The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 9, 1918, Page 1

ami | STAR BALLOT The Star's advisory ballot on candidates in the primary election to be held tomorrow will be found today on page 12. The polls are open from , Lae iu Entered as Second Class Matter May 3, 18 at the Postoffice at Beattie, wa under the Act of Congress March 8, The Seattle Sta THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST NIGHT EDITION ONE CENT IN SEATTLE Per Year, by Mail, $5.00 to $9. 11 a. m, to 8 p.m. Be sure to vote—and vote eight. emmmiman ae Ae VOLUME 20. NO. 165 SS} TTLE, WASH., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1918. RAW NEAR ST. QUENTIN The people of moderate means are meeting their obligations in the purchase of War Savings Stamps. Seattle will not be lacking in $20, $50 and $100 pledges. The city JS lacking Seattle’s wealthy individuals and corporations must brace up. STAR HOPES, be placed in the list of DOLLAR SLA CKERS. They Must Make Good. in $1,000 pledges. They must not, AND THEY WILL NOT, THE | SPEED IT UP! Speed! Speed! Speed! We've got to go fast. The Liberty Loan drive begins September 28. So if Seattle is going to lift herself out of the hole on War Savings Stamps, we must get into the campaign in a hurry. Two million dollars is a lot of money. But a quarter of a million Star readers can make that up in no time. YOU are one of that quarter of a million. You are expected to buy as many stamps as you have money to spare, up to $1,000. And why not, folks? Stamps are as g as money. Stamps ARE money. You can ex- change them for money whenever you need it. BUT UNCLE SAM NEEDS IT NOW. Loan him your savings for a short time. Seattle is the only big city on the coast which has fallen down in its quota. And Seattle has reaped a greater har- vest, financially, than any of them. Now, then, get busy. Here is a stamp pledge, ready to be filled out. You don’t have to go anywhere or inconven- ience yourself. It’s right before you NOW. Fill it out and drop it in the mail. LET YOUR AMERICANISM PREVAIL. SIGN THIS PLEDGE I herewith subscribe for . War Savings Stamps over and above my previous purchases and pledges. I promise to buy the Stamps before January, 1, 1919. GN FULL) Name . (WRITE PLAINLY) Fill out this pledge and send it to the Editor, Seattle Star. DIRECTORS MEET TO TYLER AGAIN TAKE UP CAR OFFER ONHILLFOR Directors of the Puget Sound | Pacific siding to be electrified at a Traction, Light & Power Co. are | cost of $75,000—the city paying 75 scheduled to meet in Boston | Per cent, with the cost money ad Chicago tied the score in the Forty per cent of the cost to be first of the eighth inning. Score met by the Seattle-North Pacific Co. 2 to 2 The nunicipal Lake Burien line to a be double-tracked if it is found im Lineup for today’s game: | powatbte to use the Northern Pacific! Ghjeago—Flack, rf; Hollocher, ss; acks, | vanced by the shipping board. a Monday, and there dea‘de wheth- | er or not to accept ta offer of the city of Seattle to purchase their traction system here for 15,000,000. Members of the city government | Tt ots eranchise for | Mann a Bers - Merkle i ; mecencials Of athe Puen Seer | the building of a single track line on | ior, p, ay Seer Ses apes me lay coating the decision AYBIOn Wer: Boston—Hooper, rf; n, .2b; Unless the offer, which C| hairman | Hold Meeting Today | Strunk, M Innis, Pratt has indorsed, is noes Aion | The establishment of a station on ‘ » 88; Thomas, 3b; If it is accepted, plans are ready to| “The traction company to have | Honals) afitttebeand and Owens rush operation reforms pborg® bet | joint-user rights on the city’s elevat not only make Seattle one of | ed from First ave. to owa ave., in the world’s greatest municipal traction | event of the company's purchase by centers, but will increase service and | the city falling thru. determine whether the problen can! ‘The city to have joint-user rights | be solved with fares remaining at 5 on the bridge spanning the West wa-| BY H. C. HAMILTON (United Press Correspond@nt) ‘“ENWAY PARK, Boston, Sept. 9 k on their home lot cents. pte game count standing two to one in U. 8. to Loan Money The city council will hold a spe-| their favor, the Red Sox appeared A. M. Taylor, director of the trans-| cial meeting Monday to consider the | W!th the b darned Noha in the fourth portation section of the shipping | agreement | itideg of the world's series here to: board, has entered into agreement Unless the traction problem is |“ with the city to | ttle $392,000 | solved, Seattle will not receive any| Indications were that Comiskey to improve the municipal traction | more big shipbuilding contracts, Tay- | park's 100 attendance, last Satur- apeemn. lor save |day, would not be seriously threaten Five anaual payments after the| ‘Taylor, before leaving for Portland, | ed today said he was highly pleased with the outcome of the traction confere| here “The additional facilities should permit of the proper expansion of| Seattle's shipbuilding industry,” he said He war, totaling $230,750, with interest | at 5 per cent, will offset the city’s ob ligation. The tentative agreement drawn up in a conference between Taylor, May- or Hanson, Utilities Superintendent | Murphine, Leonard and Pratt, at the kaw Washington Sunday, calls for: the city’s elevated | There were plenty of clouds, 8|the day was damply cold. The infield, after last night's rain, was soft and slow. The Cubs and Sox drew faint cheers when they |stepped onto the field for batting practice. Just before the game declared that shipbuilding | could not expand beyond the Oxtension of ill: |ager Barrow delegated 0” Ruth line from Spokane st. to Whatcom | ties extended the workers, and com:| to hurl against the Cubs again today ave. east to First ave., the estimated | mended the housing drive, Mitchell immediately named George 50,000 to be met by the ship- a er te Tyler to take the hill against Ruth and 75 per cent of It to! ‘The postoffice is the only place| Shean's attempt to give the Sox be repaid by the city. | where money will be given in ex-|an early start by slammiing out a change for War Savings Stamps be fore the time of maturity by the U. S. government. Purchase 31 Cars Loan to the elty of $217,000 to pur. chase 31 street cars. Double track railway to be run to Tae coke fet ‘The score was 2 to 0 in favor of the plant of the Seattle-North Pacific! Don’t desert your boy at-the-front.|the Red Sox at the end of the Co, and the Northern Buy, war-sevings stampa, seventhdnning, two-bagger in the first inning fruitless when Strunk, the next bat ter, fanned. qpinmnaiinds neon Senne and the} and| rted Man. | WAR EXPERT OUTLINES HUN TERMS “SHARE WORLD’ Many Give Promises for Quota Mail Pledges to The Star and Offer to Help in Securing Others BIG PLANS _UNDER WAY Seattle will answer the call, if the replies received by The Star| in its first mail is any Indication. Both pledges and messages prom- ising hearty co-operation, came quickly after the full-pag made by this yer Satur take Seatle ou ia pre enviable position reference ay to t un to of with its War Savings Stamp quota. Not content with the ed in The Star, one reader sug-! gests another one which would en- Ist the services of a stamp buyer to the extent of securing two more pledges from friends. These friends in turn would each get two others to working. And so the endless chain would continue until the quota would be complete. Several plans are under way to stimulate as large an interest in the War Savings campaign as pos-| | sible. More details will be published In The Star tomorrow. Protect Stamps Against Loss War savings stamps nay be reg istered at a United States money or. der postoffice if purchaser wishes to secure payment in case the certifi cate is lost. Registration is not re- quired. Thrift stamps or thrift cards can not be registered. Thrift stanps |are negotiate to the bearer, the | | same as postage stamps. Each war | savings stamp must be registered. |on war savings stamps before 19 | if not registered, will be redeemed at 14 y money order postoffice with 10 jays’ notice; if registered, take to the | postoftic © where register * i] 1 This is a war of MEN | —and it is also a war of Money. We have the MEN and we have the MONEY. We cannot be more stingy of Money than we are of ME! % When Interest Is \Paid on Savings | Twenty-five-cent thrift stamps do [not bear int r savings stamps, now $4.20, do. former are issued to make it convenient to pur chase in small amounts, so tha a w * ings stamp can be obtained for a like value of thrift stamps Only war savin amps # nego tiable. Every w savings stamp purchased will be worth $5 in 1923 whether the certificates they are at tached to is completely filled or not When a war savings stamp is at tached to a war savings certificate, it | becomes government obligation with the same security as the Lib ty bonds, now held by more than 10, 000,000 Americans. Interest on the war s is paid in one sum wh a vings staznp n the Phone Your Want Ad to Main 600 Leave Your Want Ad Copy at The Star or BARTELL’S 610 Second Avenue Or Mail Copy to The Star. You Can Have It Charged If You Desire appeal | pledge print- | In order to obtain return of money stamp | Yanks Rain Shells on Foe Height Heavy Bombardment Strikes Powerful Fort of Enemy on Aisne Line HUN BATTERIES REPLY BY WEBB MILLER (United Press Correspondent) WITH THE AMERICAN AR- IES IN FRANCE, Sept. 9.— American artillery has opened a heavy bombardment of Le Petite Montagne, a powerfully fortified height which risey 250 feet at the point where the German line leaves the Aisne and dips toward Rheims. ‘This height is the key position to the enemy front in that region. It is furrowed with a strong trench system and its slopes and crest are defended with thick belts of barbed wire American batteries, including many six-inch guns, are hurling hun dreds of shells into the slopes and Jonto the crest, ripping up wire, searching deeply indented wood ra- vines infested with machine guns, which command the valleys on each sidi | and stronghold Germans. The constant erally making the enountain most unhealthy for the thunder of six-inch guns was rolling over the battlefield as the Ame rtillery lashed the heights with a terrible hail of shells. German batteries behind the Aisne replied, bombarding Fismes and the back areas, dropping high explosives haph their search for our gun positions. | Simultaneously the American ar- tillery, with wonderful accutacy, smashed the Aisne bridges behind | the Germans, who are still on the | southern bank of the river. As this was cabled, five bridges have been torn up. The enemy line from the Aisne southeastward across the crests of the plateaus toward Rheims is much the same as it was Saturda The Germans early today were holding with determination to the tops of the tablelands. It is mainly the strength of Le Petite Montagne, now being battered, which has slow ed up the American advance toward the Aisne on the right of our line, A few m pri ners have been taken, including five who hid out for the purpose of surrendering when our troops reached their places of con alment What difference does it make to! you to keep your savings in the bank | or with Uncle San? Buy war sav ings stamps. SEC. BAKER IS NOW IN FRANCE. WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.—Im- provement and enlargement of air- plane, medical and transportation service will be undertaken as a re- sult of of War Baker's second trip abroad. With plans for a four million jarmy by arly summer of 1919, the scope of these branches must be vastly enlarged. To this end, Baker, who is now in France, has ken with him Aeronautic Director Ryan Gen. Hines, chief of embarkatic and Gen, Gorga surgeon general Their ny will be indefinite, but it is assumed that Baker will re- turn here, despite renéwed sug- gestions that he will establish semi- |permanent headquarters for himself jin France. U. S. Men Fighting With Czech Forces VLADIVOSTOK, Sept. 9.—Two battalions of American troops have joined the Japanese and Czechs on| the front line beyond Nikolisk. An- | other battalion is guarding the rail- road between Vladivostok and Niko- lisk, 60 miles. The discipline of the Americans} has made them popular jother allied troops here. among the ‘The purchaser may write his name on War Bavings Stamps to identity action at the front, according to the| parts of ( nuigcnarr cae ea | them, Cologne Gazette: >». Asbevik battering the trenches to ruins | ard over miles of country in| TO BE BY J. W. Famous American ‘EW YORK, Sept. 9.—Ger- many’s coming peace offensive, her last hope of preventing a knockout blow on the field of battle, will be a bid to share the | world between Germany and the | allies for mutual material gain. Germany will try to persuade the allies to abandon their souls and join the German hunt for plunder wherever it can be found. To accomplish this pur- | pose fully, however, the Germans must retire with the allies into those secret recesses where cyn- ical diplomats in all the past epochs of the world have played with peoples as pawns. Germany's peace offensive, there- | fore, will begin by suggesting a con ference among the belligerent pow ers. Specious arguments will be ad vanced about the necessity for con- fidential exchanges. It will be em | phasized, with |that big questions | can be ® settled \¢—_—_—_—_—___—_ —« (1) Germany to evatuahe Belgium and France, if the allies will recog- nize the Russian and the Rumania peace treaties. The allies to erect no economic barriers against German traders, and to give to Germany her old colonies or new ones in exchange. No indemnities to be collected by any one. (2) Germany to indemnify Belgium beside restoring Belgium's independ- ence, and evacuating France, Ger- many’s colonies to be a subject for future negotiation with the allies. The allies to recognize the Russian and Rumanian peace treaties. |many will consent to a referendum in Alsace-Lorraine for the self-deter- mination of those provinces, or will agree to restore them outright to France. | (4) In addition to terms No. 3, Ger- will offer to compel Russia to repay her repudiated war loans to the allies and the repudiated debt of a billion dollars Russia owes French investors in Russian industrial enter- addition to the western erbia to be restored, by the Jevacuation of the territory held by | the Bulgarians, who have hoped for permanent occupation of Serbian Macedonia, (6) The Dardanelles to be interna- tionalized and the provinces in Tur- | |key conquered by the allies to be freed from the control of the Sultan. (i) The Rumanian peace treaty to be canceled. (8) The Russian peace treaty to be canceled. engaging frankness, | THE TERMS |" (3) In addition to terms No. 2, Ger- | BID OF HUN EMPEROR T. MASON Military Authority | much more easily by a few men | round a table than by a mass meet- ing attended by the world at large. This is what diplomats call a ne- | gotiated peace. It will be declined | by the allies, because a negotiated | peace means at best a drawn ‘There can be no draw with Germany. The only way to save the world from a continuation of the Prussian menace will be to refuse Germany the right to negotiate as an equal {and to compel the kaiser to plead |for mercy. It will then be for the | democratic nations to determine how much mercy Germany shall have, and in what form it shall be granted. | When the kaiser is convinced he | cannot entice the allies into a secret peace conference, he will announce the terms he is willing to accept, bar- | gaining with them, and waiting for responsive offers like an ancient money lender of Lombardy. His pro- | gressive offers may @ some such progressive form as | following: THE REPLY | | the Acceptance of these terms would be a recognition of rmany's vic- Germany would emerge from | war as the conqueror of Russia | and the Near East, with her eco- nomic future assured. The allies | | will therefore decline to consider terms No. 1. These terms will be refused be cause they would give Germany a victorious peace by bribing the allies with Belgium and some of the Ger- |man colonies to recognize Germany {as the suzerain power in Rus- sia and the Near East. Still the allies will have to refuse, for the ‘rman menace in the east will remain. This offer will be a desperate play to detach France from the allied| cause, and so attempt to force the other nations to recognize Germany's position as dictator of the eastern horizon. France, of course, will re- fuse. The kaiser will then be com-| pelled to add to his offers in the | west reluctant curtailments of his ilies will not ent ad. ments in the west, the sider this proposal a suff dition to justify granting control of Russia and the Near East. Germany would thus abandon her dream of creating a great colonial empire in Mesopotamia, but would still cling to her control of Russia, Hence, the allies will decline to stop | the war. To the tamia, Germ (c Tontinued on page abandonment of Mesopo- would add the dis- D Baker Prdinte Men} |} Who Saved Vernon } From Hun Torpedo WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.— retary of War Baker, now in nee, has cabled Secretary Dan. fels that he visited the transport Mount Vernon when it arrived in } port damaged by a U-boat tor pedo, He paid a high tribute to } the morale and efficient seaman ship of the crew The cablegram follows: |{ 1 have just visited and viewed the Mount Vernon. The high spirit and morale of its men and masterful seamanship of its cap- tain and officers make such a stirring story of heroism that I wish all the nation might know the splendid way in which the huge transport met and foiled the attempt to destroy The traditions enriched by their conduct in this ) emergency.” HUN PRINCE FERDINAND IS KILLED IN BATTLE LONDON, Sept. 9.—Prince Ferdi- nand of Hohenloe has been killed in ‘|36 Britishers Held Under Death Threat STOCKHOLM, Sept. 9.—Thirty- British officials are impris- oned in Russia under threat of be- |ing shot if Premier Lenine dies, it six |was learned in a message from Helsingfors today. The British pris- joners are accused of being impli- |ecated in the attempt to kill Lenine. |Report Germany MADRID, Sept. satisfactory solution of the nish-German controversy over submarine war- fare was reported today to have been reached. The cabinet meets Wedne dey to discuss it, |Czechs ‘thee Hold Important Region (This indicates the Czecho-Slovaks have penetrated more important attie. | be expected to | and Spain Agree| VALDIVOSTOK, Sept. 9.—From Olovyanna to Pe a distance of |2,000 miles, Czecho-Slovak forces hold the railway, it was learned| today. La Fere Near Grasp of French Foch’s Troops Are Now. Within Four Miles of St. Quentin BRITISH MAKE ATTACK — ip By United Press Leased Wire | Direct to The Star PARIS, Sept. 9.—(10 a, m)}— The French are at the gates of © | La Fere, which is still aflame, _ Fall of this bastion of the Hin- denburg line, which the allies | were unable to occupy in 1917, is. | probable. - St. Gobain, in. the -wooded ’ country centering in that. town, rt tenable only with difficulty. (The St. Gobain forest is one of the 4 strongest defenses of Laon.) ‘4 The French can attack via Servais — at the north, via Fresnes at the south, and via Barisis and Auters. | To ‘the westward the allies have! sins Villeveque and St. Emile in their advance toward St. orang PARIS, Sept. 9.—(1:20 a, ne bigs” French forces have reached posit a close to La Fere and occupation | the city is probable, according ee | Ue-front advices. | La Fere is one of the principal a + | lied objectives, It is behind the Hime) denburg line, 12 miles south of | Quentin. The town is one of strongest points in the Hi defense system, and is of the strategic importance. Sept. 9—(12:50 p. mp LONDON, The British are now attacking Gouzeaucourt, it was learned today. | line southeast of Havrincourt wood.) | British patrols have occupied Ver- | mand (six miles north of St. Quentin) and Vendelles (north of Vermand), it. | was learned. The British have reached the west. ern and northwestern edges of Epehy (four miles south of Gouzeau- |court on the Hindenburg line). Brit- sh patrols are reported to havey ed thru the village. ne French are now only four: miles from St. Quentin, and cavalry” patrols are close to La Fere, it was learned this afternoon. The French now hold the Crozet canal on pracy tically its whole length, You can convert war savings, | stamps into ready cash on 10 days" notice. ‘i ‘hs French War Office * Reports Gains in | St. Quentin Zone PARIS, Sept. 9.—French forces during the night advanced toward St. Quentin from the south, and also gained in their thrust against |La Fere from the north, according- |to the war office report today. The statement follows: “North of the Somme we enlarged: our progression eastward of Avense toward Clastres. “We occupied |Motte farm Quentin) “Our elements er Crozat, opposite Lie: |La Were) | “Betwee |during the night, man artillery |fantry reaction. the notable La, (southwest of St ssed the Canal (northwest of n the Oise and the Aisne, there was violent and German in- Two strong coun- ter attacks in the region of Laffaux (northeast of Soissons) were Tee pulsed. We took 80 prisoners bes longing to five different regimenta, “In the Champagne, the French made raids in the region of Mont Sansom, taking prisoners. West of Auberives, a German raid was ue Italy Troops Now on Murman Coast ROME, Sept. 9.—Italian troops. have arrived on the Murman coast, it was semi-officially announced to< day. (British and Americans have been operating in Russia from the ‘Murman coast for some time)