The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 2, 1918, Page 12

GEN, PERSHING STARTING HUGE “NUT-CRACKER" BY A. B. GELDHOF (War Editor of the Newspaper Enterprise Ass'n) WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct @en. Pershing’s second big advance West of Verdun bears all the ear marks of being the beginning of the reat pincer movement which to catch Mets between its jaws and Bnap it off from Germany Mets might be captured by a& frontal attack, but only at the cost of heavy American cas: @Nn expensive outlay in ammunition, It {x simp! and easier to attack the great r fortress from its flanks and en circle it That the allied high command has decided on this method of at tack {ts plainly indicated by the direction of the sudden plunge thru the Hindenburg line west of the Meuse, as well as by the rece wiping out of the St. Mihiel salient. | Drive Near in Lorraine This movement has only begun Whe chances are that it will be continued for several days te AMERICAN ARMY PLANS TO CIRCLE METZ AMERICAN PINCERS ARE SET FOR METZ The allied offensive again has assumed the form of a pincer drive, with Mets as its objective. round dots shows the Franco American a THE SEATTLE STAR The line of ance. The next allied blow will be delivered from Nancy. ! ‘ STORE HOURS—9 A. M. TO 5 P. M. THE BON MARCH RGAIN BASEMENT i= Is It a Question of Economy With You? Then Try Shopping in the Basement —You will be surprised at the values —You will also find prices are always Lower Practical Wool Dresses Of Wool Serge and Panama Cloth for Street and Shopping Wear $11.95 and $14.95 At both prices there is a good variety of styles to choose from; all well tailored of nice quality wool serge and Panama cloth, trimmed with embroidery, braid and buttons; white satin collar and cuffs. Some New Satin Dresses | Are Splendid Value—the Style Altogether New and Smart—Priced Women’s Coats $10.00 Some good, practical every- day at this price for women or for bigger girls for Coats school wear. Made of heavy coating, with large plush col- lars. A Splendid Line of Women’s Coats at $16.50 Good looking Tailored Coats fender the German line about Ver @un as unstable as possible When Foch and Pershing decide that they have battered the line between Verdun and the Suippe river hard enough, they will in-| Augurate the second phase of the) pincer or “nut cracker” strategy. | This will constitute an attack | Bomewhere along the border of) German Lorraine, southeast of | Metz—most probably, along the for enough intelligence to figure out the allied strategy immediately, and | to begin preparations to combat it.) The French and American line} along this front is only five to 10 miles from the German border, and even a small advance would) carry the American flag into Ger | E Force Great Retreat | Linked up with the current ad Wance west of Verdun, it would Germans to evacuate the they have established be- over a front of 50 miles More and swing the American to the west and southeast of forts of Metz. Thus encom ind under American shell a the fortress could not hold iy the Germans are awake to) their peril on this front is shown the report that the civilian pop of Meta has been ordered | advance of our first field | the western bank of already has recovered a | score of towns and villages that held by the Germans coming advance Germany will be a spectacular victory, but its significance will be confined to the Metz operation. There is plenty of good fighting weather left before snow flies to make an operation of this magni tude successful this fall, altho it ‘was not expected Foch would launch It until the spring. U, $. SOLDIERS — FIGHT HARD IN ARGONNE WOOD e e ' Continued From Page On tall the Germans are preparing to with draw from their advanced positions Opposite the Americans. Coupled ‘with the French advances on our left this will bring the pinching out of the famous forest that much nearer American patrols have already pene trated Montrebeau wood. | Continuous counterattacks in the region of Apremont resulted in cer tain territory changing hands four or five times. At the end of the whirl ‘wind fighting, the Americans had| ‘won a slight advantage The boche, it is established, suf fered heavy losses, prisoners saying | that some companies lost fully 30 per cent of the effectives | Heavy counter-attacks north of | Nantillos also were repulsed. The Germans continue to reinforce their lines. Troops ordinarily used for Yoad building are among the prison ors, as well as some from crack di ‘visions. Use Wire Bridges | Wire bridges upon which American soldiers walked over the deepest net work of barbed wire in the Argonne forest are among the unique features of the recent fighting In some places the boche wires ‘were interwoven in the underbrush | to the depth of a hundred yards. ‘They were practically impassab n¢ held up our advance more than the enemy resistance until Col of the engineers, alrea the author of several Sherrill, famous as rmy textbooks on engineering, devised a scheme to overcome therm Rolls of chicken wire were rein forced with iron bare and strips of steel. These were thrown over the entanglements The Americans walked across the chicken wire easily and rapidly, The colonel told me he knew the bridges were good because he had walked on ther himeelf The taking of Montfaucon deprived the boche of a position dominating everything from wouth of the old line to north of Vonzieres So long as the Americans threaten a further advance the Germanu’ ulti mate retirement on the Vonzleres lines is inevitable. The Kriembhild« Stellung line is understood to be only partly captured. If it is broken the Americans are likely to pour thru to some distance, necessitating the em ployment of additional ments to prevent them ing thru entirely The Americans taptured a valloons, I tured 75 € side hel; American aviators are dropping food and cigarets on the front lines when the troops are without rations, | reinforce from break at Bols de Mont| Hoon shed and three ur Pennsylvanians cap rmans without any out U.S, CONSULS IN C. AMERICA IN PRO-HUN MESS BY L. C. MARTIN (United Press Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.—Charges involving the loyalty of an American | minister and several consular officers aceredited to a Central American re public were referred to the state de- partment today thru the senate for eign relations committee The charges, if true, so connect the American diplomats with German in terests as to make probable the filing of the gravest accusations in the fed- : | eral courts against at least two men. Disclosures of the ramifications of German propaganda operating chief. ly thru a business house of tremend ous influence and power may also cause a Central American eruption which will oust German influence for good, Accusations against the American diplomats may, of course, be wholly | unfounded. They were made to mem bers of the foreign relations commit tee from four independent and wholly trustworthy sources, one of which anne 1 New wood vex was the secret service of an inde a nearly ready for mmineion pendent government department: an. Masters and ships are: Capt. BE. F other a branch of the military service Kenny, 8. 8. Chima, Capt. Elleworth Fy ’ and the others quite as responsible. | Twenty gations of —moonshine| West. of Boston, master #8 romp. || Little Tots Accepted 1 | whisky and seven SO-gallon barrels | ton: Capt. Peter M. Kafford, master According to these charges, the | 0f mash, together with complete ap | 8. 8. Holbrook | paratus, constituting an fllicit din accused officials have Accorded a German banking house | fullest access to American records and papers in war time. | Sold lal government in-/ formation to the German banker propagandists. Aceepted “loans” from the bank. personal accounts, in return for com- mercial information wanted by the Germans. In addition, the Germans are said | Ackerman attempted to excape. The declared will prevent Spaniah influ enra to have seriously compromised one of the officials in a way reflecting on his morality, so that his further use fulness in the country is ended. The German banking house men. | tioned is known all over America. Thru correspondents and branches {t reaches into every coun try there. It is under suspicion as the head and center of the German spy propaganda system on the Amer ican continnet The charges probably will be dis cussed by the foreign relations com mittee at & meeting this week "Commands Yank 7 Force Over There aS ” GEN. A. W. BREWSTER | Gen. Brewster ia one of the Ameri: | can commanders in France. MICHAELIS FORESEES TERRIBLE DISTRESS (Special to The Star by N. B.A) LONDON, Oct In a brochure just published, Herr Mict . for mer Germnan chancellor, s a With out doub great dis after we shall come to tress the conclusion of peace Our entire economic life af fected. After the war dearth in r ly everything will prevail for a long time, and even if Germany receives indemnities distress will be terrible.” “SUNBLIND SKIRTS” NOW THE VOGUE economic ‘s. | to The Star by N. B.A.) AMSTERDAM, Oct Neceasity 4 the mother of invention even holds sway in Germany. The acute seareity of clothing material is fore ing many women to dye yellow sun blinds blue and convert them into skirts and coats CLOWN PRINCESS IN A BATHING SCANDAL (Special to The Star by N. EB. A.) LONDON, Oct, 2.—Th jerman crown princess i# not “appearing nowadays—not since she was hustled home from Zoppet, the fashionable Prussian bathing resort, because of | scandalous scenes on the beach, Central |man acquiesced, }Here’s Probable Number of Allies in Great Battles } Probable number of allied { troops engaged on active fronts: ( Picardy (British, Ameri § cans and French) 350,000 } Flanders (British and ) Belgian) ++ 100,000 } Champagne Argonne (American Freneh) 500.000 Olse-Ainne (French) 150,000 { { Total Western front 1,100,000 ; kans (Serbs, Hritiah, { rench, jreeks, Ital { fans and Czecho Slo { vaks) .. es 250,000 } Palestine—(Pritish) 100,000 ’ Siberia Wapanese { Americans and Brit { PRR 50,000 { neel (hritish ‘ h and Ameri \ p vane coovesse 25,000 Grand total ... ... 000 | } MOONSHINER IS tillery, have been seized by deputy | sheriffs, under Sheriff John Strin ger ag evidence against John Acker man, Auburn farmer, arrested Tues | day afternoon, and held in the! county jail on three charges. Sheriff Stringer and two deputies lers in the form of “overdrafts” on 4frested Ackerman on complaint of | States neighbors, who said he uttered un ain when patriotic remarks, Stringer covered the still by accident sheriff and deputies had called at the farm, five miles east of Auburn, on the Black Diamond road, dis covered Ackerman et home, and told him why he was wanted. Acker but requested to be allowed to feed his hogs. Out in his yard, Ackerman Sheriff Stringer says, leaped over a © and fled. T sheriff and uties pursued, opening fire with their revolvers, and after a chase of over a mile, captured Ackerman returned to the farm, and searched the premises. In the middle of a serien of chicken the still was discovered, in Unite to Protest Bread Price Order Grocery men and bakers have unit ed to protest against curtailment of their profits on bread, which, they way, will result from the food admin istration establishing 10 cents aa the ration. limit for a pound loaf, and 15 cents for a pound and a half loaf. They have been getting 4 16 cents, 'Gunmen Answer Cop With Bullets Interrogating two men standing at the corner of 12th ave. and Mercer st., late Tuesday night, Police Officer F. L. Elora received a rude shock when one of the men whipped out a revolver and sent a bullet whizzing officer opened to fight past his nose. The fire and put the U. S. MONEY MAY AID KING “TINO” (Special to The Star by N. EB. A) BERNE, Oct. 2.—Prince Christo: pher, brother of the expatriated ex King Constantine of Greece, is soon to marry a rich American woman now in Switzerland, according to re ports here Ex-King “Tino” Is said to be at the end of his resources, and ix counting on this marriage to furnish the gold en hand for a campaign for the rew toration of his throne Tino” himself married the kaiser's sister, and his in | brother-in law may be looked to for help in re gaining his job. | The German government already it is said, has sounded Finnish opin ion concerning the possibility of Con stantine for the throne of Finland STAMP COLLECTORS DEFY PARIS BOMBS (Special to The Stor by N. 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