The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 21, 1918, Page 1

yey 7 yRSenae ag amas carat atten arene CENTS Per Copy FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT OF TH VOLUME 20. NO 176 THE GREATEST DAILY Entered as Second Class Matter May %, CIRCULATION OF « 1899, at the Pontoffice E UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS SEATTLE, WASH., The Seattle Sta ANY PAPER 1 at Seattle, IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST Warn, Act COMPLETE under the of Congress Maren 8, 1879. SERVICE OF THE WwW SATURDAY, SEFTEMBE R 21, 1918. NIGHT EDITION TWO CENTS PER COPY Por Year, by Mall, $5.00 to $9.00 SPAPER Weather Forec ast: NTERPRISE Tonight and r Sunday; ASSOCIATION Sunday, generally cloudy; gentle southwesterly winds FOUR The allies are striking simultaneously on four fronts—the greatest concerted effort since the be- , inning of the war. Every one of the enemy powers and éven the Russian Bolsheviki are being kept busy by this @emonstration of allied unity. The British, French and Americans still retain the initiative on the West front; Serbians, British, FRONTS ABLAZE | French, Italians and Greeks are on the offensive in | Macedonia; British and French are making great gains in Palestine, while British, Japanese, Ameri- cans, Czecho-Slovaks and anti-Bolshevik Russians are waging a successful warfare against the Bol- sheviki in various parts of Russia. Opposed to these allied forces are the Ger- mans and a few Austrians on the West front; Bul- | garians and Austrians in the Balkans; German-led | Turks in Palestine and German-led Bolsheviki in Russia. The British and French are still battling for possession of the Hindenburg line between Cam- brai and St. Quentin while the Americans, by artil- lery, aerial and patrol activity are keeping the Ger- mans in a cold sweat before Metz. In the Balkans the allied offensive front has been extended to 70 miles and threatens to embroil the whole line from the Aegean to the Adriatic, The new Anglo-French offensive in Palestine involves a fighting front of nearly 50 miles, m the Jordan river to the Mediterranean. The grea est gains have been made along the sea coast. New allied successes are reported in Ru particularly in the northern area, where the Bo sheviki have been defeated along the Dvina river and near the Finnish border. Star 2c Per Copy Starting Today In the face of mounting war costs, The Star has ntained its old price of 1c per copy, while other papers here and thruout the country have doubled, many of them trebled, their pre-war rates. As a result, The Star has been for many months the only paper of its size anywhere in the United States selling at lc per copy. It has been both a pride and a pleasure on the part of The Star management to maintain the old price, despite the many handicaps, but now, added to the pres- sure of war costs, has come the plain desire of the gov- ernment, as expressed thru the war industries board, that all 1c papers should increase their price to conserve news print paper. In France, Italy and England, the papers have raised their prices as the result of govern- ment orders. In the United States the lc paper is now @ rare commodity. The Star has struggled with the same problems that compelled other publishers to raise their rates more than a year ago, but present conditions—war costs and white paper shortage—make it imperative that The Star subscription price be raised to 2c. The new price be comes effective today on papers sold on the streets of ttle. The price by carrier delivery within the city will be 12 cents per week beginning Monday, September 30. ALLENBY’S VICTORY BY J. W. T. MASON , Kaiser's hard-pressed Mahometan United Press War Expert.) ally. EW YORK, Sept. The British success north of Allenby’s resumption of opera- | Joppa carries the Palestine cam-| tions in the Holy Land will play @ direct part on the operations in Europe, by restraining the Turks from sending heavy re- puts Gen. Allenby within 45 miles of the single railway supplying the Turks with munitions. inforcements to the relief of This line of communication is the the Bulgarians. main objective of the British army. At the same time, agitation | It crosses the Holy Land eastward against the Germans in Constan-| from Haifa, passes over the Jordan tinople will be encouraged by the river, borders the southern tip of impossibility of Hindenburg’s dis-| the Sea of Galilee, and then runs patching troops to the relief of the|northeast of Damascus via Aleppo, to Constantinople. T RKS ROUTED | To Cut Off Supplies Once the British succeed in cut- | ting the line, the Turks will be ser- fously handicapped in bringing up | supplies for the whole province of | Galilee on the west coast. Here- after Gen. Allenby's progress will) LONDON, Sept. 21.—Crashing thru the Turkish positions on a front of 16 miles, between Rafat and the » British forces under Gen. Allenby in probably become more rapid. a difficult mountainous country to the east of the plain of Sharon. Palestine have captured 3,000 prison-| The British are in a position ®> ers and pushed forward for a dis- hold the plain, and this fact make: | tance of 19 miles. They are now pur- | possible the employment of flank suing the Mohammedans, who are ing operations with dangerous re- | fleeing in disorder with their supply sults for the Turks base cut off and 24,000 isolated Once the enemy 1s forced into} Cavalry is playing a prominent /the mountains, his lines of com- Part in the fighting. One company munications ‘running southwest has driven an opening thru the Turk-| trom the Haifi-Jordan railway thru ish front and is advancing on the 4 o the plain of Sharon, will become p enemy in the direction of Nablus. |iost, ‘Thereafter the Turks who Another body is endeavoring to in-| sti cling to the hills, will sink to tercept the Turks who are fleeing toward Elafula and Beisan. British, Indians and Australians are included in the cavalry forces. The Tulkeram railway near the coast, has been by British troops. French troops participated in the main attack, which was launched be- | tween Rafat and the coast at 4:30 a. m, Wednesday. | at Labor Confab On Wednesday Allenby also at-| LONDON, Sept. 21.—Samuel Gom tacked El Mugeir, west of the Jor-| pers and his party of American labor dan. El Mugeir is the junction of|men will go to France next week, several roads and its capture would |and then probably to Italy. They are hinder the escape of the Turks east-| most satisfied with the inter-allied la the status of guerfl The possibilities, therefore, are ex- cellent for the accomplishment of a triumphant by Allenby. British Acclaim Sampel Gompers coup Gen junction, occupied ward. bor conference, which the newspa- P IIIS | POTS acclaim as a distinct personal triumph for Gompers, Jon essential points, while tactfully avoiding =nixing up in British labor s, politics, greatly impressed the dele 1 = More Homes ester cies ores is, if | sults was the final backdown of Ar- ip thur Henderson on his proposition | Hi Problem for conferring with enemy nabor : e ee : If you are a resident of ‘ y FIRST SKINNER-EDDY Seattle and do not own your own home, it is your patriotic duty to release that home or apartment you are now living , 8 celebration of the in to one of the 5, 5,000 NEW| Niels Nielson, the first y build. Get into your) sr Rodgers invites’ teas own home. Read today frionds to dinner urday night in Classified section for your an-\'"? P*7tuet room of plant No swer to the home problem. SHIP WAS LAUNCHED | ONE YEAR AGO TODAY| second anni vessel built ion Rev. John H. Williams, D. D., makes his initial appearance Sunday as pastor of the Pilgrim Congrega nnn | tional church. He succeeds Rev. TRIUMPHANT COUP paign into the plains of Sharon, and/| The Turks are being driven tnto| © | ing or refitting \ His firmness thruout in insisting of the launching of the 8. 8.| YANKS REPULSE TWO RAIDS! (By United Press Leased Wire, Direct to | WITH THE AMERICANS ON THE METZ FRONT, Sept. 21—(Noon.)—Two heavy German raids, almost large enough to be characterized as attacks were directed against ee right wing of the American line this morning. Both The Star) were repulsed. At 6:40 the Germans laid down a barrage along the Boise De Rappes, on the west bank of the Mo- selle on a front of three kilometers (nearly two miles). Their infantry started to advance but the attack broke down under the American fire. The next raid, coming in practically the same region, also was quickly stopped. Eight large fires were observed today in the rear of the Germans’ lines near Dot La-Chaussee (four miles north of Thiaucourt). Vilcey and Boies De Piesle were heavily shelled. Short Line : Is Help to Foe Forces x Dispatch From William || Philip Simms | | By United Press Leased Wire | | Direct to The Star | a ——— PARIS, Sept. —The most stubborn fighting seen in weeks is taking place in the regions of Cambrai, St. Quentin and Sois- sons, where the armies of (ens. Byng, Rawlinson, Debeny and Mangin are battering against the Germans, With a despération bordering on panic, Crown Prince Rupprecht, Gen. Von Boehm and the German crown prince are throwing troops into the tmelee, with orders to hold or die, re take or be killed. Field Marshal Hindenburg realized the menace to his far-flunk fortress, behind which lies the Hun frontier, |and is thus attacking. The allies are | meeting the attacking Prussians in |mid-field in some of the wildest. fiercest grappling of the war. Not Licked Yet One fact stands out in this fight ing—the boches are not yet licked. For weeks the general tone of war stories has been that the Huns haven't any more fight in them But if you want to make any reg ular fighting man mad, be he Ameri can, British or French, just intimate that his job is easy and that the war is over. He kno ermany will be | licked finally, but he readily admits that much hard fighting is certain | before the knockout | He insists that the :nany stories to the contrary are helping the boche. He points out that the Huns have shortened their line 70 miles by | their retre: as a result of which |only 114 German divisions are hold ing the line, as compared with the 140 needed before Foch’s counter of- fensive. Then the Germans had only |33 divisions in reserve and 33 rest if j | | have 13 in reserve and or refitting, and three is considered ample time to |refit. Unless something happens to prevent it, Hindenburg thus short- |ly will have 84 divisions in reserve |ready for operations. In the meantime, the allies are |now up against a line of the Huns’ own choosing, giving the latter a | big advantage. Unless the Germans are torn out of these posttions, they | will be able to hold them with |fewer troops still, thus increasing |the number of reserve divisions out of the line, re sting and training. ceasing warfare. With the United 1 |States expeditionary forces over- | approaching the — 2,000,000 seas it is fully possible for Foch STOCKHOLM, Sept. Subjects | mark, to strike at widely separated poimts of the allied countries and citizens of the United States, particularly the so as to keep the boche guessing latter, hi slaughtered in Now they 1 resting weeks " Dispatch “From Carl D.” Groat United Press Correspondent. WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.—Gen Foch has broadened the scope of his plan for keeping the Hun busy everywhere, war authorities pointed out today For some time method mainly But the past how that his exten until n the cast, and it may become jinclusive with an Italian drive. American man-power has a direct bearing on this relentless, never- this front developments been into more he operated the week's heme it reaches on west has Ww and his forces more than busy Situation Is Good rograd lers reaching here today declar | More than 1,750,000 American The mé was stated, fol-| troops have embarked for lowed a ¢ d meeting in| there," Chief of Staff March which resolutions were adopted urg-|nounced today. This 1s 1 ing war on the allies, arrest of all! more than his last announcer subjects and confiscation of their | carried property This fact, given at his weekly | ‘The resolutions demanded an! press conference, supplemented his alliance with Germany for the pur-| declaration that the news from all | pose of sending troops to the Mur-/fronts during the past week “has man coast where allied troops are|peen continuously and continually operating good.” arse eae eerste | He located the American forces in the St. Mihiel sector as now \Foe Paper Explains \aiibe from Metz, and a similar dis- Bolshevik Defeat) tance from Confians, an important ep and ri ‘oad point est of | AMSTERDAM, Sept. 21—The All ini ic and railroad point west of | |gemeine Zeitung of Essen charges | Me A es e The Lorraine line has been quick that the recent defeat of Bolshevik by r Be clach tsp aPretet troops on the Murman coast was |1¥ stabilized, he sald, and the week due to a mutiny of Lettish troops, |h@8 seen only patrol a who vahiend. tb Hale the atten jobservations and artillery firing _ . | there, 3,9. Ne 2,000,000 WASHING Sept Sena- | be are tor Smoot, of Utah, today was select-| While it required no shifting of ed by the senate republicans as chair.) men on the west line to stage te to ef- man of the senatorial republican | drive aginst the Bulgars or | campaign committee, succeeding the oo the successful smash against Turks in Palestine, American late Senator Gallinger, of Foch Add to Worry of Foe ON HIS HEELS Haig’s Men Kaiser and Start Push Spain Nea ThruStorm War Thre: ad @nited Press Leased Wire Direct to The Star * ToNDON, Sept. 21.—Germany has flatly rejected Spates BRITI posal for confiscation of Intermed ‘CE, Sept. 21. boy ships to replace torpedo IN in the | ed Spanish vessels, according te midst of a terrific storm, deliv. | the San Sebastian correspo % ered a smashing attack on a | of the Times. three-mile front east of Lempire The correspondent reported that Dispatch From Lowell Mellett U Inited Press Correspondent. ) ” H | WITH THE ARMIES IN F! = SATTCRFIELO — “Smash Everywhere” Tactics | That the artillery situation ts im-| Americans Broke Proved is evident from the known 5 roe American hammering at Metz with Germans’ Spirit, | nine-inen ana larger caliber guns. : Metz ix the American objective. Says Sen. Lewis) ,.:'\'. fall is distant, for it is a AN ATLANTIC PORT, Sept. || stronghold harder to’ crack than 21.—American fighters turned the || Verdun, before which Germany tide of war, broke Germany's |) hammered many bloody weeks. — | spirit’ and filled the kaiser's peo. The pincer operation, rather than| ple with “wonder and terror.” || direct assault, will be tried, as the Senator James Hamilton Lewis, | latter involves a large and useless of Illinois, declared upon his ar. waste of life. rival here from France. he American artillery is pound- | America’s fresh troops, he as] ing at the town at present serted, have humiliated the Ger Maleate Hke Geen’ tate by Geb. man army. The submarine is @]/ many to shift for herself. This complete failure in everything it | fact, coupled with striking advance | attempted, he said. against her this week, leaves her| Lewis brought words of the || situation more difficult, and causes| highest praise for the United || speculation as to whether she will States army and» navy from || Weather the storm | Lloyd George, Premier Clemen GNNCAL Gite KEP so all tea! ceau and other allied leaders. | Gon Atienby i keeping ‘the Otter Lloyd George told him the influ: || man force busy in Palestine ence of President Wilson upon the |) "Th dGentally, the. Balen caintater spirit of the British was equiv: |) panarctoft. is aie bach ra ie ie ane by oN abel, as 5 on | next week, and whether he will at- which Lowis was traveling was | tMPt a new separate peace cam- torpedoed and had to put back to || >a/8n 1s a subject being Alecussed. a French port. He praised the ynduct of the navy men during vd after the attack, Czechs Forming at Irkutsk for Drive reserve | man-power has created the HARBIN, Manchuria, Sept. 21 balance which has made it possible | weecho-Slovak troops from eastern for Foch to keep the central powers on the jump at all times and places, {994 central Siberia are concentrat- The American army is destined |!& at Irkutsk | to be greater than the force the When they are fully armed and boches can muster on the west|eauipped, they will proceed acro: front the Ural untains to the assist- Some estimates of — German|ance of the forces who are resist- strength on the western line today |!"& the Teutons and scattered Bo run ds low as 2,000,000. It is prob-|Shevik forces in ropean Russia, ably somewhat greater than that, | 226 eae ee but not y materially, | With the United States force | | British Monitor together with de and with the growing steadily, velopment of material, Is Sunk; 20 Die boches constantly getting weaker, and 57 Missing) n. March's prediction of a mil-| ToNDON, Sept. 21.—A_ British | tary victory next year gains added) monitor was sunk in a harbor Mon- weight. day as the result of an internal ex- Metz Is Hard Nut The development of material ts going forward amazingly well. plosion, the admiralty to. ay. ‘Twenty persons were killed d 57 are missing. ridge and Epehy this morning, where the German ambassador, in “We the Germans still hold the out- course of conversation, said: post defenses before the Hinden- | will never consent to allow our burg line. | to be taken. After ali, if:the worst” Spurs leading from the outpost) happens. and another country and thence about Le Petit | against us, Priel farm and Le Catelet copse | ence.” made the going hard, but between; A Rome newspaper today 300 and 400 prisoners are already re-|an interview with Don Gabriel ported to have been taken. Palmet, King Alfonso's chaplain, in which he is quoted as saying: “The Spanish cabinet has fully de LONDON, Sept. 21.—Fighting was |renewed this morning east of | eee, on a course of action, in Moats i st,| Which they will insist on her rights, imei’ lph eg 38 ah ove Spain desires to remain neutral, but Quentin, Field Marshal Haig re-| ig afraid of no country. ported f= Buin Fresh German attacks north of Moeuvres (seven miles directly west United Press Summary of War Events | of Cambrai) were repulsed yester- | day afternoon. In the neighborhood | of Gauche wood, further to the south, German infantry succeeded in slightly pressing the British back | from one ivanced post. | North of the wood the enemy made repeated attacks, but was re-| BALKAN FRONT.—The allies pulsed, after fighting which lasted | made an additional oy nce 02 near+ all night ly 10 miles in Maced@hia yesterday, 43 British troops advanced their lines | “@Pturing 10 villages and advancing slightly northwest of Bellinglise (be-| bout half way from the Serbian tween St. Quentin and Le Catlet), border of the junction of the Cerna Progress also was made west of | 4nd Vardar rivers. Messines and southeast of Ypres. | PICARDY FRONT—British and “Yesterday afternoon fresh at-| French continue to hammer at the tacks against our positions north of | Hindenburg defense between Cam- Moeuvres were repulsed. In the|brai and St. Quentin. The Germans evening the enemy heavily bom-| were severely repulsed in a series barded our positions in the neigh-| of attacks northwest of the import: borhood of Gauche wood, Under | ant town of Le Catelet, which con cover of this bombardment they suc- | tinued all night. | ceeded in pressing back slightly one| Fighting was renewed just south of our advanced posts,” said the | of this region today. The French communique. | have made further progress south “North of the wood thruout the | of St. Quentin, where they are grad- ually pushing past the city. FLANDERS FRONT.—British troops improved their positions last night west of Messines and south- east of Ypres. AISNE-OISE FRONT—Normal ar- tillery activity occurred last night. METZ FRONT.—The Americans repulsed two heav German raids northwest of Thiaucourt yesterday. night German infantry made repeat ed determined attempts with flam- menwerfers and bombs to drive in our positions on this locality, All at. tacks were repulsed after hard fight- in, 5 “During the night our line was ad- vanced slightly northwest of Belling Use. This morning fighting re- commenced east of Eipehy. “We improved our positions slight- ly last night west of Mesin: ‘ap-| NORTHERN RUSSIAN FRONT.— turing a German stronghold, with! Allied naval forces sank two more several prisoners. Some progress| Bolshevik boats on the Dvina FRENCH TROOPS MAKE PROGRESS PARIS, Sept, 21.—French captured Benay (five miles oun of St. Quentin) last night and repulsed: @ counter-attack at Castres (two miles southwest of St. Quentin), the war office announced today. “Our progress east of Essigny-le- Grand has been accentuated and prisoners haye been taken,” the me was also »o_made putheast of Ypres. 10 TOWNS FALL IN MACEDONIA LONDON ept lin their Macedonian offensive vanced nearly 10 miles yesterday, oc cupying 10 villages, according to the erbian war office report “The day's (Friday) advance was over 15 kilometers, liverating over 10 villages,” the statement said. “Our | ~Allied troops ad- infantry has passed the line of | port said. | Krnievo, Stagovo, Drabojel and “Artillery activity has been matm- Polochko, Our cavalry is operating | tained im the region of St. Quentin | north of these places.” and north of the Aisne. ‘The day “In the Cerna bend (northeast of | was calmer on the rest of the front.” Monastir) we captured the village of + ee Godyab. Our aviators continue to bomb and machine-gun the enemy Cologne Suffering From Lack of Food THE HAGUE, Sept. 21.—Resolu- tions setting forth that the popula- he population is welcoming our|tioq of Cologne is suffering from jarrival. Serbians drafted into the| tack of food and asking that produc- Bulgarian army are throwing away | tion be increased and means of dis- their arms and de: erting tow u |tribation made better were recently | ere adopted by the Cologne city couneil, dispatehes from that city received to- |Archbishop Still | aay’ state, in Grave Condition) srrrisn casvauries 22,762 ST. PAUL, Sept. 21.—Archbishop| LONDON, Sept. 21,—British eas. | John Ireland's condition is somewhat | ualties published in official lists dur- improved, but still grave today, ac- ing the week totaled 22,762 killed, cording to his physician, wounded and missing, Many prisoners have been taken, in eluding a lieutenant colonel. 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