The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 16, 1918, Page 1

AUGH! a ; the the sport page. ull Leased Wire Report of the United Press Associations tered as Recond Class Matter May 3, 1 * at the Postoffice at Beattie, Wash. under the Act of Co AUGH! Keep up your good cheer, } even tho these be war days. Read ' Starshells on the editorial page } every day. Then turn to the comics on } , eR THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHW. ‘ST gress March 8, 1878, Complete Service of the Newspaper Enterprise Association NIGHT EDITION ONE CENT IN SEATTLE Per year by mail $6.00 to $9.00 LEASED wt UNITED PRbS: VOLUME 20. NO. 145 SERVIC SE ATT L, E, Ww ASH, FRIDAY, AuGusT 16, 1918. Weather Forecast: Saturday, unaettled, Tonight southerly winds, probably and whowern; IN ON | ROYE | AND LASSIGNY DISPATCH FROM JOHN DE GANDT (By United Press Leased Wire, Direct to The Star) at nanan PARIS, Aug. 16.—(4 p. m.)—The Germans are aivine ‘Way north of the Avre, little i little. The French are pro- _Gressing and threatening to envelop the enemy at Roye and along the Oise. The allies’ line half encircles Roye, where “eg strongest pressure is continuing. They are also closing on Lassigny. LONDON, Aug. 16.—British | troops are slowly encircling Albert, the official report of Field Marshal Haig indicated # CLOSING ter-ALBERT, ! —_ ——— Draft of Bill, The new $4.000,000,0 bill provides for taking ey than there is in cir the United States. EF in The payment of “on one day wou | | puntry temporar is avoided by providin . the British have crossed the Ancre on a wide front to the northward. Further progress south of Albert also ‘was reported. TWO VILLAGES HUMBERT DRIVES SARE CAPTURED WAY ‘ROUND END BY HAIG’S MEN OF BATTLE LINE LONDON, Aug. 16—Successful lo- BY WEBB MILLER eal operations which resulted in ad (United Press Correspondent) completion today. taxes in diate incomes ompared with ongresn a year 20. Exemptions of $1,000 man $2,000 for a marrte additional for each stand The ne of taxable inc er that the 1 5 pe “On the Avre front French troops progressed in tor, and have made further progress tak Inb than to the southeast of the village, the Villers-Les-Rote ing a few prisoners. and Saint Aurin region,” the com nd Representative “A successful raid was carried out waid Rainey # warned that by us today northeast of Lacon. Cas t of Armancourt we occupied "* Will bh fight for a program walties were inflicted on the enemy. our ancient (1915) first lines. In the '**ding to virtual confiscation of es and two machine guns were brought |Champagne we took prisoners in the (Continued on Page back to our lines. Rerthes-Les- Ht Fast of “Hostile machine gun activity has Maisons de Champagne a German increased on the Kemmel! front.” raid was repulsed.” —— | Songs Ring From Cathedral of | Amiens as Profaners Fall Back | us sector The city penditure of an on preliminary Skagit ordinance .— New War | Tax Will | Strike All Nearly Com-} plete, Shows Vast In- creases in Many Lines * PROFITS NOT SETTLED reulation is these enormous d bankrupt ment in installments today. IRA AAA. In addition to menacing the city from the west and. within los han 4 hall billion of its $8,000,000,000 onl, the new revenue bill was rapidly nearing The house ways and means committee still had to decide the excess and war some canew are doubled, and In the cases of interme: trebled, in the bill one ral rate of the first $4,000 MONEY BILL FOR Y SKAGIT BLOCKED tor ndditional 00 revenue more mon culation in rts figure but this « for pay as passed by for a single d man, with child under recent. Aft p to 10 per sonted more Seven) TOKYO, Jul Viadivostok fel the Czecho-Slovaks nine The 20 the ex $100,000 power devel der went order {By nto the hands of because antray provided Mail) a Le that the opment was blocked at a joint meet Gaachs in. Vindivnetek weaken id 08 BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS | tended by every soldier who could ar.| {Ng of the city utilities and finance Jf G7echs In Nladlvostok wore to be Inited Press Correspondent) | range the journey committees Thursday mussay, iia 36, ee che WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES| They came from miles around.| The councilmen declined to recom: |B jared of the order Friday, June IN FRANCE, Aug. 15.—(Night}—| The choir was composed entirely of mend the passing of the ordinance BH 24° mney apent a busy Saturday } Amiens is no longer silent and de. Soldiers in dusty, rusty, horizon blue. | Without first securing from the city Bina py nightfall, June 29, they gerted. In one of the most dramatic | The organist and violinat were attir- | M&ineer a complete statement of the |B ee. in eammand of Siberia’s | remonies of the war, while the fa-|¢d the same way. Only the pastor | Work Already completed and the |B eo oatest port J * mous cathedral resounded with | Wa4 garbed for the occasion. Hin as-|¥Ork tmmediately planned on the Saturday morning a Crech ult speech and song for the first time in| #stants, like the choir, wore the ordi. | Skagit F matum waa presented to the local : HY nearly five -nonths. the relief of Pie- | 24ry uniform of the trenches We want to know where we're iB soviet to disarm.thelr Red Goards ff ardy’s capital wax consecrated today,| Over the high altar the Stars ana *t io One Proposition,” the | and to hand over to the Creches all ‘ P gimultanecously with reconsecration | Stripes flutter among the fingn of “CUnmen agreed of their weapons, Half an hour has been bat the allies, German shells | # ' of the edifice, which tered and profaned b the wind blowing thru the attered windows, from many of { and bombs since March which the last splinter of ancient The noviets refused. desis Fora Onser sabarh diem i ooh fish Pay Increase fn ses Today the Germans are 17 miles) High in the nave and transept O°: | steam electric plant on Lake Union S Oe ee away at the nearest point. The ca- | tonished pigeons, used only to crash-| want more money. They declare ean ing of shells, fluttered about wetting th the cathedral In this stor told the story of Listening, were Amer pened at a Mass a thedral wa that an emergency the high cost of living « columns protected by few civilians thanks. sand bags. A wandered Monday in to give Arisen from thi Amiens is today dead, to Buy a Home? the elty ot Carriers of S ive Do you want to buy an automobile? Star carriers will be Men to Meet Here The second annual convention of you want a situa- fon? theatre tonight the Interstate Realty Association of ? Many laughs Do you want help? the Pacific Northwest will be held in|) newsboys as the \ Interstate Realty ? } ington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana, is expected, the theatre, City Employes to exists ow to Be Guests at Pantages Tonight of Alex Pantages at the Pantages are ae#sured the “Comical Wops” was given to armament all the p Warship Meantime, ominent n the tent with waiting for t cn sritie Meee woviet torpedo b Tinka eda none re nch, Belgian, | go thru the budget, they have asked Tveady, Sochny LT and other allied officers and| tor a special ordinance. This will loosed their anchors a fe) ou an soldiers, standing or sitting between | probably come before the city coun ; ox oe tk Gok cruiser Suffolk her broadside on the torpedo boats guns for action. cruiser Asahi signa shivik boats to halt A British and a tar the guests | war complete orders arrest Its delegates, and Bolshevik! cape Blocked harbor, The silently t approach cleared her The fapanege off the dis: There was declared te were the d attempt British ned Japanese |Badge for Workers in War Industries Do you want to rent a # tle Aug Ex have an act that was made for A dise-shaped badge, the size of a ° tensive pre ng made the kiddies, In addition to this, {| quarter, attached to red, white and house or a room? to feature the event. An attehdance|} there will be a “thriller” at the \|i1y cnueted bara, will be the new | e answer to our of a thousand outof-town guests,|) end of the show daaheen : Th bie is representing the more important |} ‘The boys will line up at ‘The }/war service badge for civilians in wan on page 14, | communities in the states of Wash-|) Star office and go in a body to industry, according to Charles |T. Clayton, of the department of la bor, lv RCH THRU ENCIRCLING THREE TOWNS IN ‘Petite Movie Star Is ! Bride of Lieutenant) | ances both on the Picardy and PARIS, Aug. 16.—(10:30 a. m.) | cent, with the fo! schedule of ; ur taxes Flanders fronts were reported by the —fien. Humbert is now in pow | sur British war office. session of the entire plateau On portions of incomes between “By a successful operation carried south of Lamsigny, dominating $5.0 » an 00, 3 per cent; between eut by us on the battle front, Cana- the whole southwestern corner = $7.500 and $10,000. 6 per cent; be Lieut. Harry P. Williams and His Bride, Marguerite Clark @ian troops made progress around of the battle front. tween $10,000 and $15,000, 10 per cent Tecnery, three miles northwest of His troops have worked their way | Detween $15,000 and 82 15 per NEW YORK, Aug. 16.—Marguerite Clark, motion picture actress re and Parviller, a mile north of to within 2.500 yards (less than a CPMt: between $20,000 and 30.800, 20 ay is the br of Lieut. Harry P. Williams, of Washington. Both nery, capturing both villages,” | mile and a half) of Lassigny, and are | Per cent: between $20,000 and $40,000, | fave their ages as 31 statement said. now pushing down the northern 2° Per cent; between $40,000 tnd $50 The marriage of Miss Clark to Lieutenant Williams is thé culmination ur line southeast of Proyart, six slopes of the plateau 000, 30 per cent; between $50,000 and of a long friendship, begun when Lieutenant Williams was at Lawre northwest of Chaulnes, also| The enemy’s poaition from Bray to 49.900. 49 per cent; between $60,000 | ville academy preparing for Yale. The friendship waa renewed last spring has been pushed forward a short dis-| Lassigny is most unfavorable. His and $70,000, 45 per cent; between $70..| when Miss Clark toured the South and West in the Liberty Loan cam. tance. Prisoners were captured by railways are not available, and trans. 200 @d $40,000, 47 per cent; between paign. and reaching New Orleans, found in Lieutenant Williams an old us In these operations. port in gre: congested. Chaulnes #99000 and $90,000, 48 per cent; be-| friend, a erous bond- buyer, and an ard wooer “North of Albert patrols have is under heavy British fire. tween $5800 and $100,000, 49 per Mise Clark waa born in Cincinnati, O., and went to New York to study maintained close touch with the ene- Menacing Roye cent: between $100,000 and $200,000. music. Her charming voice and petite and lovely person soon won her a my thruout the day, and local fight) Han wu \asekaen oe between $200 ee place in musical com in which she starred with De Wolfe Hopper ve tes taken pince Gt m Sumber Oe eae reer Picards’ cuttin |€00 and $600,000, 60 rar cont; bates Lieutenant Willits In assigned to the ordnance department, but is t} —spoints. miter. o rattle per cent; between expecting to be assigned to overseas service | “Our patrols have been active all ffont, was announced by the French 09 and $1,000,000, per cent ! eS. ay, also, in the Vieux-Berquin sec. War office today between $1,000,000 and $5,000,000, 70 4 4 per cent r $5,000,000, 75 per cent Capture of Vladivostok by Slovaks Was One of War’s Dramatic Events boarded each vessel and the crew Ue forces lined strategic azines, re, the ¢ Ja anese Iway buildin, marines from the cruisers, points stations and pub: Anti-Bols! e downtown streets red without resistance. Seize All Buildings , strengthen British oceuple powder mag ik ‘Traffic was stopped and business suspended Without while streets cheered. At 3 p.m, proached and demanded its surrender war shot machine the down. guns bloodshed Rolsheviki were arrested away, the people For poured a dozens of d ted in the a Czech guard ap Rolehevik fortress He two hours never ending stream of bullets into the fortress. won The was unat to appre ard garri windows to return the fire, Crowds w denly there w every 5 AG int of vantage. a tremendous ex had the fighting Sud crawled near the fortress under the ma chine thrown kun be 4 min and had the building Fire started In the fortress, and a white flag was run fight was over. and 15 wounded. h casualties were The § killed viet lost 41 killed and 108 wounded, Flat Pay Increase for City Employes |.,, ounded and missing, all estimated, That the budget committee sits next week will not will city hall, ations for employes, which gree to the eases in the budgets, but » for all is the effect of a| said, May Extend Draft Age Beyond 45 het or Use of De- | ferred Classes Hinted in | Talk by Chief of Staff DEPENDING ON AMERICA Youths 21 Since June 5 Ordered to Be Registered | { All young men who, «ince June } 1918 and on or ti fore August ¢ ordered to } report at their loca on Augpet 24, bet of 9 a. m. and 5 p { service registration, according to orders received by the local draft boards of Seattle yesterday This registration is not to be confused with the anUcipated reg. istration of men between the ages of 18 and 45 years, which will probably take place some time in September. een the hours m., for select WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 that the proposed new draft ages of 18 to 45 may be still further extend Ned or the deferred classes entered before the war ix won was given by Gen. March, chief of staff, testifying before the senate military commit It is not beyond the range of pos sibility that this congress will have to authorize the invasion of other classes in order to carry the work thru.” March said in testimony made public today “The United States is going to see this thing thru The way we can win is to put the greatest number of men over there that we can. Ev eryone will have hardships. No man can win a war without hardships.” March made it clear that there in ttle possibility of France or land greatly increasing their ™) Replying question of Senator Kirby regardin the strength of England and France, March replied The only way that Germany can be whipped is by America going into this thing with her whole strength. The allies have superiority in man power on the western front today for the first time because the American troops are ther arge numbers. WASHINGTON, Aug. great battles of the allies” ably be fought next summer. This was the interpretation placed by authorities today on Gen. March's statement before the senate commit tee that the 2,300,000 men available under the new draft will in France by June, 1919, and with 4 000,000 Americans then there the al lies can penetrate the German lines at will Little expectation is held that the war will end this year GERMANS DIG IN ON VESLE FRONT 16.—""The will prob: be WITH THE AMERICAN AR.! MIES IN FRANCE, Aug. 16.—Inter mittent bombing of the rear areas along the Vesle continues. Other wise this portion of the front is gen erally quiet An American patrol, crossing the river at a new point, found the Ger mans had dug their entire line there and were strongly defending it with machine guns Thr near Solasons early in July, reached the American lines today and related experiences simtlar to those recently id by two escaped British soldiers. They corroborated the latter's stories About cruel treatment of allied pris: oners and lack of food. 1,520,000 HUNS KILLED IN WAR PARIS, Aug. 16.—One million, five | hundred and twenty thousand Ger. mans have been killed during the en-| tire war, the Echo de Paris declared | toda: The enemy's total losses, in killed, unt to 6,000,000, of whom a big v entage were wounded and have | been sent back into the lines, From March to June, 120,000 Ger mans were killed, the Echo de Paris while the number of killed in TROOPS RUSSIA ARDY § MOVING IN FROM NOR SOUTH AND EAST While continued progress by the allies in Picardy was reported teday Be 4 directly threatening the fall of Albert, Roye and Lassigny, the west front — is scattered in widely separated Asiatic Russia, some 4,000 miles a: by land and water, may be regarded was temporarily overshadowed by events on the “east front,” which sectors part. Keported arrival of « British expedition at Baku, the great oll center on the Caspian sea, following a 700-mile journey from over much of European as one of the most dramatic of the war. No previous announcement has been made that such a move — was even contemplated. The expedition marched overland thru a rough country, peopled by hill tribes, from Bagdad to Azali, a of the dist ince was covered in steamers. distance of 500 miles. The At Beku, the British joined forces with the Armenians and Russians, . who had been defending the city against the Turks. BAKU OIL FIELDS FAMOUS The Baku petroleum flelds are the greatest in the world, the prediee few miles farther south. landed on the shores of Onega bay, 100 miles southwest of about 250 miles south of Archangel the railway running to Petrograd. PUSH TOWARDS PETROGRAD These forces are distinct from that pushing southward from Kola 6m Archangel. T A hint Bolsheviki “official” received from Moscow today claimed the defeat ‘a this force. Still another detachment is advancing along the Dvina river The other extreme of the “east front” is in the Vladivostok region om the sea of Japan. In southeastern Slovak troops there. gressing north and south of Albert that city. On the southern portion of advanced to within less than a mile and a half of Lassign: cling Roye. front. Penetrating All Corners of Russia BY ROBERT J. BENDER (United Press Correspondent) WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.— Battling against Germans, Aus- trians and Bolsheviki, small al- lied armies are penetrating all corners of Russia today, valiant- ly seeking to save the people from oppression of the common enemy Without a pre-determined program upon which to operate, these forces tish, American, French, Japanese Italian and Czecho-Slovaks—consti: tute the world's most dramatic “op: portunist army.” It is learned on unquestionable au thority here that their moves will depend entirely upon developments here and there in dark Russia, and will be everywhere to of every opportunity their forces take advanta, which may 4 sBritiah forces pian and rea Southern Russia's oi] fields. Allied forces in Northern Russia are 100 miles south of Archangel and | still going | Yanks in Viadivostok American regulars have reinforced allied troops in Vladivostok, in prep- aration for activity in Eastern Rus sia Czcho-Slovaks are battling along the Volga river British troops, reported to have landed and seized the outer defenses of Raku, are expectted to see hard have crossed ed Baku the nter of this prize, which the Germans have had their crafty eyes on for some time. Military officials today ap. plauded the feat of the valiant Rrit {sh force, which was compelled to |fight its way over a mountainous country of Northern Persia from Ragdad—700 miles away ‘Turkish troops at Batun are pre: | paring to advance to Baku, accord. | ing to reports here, and German con tingents probably will accompany then, From Baku the allies, if op |portunity affords, can operate in| | Southern Russia, joining forces with | the Don Cossa s who have been | fighting the Bolsheviki. Under the Brest-Litovak much territory in the region of! | Baku was ceded to the Turks. Ar | menians, however, resisted bitterly treaty | jand the city changed hands several th times during spring and sum mer. Both nany and Turkey want Baku for its oil, and also be cause of its proximity to the Indian | frontier, Bolsheviki Fleeing Archangel. Marching along the rail- Russia, Gen. Alexieff, with his amt | Bolshevik ary, is reported to be advancing northward to join the Slovaks, who are opposing the Bolsheviki along the Volga, near birsk. The “Bolshevik official” today the Picardy front, the French have & road to Vologda, allied troops have: progressed 100 miles or more, fight ing Lenine’s troops along the way. Czecho-Slovak troops stationed: thinly along the 3,000-mile stretch of Siberi river to Lake Baikal, are pressed by the Bolsheviki. The force is | armed and short of food and equip. ment F now which is rly Siberian winter, pproaching. threatens to catch the Czecho-Slovaks on the steppes before they can push on to their objective and join their comrades in Bastern Siberia To Aid Czechs Japanese forces are expected te — move on Lake Baikal and seize the railroad there and open up communi- cation to the stranded Czecho-Slo- vaks. Japan now in Manchuria, it is said here, take this step. American reguls Vladivostok, may also go to the res cue of the Czecho-Slovaks, as one of America’s stated intentions in Si berian intervention is to give direct | aid to the Czecho-Slovaks. While it is hoped that the United: | States soldiers will not be called upon to invade Siberia, officials are believed to be ready at any minute to order them into the interior, if this seems necessary. Meanwhile, they are to guard military supplies and American property at Viadke vostok. | » Italian soldiers, captured | fighting before natives there give up | | Bolsheviki Claim Defeat of Czechs | | | AMSTERDAM, Aug. 16,—The Bob |Sheviki claim defeat of the allied | forces near Onega (100 miles south- west of Archangel), in an official statement received at Moscow. Other successes against the Czecho-Slovake are reported “In the direction of Archangel we captured enemy positions near One | Ra," the statement said. “The enemy | abandoned them after violent fight ing. “On the eastern -Czecho-Slovak | front we landed at Nesthmera and advanced to Kasynzevo. The Caecho | Stovaks umder Gen, Kemiloft were | forced to withdraw, | “On the western Czecho-Slovals front White Guards attempted te capture Sewixeslisk but failed.” SA copy Petrovitch Batolin, oon | the leading business men of Ri |is in the United States today to ars rumor gaining ground in the city | the past eight weeks has execeded| Bolsheviki in northern Russia aro| range for American aid in reestab this Gicure, lishing Russian industry, a ee dciect ot a The British have resumed their advance north of the Somme, pre and threatening the cucirchanatal a « a y and are cir- German artillery is reported active on the whole Flanders: running from the Volga — are in a position to ~ landed at