The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 22, 1918, Page 1

ODAY! The first chapter of “Confeasions of a War Bride” appears on this page today, { Tho story is a heart-thrilling one—and will be of utmost interest in these war days to men as | well ax women, There will be a chapter a day. | { \ j FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT OF T VOLUME 20, NO, 150 The Seattle Star THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST Entered as Hecond Class Matter May 8, 18 HE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS SEATTLE, WASI . 22 1918. , THURSDAY, AUGUST COMPLETE SERVIC At the Postoffice at Beattie, Wash, ander the Act of Congress March 8, 1878, , OF THE NEW & i | | | ; (By United Press Leased Wire, Direct to The Star) WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.—Congress today shoved aside ‘all other tasks and took up the great man-power bill. Lead- ers in both houses intend to speed passage of this measure to provide the men for America’s program of smashing the . an war machine next year. Standing out against the views of Chief of Staff March, Secretary Baker and other war department experts, Chair- man Dent and other members of the house military commit- tee are prepared to fight for the amendment providing that men of 18 and 19 be left out of the service until the last. WN PIRATE IS rte STILL STRIKING. FISHING SHIPS that A CANADIAN ATLANTIC until the last it is contended they will be in service within a year One objection to letting Dent and his friends have their own way, as j others in congress see it, ts that it | would prevent mixing the older and younger men and will make the earlier drafts under the new law men from 31 up, while in later calls all the boys will be together } A much more desirable condition would be to mix the older, steadier with the ardent, impetuous boys, war department officials say Fight Anti-Strike Clause The other controversial point in ie eenene. sene_in ph the bill is the antistrike amend the trawier’s sie believed to have | Ment. so-called. which the senate| Schnare, and she |committee inserted. Much doubt been sunk, altho no definite word) “oe wed. Crews of four |*28t# concerning just what Secre |tary Baker thinks of this amend hb trawiere have Lconeg Aero gh habeced PD Baker's latest statement is meee of the captive | that it simply carries out a policy attacks on the fleet of little boats. Fast motor boats are operating about the waters near here, hoping to pick up any crews which may have been sent adrift by the Germans always followed by the department that of denying Industrial exemp- tion to a man the minute he quits working in an indispensable ca pacity in an indispensable industry Even those senators who are ag tha | Strong friends of labor declare they the Fee ea eithe cap_ | Will vote for the amendmen: on the | Berth Atlantic coast with ihe caP’| ground that it will prevent any one| tured trawler Triumph, wil exe | clase of men hampering or holding we the vessel, blow it up and — |up the nation’s war program while in the U-boat which made the 11) other groups and classes are capture, is the belief of naval au) Vorving at top speed to aid it thorities. Ae tes 50 ine'sonk in 9! KILLED; 100 soo ne Sha HURT BY STORM July by U-Pirates| admiralty. Of this, British tonnage totaled 176,479. | CHICAGO, Aug. 22—Thirty-one Compared = with building. | (nit | dead and nearly 100 injured by a tor BETS cll ao ome inet a monthly ay-| ado last night at Tyler, Minn., were . erage ot 90,000 for the baif year reported at general offices of the Chicago & Northwestern here today The was wrecked by FIVE NAMED MISSING i WASHINGTON, Aug. Three unnamed civilians, two naval | guardsmen, David W. Johnson and Chester C. Eldredge were the sole persons reported up to today as missing in the torpedoing of the steamer Montanan in foreign waters ‘Aug. 16. Sixty-one survivors have en landed. TORPEDO MISSES SHIP AN ATLANTIC PORT, Aug. 22 ‘The captain of a steamer reaching this port, said that a torpedo had been fired at his ship off Nan- district, reports si Much damage was done railroad property There was no mention of railway casualties in early reports fron: the business the storm. superintendent at Huron, Minn SIOUX CITY, Ia., Aug. nado, which struck Tyler, 11:30 last night caused the deaths of 13 persons Latest reports said the town had been practically wiped out. Tele graph communication with the stricken town waa completely shut off. 22.—A tor Minn., at is reported to have tucket. He turned about and sped raed! ee agate Case to Supreme ee. OMe. St—Boven Court of Nation persons are coal Killed when a gasoline launch, tow-| SAN FRANC Isco, Aug. ing 15 canoes, on Sheepshead bay,| Te Thomas Mooney case will be ap lost its tow, experienced engine|Pealed at once to the supreme court 0 e U rt ates, defense attor. ple and then went adrift of the United Sta dat asm - neys announce. W. Bourke Cochran. New York attorney, who conducted Mooney’s defense, will make the ap peal. Attorney Maxwell McNutt the following statement te We been informed by state supreme court that there is no remedy for perjury and fraud com mitted in the courts, There must be some remedy under the law, and we shall try to find it in the highest court of the land.” The statement followed the action of the state court, late yesterday, in refusing @ rehearing of Mooney's ap peal on a write of coram nobis. | LIBERTY BONDS GO UP ON STOCK MART NEW YORK, Aug. LAberty | |loan 3% per cent bonds of the first | issue touched 102.50, their highest price on the New York Stock Ex- change, today, YOUR WANTS LARGEST IN THE TELL TO THE AUDIENCE NORTHW Phone Main 600 or leave your ad at one of the Classified Branch issued have the *Offices, located at BARTELL’S 610 Second Ave. and P. MULLEN’S, } 5409 Ballard Ave. _— \ ty alr Wi iii WA TTT att al i RITISH ATTACK THE WARK TO Mi UNCEASING ALLIED ATTACKS BATTERING ENEMY IN WEST The British, delivering a new attack between the Ancre and the Somme this morning, have practically consolidated the whole 50-mile battle front from Moyenneville southward to Pommiers. ‘This assault, made on a front of five or six miles, evidently is being carried out by a portion of Gen, Rawtinson's army. A regiment of American troops was brigaded with the British in this sector Gen, Byng’s attack yesterday on the 10-mile front between Moy enneville and Beaucourt met with determined resistance. The Germans were still counter attacking on a portion of the front thix morning. Noyon is almost completely encircled and the French are reported within a few hundred yards of the town. Mangin’s men have crossed the Allette river, between Champs and Guny, and are only five miles from the old Hindenburg line. They have taken Laasigny. While there are no major operations between Lassigny and the A dread of something 1 could not see made me shiver, Eve must have shuddered so, sometime, when t serpent alipped past her on a moon leas midnight, and ber daughters suf fer that way ever since. And doubt Jens poor frightened Eve turned for comfort to Adam even aa 1, her mis erable descendant, turned towards my husband's pillow I had known that “scared feeling on many a black night of my child hood and girlhood—every woman knows it, probably—but now wat I am Bob's wife, it has lost its terrors I'm sure, now, that Bob's strong arms will hold me safe that Somme, French and British pressure continues on the whole front. The warmth of his dear body wi British are making further progress in Flanders on both the west and my shaking north sides of the salient I reached out to touch the little sear at corner of his square jaw orate e iii sa 2 It isan ugly L-shaped crease, an inch (By United Preas Leased Wire, Direct to The Star) long each way. It would epoll any Cee Ri Felis intorensill other man’s good looks, but not my Bob's. My . pe toe LONDON, Aug. 22.—The British attacked on mad Lette tillemie taiitaiens | whole front between the Ancre and the Somme at 4: for it. this night in August, 1918. «| this morning, Field Marshal Haig announced today. pore liye eens cord ns cel The Germans, after fruitlessly counter attacking the was cally tie ante Veneeee iow. |positions won by the British in yesterday's attack north of As I wnatched my band away. my {the Ancre, again launched heavy assaults in that sector dread defined itself. The bed chonz this morning. ed, in my dream, to a trench banked Tobeieun ae ona £000 priate! up with sandbags and before me stretched the stiffened Baty of my| ot were taken in this operation Further advances were made md, one of the two hard uta to crack, had yielded warts sereamed. “War! War” yesterday and last night on the other. a email wood near Mir And waked myself. | western portion of the Flanders | aumont, held out, the defenses about Thus [. Jane Lorimer, 1 moidier’a| ‘Salient. it forming a marked salient in the bride, was waked at last to the war. “At 445 thin morning our troops | British line. Thousands of American wives, like|attacked the enemy's positions be-| The area immediately in the rear me, 1 suppose, have never been | tween the Somme and the Ancre,”|of the fighting line supplied some roused to it until, in the sulitude of | the statement said orth of the odd contrasts. Soldiers were harvest their bed-chambers, they have Ancre our positions, gained yester-|ing wheat, while some women were working in ds that en kilometer or two farther back troops bound for the fight only a fresh were maintained against strong Jelivered dur Miraumont stretched out their arms to the emp. were counter attacks afternoon on t Oh, I've done my share of Cross work, and I've sold Thrift|and Achiet LeGrand front swinging along behind bands playing Stamps, and bought Liberty Rords Hetween 2,000 and 3,000 prisoners | Cheertu and made corn bread, anu cooked | and a few guna were captured by us meatiens meais—and still t in our operation yesterday ocean stretched between me and t “ today was made new attack ALLIES TO FEED bad PS 4 below the Arras-Albert operations. oan - bee day af he ROSMAN | between Albert and Bray, a front of Lewy government bus *. Bod) one of the strongest defensive post was summe d to the colors There ms held t the Germans, and it followed dayn of excitement in get:| OMe tion held up the north win WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.—The Ung him off, friends Kood-DYE | the or allied offensive in American Red Cross and allied gp erred pga oi yg ardy «in Siberia will give the first inen thread, @ kit to pack, the p@-| American troops, brigaded with anddstance to the people rade of select service men, and 4 the British, w operating in this a crowd of relatives at the train . sector a few days ago. After the arrival of Gen ves, I was so proud of my man ” ss Troops were reported as “going leader of the American forces at wanted everybody to know that Il act * thi: 1 toh tiled. | V1 dene. 2 initial ‘ ‘ t wrt Atwood Lorimer, who wan going |£00d" when this dispatch was file¢ adivostok, the Initial step ta to Off to be a woldier, was my huseina |Fishting conditions today were less | provide food and clothing to the But still, the war didn’t seem very | {@Yorable: there waa no mist and the |Cyrecho-Slovak troops and to the close to me sun wasn he Russian people who are in the ter In a few months Bob came hom ISING FIE ritory to be policed by the allied on furlough with endiean funny t ile OF BYNG'S ME armior of cantonment life He us hon Germans are opposing Gen Food and supplies will be dis nth ago when Dadd Li lvance in the north of tributed by the Red Cr Vast imer nearly died of apeplex It was|the Ancre, with the utmost despera. stores of these supplies are begin agony to let him go back, both time tion. ning to arrive in livostok but still he was safe in this countr With the British only six miles| Tho first great ctive of the and the war is far awa rver | fromm the Hindenburg line today, the | ald-to-F ia campaign is to solidity there.” enemy is crowding the back roads | the Russian peoples in the territory Now the final parting Is done. Te| with additional troops coming up. Al guarded by the allied troops and Is for France, on what I do not| together, six divisions (72,000 men)|as the allied ald goes on westward know, from where I ¢ not KNOW, | were identified yesterday from Viadivostok, to see that the nor when, His mail is “quarantined The Germans used their heaviest people “behind the lines” are kept + me woe pefore I he rom | ¢: It may be weeks before I hear from] guns sil thru the night. It is evi: well fed, warm and happy him. dent that Byng's sudden push has Nice people come to the h considerably disturbed the high com thinking they keep me happy be-| mand, in view of the constantly de | cause I laugh. Chrystabel Lorimer,| veloping French success to the ' Rob's twin sister, begs to » with | south Ly me, But I could never stand tut. I] Apparently, it does not intend to 6 5 go bravely to my room alone. Alone? | permit further advance toward the | Bob's shadow lingers in every nook. | line without determined resistance e nbove my Bob's photograph hangs The Arras and Albert r : i bed and Im reflected in his chiffonier | heen reported the acene of the WASHINGTON, Aug. 22—The giass. Bob's clothes hang limp: nlest fighting, the British being re.| BOlshevik government having de: the closet hangers. Bob's shoes | clared a state of war to exist between |quired to clear out dugouts in the| (i tied States and Rusa, View stand in neat rows on their proper | embankment along the whole portion | ‘™ n § " c Consul Imbrie lowe the American And Rob's wife? | Germans a tein ee ‘I flag on the consulate and turned sob" , ne to ake het 7 ne archives over to ne Norweg Hob'a wife Is trying to make her! The hoches are undoubtedly able to| the archives, over to the Norwegian Well, if it's Bob's war its my war.| to reach Banpaume artis ableg A Au Pe eee > MM) RESISTANCE SLOWS DOW ener ta tye pak ate (To Be Continued) ATTACK STARTED W AY to a “state of war" existing the United the lies and the States and the Bolsheviki. affecting the al Bolshevik The troops which had gone blithe thru the German lines between and Albert on @ 10<nile front day morning, with the aid of ly previous report Peace Talk Bunk, Officials Declare), Arras R BRIDE ‘ON SOMME FRONT | UNS FLEE IN PANIC ‘United Press Summary of War Events } } ) ) PICARDY FRONT—The British | opened a new attack on a front of | five or #ix miles between the Ancre | and the Bomme, at 4:45 this morning. | The Germans apparent taken the initiative on the front north of the Ancre, where Gen. Byng | attacked yesterday, ‘I counter attacks repulsed y day were ré wed today The front of yesterd attack evi that of today’s operation by patrol tivities noutheast of Beaucourt | Gen. Humbert’s army, after taking Lassigny, has advanced on the whole front between that town and the Oine and has reached the Divette river south and southwest of Neyon The French are now reported within | a few hundred yards of Noyon OISE-AISNE FRONT—Gen. Man gin's men fought all thru the night between the Ol 4 the Aisne, cap. turing sev ages and reaching the Allet north of St. Pau Aux-Bois, This representa a total dvance of nine miles on this front The French now b the ieft bank of the Oine as far east as Bretigny. | FLANDERS FRONT — British) troops have made further advances | in two sectors. ‘The have reached | the outskirts of f Rerquin and captured strong positions north Bailleul, German attacks northwest | of Branoutre repulsed we ALSACE FRONT—A how tack on an American trench, follow ing a heavy bombardment was ¢ repulsed Tuesday night. Th mans continue to shell Frape cently captured by the Americans. PROBE REVEALS CAUSE OF AIR CRAFT FAILURE WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.—Recom, mending one-man control of aircraft speeding up of produc tion, encouragement of invention and reduction of profits on future con production. tracts, the senate aircraft subcom nitt submitted its report to th affairs committee The disclosed waste of mon ey and lack of common sense policy in the war, the committee de: early clared It is said that, while many disap pointing results disclosed, ‘much has been accomplished, and the committee is glad to report that, were while it believes that there are many things yet to be remedied, neverthe lens we are approaching a period production of planes n be hoped for hree primary causes for the fail ure of the aircraft program to me ure up to the army's needs were set forth in the report which was read to the committee Three Reasons Why ure the when quanut They That program was control of great manufacturer: la autor who were ignorant of aeronauti problem The manufacturers undertook the impossible task of creating a motor which could be adapted to all classes of flyin We f at the beginning of the war to adopt the common sense pol y of reproducing the most approv ed types of European machines in the greatest numbers possible. The supply of planes on the Amer. ican front is “wholly inadequate to | meet requirements of modern war fare,” the report declares, adding that the United States troops are forced to use many “antiquated ma rded by the F BAKER FAVORS WORLD SERIES (BU TN) WASHINGTON, Aug. tary Baker favors the playing of the world’s se He told the press this afternoon he would be glad if this} nch” chines, disc Secre could be arranged, and believed ei- | ther local boards could grant an ex tension of time to players on the} work or fight order, or, possibly, he | himself would do it ful mist, pushed doggedly) WASHINGTON, Aug The WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.—Amer-| ahead during the afternoon, under a| 31st regiment, from Manila, has ar ican officials today characterized as| hot sun, which proved as serious an | rived at Vladivostok, the war depart “posh” various “underground” re-|enemy aa the boch chent announced this afternoon ports t Germatiy 1s making a| The farther the British advanced | - the stiffer became the German re . . new peace move ‘The state department disposed of | "stance. The kick-off was casy,| Socialist Leaders Seog rage | however, except at the crossing of val the yarns with the statement that) ine Ancre and the railroad near Beau- to Get Early Trial jnothing officlal has come here re-| court, where the enemy battled des-| CHICAGO, Aug. District At garding peace. |perately for some time. The defen-| torney Clyne announced today in other high government quar-| sive combination of the river and| that he will ask Judge Landis to fix ters the talk was frankly Inbeled| rajtroad made this portion of the ad-|an immediate date for the as German propaganda of an old,| vance costlier than taking Beaucourt | Victor L. Berger, socialist l¢ familiar type. Its purpose, officials | itwelf, | four others indicted said, was to cause a let down in! fritish casualties in the town were | pionage act. The others are Adolph American effort said to be only three, nothwithstand: | ¢ r, national secretary of the so. The boche would have thia nation | ing it was defended by a force of | ¢ Louis Endahl, publisher relax under the thought that recent|boches sufficient to yield 90 prison-| Irwin St. John Tucker, and Wm. F. victories spell the end, and Ger-| ers. Kruse, head of “The Liberty Defense many is ready to quit now, By afternoon it was known that | League.” “Paths ere ed tht army abroad was 1 in the series. Wilson Asks Help for War Refugees! WASHINGTON, Aug. Presi: | t Wilson today asked congress ANH A resolution admitting to this | untry refugees from war-stricken lands—-which would suspend immit gration rules in their cases, He sugke greatly inter Adams Is Elected | G. A. R. Commande PORTLAND, Ore, Aug. 2. Claire KH. Adams of Omaha, Neb. was today elected commanderin chief of the Grand Army of the Re | public, Weather’ Forecast: 7} {a half south of Noyon) to Bretigny NIGHT EDITION ONE CENT IN SEATTLE Per year by mail $5.00 to $9.00 ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION eded by showers SPAPER fair Aorate pre pouthweaterly winds, CAPTURE — 100,00 INMONTH PARIS, Aug. 22.—Since the start of the © counter offensive, July 18, the allies have ~ taken 100,000 German prisoners, according Ms statements published today in the Echo de aris. * DISPATCH FROM JOHN DE GANDT { (By United Press Leased Wire, Direct to The Star) PARIS he French hav the Ailette river on a mile front between Champs.and Guny, and are pushing toward Coucy Le Chateau. (Coucy Le Cha- Hoa is 11 miles directly north of Soissons and two miles east ~ of Guny.) j In the Coucy Le Chateau region a German division pre- M2 pared to counter-attack, but a lightning-like French attack forced them to retreat. They fled in a panic, throwing the” division immediately in the rear into confusion. . Noyon is rapidly being enveloped. It is now ou’ a from the east. French troops are ready to cross the Oise canal, which they have reached between Varrines and Mar- ligyourt, a mile and a half southeast of Noyon. : The Divette river is entirely in the hands of the French. Mangin’s men are near Manicamp, at the junction of the Oise © and Ailette, seven miles east of Noyon. Northwest of Soissons, the Germans attempted a coun- — ter attack on Juvigny ridge, four miles northwest of Sois- sons, but were quickly repulsed, : ni A fleet of 70 heavy tanks at one point in the French vance spread terror among the Germans. HINDENBURG IS. BEING SNARED. eg % PARIS, Aug. ‘The armies of Humbert are closing Noyon, the bulwark of the Ger- man line, from two directions. At some places they are only a few hundred yards from the town and are heavily bombarding it with field guns. They also are raining shells on the German ex- its toward Ham, 12 miles to the north. Military writers declare Noyon is already untenable and predict an immediate withdrawal beyond the Somme. | Fighting is continuing along a} front of practically 35 miles, extend | ing on both sides of the Oise. Allied aviators bombing enemy areas be NEW YORK, Aug. 22.—Mar- shal Foch's blows are now fall- yond Noyon, report considerable ‘is | ing so fast and so definitely at order and apparent preparations for! so many places along the West- a big retirement ern front that Von bergen é In the past 48 hours, the French| is being entangled in a have taken more than 15,000 prison-| of local operations, any one of ers and a Vast quantity of material,| which threatens to bring about _ including thousands of machine guns| major disaster to the German and hundreds of cannon | army. Lassigny has fallen and the| Yesterday Gen. French have passed beyond in th direction of Vauchelles (a mile west} of Noyon). paume, Last night, 60 miles away, — the western side of the Vesle salient | They have reached La Mar and|was practically completed; teday the” Mont La Bache and possess Mont! British have begun a new wedgelike Cherny, dominating the Oise. Grive north of ‘the Sommacain : |from the Baupaume operations; Lassigny Falls in all the while the French ane ai ducting squeeze operations at. ‘iain Advance of French _Lassigny angie, ‘midway between PARIS. Aug. 22—<1215 p, m)—|the Somme and the Vesle fronts. At te river in their advance be-| @ve local operations in the West no time since Gen. Mangin’s troops have reached | the war began Ail n the Oise and the Aisne, the | been with carried on so consistently and such success as now. tw French war office announced today Lassigny has been taken Vast Results Due Fighting continued last night on) Nor have the possibilities of a mas the whole front, from the region of | jor allied success ever before been 80 Lassigny to the neighborhood of Sois-| threatening to the Germans. The sons. The French captured St. Paul-| development of the western side of Aux-Bois, 11 miles northwest of Sois-|o¢ the Vesle pocket is @ sons, passing out to the northward| serious danger to the famous aching the Ailette at Laquin emin des Dames defenses, which y- Bagge. © now threatened with a flank an@@ (This represents a total advance Of | rear fire. At the same time, the > nine miles since Saturday.) |southern sector of the Hindenburg “The French maintained contaet | tine is insecure. thruout the night with the enemy,| jarther north, orth, the halt in who was retreating between the Oise | Ryng’s attack toward Bacpausie ie and the Matz, and east of the Oise,” | in accord with the strategic plans of the communique said. “Le Plemont,| the allies, ‘The present operations Thiescourt, Cannectcourt and Ville/are in no sense a major offensive (all south of the Divette, between | and are being conducted under new sanaigny and Noyon) have ben °c land highly essful tactical direc ed, and the Divette reaches j tion for minimizing ’ ast of Noyon, the French border | tieg ' ng the allieg a the Oise from Sempigny (a mile and| Aj) the successes during the last fortnight have b ccol (four miles and a half east of Noyon).| act is the most menacing Hindene Farther east they took Bourhul-|purg has to face. If Foch can @0 gon (two miles southeast of Bretigny | these things without the Americans east of Rourguignon, From the lat pee can't he do with them? Shem ter we passed out to the northward. | is no answer to this question for the suc The Allette was reached at Laquincy: | Kaiser, except Germanys defeat 4 Bag sbicset : % “Between the Ailette and the Aisne J there was no change. The French ’ hold the western borders of Hom . miers (two miles west of Soissons). “Between the Matz and the Oise. the enemy, despite resistance, gave way to our troops, and Lassigny fell | DOWN BY HUNS? . into our hands.” | (BULLETIN) GENEVA, Aug, 22.—The Berlin 333 Disabled Men |correspondent of a Madrid newspa: |per understands that German; Return From Front |tises to accept the Spanish ultimas WASHINGTON, Aug A new | tum, regarding requisition of intern: reflection app tly of the recent Jea German tonnage equivalent to fur Marne drive, came today in the|ture submarine sinkings, according war department's announcement of | to information received here today, the return of 333 sick 1 wounded | ee soldiers to the United States for the| German army rations, which have week ending August 16, as against] been slim enough heretofore, have 63 the previous week, ‘They have|been cut again, this time reducing been sent to reconstruction hospitals, | the supply of fat foods,