The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 19, 1918, Page 1

ies J © Geath July 23. | * jerman front in the west is again demonstrated by * HIS EMPTY PILLOW } 1OM DUFF has gene on a vacation, You will miss him and his comic capers for a few days. But when he comes back—oh, well, leave it to Artist Allman. Tom will be in better humor than ever. FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT OF VOLUME NO, 147 20. THE “A dread of something I could not see made me shiver. Eve must have shuddered so, sometime, when the serpent slipped past her on a moonless midnight, and her daughters suffer that way ever since begin “The Confessions of a War Bride,” a soul-stirring, heart- breaking diary of the innermost thoughts of a modern war bride, as painted in words p34; by that noted writer, Mrs. Winona Wilcox Payne, who has specialized in stories dealing with human hearts and human emotions. “The Confessions of a War Bride” will be printed every day, beginning Thursday. The Seattle Sta THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST Entered as Mecond Clase Matter May 3, 18 UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS SEATTLE, WA A the Postoffice at Meattie, Waen.. under the Act of Congress March @, 1879. COMPLETE SERVICE OF THE NEW SPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION SH., MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 1918. Weather Forecast: Wimer. 4 ia eatery wide, So NIGHT EDITION ONE CENT IN SEATTLE Per year by mail $5.00 to $9.00 u — Sees. eee siecinncilaiocina | BATTLE ANALYSIS BY J. W. T. MASON | (By United Press Leased Wire, Direct to »_The Star) * NEW YORK, mee, 19. —The éeian tial instability of the Marshal Foch’s sudden thrust between the Lassigny and Soissons bat- tle fronts. This is one of the most important sectors to which Von Hindenburg must cling if he is resolved upon preserving his 1 Draw 19-36 800 Teutons 4 Men Firston Way to for Service Petrogradi Baker Announces New Plan Soldiers Dressed in Russian to Apportion Man-Power Uniforms Leave Moscow in New Measure in Three Trains YOUNGER MEN BY JUNE REFUGEES BEING HELD | WASHINGTON, Aug. | WASHINGTON, Aug. 19— | ‘Three special trainy carrying — Fiten of 18 will not be taken into | > Rassian uniforms and the Ger- man embassy staff have left Moscow for Petrograd, accord- ing to cables reaching the state department today. The Germans left Moscow August 9, and on the same day unusual mill tary and police measures were taken precessarty, Secreta: Baker told the house military af- irs committee today in opening hearings on the new man-power bill, making the draft age 18 to Baker, and later Chief of Staff March, emphasized that even tho : men of 18 were taken last that they |!" Petrograd in preparation for would begin calling them into the heir arrival Trotsky and Lenine arrived in army by next spring and that prob- ably the whole new Class 1 would be exhausted by next June. Baker also said that the classifica Petrograd on the same ures were taken tion of men over 31 would be an ex supposition be that the Bolshe ceedingly long process. and that it ‘ik leaders. together with the G might be necessary to take some|™Ans, would go on to the strongly men of 18 before the men above 32 fortified cit enuous efforts are being made to get refugess out of Russia ing to the cable The Swedish vice consul at Mos cow has requested the Swedish gov ernment to send a number of ships to Petrograd to take a party of out of Russia. These are believed to be refugees of entente nations. In case this step fails, arrangements are already under way to permit passage thru Finland of the party. German representatives in holm explain the departure of their countrymen from Moscow the theory that the Bolsheviki are about (Continued on Page 5) HUNS OCCUPY RUSSIAN TOWNS : ZURICH, Aug. 19 German force is occupying Vite or and Smol ensk, with the approval of the Bol sheviki, a Warsaw dispatch declared today were fully classified For this reason, he said, he oppos ny provision in the new man power bill that would be too inelastic to give the war department that er. “Gen. Crowder is now preparing tod regulations looking to two classifica tions,” Baker said. “One includes men from 19 to 36, Inclusive, and these men will be called first. The other includes men above 36. I have planned to have men of 18 in a sep- arate classification and to defer call ing them until it is absolutely ngc- essary.” on Touching on the Thomas amend ment to the man-power bill insert ed in the senate, Baker said that it would not be used to break up strikes which were called “in good faith.” Baker pointed out that the reg ulations provided for in the amend. ment were already in force and said he had no objection to legalizing | them by a statute. Since the presi dent, however, must promulgate the proclamation under the Thomas amendment, Baker said that laboring men of the country could rest as sured that it would not be used to break up strikes. No Labor Conscription Frank Morrison, secretary of the American Federation of Labor, who Was present at the hearing, had de clared that the famendment is noth ing less than labor conscription.” , Morrison seemed satisfied by Baker's explanation and by the fur ther statement that no corporation would be allowed to use the draft as a punitive measure by forcing men who left the employ of a company Smolensk is on the Dvina river, 250 | miles west and south of Moscow | Vitebsk is 50 -niles west and north of Smolensk. Both are important cities: Austria Said to | Favor Exchange of Prisoners of War AMSTERDAM, Aug. 19.—The Aus trian government has replied favor ably to the Vatican's proposal th Austria take the initiative in pr into the arm ing an exchange of prisoners Repres: ive Lunn of N York | Italy, on the basis of man for m brought up the case of the Western | for all who have been in captivity Union Telegraph operators, who, he Tore than ear, according to the said, had been exempted as special| Vienna Reichspost. Italy's attitude war workers and then discharged | has not been learned by the company Baker said he wer, ger aes says could not pass on the case of the telegraph company off-hand May Pass This Week The senate today agreed to termi-| (Continued on Page 5) Kaiser “Deplores” Raid on Frankfort AMSTERDAM, Aug. 19 Wilhelm has issued a telegram to the burgomaster of Frankfort, deploring Kaiser the bombing of cent date, accord Two Seattle Boys era Atle -Coldgne Cheeta. “Our enemies are violating all internation Are Killed in Action ' uw,” the kaiser declared. Private Hanford, 1627 Weller st Seattle, and Corp, Laird Wray 5 10th ave., both from are in Monday's casus Both | is were killed in action Corp. | Wray is the son of Mrs. L. D. Black "who received notification of his | She is now in Cali. | fornia. Hanford is related to #.| Holliday of this city, who is listed as next | of kin. SENATE ADJOURNS WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—The senate today adjourned shortly afver|foed by a German submarine, mem: | jsenvening, out of reepect of Renaiiibers of the crew sald. about 10¢/ Qallinger, dead in New Hampshire, | miles northeast of Cape Henry, DOWN OFF U. S. WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 of the Norwegian bark Sinking Norhay, off Cape Henry, was reported by the | ngMy department today. The enew | ( 1 26 was nicked up by a naval vee 1. The bark was shelled or torpe-| present position in Picardy and along the Vesle. Meanwhile, Marshal Foch's easily accomplished lunge means that Von Hindenburg cannot count on holding any single area in the west and, in fact, has entered strategically well into the grip of the allies’ relentless initiative. The new advance made by the French is highly danger- ous for Von Hindenburg, because it marks the beginning of a wedge which threatens to make a new pocket in Picardy and at the same time create another salient north of Soissons on top of tlie old “Morne pocket Von Hindenburg must dé-Rerately resist the continuance Yanks Hurl’ Huns Back: * — Author of “Heart in Alsace Americans Take Ground Near German Boundary, | Capturing Frapelle STOP GEBWEILER RAID WITH THE AMERICAN AR- MIES IN FRANCE, J American troops ad mightly beyond Frapelle this morning and last night, and con. solidated the gro terday morning's dropped 1,500 shells in Frapelie, but failed to drive out the Amer jeans. (Prapelle ix in Alsace, five miles east of St I nd four miles from the German border. It wan} captured in a surprise attack Satur-| day morning.) | West of Gebweiler, the boches at-| temp’ raid American | but driven off by rifle without being able to reach our (Gebweiler i« in German Alsace, 12 miles north of Mulhausen. The lines are about four miles west of Geb Weiler and ten miles inside German territory at that point.) There was lively patrol activity in wounded nine times ted in wounded com panions An American corporal, whom it is , to name, has accounted hes in the west in three inadvisat for six t APTURE 3,000 HUNS }GERMAN GRIP IN WEST CRUMBLES: HINDENBURG’S GRAY HORDE UNABLE TO RETAIN HOLD MUCH LONGER, AND IS STEADILY BEING FORCED BACK TO THE RHINE of this maneuver or admit his intention to retire still farther) toward Belgium and Germany. If he decides on resistance, more troops must be found for first line operations, which means a farther depletion of Germany's sadly wilted re- serves. Marshal Foch has Von Hindenburg backing into an in- creasingly hopeless position. It is impossible for Von Hin- denburg to retain possession of his present trench mileage while Marshal Foch continues his incessant local drives, and at the same time accumulate reserves to serve against Ameri- ca’s forthcoming major on “Confessions Tete Bride” | toa F RENCH g PICARDY-AISNE LINE: '80 Divisigns of U.S. Troops in France Can End War in 1919, Chiet of Staff March Tells Committee. | LONDON, Aug. rt |\vanced two kilometers (az |and the Oise, reaching Le court, according to reports r WASHINGTON, Aug. under the new man-power Staff March told the house result of alta by break the ( March said that the jnumbers 3,012,112, |total in the army including under the ‘United Press | Summary of War Events OISE-AISNE FRONT — The French attacked on a front of { nearly ten miles between Carle pont and Fontenoy yesterday { evening, advancing a mile and a quarter, and linking up the Picar- { dy and Soissons-Rheims fronts. { including «a German sniper cane for some time ) captured and 1,700 prisoners tak n 7 sniper ina tree and O F the battlefields are red with by . . - ARDY FRONT—T hole morning to get the blood of valiant men maneuver a vnane moraine ot | Over in France ti tet c niet ter, |) contnunt tors mesure aro shot. Observers « sniper tum t is little more than a month ago that the sons of Amer are, Sur Serer. Feerertay ble from the tr corporal's ica appeared in full force on the stage of war ) taking additional prison: ia The ext work, howe was the killing , Germans are preparing elaborate best work, however, was the killing We are beginning to pay the price. We have had our thrill, Acuna atcich Nesie Reiieh t three boches inside of five min-|| and our breasts swelled with pride when the dispatches told first of Tacs neneoated ann’. uecahes isgoragth sy ypedsha Damen rithagan rot rious advance of the Franco-American forces ieee Ateds nati penuieed A In and across an Alsatian valley But daily the casualty lists have been growing. What has all |) Gora sag north of that city } where one sector of a German trench |] this meant to the mothers of the men who are “over there"? What |/{ jase night } cuts another, the corporal noted the cat to the sriven and aneeennelt De pedi cons time for relief of guards and made r there wax a woman who could interpret woman's changing ||) oarative quiet continued yester. § the necessary arrangements, He got these trying days, to picture woman's. war-wounded life, it "vel v ued } three boches who attempted croasing ' 4 ; The C day in Winona Wilcox Pa This gifted writer has written “The Con AND "RON , three shots. No others attempted to Mra. Payne began her writing thousands of . : pass. 250 SUBS ARE LOST BY HUNS each year girls and women, way Mrs ers ten by In this seeking misery and despair, love he story hope which she has called You will most ten thousand per year was her average Payne came to know many women saw into their lives, thelr minds and hearts and loneliness, in the blending together of human emotions in “Confessions of a War Bride inly like this war bi the Merville sector and last night { all writ ‘ainst telling of their problems and girls; She saw happiness and All these have helped thir jal repulsed a German attack ag: the newly won position between } Outtersteene and Meteren. Hos: } tile artillery was active near Bel: { 5 i advic she leaul, FRENCH ALSACE FRONT— Americans advanced again east of | and her courageous ; husband whe ni country’s call, even tho it nearly br St. Die yesterday, and improved { LONDON, Aug. 19—(ritish Ad |] pane Wo mself from his beloved bride. And you wi } their positions in the village ott miralty Wireless.)—The naval corre-|| {!# heart te talk Melis the story } Frapelle, which they captured spondent of the Sunday Observer } Saturday, A violent bombardment points out that, In addition to the 150 \ failed to dislodge the Americans } submarines which Premier Lioyd ilgili etinips _|) from the town George recently declared the British ) AN ALSACE FRONT— } alone had sunk, that 1 propor ‘ A raid west of regarded as destroyed, and that the | lery and rifle fire yesterday i number may be safely raised to 200 { WOEVRE FRONT—Lively pa: | Another 60 probably have been de \ trolling by both Americans and} that n ) “WPALIAN FRONT—Archduke accounte } Joseph has succeeded Field Mar: be regarded as a moderate estimate J shat Von Hoetzendorf in com either are drowned or are prisoners. Austrian armies. and must number at least 8,000 of ) —With the approval ot } the most highly trained German sail Residents of one Seattle communi fat nominal rate The building would olsheviki, German troops ( ors. Probably the number is a great|ty are not going to ait idly by and| be strictly m dern, Definite plans { have occupied the snortant | deal more ped hey “cnattasioaigen Taste | MTS NON ut at a meeting to be || cities of Smolensk and Vitebsk, in e BOUKeE y held in the ehureh at an early date.|) Western Russia. Eight hundred } lords | German troops are on the way After Dr. Frederick W. Carstens, The Rey. Ernest Vincent beet |) from Moscow to Petrograd ' of the Central Baptist church, Third] of St. Mark's Episcopal chur An unsuccessful attempt was ( ave d Veeder st. scathing denunciation of in his sermon Su ON WAR BRINK WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 is nearer the brink of war today Diplomats are pointing to the cent Spani¢h note, announcing t Jay, mem hogs Spain meeting at which plans were launch ed for the erection of a six-story apartment house to rel of the ehurch who re delivered a again flayed Seattle i eattle rent | from his pulpit Sunday man et police at Warsaw with § “The chureh is not dealing with|} a bomb i nts." he said. “When| (2 PSE ORR RRO: | bers of his congregation held a mass | dollars and ¢ ve members | Master answered. en victims | ous f. food profiteers |{ made to kill the chief of the G i esus to make his | . the! of covet the socialist by Frenchman Downs 3 German Planes jerman ships interned in Spanish | of unscrupulous landlords, | “It is not a question of the cost of ports will be seized as compansation cording to tentative plans|a quart of milk, the rent of a room| PARIS, Aug. 1%—Lieut. Rene for U-boat sinkings. This is regard: agreed to at the meeting, the bulld-| or the price of a loaf, It is a ques. | Fonc French aviator, downed ed here as in effect an ultimatum, |ing would cost $75,000, The ground | tion bigger, deeper, It affects loy-|three German planes Wednesday, and ma floor would be given over for church lead to an open rupture ve| tween Germany and Spain, services, and the apartments rented alty to the nation, to the cause of | bringing his total of air victories ve God," to 60, xerman lines wherever they } the Aisne, { * ish are ‘iner ! the } distance of more than 100 miles, following the serried lines. tween Ayette and Bucquoy. ) have been withdrawn from other {Region With Aisne Battle Front Marshal Foch is constantly seeking to harass Von Hin- denburg at new points so that the maximum number of Gers man troops possible shall be kept in the front lines and away from the reserves. By this means Von Hindenburg will eventually be forced back, because when the final decision is made, the Gers man reserves must be built up or the war will be lost to the ~ kaiser by default. Von Hindenburg is already beginning to feel that Marshal Foch is playing with him like a cat with a mouse. TROOPS WELD (4: ” p. m.)—French troops have ad- mile and a quarter) between ‘amel, a mile and half north of ceived here this afternoon. ‘7 19.—Eighty it ions of American troops in France, 4 bill Eighty at) tag, War successfully, in 1919, Chief ig military committee today. March’s statement was thé hat the large American force could members. He declared t wished. time American army in France a nd Biss soe Pains The 277,664 drafted men to be 4 bese 4,800, 0 Marth said. new man-power bill will be # im ecust between the Oise and The French, by a sudden tht » have definitely welded « hie Pie aoa Vesle battle fronts. he 2° : Foch’s troops are now in the suburue of Roye. The Brit- ng their, gains in Flanders and Americans have won ground and prisoners in the Alsace region, near German border. An attack Saturday resulted in the eap- ture of Frapelle, wiping out an enemy salient. The active fighting front now extends from Bucquoy, ~ north of Albert, to La Neuvillette, northwest of Rheims, a In addition to this single front, there is almost continu- ous fighting along a 10-mile sector on the western porta of the Flanders salient, as Field Marshal Haig today re al activity on a front of about 15 miles north an which actually connects with the Picardy front b = The attack between the Oise and the Aisne was made on a front of nearly 10 miles between Fontenoy and a point south of Carlepont. The French gained a mile and a quarter, taking 1,700 prisoners. Allied pressure continued around Chaulnes, Roye and Lassigny, and the German resistance there is believed to be oy preliminary to a retirement upon the new Somme de- enses. The enemy 1s reported to be constructing a powerful ~ line around Nesle, which form one of the principal points © in the new line. In Alsace the Americans continue to improve positions © east of St. Die and are reported to have won ground that will be valuable in starting any future offensive effort. { French Troops Are Fighting Today in Suburbs of Roye BY JOHN DE GANDT PARIS Aug. 19.—(4 p. m.)—The French are in the suburbs of Roye. The British are carrying out a flank- ing movement north of the town. Extraordinary artillery fighting is under way in the whole Roye sector. The Germans, in a desperate effort to hold the town, are pouring in fresh divisions, which parts of the front within The attack between the Oise and the Aisne, started yesterday evening, has resulted in re-occupation of 80 quare kilometers of territory. The French are in posses- sion of important heights west of Nampciel, and are aim- ing at envelopment of Ourscamps (between Ribecourt and Carlepont) with resultant control of all the roads leading northward to Noyon, In the last 24 hours the allies have taken more than 8,000 prisoners. the past 24 hours. New French Drive Unites Picardy PARIS, Aug. 19. Oise and the Aisne {Noon.) sterday, The French, in advanced a mile a new drive between the and a quarter on a front of more than nine miles, establishing complete connection between the Picardy and Aisn sle battle fronts, the French war office announced today. The advance was made between Carlepont (four miles east of Ribe court) and Fontenoy (five miles west of Soissons) which marked the western extremity of the Marne counter-offensive. OCCUPY IMPORTANT PLATEAUS The French occupied the important plateaus west of Nampeiel. They also reached the southern border of Mme Audignicourt ravine (five miles southeast of Carlepont) and captured the village of Neuvron-Vingre (a mile and a half north of Fontenoy). They took 1,700 prisoners, There was violent artillery fighting on both sides of the Avre yeste” Hight hundred additional prisoners were taken in that rae " n a sak day.