The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 3, 1918, Page 1

Lee ee 2s FS (i ¥ ai The Mooney Case The trial that has been “heard around the world” is becoming daily more and more of an international question. The Star has arranged for a special series of articles on the Mooney case. Tomorrow's edition will contain the article detailing some of Mooney’s labor activities, THE GREATES Entered as Becond ¢ DAILY lane Matter May 3, 1899, at FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT OF THE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS VOLUME 20. NO, 160 CA SEATTLE, WASH., TUESD. the Postoffies at CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST Beattie, Warh, under the Act COMPLETE SERVICE OF THE NEWSPAPER AY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1918. of Congress March &, NIGHT EDITION ONE CENT IN SEATTLE 1879. ENTERPRIS ther Forecast: by Maul, $5.00 to $9.00 ASSOCIATION Tonight and Wednesday, fairs gentle northwesterly winds MBRAI IN LINE OF FIRE AS LENS FALLS LONDON, Sept. 3 (5:35 p. m.)--The present German retreat to positions behind the Canal du Nord, and con: tinuing northward, will place Cambrai under long range fire, and will make Douai practically useless to the enemy. THOUSANDS OF | BOCHES FLOCK | INTO PRISONS DISPATCH FROM LOWELL MELLETT (By United Press Leased Wire, Direct to The Star) | adich aie ' WITH THE BRITISH AR- is America’s work.” MIES IN FRANCE, Sep’ Regarding the work of Ger i man submarines, he answered: “Un termeboote sind caput,” meaning that the submarines are done for. | ‘This does not snean that Monday's | battle was simply a triumphal pa rade. On the contrary, some of the the swarming down the like sheep, and crowding other into the ditches along | hardest fighting in months eveurred | | before the important stretches of the | Hindenburg line The Germans, running before the) The Germans. threw in «great first British assault like raw recruits | masses of reserves in some parts of and reforming later only when) their lines. These masses fteluded maases of their gwn men came up in | worn-out divisions which had fought support; Germans screaming with/ so hard at Fapaume and Bottecourt. fear as the British reached their first! Great enemy masses are still com. lines; Germans leaping out of their ing up, and a great battle must yet @ugouts and throwing up their hands | be fought, but none here doubts the im surrender with the first appear-/ ultrnate reault. ance of the Canadians, were scenes} The British successes in over. witnessed early in the British attack.|whelming deep enemy wire barriers Masses of Captives | was due to the use of instantaneous Along the road paralleling the | fuse «shells and tanks, despite the fact Scarpe, a party of correspondents at that the tanks were subjected to a noon met such =nasses of disheart-|very heavy bombardment by anti ened captives as have seldom been | tank guns seen since the beginning of the great The Canadians went forward along war. their entire front, barely hesitating, When questioned, prisoners frank- | except at Buissy switch There, as ly expressed their belief that Ger-| well ax in the vicinity of Dury hill, a many is beaten. sunken road had been filled with “The war is over,” said one. German machine guns. These posi “You mean that we win?” he tions held out until Canadian rein forcements arrived, when the ene my was swept out In the town of Dury a German ma jor and his staff were captured, whi several battalion commanders were taken in the same region was asked. “Ves,” he said; “but we don't care. We want only peace” Another asked if the British rn are hungry, and when told they are not, replied: “That Break in Hindenburg Line Is Now More Than Seven Miles WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN FRANCE, Sept. 3.—4Afternoon.}— ‘The break in the Hindenburg line above Queant now exceeds seven miles extending beyond Etaing to the north In the northern part of the battle line, American troops are sitting in trenches on both sides of Ypres. Signs are everywhere visible in that region that the Germans in the north are preparing to make the best of a situation that is rapidly growing worse The British are progressing southeast of Cagnicourt. They are astride the railway west of Queant and east of Riencourt. The enemy is offering mediocre resistance west and north of Queant PARIS, Sept. 2.—44 p. m.}—The French are biting into the western edge of the Chemin des Dames, having reached Laffaux hill (6% miles northeast of Soissons). The Germans are energetically defending their positions toward Laon. The German rear guard counter attacked five times north of the Aisne without success Briton Is Killed — by “Red” Troops COP VELAC Sept. 3. Bolshe viki troops occupied the British em bassy at Petrograd and shot one Englishman, according to the Prav da. The incident occurred during the Bolshevik general examination of houses Sunday, following the murder | of Uriteki, Bolshevik commissary of 4 | AMERICANS RIP WAY OPEN FOR SOISSONS GAIN WITH |THE AMERICAN ARMIES IN FRANCE, Sept. 3. —American artillery is ripping up the fields, roads, trenches and woods along the enemy lines, in conjunction with the French whe are attacking northeast of Soissons the interior at Petrogr: WASHINGTON, Sept. 32.—The 8 8. West Haven, gunned by a subma rine 400 miles off Halifax, August ped, according to a navy de nt radio today The regular 31, ese partm: monthly meeting of Minute Men, Precinct 266, will be held in Hiawatha fieldhouse, West Seattle, at 8 p. m. Tuesday 8. Leads Assault individual incidenta of today brought Stories of Saturday's fighting additional Americans alike. French divisions on the right and left of the crack american units which participated in this fighting did brilliant work, but during the entire attack the Ameri cans led in th malt When one small French tank was out of commission its crew of two men leaped out of the machine, seized rifles and continued to fight along side the American infantry. ‘At another point German machine gun nests temporarily held up a cer tain American detachment under command of Lieut. Col, Harris. Har crept up alone and single-handed captured the nest. He has been recommended for gallantry in action. General Braves Fire North of Terny-Sorny an American brigadier general went forward in the open, altho constantly exposed to terrific machine gun fire, in order to make personal observation of a ma- chine gun nest preparatory to order. ing artillery fire. ' “Main 600”’ Tell us what you want and we in turn will tell YOUR WANTS to the largest audience in the Northwest. You can charge the want ad, price 1114c per line. 4 The village honers to French and|— Hi New Dratt Rules Slow to Arrive Local Officials Have Orders on Registration, But Not on Classification TO USE POLLNG PLACES dust who will be called first, after men from 18 to 45 register for military service, Sept. 12? Will married men, between 31 and 45, come under liberal ex emption regulations? Nobedy in Seattle knows. Detailed instructions have been received. But Instructions governing the reg istration procedure to be conducted | under direction of City Registration | Clerk William Gaines, have been re colved. All men between ages of 18 and 45, if not already registered, or not in actual military service, must regis: | ter at the polling place of their reat not Jence precinct. Use Question Wo are trying to arrange for ear lief registration for those who can not conveniently to their polling | places 12." Gaines explained today lwo want to have the Iraft registration places identical with the Sept. 10 election polling places | It is probable, draft officials point | hat all of the new registrants be classified, by questionnaire. after they register. Doubtless men without dependents. or industrial ex Sept (Continued on page 7. Crowds Flock to New Store Today Seattle's largest department store, Frederick & Nelson's, opened at 9 o'clock Tuesday morning, in its new hore, Pine st, between Fourth and Fifth aves, Shoppers and visit ora were waiting for the big doors to open long before the time net. Flowern of y description, made into wonderful wreaths and mottoes wishing the went from other Seattle merchants and lemployes of the store, were placed in the auditorium, a beautiful room of rose and gray colors, ed on the top floor Amidat these flowers hung the Frederick & Nelson service flag, bearing 46 stars, and directly oppo site the flag a lifesize painting of done by F. Tamada. 1 cnothers found a cozy white nursery, with a half-dozen cribs and ja maid in attendance, “where baby | may be left new store success Pershing Reporte | American Advance | Above Aisne Line | WASHINGTON, Sept. 3—North of the Aisne, American troops con tinue their advance in the face of vigorous resistance, Gen. Pershing reported to the war office, under date of September 2. of Terny-Sorny has been taken, together with nearly 600 prisoners, two large guns and 78 ma chine guns. Gen, Pershing’s communique fol: | lows iorth of the Aisne our troops have continued to advance, in spite of the strong resistance of the ene m nd have taken the village of [ ony, In the two operations yesterday, in this region, they cap: tured prisoners, two 105-caliber guns and 78 machine guns. North of the Vesle two local hostile attacks west of Fismes were repulsed with lons.”" CAPTURE ENEMY LINES ON FRONT IN BALKANS SALONIKA, Sept. 3.—Increased activity on the Balkan front was an nounced in a communique today from Gen, Sarrail, The capture of a whole enemy salient is included in the report. | The text follows | | “North of Alkakmah, we captured | la salient of enemy positions, A hos tile airplane wags shot down near Serres.” “HUMAN FLY” WILL CLIMB AT 2:15 P. M. Jack “the fly.” by governnent permission, Was scheduled to scale the L. C Smith building at 245 p. m. Tues ) t Williams, human day, while United States marines collected donations for “Our Boys in France Tobaceo Fund.” Williams, whose real name | Hogue, was taken into cus in Coc tody Sun night, with his man- | ager, Tom Calloway, by federal ) } authorities, on word from Butte. My husband was induced to make @ little talk in Butte,” ox plained Mra, Hogue Tuesday ‘and told to advise voters against candidates who, it was urged, | were proGerman. Hin advisers | Probably took advantage of his tx ( norance of the local situation, and somehow he has become involved | { in a case he knows nothing of.” enn VALENCIENNES IS NEW GOAL OF GEN. HAIG ] into rush activity by Marshal Haig's victory in the Queant sector, The Germans have been compelled to evacuate Queant to escape being pocketed as the result of the British progress along the ArrasCambrai road At the same time they have evac ated Lens because the smashing blows of the British in the Queant area are making untenable the whole of the Wotan nection of the Hinden burg line. Von Hindenburg must now re adjust his line with great rapidity or face the possibility of a disastrous separation of his northern Flanders army from the reat of bin front, To Circle Cambrai | A circling movement ix now being developed by Field Marshal Haig against Cambrai. If Von Hinden burg delays his retirement from Cambrai much longer while this en velopment continues he will be un able to fall back from Cambral upon Valenciennes, near the Belgian bor der Valenciennes is the principal sup. y base for the Cambrai sector, and in the natural receiving center for the large quantity of military stores that Hindenburg must try to rescue from Cambral ‘eld Marshal Halg’s ambitious project, as it in now developing, ts to} cut off Cambrai from Valenciennes and to compel the Germans to tnove their supplies over the more difficult country to Maubeuge, farther south from Valenciennes, along the Belgian border | Hindenburg will certainly lose a large part of his stores if he is com: | pelied to accept this dictation from | Haig BOLSHEVIK! ARE AGAIN DEFEATED IN SIBERIA PEKING, Sept. 3. — Bolahevik | troops have again been defeated by the allies advancing In Siberia. Gen Semenoff today announced the cap ture of Oloviana from the Bolsheviki by a turning movement, taking pris oners and four machine guns. | TRIAL OF WM. BOUCK IS SET FOR SEPT. 26 William Bouck, Northwest organ: | izer for the Nonpartisan league and | master of the State Grange, pring federal arrest, charged with making | disloyal statements, pleaded not guil: | ty in federal district court Tuesday | morning, before Judge Jeremiah Ne terer. | A WOMAN'S | --HEART--| A woman's heart, her soul's || longings, her thoughts, her re flections, her hopes, her love-—all these are bared to Star readers in “The Confessions of a War Bride.” Begin the story today, if |) you have not already done #0. You'll find it on page 6. ' Recognizes the Czechs Lansing Notifies Czecho- Slovak Patriots of Important Step FIGHT COMMON ENEMY ca am. | By United Press Leased Wire | Direct to The Star i »“————- - + WASHINGTON, Sept. 3— Recognition of the CaechoSlo vaks as a de facto belligerent government was extended by the United States today. To further ald their war against the German and Anstro- Hangartan empires, Secretary Lansing formally notified the CuechoSlovak The purpose of recognition would be prosecuting the war against the common enemy Blow to Bolshevikism This important action is expected to deal a vast blow to Bolshevikiam in Russia to solidify the Crechs fighting the Hun. “The Caecho-Slovak people.” said Lansing’s announcement, having taken up arms against the German and Austro-Hungarian empires and having placed organized armies in the field, which are waging war against those empires under officers of their own nationality, and tn ac cordance with the rules and practices of civilized nations And the Czecho Slovaks, having in prosecution of their independent purposes in the present war confided supreme political authority to the Czecho Slovak national council, Is Full Recognition “The government of the United States recognizes that a state of bel lgerency exists between the Czecho: Slovaks thus organized and the Ger man and AustroHungarian em pires. It also recognizes the Czecho-Slo vak national council as a de facto belligerent government, clothed with proper authority to direct the mili tary and political affairs of the Crecho Slovaks “The government of the United States further declares that it is pre pared to enter formally into relations with the de facto government thus recognized for purpose of prosecut ing the war against the common enemy, the empires of Germany and Austro- Hungary Place in the Sun Recognition by one government of another as a de facto regime is now the fullest type of recognition that it can be accorded. It means that this nation regards the Czecho-Slovaks as an operating | government of sufficient stability to warrant the confidence and support of this nation Recognition of the Czecho-Slovaks as a de facto organization means stabilizing them and giving them a standing in the community of na tions whereby they can obtain credit and whereby after the war they can have a place in the sun. ITALIAN TROOPS LAND IN NORTH NTSIN, Sept. %.—An Italian troop ship has arrived at a northern port This is the first announcement of an Italian movement into the north ern zone and probably means a land ing somewhere on the Siberian coast or in the allied region on the Arctic, Germany Admits Gains by Allies BERLIN, via London, Sept. 3.—An advance by the allies in a portion of the wood west and south of Coucy, Le-Chateau was admitted by the war office today “The enemy pressed back our for ward lines from the Ailette,” the statement said. “Between the Ailette and the Aisne, several strong enemy attacks failed, U.S. Nation Retreat Is Rushed on HAIC’S TROOPS | -WideFront | In Flanders and on Lines South to Soissons Germans Are Fleeing Allied Blows | FLAMES extremity of the line, has been — north, is also in British hands. Dispatch From William These are the outstanding Philip Simms United Press Correspondent PARIS, Sept. 3.—The German occupied Wulverghem. HOLDING POINT OF ENEMY Armentiers is directly threatened | by Gen. Plummer’s Second army, | aided by Americans, who are hot on heela of ‘Get Von Arnim's Fourth German army and Gen. Von Quast's Sixth army. These are FRTUTY Felting tho FOTIA! wor! | at a tremendous sacrifice In Hinden- | T° 4 Sirge Agel ‘eltera.ve highways toward Cambrai and | South: of the scarpe the British With its abandonment, the | are driving on hourly, increasing the| position now preventing a furt! depth of the perilous pocket at the bottom of which lies Queant, one of the main cornerstones of the Hin denburg defense. Cambrai lies only 10 miles east. New Disaster Near denburg in 1917. to.serve.as.a Toward this line the enemy stroyed but Hindenburg hopes The Germans have abandoned the famous Drocou REDDEN SKIES Queant switch line to the British. Queant, at the southen captured, and Lens, developments of the gi West front battle today. Simultaneously, the British Americans at the extreme northern section of the fi have registered a further advance of one mile and FRONT TAKEN The evacuation without further resistance of the court-Queant line puts Field Marshal Haig in | positions regarded .by Von Hindenburg as the- most portant on this section of the front. This line is considered by many as the holding poin on the whole German West front. It was Protection against ‘ advance from the region of Arras along the 4 n Drouai. : Wotan line is the princi her British advance. GERMANS SPEEDING TO WOTAN LINE DEFENSES is hurrying his troops jall possible speed. Much of the Wotan line has been to hold it until he can With Queant gone, Ludendortt, form and prepare positions further back, it is believed. will have a hard job to prevent dis-|' aster thruout this region. The fall of Riencourt and the capture of the| German positions on the high Rass ground south of that village has|Bussy, Doignies, Velu, Berthin brought the British up against! all taken. Queant is nine miles Queant, which they completely domi peat ae i hate at close rane ey 40m" | Buissy is two and a half miles South of the Arras-Cambrai smashed hard at the enemy this morning, re, advance of about four miles on a 20-mile front. highway, the court and Rocquigny north and east of Bap northeast of Queant. Both here and northward as far: ADVANCE ALONG ARRAS-CAMBRAI ROADWAY as the Scarpe, the British are fight ing over country which was not even reached during the Arras drive of east and south from Bapaume. The other towns are further south, about six mi The new line thus for | 1917. They are threatening to roll bulges eastward from the Arras-Cambrai road to Bui up the Hindenburg lines which they have overrun to a depth of two to three miles | Huns Burn Supplies there until it joins the old line thence south to Doignes, curving south and west fro southeast of Bapaum The capture of Lens by the British will prove a | Further south between Peronne| blow to the Germans, not only for sentimental reasons but number of railways. Leng | and St. Quentin and in the direction because it is the juncture of a of Noyon, flames redden the sky by je nj i Q s}i 7 night and great columns of smoke is nine miles north and slightly are visible by day, marking the Ger mans’ work of destruction in their | retirement The enemy is burning Lens is also the dominating east of Arras. LENS IS CENTER OF IMPORTANT COAL REGION city in a large coal which has proved of immense value to the enemy. | starts ap. tisva nett panels el The occupation of Wulverghem registers a further tions are that he hopes to get all, Vance of one mile in Flanders, The town is six miles his stores out and to fortify the and slightly west of Armentieres. country between Cambrai and La Fere in the hope of preventing its capture by the allies. | Between Noyon and |Germans are fighting bornly, but slowly and surely the French and Americans are battering | their way forward | American troops are threatening | the enemy positions north of the | Aisne. If their progress continues. |the German crown prince will be compelled to withdraw from the| Vesle position. Gen, Mangin’s left is advancing northward toward St. Gobain, fur- | ther imperilling the crown prince's | ry rear in this region. All along the| have reached a point west of Bu |line from Ypres to Rheims the|Berthincourt and Rocquigny. French and Americans continue to | play a tune to , Ten British. Soissons the The French and Americans fenses north of the Aisne. Wulverghem, Queant, Tromville authoritatively learned today. switch line is in British possess‘ hurriedly retreating. The British advanced four must dance | ie | BY JO) DE GANDT PARIS, Sept. 3.—Coucy-Le-Cha- | teau is being outflanked by the | LONDON, Sept. 3.—The Canadians Franco-Americans south ofthe | line, Marshal Haig announced in his re Ailette from Crecy-Au-Mont, simel- | He also announced British troops ha | registered an advance of a mile and a quarter beyond the Canal du Nord,| _ The enemy left the Drocourt-Queant in the region of Nesle. German pris. | !8 hurriedly retiring southward in an eft |oners declare preparations are being | OF Such of it as is left | made for a general withdrawal of St. | Having smashed their way across | Quentin. | front of from four to six miles, the Bri Franco-American troops are tage and striking hard at enemy positio | gressing along the road toward Laon. | This line. | Further north, they are filtering into | Hindenburg line, German positions between woods | sweep the near Coucy:Le-Chateau and the low er end of Coucy forest North and east of this area, the French have gained new gcound in| court, positions on both sides of the Ar the direction of Guiseard. having | ADVANCE IN FLANDERS € carried their lines more than a mile | Further south, British advances occ across the Canal du Nord | stiftened. In the region of Ham, the roads | effort to check Haig. behind the enemy lines ar obstructed with transport 1 troops mov'ng northeastward, — Poisoners taker by the French in this region assert that a retirement towards St Quentin has already been organized. Tho choking of the roads indicates that it may alreoty have bogun, pro is of utmost importan Field Marshal Haig announced Cana reported Estaires, They pushed At the southern end of the battle are making slow but steady progress. admits the British capture of Peronne. most stub/ern end of the Chemin des Dames, LONDON, Sept. 3.—The British have captured the region of Buissy this morning, which was designed to be a supplem rmans back from it entirely tions all along the west front will be imperiled thousand prisoners were taken yesterday by the ee i en SMASH HOLE IN GERMAN FRO i are pushing into the weste : and many villages, it ‘The vital Drocourt-Queant ion. The enemy forces arg miles on a it was learned. They issy and also hold Doignies, — | which Ludendorff | Haig Announces Capture of Queant Line and 10,000 Huns have stormed the Drocourt-Queant, port today, : ave entered Pronville, Doignes and taneously with the French having | Perthincourt, and that 10,000 prisoners were taken in this vicinity yesterday, Haig also announced that Queant had been occupied last night. positions without resistance, He fort to get behind the Wotan line, the vital Queant switch line on @& tish are following up their advane ns at both ends of the break. ntary defense to the e to the enemy. If the allies can it is believed Hindenburg’s poste dian and British troops have occue pied Dury, Villers Les Gagnicourt, Gagnicourt and Riencourt Les Gagnis ss Cambrai road, ‘ONTINUES STEADILY urred, altho enemy resistance hag Hindenburg is throwing in reserves with great freedom in an front, the French and Americans: The difficult work of clearing the wooded country around Coucy-Le-Chateau is progressing satisfactorily, Kast of Nesle, the French have crossed the canal and gained a footing on the western slopes of Hill 77, taking prisoners. The German war offics ° the strong German des — * In Flanders, the British are steadily advancing, having oceupled _ mile beyond the village 20-mile front in