The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 17, 1918, Page 1

» Be MONEY FOR YOU There is money waiting for you at the Metal Ex change, Fourth ave. and Pine st. if you bring your old gold, silver, and platinum there. ‘They pay you in War Savings Stamps, Exchange War news from the tattle promt ty. the United ess beased urte. The Seattle Star NIGHT EDITION ONE CENT IN SEATTLE trinkets you do not war for stamps and help THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHW. eST Per Year, by Mail, Entered as Bocond Class Matter May at the Postoffi Beattie, We der the Act of Congress VOLUME 20. NO. “PEACE” OFFER IS SMOTHERED BY PRESIDENT U. S. REPLY TO AUSTRIA “The government of the United States feels that there is only one reply which it can make to the sug- gestion of the imperial Austro-Hungarian govern- ment. It has repeatedly and with entire candor stated the terms upon which the United States would > which it has made its position and purpose so plain.” SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, SE PTEMBE R 17, 1918. $6.00 to $9.00 Weather Forecast: ght, fair; Wednesday, rain; le ‘southwesterly To! Ke winds, The Fortune Teller You ARE GOING ON A LONG JouRNEY AND YO ULL NEVER. RETURN | AISER BREAKS DOWN! LONDON, Sept. 17.-The kaiser has suffered a nervous breakdown and is very despondent, according to strongly persistent rumors in circulation here. YANKEES NEARING GERMAN BORDER ~\Huns Give Greeks Win Bulgarians Up Ground Drive Along Lose 3,000 © Near Metz Struma Line} in Balkans Poy Diailel itdas Lasped al ‘By United Press Leased col "5, Unuad hem | Direct hid The Star 1 PARIS, Sept. 17.—American troops have reached Vandieres, within a mile and a half of the German frontier, La Liberte an- nounced today. Vandieres is in the Moselle | valley, three miles north of Pont- a Mousson. American line at the right and left Direct to The Star ATHENS, Sept. 16 have advanced from two to three miles on a 17-mile front, in the Stru- ma sector, between the Vardar river and Lake Doiran, capturing several villages, according to a dispatch from Salonika today. The attack was a surprise. The Greeks lost only two officers and 10 men, while the Bulgarian losses were extremely heavy. . The French attacked and captured Greek troops fortifying for two years. Leased Wire eden to The att LONDO Sept. 17.—The Ser- bian offensive, started Sunday in the Salonika region, continues with complete success, it was of- ficially announced today. The Bulgarian front has been | pierced to the depth of more than five miles on a front of over 12 miles. More than 3,000 prisoners and 24 guns have been taken. The French and Serbian casualties are small. | Rovoyska and Paraznasta are in the jallied hands. A Jugo-Slay division _ Spelled ee Se oe =P T ® Sad beeen “4 mans fall back toward the Metz de ey $ LONDON, Sept. 17.—The allies probably will make a\ | fenses, es WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.—The. 4 | oncerted reply, refusing the Austrian proposal along the, With the boches hurrying air rein- | t M ll . whole Serbian army is united and on ' lines of President Wilson’s note, it was learned today. | forcements, the concentration _be- | oO Olll y Serbian soll new, 98.5 Se | tween the Meuse and the Moselle of | Doren Youre agin the Bu | air fighters of all types is resulting th B ] gars. is victory gave the seo Ss. REPLY IS ‘AUS AUSTR A ASKS in constant air duels, Antlalperaft e bu gars = army a chance it had struggitg | guns are also continually barkin| <. o | Gite te eiiche Pront: ‘S| WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.—That) garians of positions which they had | nN aie sete a | Germany 1s trying to induce Bul-| held tenaciously for more than two) ag § | umerons boche planes have been | brought down. The American and garia to submit to Turkey on terri-| years. French pursult machines are keeping torial claims was the view of some| The success was achieved on Sep 3 d tho enemys confined reaeticalle te | diplomats here today, following an.jtember 15, when Serbs, aided by Si eager Wire| AMSTERDAM, Sept. 17.—Baron bi fio ; Practically Be-| nouncement that Colonial Secretary | French, attacked and won strong” Leeset Burian, Austro-Hungarian foreign a: hie ‘pwn Hines. ‘Whenever. the |, | ‘Direct to The Star | s ear: = Germans cross the front, they are Solf has gone to Sofia, ostensibly to | Bulgarian mountain positions on the 4 minister, sent the following note to aaeltiy' Guid + ra Ps ¥ 8re\ turn over funds to the Bulgarian| Salonika front. : the pope thru the Apostolic Nuncio, peechy. Shaaed « back, leantime, | ped Cross, which were collected in| ‘ WASHINGTON, Sept. 17— | pi Bouze, on September 14, ord: day and night bombing by Amert-| Germany, Germany's latest peace offen- | ing to a dispatch received from Vien ha pbee arin pcp ipar Recher | That Solf shoudld go to Sofia just sive has been smothered. That na today ros vestenday, Made nine bombing) when Talaat Pasha is in Berlin for Poe how erat Waeniasion $e. | neste don pani Sect oa It is established that the Germans | v9 stig “pe aay ‘was consider ey senerally regarded Presi- | viiiie devastating Europe has not already have disbanded 108 infantry | °? “&nifican' | a dent Wilson's summary refusal to besser A peor nd Europe has no! battalions, equivalent to 12 divisions, is join an Austrian get-together | MATeMatee MITE adactt, of reconollia: to make up the losses resulting Sain | eee, pone | tion, Austria, Prineery has decided to | the year's fighting. LONDON, Sapte 11 ee eer Gs clessttor the ples er Seas approach all delligerents and invite | | waka rene slesens are bel: ins | Pigg taht pot papearia reported s% 3 | | mobilized for auxiliary service. Boys y 2 ndud A ing, e authority of Presi- § The principal advance is being positions in Flanders and n Ve Gane ot views. | dant Wilson, when he stated the | “Nise % T) a atthcde, Aeiciectthin | n | made between the Mad and Moselle! COPENHAG Sept. 17.—within | 42S p terms of the brief, emphatic reply to! -. remembers the touching appeal| rivers. The Germans are busily dig-|the last few days, 812 persons have| , OUT troops made progress yeater: the latest attempt of the Teutonic py! t,o wind pgs —_— ~~~~~,| ging in along the Hindenburg line,! heen executed in Petrograd, and 400 | 78¥ in the direction of Le Verguim, powers to inveigle the allies into pre- | ‘he Pope. par apllee }| while our positions are being stead. ns northwest of St. Quentin,” he said. waak, Wirenly ‘convinced that the IN P. E p being stead: | others are awaiting trial, according mamas pence talk, e also today 1 ag o reace Excep! }j ily strengthened to dispatches. Ten thousand officers |, Ve, improved Our positions) silsie saa etary Lansing’s announcement prepa 2 ree SHOES EERE. STO Th Vict I | Ka nat bet hoimiheng tes. |ly yesterday and during the night “eame immediately after the Austrian |)‘ text) that long suffering man 9 ‘ ru Victory, Is } pert lh Na a oy ta the Rus-| northwest of Hulloch (between La- note had been handed to him by the | {ind pias et nicie. ton °} View of Soldiers} Berlin Says Lécal i beng tones Bassee and Lens) and northeast of _ Swedish minister and had been care- nt ears vee : é aa: A C qedapeas Gal | Neuve Chapelle (north of LaBasseeh ¥ fully decoded and translated to avoid | | =ovnermoe the note and) From across the sea we hear this stirring ulti- |} ,72%S: Sept ey Mar” }) Attacks on Yankee | Bolsheviki Chief ets } rrors | ding. xponcaairal . ~ . : eertl | | 4 orThe effect of the government's re . | matum of the men who are doing the fighting |} Stripes. the official newspaper of | Front Are Success) Insults Neutrals|American Victory ly, it is pointed out, is a strong con. . > s : a { the American expeditionary force, {| BERLIN, via London, Sept. 1 | _ COPENHAC Sept 17.—M. Di Matmation of “secret Aipiowacy” and| Alli I | in France, quoted from the Stars and Stripes, || as to say about the German §| successful Jocal attacks against | Tchitcherin, Bolsheviki foreign min sheartens Huns &n upholding of “open diplomacy,” as | es turn the official newspaper of the Yanks over there: |} eviamty’start ‘aga in the aw. ¢| (American Positions on the west por. | ister, has sent the following note to Along Haig Front Bemandes by President Wilson. | D “| ha ier 4 t ; }evitably start again in the au {] ton of the Meuse-Mogelle front, to neutral diplomats in reply to thelr | woTH ‘THE BRITISH ARMIES SFr ipstaadiniensedicniouia tet Off. et the weak-hearted. who are dreaming o PTE Tey a Pryor NG UH oc etd a nae Sent op hapa nad Hol Phan ed IN FRANCE, Sept. 17.—The Ameri- Gy taiasttn mactuverteg pelriang wad a compromise, let the side-liners who have Tad dreaming of a compromise: let the }| mors.on the center and eastern por. | Te ones "+ P® | can vietory in wiping out the Bf: iii le! tor v ‘. : « se “ > § “a TS f “ + jo" ” e pnt, w a ounced by ica »risoners. | oe Med hes pa ~ oe ) |*' \cdplted Brome Corentenanny I ’ ae galas ; } Pacifists who are talking of }/ the German war office today “L sharply reJect every interven. | hel salient has greatly | depressed (Comer on 9 nanet Frege, Soemee | enough of the war, know that for the American |) ‘peace bs rement’; let the }! “in the Cotes Lorraine, near St.| tion from neutral capitalistic powers | GOrman Barlers 1 Cort Sema LONDON, Sept. 17.—There wil) be 3 ne) 7 ° 4 ) sideliners, who had enough of the | Hilaire (three miles east of Fresnes)| favoring the Russian bourgeoisie. I} the St per tin tor said toda: ; ———$4| no peace conference in the ordinary| Expeditionary Force there is no such word as _ |} war; the’ secretly inclined pro- }] and west of Jonville (three miles east | consider every attempt by neutrals| 1m the St. Quentin sector “i Austrian Offer historic sense of the term—much! 1 6ace with the Huns unbeaten.” ) Germans, who think this war {| of st. Hilaire) we conducted success. | to exceed the limit of lawful protec: | a news ote n socreaaa s¢| 1e88 the kind proposed in the Austro: pea eaten. \\ should end without a decision; let ful enterprises,” the statement said.| tion of thelr countrymen's interests | Ws Withheld from the tr eel *| Hungarian note ce . ’ f acs m one and all know once and pope attain oe P a J . SECRET conference. fg Sy vies lla a Oa Side-liners! After all, that’s what we at |} tor au that for the American ex ; Partial attacks iby the, enemy | oe eovolation’ uepert the coun’ ehry underground channels aids Ee vindling discussions. {that this ts substantially the allied >. ef be si . age } peditionary force there is no such }| *&4!" Ra ache Setecesns aca | it serolously affected the morale of edie ascneona attitude toward the Austrian commu- | home are. ut we can be side-liners who en- } a word as peace, with the Huns }] horthenst of Thiaucourt (eight miles FRENCH DEPUTY KILLED |‘"° ™ eles eae ee a de toward the Austrian coi . ° . ‘ ae a northeast of Thiaucourt (eight miles ae nication. The deails of the allies’) COUTage, or we can be side-liners who discour- j unbeaten. The man who talks of {| west and north of Pont-a-Mousson) | DURING RAID ON PARIS DOUGHBOYS CAPTURE | peace terms already have been form ~y (cat so esiehg were repulsed, Artillery fighting American Terms | siaiea. Most ot them have been stat) Ae. is s: traitor was limited to destructive fire SATA BS apt. Ato Betis cate | ———sp/ed. The most intricate and detailed What would the Stars and Stripes say of the The editorial compares the kal AAG ta Pouttaize olin les watith lereoatAt wae ation ducine the ‘eed GUNS FROM DIVISION pein Gaaieeass cabs questions, particularly with regard| , ! hei oars @ stripes say ) seris peace offensive to the action }/ o¢ Anizy-Le-Chateau) renewed enemy day night airplane raid over Paris,| LONDON, Sept. 17.—Getman Drie 1—The destruction of every arbi-|to Russia, the Balkans and Turkey) side-liners in Seattle who, asked to contribute a |} °"™ ce gid {| attacks failed in the afternoon, but | jt was anonunced today. | oners report that the Americans cap. . S the ale fighting, when. the: trary power anywhere that can sep. | “re now being studied in the allied 3 : m0 * | Sought ak Aiieiiled A marines i {|in the evening the enemy advanced | One Gotha plane was shot down | tured all the artillery of the German piely, secretly and. of its aingle| foreign offices, and their positions| Mere Money quota in war savings stamps, failed |} fevsht ana killed Americans until (| rf6 tines. ‘To the southward the en: | ourside of Paris and three aviators | 218t division, according to the dis 7 choice disturb the peace of the|thereon are in the process of formu-| do so? ae shout: \| omy was repulsed at Vailly (which | were killed | patch from the American front to world; or, if it cannot be presently lation. to do sor ; is spicdepiuaid \the French announced as captured ee : =e | destroyed, at least its reduction to Vhen the central forces yield to se. 2 rake [Sere yesterday). NEW YORK.—The American virtual impotence military and naval pressure, and Seattle, wake up: » . —- —___— “In the Champagne an enemy | eration of aber malssion, beaded: ty |Report rt Bulgarians lites cadtlernnt ot avery .qves'|@hOw:reas0n ‘to make ‘a genera! cor | The $2,000,000 war savings campaign thrust south of Ripont last night was| James Wilson, president of the Pat tion, whether of territory, of sov-| ference worth while, the allied and repulsed.” | ternmakers’ League of America, | Are Aiding German ereignty, of economic arrangement or political relationship, upon the basis of the free acceptance of that settlement by the people immediate ly concerned and not upon the basis | of the material interest or advantage American delegates will consider the Teutonic pleas. Wilson Speaks for Allies on Peace, | | ‘Exhaust Class 1 Men . MUST succeed. HUN SPY PLANS “ARE DISCOVERED “I Can’t Be Coming 6,000 Miles Every Few Years; Let’s Finish Job Soldiers in West AMSTERDAM, Sept. 17.—Accord- |ing to the Echo Belge, Bulgarian regiments have arrived back of the Western front to assist the Germans, of any other nation or people who S Northcliff Se cuieldieg Wee oaks tae: ” W 5, T may desire a different settlement foi Federal anthoriti here today de-| Rises ees comertemoon| poeta torment | for October 7 C Cn | been eeygr sg dion]! MIME A Says Wounded Californian}, ant 5000 Team or mastery. Consent of Governed 3—The consent of all nations to be | governed in their conduct toward each other by the same principles of hhonor and of respect for the com-| | | dent Wilson speaks for the al- | lies,” declared Lord Northcliffe, | writing in the Evening News to- | | day relative to the American re | ply to the Austrian peace pro- | posal. secret methods used by German spies Seattle draft boards began preparations Tuesday to call 290 Class 1 men into military service in answer to the government's first October call. |from the first registration list will | to communicate with submarines op-| |be in service after these first Octo-| wating off the Atlantic coast. | ber quotas h: been filled. Some ot | the 21-year-olds who registered Au | gust 24 will be included. This announcement was made fol lowing the arrest of Charles Fink DISPATCH FROM WEBB MILLER (By United Press Leased Wire, Direct to The Star) PARIS, Sept. 17. —“‘No! No! No!” American fighting men—who Destitute Allies WASHINGTON, Sept. aha “WANTED—Five thousand tons of clothing for destitute people in occu ; ig ot. coving ; Rela Matar oly dnitabsidn bare | oe ; | ' suid Bireties, two. allexed |e That is the reply of pied Belgium and France.” anon law of Avila, d society that ‘The only question here is how King county's two draft boards | Assort Cards and Louis Strauss, two alleged Ger: have fought and been wounded—to the Austrian proposal At the call of Herbert Hoover, the See the indivisues eiiieene of ail} the refuesl ahould be couched. A} will sepa 79 men, | Indications now point to the prob-| man agents, in a secluded point on |} 1 9 American Red Cross next Monday modern states in their relations with | small, timid minority fears a flat re. All will entrain for Camp Lew- |. ” Lehi ais si art: ‘ < te to talk things over. io aeaigh r : “ “ ability that Class 1 men from the| the beach about 80 miles from Jack will start combing the United States one another, to the end that all| jection will drive Austria back into| iy October 7. 6 men who reg- | sonville. | In certain American hospitals I talked with more }) (6, these garments. promises and covenants may be the arms of Germany, but the fact| ‘The Seattie men will be called 2 will be ineluded| Details regarding the secret sys-|f than a score of men who were wounded at St. Mihiel, the credly observed, es private plots or! is Austria has never left them, from respective boards in the follow: dobar’ call tem were not revealed by the author: |f Vesle and at Soissons. onspiracy hatched, no selfish in - : ratio: Board One, 2 ard Two. Petey, Snares . 4 " 5 Asuries wrought with apinlty ane erere No. 5 fae on gig “hs aly Local draft officials are still as-| ities. ‘ ; “T think it’s only another peace dodge,” said one j i) HI [ Mutual trust. established upon the Division No. to Board Five, 4; Board Si f gid ieee Drpfad estan wounded rancher from California. “We've got to finish e foundation 0 . "pre ) , i ‘ jand assigning seria BPs tO the. s we are 2 ; : ri tound ion of a mutual re Meet at Redding Pir te Boa : ight a iaien. | 60,000 September 12 registrants, |Service Men Given this job while we are at it. I live 6,000 miles from here. FACTORY FIRE " z, 5 5 ; Boa . joard e | : , The establishment of an organ-| Members of division No. 5, council aed whee. 41 Discount on Meals’ Now, I can’t be coming back here every 10 years or so. fzation of peace which shall make it | of patriotic service, will meet at Red King County Board One will sega /ESTIMATE 7 BILLION | Goral’s cals, 884 Wirat ave. bas lh Wee better finish it now. | NEWARK, N. J., Sept. 17.—Fif certain that the combined power of | ding’s hall, First ave. W and Roy | 4g men, Board Two will wend Dut | Picea Diath Shah a er “It looks like this to m aid a farmer from Ohio: || tecn persons were reported burned ities of right hd ’ Ried s Ls pre seitl be thoweeshe jopree saan FOR NEW ARMY PROGRAM «x, eancine that a discount of 10 per || “If a man stabbed you in the back, then after you'd finally |, to death in the destruction of the vast eo é e eeeee |S 7 Seer, 4 } Clean Up Class 1 NGTO jept. 17.—An es-| cent will be allowed on all purchases down in a corner, walloping him ood and plenty New Jersey button factory this aft- and justice the more secure by |a brief address, the balance of the | WASHINGTON, Sep : a ta uni |] got im g p Vell moon, ‘The bodies of niin girls Petording a definite tribunal and by | meeting being devoted to entertain-| These men -nake up the local con-| timate of $7,347,277,602.30 to carry| by Uncle Sam's men in uniform he would say, ‘Now, let's talk this over,’ and he wants to }| vere found on the ninth floor of the “We want the boys to be trea 38 men |out the new enlarged army program | WITH THE AMERICANS AT) Vetrenik, Dobropolje and Sokol, : s | The remainder of the village of consider peace, and can and will entertain no pro- THE METZ FRONT, Sept. 17—2/ three vitally important mountain po- | Gradisnitza has been taken and the posal for a conference upon a matter concerning p. m)—Gradual progress of sitions, which the Bulgars had been | important ridges of Sokol, Trnavska, 4 very international readjust: | ment. tribution to the call of 181 hile he talks, I'd kee ; ; Bees tat gf Se proloably ‘aaa Complete reports from all execu-| from all states of the Union, to be in| under the 18 to 45 draft law, was| right," the management announced, | keep the iene \ hile he talks, I’ p right on walloping | building. ‘Two died on arrival at a | cantonments before October 16, submitted to congress by the war de-| “and we feel that this is one practi- || and say no ing.’ | hospital, Many others were taken te upon by the peoples directly con: | tive members will include a 5 sae various hospitals, verped shall be sanrtianed, | statement of division No. 5. cal way to help out” Practically every Class 1 man left | partment today.