client, John R. Spurgeon, 30, was mysteriously slashed with a razor. Altho Spurgeon, at the city hospl- tal, insisted that Horner was his friend, the police held him. It ts two others were in Spur. . but their names hav learned, Spurgeon is re | covering rapidly from his wounds iU. S. Agents Arrest Alleged Disloyalist) by federal agents Wednesday as a gandint Hooper is charged | With having flaunted his disloyalty in a series of letters to Eastern news papers, in which he justifies the sink ing of the Lusitania and demands in | stant peace. He is believed by department of Justice officials to be insane, having been previously confined in an asy- jum in New York city. and | Client Recovering! Fighting } The Murmansk coast is oceupied | “= AMERICAN SHIP HUNS? CRUELTY 1S SENT DOWN OFF NEW YORK "7 | | con| NEW YORK, Aug. 14 liean tanker Frederick R. Kellows haa been sunk by a German subma rine, just off the entrance to New | York harbor, it was reported here to- | aay y five of the crew reached | ow tare tale and seven are still unaccounted for. The Kellogg was of 4.450 tons, and | was built at Onkland, Cal. She was commanded by Capt. White. Torpedoing of the tanker was first announced last night, by the navy known whether the ship had gone |down. Reports here today indicated |the tanker was torpedoed just off Ambrose channel, one of the ap proaches to New York harbor. British F reighter | U-Pirate Off Coast AN ATLANTIC PORT, Aug. 14 |A British freighter arriving here to: day reported having had a two-hour battle with a German submarine off the Long Island const. The U ed fire boat, it was declared, ¢ at a range of three miles, The freighter replied yntil {te ammunition | was exhausted out 8. O. S. calla According to the story told here, a mysterious steamer of about 2,000 tons, flying a flag which could not |be made out, crossed the line of fire several times, shielding the subma jrine from the freighter’s shells {Hun Sea Pirates Can’t Worry U. S. WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—Ax sub marine operations off the Atlantic coast grow more daring, conviction |grows among naval officials that |Germany's sole object is to draw America’s attention away from the meanwhile sending Charles Hooper was arrested here | transports and supply ships en route | to Burope Indications are that the govern: |ment will not permit the U-boat com ders to divert our sea fight ers to a chase after spectacular raid ers. Nevertheless increased precautions are being taken to apprehend the raiders, whieh are now apparently operating all along the Atlantic Coase The Amer. | department, but it was not definitely | Mayor to Work in hipyard Mayor Hanson is going to work In the shipyards. He applied for a job today, but has not yet been assigned to any particular yard He will work a four-hour shift, Ole Hanson, jr, haa partially recovered from seriogs {liness, He in able to do only light work,” the mayor sald. “But Cm strong enough for any kind of @ i job.” \442 Soldiers Are Missing in Loss of French Steamer PARIS, Aug. 14—The French | steamer Djemnah was torpedoed and @unk with 442 soldiers in the Medi. terranean on July 14, the war office announced yesterday. n sailors were killed and} assengers migaing, following the subbing of the Australien, also | Fights Battle With | in mediterranean waters. Another | steamer was torpedoed, but remained | afloat |Trawler Tries to Ram Hostile Diver AN ATLANTIC PORT, Aug. 14. ‘The steam trawler Wairuas, of Glou cester, was fired on by a au |elght miles off Cape Cod at ™. yesterday, it became known today, | when the vessel returned to port The U-boat disappeared when Capt | Morrisey, of the trawler, put on full | steam and tried to ram it NETHERLANDS MINISTER WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—The Netherlands minister to the Vatican has been recalled, a dispatch from Rome announces. Ital news papers state that the minister will be charged with forming a new cabinet at The Hague, iLT. ALLAN WINSLOW IS KILLED IN AIR FIGHT PARIS, Aug. 14.—Lieut. Allan t Winslow of Lake Forest, Il, the first American trained flier to bring down an enemy airman, has been | killed in an air fight in Ploardy cording to information received today. ceived, AT VATICAN RECALLED) » |Jong-range No details have been re-} need no longer be felt, according to| day evening. They replace a previ- "TO PRISONERS IS INCREASING WITH THE AMERICAN AR- MIKES IN FRANCE, Aug. 13.— (Night, cloding A: | with clubbed rifles on the slight- est provocation, according to two British soldiers, who were cap- tured by the Germans on May 27, and escaped to the Ameri- can lines, after spending a week | in hiding and fleeing. They told a remarkable story of crueities. practiced by the boches. Only the most serious cases are | admitted to hospitals, where they receive little treatment, the Tommies | aid. The majority of wounded die Jin the hospitals. | An American medical officer, him | welf weak with a high fever, worked | Today they were attempting to based untiringly treating other prisoners and endeavoring to obtain supplies worst pomsible. The Britishers saw | wounded who had not been treated land whose wounds, originally slight, ,becoming serious, Famine Hits Germany The prisoners’ stories indicated an increasing shortage in foods and supplies of all kinds, Their rations consisted of three-quarters of a pound of unpalatable a pint of thin vegetable soup, and| coffee made of hawthe berries, |The boches received practically the ne rations, except in large quan titles. Looted cattle and casualties on the horse lines furnished meat occa sionally to the boches. The prison. lers got no meat | ‘The two Tommies aaid the lack| of food among the civilian popula tion of Germany was such that it has become the custom of the sol |diers to send their families part of their sorely needed rations: Much food was recently sent to Austria in | (Continued on Page Seven) we PARIS, Aug. 14—The American | | Red Cross has been notified from an Jauthoritative source that fear of bombardment of Paris the Paris Journal today, Conditions in the hospitals are the | American | potato bread, | AUSTRIANS ALSO LEAVE BIG AR While Army in ‘West Takes Key City and Italians Force Austrians to Evacuat Fre ch Big Area; Ludendorff Between Two Holes LONDON, Aug. u4.—(5 2 \that it understands that Lassigny has been captured. m.)—The Pail Mall Gazette declared this af PARIS, Aug. 14—(5:10 p. m.)—“Our methodical pressure warrants the the whole triangle formed by Lassigny, Ribecourt and Noyon soon will be official statement declared this afternoon. ROME, Aug. 14.—Austrian forces on Tuesday evacuated all occupied points ‘of the Semeni river, it was announced here today. Italian and French troops el practically the entire region south of the Semeni in their recent offensive. DISPATCH FROM WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN FRANCE, Aug. 14.—Crown Prince Ru precht’s hold on the west side of the Somme and the Nesle-Noyon canal remi extremely uncomfortabla | The British Fourth and the French First and Third armies maintain their. ps |sure from Albert to Ribecourt, and, altho Gen. Von Der Marwitz and Gen. Von: | heavy artillery. advance, or perish. FOES RAIN SHELLS ON Pay United Press Leased Wire | Direct to The Star | ke * WITH THE BRITISH ARMIB) IN FRANCE, Aug, 14.—Resistance of the German Second and 18th ar- mies is daily becoming more obstin- ate. During the last 24 hours there shelling, especially gas shells, north of Morlancourt (where Americans are engaged), about mile and a half north of Morland court), cre. repulsed minor attacks, advancing slightly near Bray (where Amerteans and British have penetrated the out skirts of the town). Rupprecht's gunners are consider. ably busier on the forward areas. South of the Chaulnes railway the Germans are turning their high velocity pieces on places like Rosieres), where large dumps of their | own ammunition were left behind. At Caix a long trainioad of high ex plosives was abandoned on a siding. [up the train with shell fire, Movement of troops toward the| line behind the German front shows the enemy is determined to make a stand, ENEMY PAPERS FEAR DISASTER ZURICH, Aug. 14.—Munich and Dresden newspapers declare the sit | uation in Bohemia is serious. All arms have tb confiscated and public and private meetings forbid den, During the past several days wholesale arrests have been made. enty-four Czech soldiers have | been executed, The Hungarian gar- | Hears have been reinforced. “The present situation is the most serious yet faced,” declares the Muenchener Neueste Nachrichten, “The life of the nation is at stake, “Union is more necessary than ever. All discussion of causes for the grave check which occurred at A weak point at the front must be Javoided, Responsibility les with | headquarters.” | a MAYOR SIGNS BONDS Ronda to the value of $40,000 were signed by Mayor Hanson Wednes: ous issue, which has been retired. |dendorff’s preciously guarded reserves. ALLY FRONT | dendorff will leave his Second and| has been a notable increase in enemy | Derancourt (a} and in the ‘valley of the An-| Allied troops north of the Aisne | | But for the desperate measures | applied to secure at least temporary relief, far greater have closed in upon the German: | ana | fatien, | Today the Germans, along their new battle front, are supplied entire- jly from across bridges spanning the | waterways, The bridges are now un- der allied shell fire, and airplanes bomb them day and night. Some are | already destroyed, and others cannot the Noyon canal would have | be used save at fearful risk. | It is a question whether Gen. Lu- tier are profiting to the fullest possible extent from the old Somme lines, al | which parts of the battle front now run, their armies are daily smitten by the disaster would | |and everything west of the Sonrne| | Eighteenth armies supported only by | |a sprinkling of artillery, or whether he will mass his guns behind his in-) fantry, exposing the whole to allied destruction. | He must do one or the other. If | he moves the bulk of his artillery to |the east bank of the Somme, his |euns will be unable to reach the al- led lines effectively. If he keeps them west of the Somme, which wriggles thru a wide valley of la- goons and marshes, the danger to them is obvious. : The Germans are now fighting stoutiy wherever they are attacked, but comparative quiet continues on this front. Having gone back across the Ancre, they cut the dykes of the stream, flooding the valley in places as a further protection Fine weather continues, Villers-Bretonneux: | United Press Caix (two miles west of | } Summary of War Events | PICARDY FRONT—The French apparently are concentrating their efforts in flanking operations being | developed by Humbert north jeastward along the Oise valley to | ward Noyon. | ‘This is designed to compel retire- ment of the Germans all along the Som-ne-Oise front without reverting to frontal attacks, and at the same time menace the new line being es- |tablished by the enemy along the Somme and Noyon-Nesle canal be- |fore it is completely prepared. The fighting on other portions of the battle front evidently is limited to artillery duels. | FLANDERS FRONT—Activity is increasing along the western portion of this front, The British yesterday and last night advanced their lines slightly near Veux-Berquin and Meteren. A German attack north- west of Kemmel was repulsed. AISNE-VESLE FRONT—German attacks north of the Vesle were brok- en up last night CHAMPAGNE FRONT — The! French conducted a successful raid in the region of Mesnil-Les-Hurlus last night ITALIAN FRONT—The Austrian. Gen numbers of Austrian troops are en route to the Italian front, Swiss border has been closed. Great) | | | | with which the Germans flooded the — Almost a third of the German divisions identified on this front are from Gen. Despite the high command’s recent order conserve man power to the limit, no alternative was open but to throw every avai man, including orderlies, cooks and officers’ servants into the line to slow down the ra United Press Leased Wie | Direct to The Star WITH THE FRENCH IN THE FIELD, Aug, Humbert, following the advance of his right wing in Oise valley, is now striking ward into that region, almost right angles to the main front. This operation is now fully un way, the French infiltrating the ah pions the tiny hills—tew which are more than 150 and which give this sec! the. oe ’ as “Little Switzerlan The French already sier and L'Ecouvillon, the keys this region « Steady Advance The advance is careful because of the great quantities of mustard gas _ 14. depressions and their abandoned _ trenches, but it is steady. The French line is now of a sawe tooth nature, owing to the peculiaris _ ties of the. terrain, Prisoners taken by a French @ie vision now before Belvan, a mile and) a half south of Lassigny, are Te sponsible for the knowledge of Ger _ man commands and orders. prisoners, consisting of 1 seven officers, from five diffe companies, added to the in testimony of the shakiness German army's morale. ry It is no longer uncommon for G man officers to admit doubt of Ger man success, which was almost um heard of before the recent fi began, ‘ ITALIANS PLAN BIG OFFENS WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—An ian offensive in the Alps appears minent, according to Gen. Duglielmotti, military attache of Italian embassy from the headquarters of the Italian command, + The Italians are reported to opened an intense artillery fire in the mountainous zone near the border, along a front appro’ | 25 miles, The sector is the highest of the tire battle line, and has been tically free from fighting sino beginning of the war,