The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 26, 1918, Page 1

Full Leased Wire Report of the United Press Associations NO. 153 W. H. Kaufman was convicted in the United States district court for violation of the espionage act and was sentenced to five years. conviction resulted from a speech in Olympia in which he said among other things that the “Liberty Loan bond is a disgrace,” and that “we had ¢ been bunked into the war so muni- Z tions makers can make _ millions * * *& & Hulet M. Wells was convicted in the United States district court and sentenced to two and a half years for alleged obstructive tactics against conscription. He was charged with and convicted of drawing up a circu- lar and causing it to be distributed, which urged those of draft age to “re- sist” and “to mutiny.” * * * The Central Labor council, in pass- ing its resolution last Wednesday, i in | effect condoned the offenses of these |} men when it asked that Assistant At- |) torney General Reames be dis- |! charged because he fearlessly con- ducted their prosecution. | ee be Is loyal union labor of Seattle going to let that action stand as ITS action? Or will it repudiate this un- |} American resolution? 1,400 STEEL PLANT WORKERS STRIKE Between 1,200 and 1,400 em- stated Man | ployes of the Pacific Coast Steel a } company, supplying shipyards Refuse to Walt Longer with finished steel products, are | The conference committee of the | on strike Monday. The steel | Metal Trades council, thru 8. L plant. has suspended operations. | Boddy and J. Von Carnop, issued the have for | following statement: The —, sgplies “Any statement that the steel work in the shipyards. | workers are striking against the These men, represented by the United States government is on the Metal Trades council and Amalga-| face of it false, misleading and ma mated Association of Iron, Tin and | licious. “It is true that the steel mills are Steel Workers, walked out because |. ; of the impending failure of negotia: | Sosed down, but tne tanh the mar tions on the matter it ye, Papen ng The conference committee of the/ providing for a wage scale and work | feos " vd ing conditions parallel to those em.| Metal Trades council requests the ployed in the shipyards. public to remember that in every in dustrial dispute there are two sides Demand Big Increase According to T. 8. Clinger, to the question and, if it develops man-| that the Pacific Coast Steel company ager of the steel company, the men | have, thru their respective unions, is going to use the Star-Spangled |banner as a camouflage to enslave demanded an increase approximating | workers, wew ill see to it that the/ 68 per cent over 1917. This demand | public knows the facts was presented July 26, and negotia Say Company Insincere tions have been under way from that) «1+ aopeared to the men that the time. lelay ship-| COMPANY was insincere in its effort That the strike will delay ship-|+,, ch an agreement and, notwith ilding is admitted and deplored bY | sanding the fact that the company both the steel company and the/|r.4 bromined to make the agreed unions, each, however, blaming the | saiey retroactive to August 1, they | other. ‘ty be | Were still paying the men at the old The matter will now necessarily De | rates of wages and still demandin: placed in the hands of the war labor | 114+ the men work on Sundays for board, according: - prong «he Mager: | straight time. The workers are sim: who declares tha e ews called at a time when negotiations ply asking the same conditions that ewresaing |APPIY in all other metal trades in for a settlement were ogres greement | Coast Steel company,” | ager Clinger. dustries in this city. The wages favorably and that an set asked are those set by the United could no doubt have been reached in| ote whipbuilding labor adjustment a few days. board. It is still the commit ‘s hope other. n amicable setlement may soon | , ed and, if it is not, the an only be considered 88) biame will not lie with the employes against the United States govern overt’| “In the meantime there will be no ment rather than against the Pacific | sae workers, due to the fact that the Metal Trades council is putting the men to work as fast as they appear | at headquarters in the various ship: | yards and other war essential indus tries. the circumstances, the OU will Kem) find it profitable to read The Star want ads every day. Good buys in Relatives Worried Henry Looney, 81, an old soldier, | disappeared from his home at Henry | station, on the Everett Interurban line Friday morning and no trace of | him has since been found. Helatives | fear that he may have been picked homes and autos up by an auto for a ride on the brick road and become confused) are featured t0- | /wnen ne. started to return. His day description is given as, height 5 feet y- 6 inches, weight about 130 pounds, grey hair and beard. Any informa- tion as to his whereabouts should be telephoned to Capitol 3614, lup of objectionable |attack on a more pretentious scale }ous machine gun nests. | cans were in a dip south of the main | fire. | tha |heavy enemy barrage was put down | bodied men are YANKS THRUST AT FISMES Advance Third of a Mile on Front of Mile and a Quarter SEIZE ENEMY RAILROAD ~~ \ Dispatch From Fred || S. Ferguson | By United Press Leased Wire Direct to The Star WITH THE AMERICAN AR- MIES IN FRANC Aug. %5.— (Night}—American troops ad- vanced their line 500 meters (a third of a mile) on a front two kilometers (a mile and » quarter) immediately cast of Fismes, to- day, driving the Germans from the rallread and capturing what has been an advantageous post- thon. As this is cabled, sharp infantry | fighting is keeping the whole Vente! front stirred up, but the boche coun ter attacks are fruitless | The Americans in the Inst few days have begun a systematic clean positions. The Then an tannery was first taken. was launched this morning. The boche had dug in along the railroad skirting the south bank of the Vesle and had established numer The Ameri Soissons-Rheims highway. They had to advance across open country to ward the railway Boches on Run * r OT TOO LATE—Ve “The Con } 5 N feaston It iy not too late, This is the most gripping serial scape in any newspaper in this country, To: \ ‘s chapter is printed on page 6. } a teneulinloden TER THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST At the Postoffice at Heattie, Wash. MONDAY, CAPTURE POSITIONS ON Complete AUGUST under the Act of Co HINDENBURG LINE Service of the Newspaper Enterprise Association NIGHT EDITION ONE CENT IN SEATTLE Per year by mall $6.00 to $9.00 senday, fair; night and ate westerly ‘THE HINDENBURG LINE The heavy line in the map shows approximately the altled tine an it runs today on the western front from the northern end to the arra. Ficere 1 to. up Lay cakmaeeed Wicee > tas Wuauee shank ta al | A stiff barrage was put down on | both of which the Germans are falling back. the railway at 5 o'clock, the Infantry starting their advance simultaneous. | A ly. Quickly they topped the highway ue avathenee of a See. | and charged acroas the open space in the face of a terrific machine gun * * * The attack was so impetuous it sent the boches running. A on the railway, but the held on Only seven prisoners were taken. One of then, a banker and restaur ant keeper of the higher claus, was forced to serve. He had been in the army a year. He said that all able compelled to Americans Fritish troops, it is reported today, have reached the Hinden burg line at a point five miles southeast of Arras now In other sections, both on the work in war factories or go to the British and the French fronta, front. He said that soldiers every the Hindenburg line will soon be where now realize their efforts are rea merely a sacrifice. One deserter who entered the American line revealed the straits to Will Gen. beyond it? Germans to “dig in” Foch attempt to go Or will he permit the until the which the German high command |? major offensive takes place next had been reduced regarding man. year? power. The deserter had been This ia the question upon but writers in this It is pointed out wounded which country that the present allied operations military diffe was hospital and returned to the before he was fully rec taken from the front red ans now hold the rail a way on both sides of Fismes The ter-attacks begun by boches are extremely nervous and to make Paris and The Amer » the results of brilliant coun n. Foch Amiens s¢ are constantly sending up rockets at|$ cure and was not begun as a dis night. American patrols are :nain tinct allied drive, The latter will taining constant contact with the await the more opportune time, German lines, when the Americans will have harassing the enemy positions day and night. added more completely to the numerical superiority of the al next year. lies—some time A majority of the writers be- » that the allied commander. will press his } Dr. Matthews Rips lie in-chie Germany to Shreds thruout the winter, continu c i his offensive warfare without in N. Y. Sermon }| let-up. J. W. T. Mason, the { NEW YORK, Aug. 2 United Press milits expert Mark A bs Tne wae Pap: “g points out today that if the Hin r . Be ecb gaye denburg line is broken thru at ripped prec Fifth Avenue — Presbyterian church of this city when he nt# to shreds at the nemy will be fore Belgian bor Queant, th ed to retire to th der. A different vie’ Frank H critic, told m what he thought of ¢ kaiser and the German congregation shoute In the any, the is taken by noted war New York wigs Bb Simonds. writing in the and cheered. most heated pulpit dis course on the sins of Germany heard in this city since the States entered the war. Dr, Mat thews consigned the kaiser to exile, outiwed the German jon nd demanded the i (for 100 years if ution of } ‘These offic who had the authority to prevent atrocities by the German armies With a big fight brewing on the eet ag ei epould be court {) work or fight amendment, the nded the same thing for sub: senate today began Its final work rine captains. on the man-power bill. He declared the Vatican » ‘The measure, as passed late Satur: not have a seat at the peace ts day by the house, and use it ia not a bellige |war department exactly what it | he declared, she a chance to negotia should be forced dictated terms. ld not pea to accept wanted, is expected to emerge from the senate in much the same form. It is possible, however, the work or fight provision, beaten in the house, may be voted on by the sen- How Far Will Foch Go? | |auch as giving the | youths in a separate class, will likely The British today reached the Hindenburg line (shown at the left) to The Frene! beyond the Ailette towards the Hindenburg line. ‘h are continuing their drive 6.32, @ ‘Tribune, who says “Anglo-French armies are fac- ing German armies on the lines on which both stood from Octo- ber, 1914, to July, 1916. Between duly 1, 1916, and the present date two millions of casualties have been the price of allied ad- vance and German recoil, of Ger- man advance and allied recoil, and finally of this new turn, which has brought a second Ger- man retirement.. After nearly four years there is not, between the Scarpe and the Oise, a change of three miles anywhere in the opposing positions, “As a result of a gigantic ef- fort to win the war by o1 paign, Ludendorff has o ly the Pleardy desert which indenburg created, and is now facing the problem of whether he can maintain himself on lines that will leave him in possession of a desert, without military val- ue, but useful to bolster up a weakening morale of the Ger. man people. “The British and French are bound to push their success as far as it can be cheaply pushed, but the desert before them now has little or no immediate value and is decidedly not worth any great expense in men or muni- tions. Whether Ludendorff halts permanently on the old Somme line, the line of the upper Somme or the Hindenburg, he has lost all of the ground of any real value gained in his spring offensive.” SENATE TAKES UP MAN-POWER MEASURE PASSED BY HOUSE ate, The house defeated the amend- ment, removing ployes from general exemption, government em All other important placing th unendments, 18-year-old be defeated in the senate hou Passage of the bill in the upper branch may come late today. Cer- tainly it is not likely to be deferred Jonger than tomorrow, as in the 'HUN FORCES CRUSHED BY HAIG DRIVE French Add to Success Along Ol=g The British, striking eastward from Arras, in a new New Fuse Shells Introduced tack this morning, are reported to have reste ee section of the old Hindenburg line, between the Into Great Battle Now Cojeul rivers. Two villages on the line and one just Raging in Picardy of it were captured. A penetration of at least two miles PRISONERS ARE HAPPY ! been made. The British advance on the Hindenburg line b Haig’s forces approximately within 12 miles of mb the point reached by Gen. Byng in his famous drive. November, 1917. The British now threaten to push | across the Hindenburg line into the Cambrai zone. The battle is now raging on a front of nearly 30 mi | between the Scarpe and the Somme. Additional p has been made on both wings of this front. French forces are pushing north and east in the salient, and north of Roye they are reported to have ct Fresnoy-Le-Roye. The Americans have advanced their lines a third of | mile on the Vesle front, driving the Germans from the road east of Fismes. | From Wednesday to Sunday the total casualties of | British Third and Fourth armies are estimated at 23,502. In the same time about 20,000 prisoners were t : : Numberous villages and immense stores of mili Upon ee faa, the iindenburg une, | @2d great numbers of guns have been added to the where Heinin Hill (south of a bad the British advance. iver opes eastward to the formid. —_— abi barrie. | LONDON, Aug. 26.—(2:15 p. m,)—The Bri The day's, soe day sar peers | thy a new attack along the Scarpe this moi hear the middie of an almost straigh* reached the old Hindenburg line, it was learned this sharp angle. The New Zealanders|noon. They arrived at the Wotan section of the li are there, fully supported on both /Monchy-Le-Preux and Guemappe, five miles southeast Astro Sapignes and Mehagnies|ATras on the Cojul river, capturing both of these vill |(north of Bapaume) English troops | Wancourt, a mile southwest of Guemappe, and C Went. on, to; the high ground east'/noy, five miles east of Albert, also are reported to je been captured. Near Mory, fo i orth of i wisaneane fy eares eran of | The attack in the Scarpe sector was made bet Scots, Irish, Welsh and Grenadiers, | Fampoux, on the north bank of the Scarpe, four miles | met heavy fighting in a counter at of Arras, and the heights northeast of Neuville three miles southeast of Arras—a front of about tack. Favreull, two miles south of Mory, also was strongly held. Here, - (Continued on page 9) | Hailes. The British are now reported to have made | prowreas east of Heninel and Mory, between Croiselles am ——— : he Third army, making the attack, had prog HINDENBURG IS STRUGGLING TO. atom it'was Teported of two miles within a few | HURRY RETREAT French Opening Way for New BY J. W. T. MASON Advance Into Region at Ham (United Press War Expert) NEW YORK, Aug. 26—Von Hin - "DISPATCH FROM JOHN DE GANDT denburg is now engaged in the ex-| } (By United Pres Leased Wire, Direct to The Star) traordinary tactics of rushing rein- | 594— % forcements Rat ey ibe apdy pain pond PARIS, Aug. 26.—(4 p p. m. )—The battle pares ta ee ae jon a large scale between the Oise and the Aisne today, This particular maneuver has not| The French are pressing northward and eastward iil joccurred previously during the war/the Ailette salient to force the defenses east of Noyon jand is the conclusive evidence of the | west of Coucy-Le-Chateau, preparatory to opening the on | Dispatch From | Lowell Mellett vy United Press Leased Wire Direct to The Star ~— eee, WITH THE BRITISH ARM- JES IN FRANCE, Aug. 26— (1:00 a. m—Moving swiftly in some places, and crushing stub- born opposition in others, the British are advancing along the whole extent of their new Somme line—from the region of Arras to southward of the river, from which it takes its name. A heavy rainstorm, which ended a | perfect fighting day yesterday, fell | le ence oO etl permanence vest uerman retire| for a decisive drive toward the Somme, in the H Von Hindenburg, therefore, cannot | Simon region. conduct his retirement from the Ple- Strong forces have pushed across the Ailette, and Cou “ [eres binges tied ip aging ee Le-Chateau is already outflanked from the north. ne make it conform to a schedule | | prepared to aneanen.) Ste suet sane] TT rhe Germans are resisting energetically along the whatever occasion offers for a jump | East of Bagneux, French troops have pro; |backward by ohe unit at a time. | ward beyond the Soissons-Chauny railway. | While the retirement is occurring lin any sector, the rest of the line M. 4 must be strongly held to prevent a asf New Villages Netted by hreak thru. For this reason Von|Maig’s Push Thru Picardy | Eos tia Podbeten v6 taatittane Ri oven LONDON, Aug. 26—The British Guemappe, westward of We ako " extended their drive farther north- and eastward of Mory to Fa) at ). Byng’s hammering in the di | rection of Cambrai is now the most | serious obstacle interfering with Von |ward into the Arras sector by sud-|southwestward thru the western | denly attacking along the Scarpe riv. bekirts of Bapaume and Thilloy jer at 3 o'clock this morning, Field | Martinpuich; southward thru Car sete ve fe en) Marshal Haig reported “good prog-|to the Somme at Cappy; south to be thrown into the sector which | 2orthern outskirts of Arras.) | Fresnoy-Le-Roye and Roye station 1 ene ja aktasiing t0 prevent the re |.caoee of Fraveull, two miles Crapeau Mesnil; southeastward thr Heed faprediasicn ers the dl ait north and east of Bapaume, was an-|Fresniers to Thiescourt; east Byng's immi nJective, follow: | ReUnced 5 fore Bvriooiet, ae Lee veil of Tapaaine win |The. third army's attack this/lincourt and ‘Bretigny, to @ become ‘Queant, which -narks the /Morning had progressed a depth | south of Maricamp; south juncture of the two sections of the {of two miles on a front of slightly | across the Ailette at Champs; south= Hindenburg line—the Wotan line, di-| More than four miles, within @/castward across the Ailette at POR: rectly north, and the Stegfried line, |fW minutes, It was learned. Lo ect: aucteaa ae <i : Au-Mont; southward thru. Jui The British line has been advanced = farther on both sides of the Somme |*nd Chavigny to Soissons. additional progress has been | four miles) southwest of Combes Say Duke Alexis As British push forward, the Hin Ww |denburg line is being approached in | as. Frustrated in Revolt Effort | different places, cavalry and tanks | | operating in advance of the infantry STH! 2 loscow Many more villages and vast Macreot ee Se bag = | numbers of guns have been taken. | “SP&tehes declare eg varleneourt, south of the Hapsimne| Planned for August 2, and headed by) J Warlencourt, south of the Bapaume | : ae 2 the former Grand Duke Alexieff, road to Albert, was taken, High | {Me wood, a position near Longue tended to prevent. the iam | troops to the Czech front, wags f trated. Hight leaders, it was |Japanese Troops aptured. British : captured sh Reach Zabaikal tered Martinpuich, haegptli Newspapers report a revolutio TOKYO, Aug. 23.—The vanguard | has fallen. of Japanese troops arrived at Zabai- St. Leger, Baucourt, L'Abbaye, ep movement in Vologda, Viadtmir Viatkeorel. Three hundred ¥ kal this afternoon, the Harbin cor-|Contalmaison and Courcellette and Guards were killed. Twenty p running southeast. The mum strength at Queant, forms a slight pocket If the Quean salient falls to Ryng, the whole Hindenburg line will be weakened | Thereafter a | Belgian border jingly menacing for the | mies Hindenburg line has its mint- for it there | and made toward Maricourt, retreat toward the will become increas: kaiser's ar patrols | Posieres respondent of the Nippon Dempo| Sapignies are in British possession, News agency reported tonight as well as Pys, Miraumont and the The Japanese were given an enthu- | Thiepval ridge. ae newspapers say, have been |siastic welcome, The railroad sta-| A heavy rain is falling on the bat-| cuted in Petrograd, |tion was decorated with Japanese, | tlefield. | om 4 Russian and Chinese flags, and| ‘The battle line from the Scarpe to Inmates of the city stockade troops of those three nations paraded | the Aisne, now apparently is located | vice disease victims have been plaé before the mayor and a group of del-|as follows; ed on an improved diet, From Fampoux southeastward to/| their strike against the egates, Afterward the vanguard de- u Monchy-Le-Preux; southward thru! oatmeal zaush ‘without. aoe parted for Manchull,