The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 11, 1918, Page 1

BY THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF ARMY, NAVY, CIVILIAN DOCTORS 1— pian! gee a other — gh yp sor aga Especially avoid crowds indoors, in street 7—Avoid visiting the sick. theatres, motion picture houses, and other places of public assemblage. . ishi you C i F 2—Avoid persons suffering from “colds,” sore throats and chia. &—Eat plain, nourishing food and avoid alcoholic stimulants. 3—Avoid chilling of the body or living in rooms of temperature below 65 degrees or above 72 9—Cover your nose with your handkerchief when you sneeze, your mouth when you cough. Change hand- 4—Sleep and work in clean fresh air. kerchiefs frequently. Promptly disinfect soiled handkerchiefs by boiling or washing with soap and water. 5—Keep your hands clean and keep them out of your mouth. 10—Don’t worry, and keep your feet warm. Wet feet demand prompt attention. Wet clothes are danger- 6—Avoid expectorating in public places and see that others do likewise. -IF IT HELPS WIN THE WAR, THE STAR IS FOR !IT— j-==—= The Seattle Star “2 TOMORROW! THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST ee Entered as Second Class Matter May 2, at the Postoffice at Geattio, We oh, under the Act of Congress Mareh 6, 1878, October 12 is a redletter day in American history, It is the day Columbus discovered FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT OF THE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS COMPLETE SERVICE OF THE NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION VOLUME 20. NO, 193 SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1918. Weather Forecast: jhoacrate™ southerly windn, ous and must be removed as soon as possible. ignated by President Wilson as Liberty Day the day on which you are called upon to ac count to your conscience in Liberty Bonds. America. Thruout the nation, it has been des * * * * * * * * * e+ * * * * * S& * IBRITISH ARE NEARING VALENCIENNES a LL Bell ‘i yu ] FOCH BLOWS 1,000 ALLIED TEVTONS TOST. COBAIN ——_ HMAY DIVIDE PLANES OVER BACK UP ON FORTRESS FOE ARMIES ENEMY LINE PEACE TALK 1S DOOMED ters Report Declares Kaiser! Hundreds of Thousands of Wants to Make Own | Enemy in Danger of Terms to Allies \ Being Trapped SOVEREIGNS TO MEET AUSTRIANS IN FLIGHT | Huns Destroy Trees, Houses, Towns; Try to Make France a Desert BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS (United Press Staff Correspondent) PARIS, Oct. 11.—The Huns are attempting a titanic blackmail against France. Officers recently taken prisoner declare it is the Germans’ intention to raze northern France as completely as they did the section over which they retreated from the Somme. President Wilson— ‘The following appeal was made by President Wil fon last night: “Recent events have enhanced, not lessened, the importance of this loan, and I hope that my fellow countrymen i let me say this to them very frankly ‘The beat thing that could happen would be that the Joan should not only be fully subscribed, but very greatly oversubscribed. We are in the mist of the exercise of the power of this country that has Hi Drive Aims to Separate|German Centers Smashed! Huns in Champagne From | _ in Greatest Air Raid Picardy and Flanders of History 'ST. GOBAIN IS GOING FLEET BLACKENS SKY. Jes Be wer 77 f Beey intimate that Gen. Ludendort make the muted Frese eased Wie’! ‘The greatest defensi "J. W. T. tong Ss. F * | coumtry such ‘a complete desert nat the advancing a, wa. in hg erecting ! . W. T. we beg i ’ LONDON) Dot. 11.~—Germany’s.re- alll yp Sate Pre wer moet Post rne ter" | | ene tate the Bape te rene Pe wy ee ying Pee rn foe toppa; y means of saving hi rems today, “authori 2 tar celtics et Vewiengie France and Belgium “trom tourcen iii be as toler |. Along the whole 200-mile sacking, burning and dynamiting. “Germany will evacuate Bel. (front from Lens to Verdun - providin; the Germans are giving wa‘ she tot MOTHER HUN MISTAKE fears negutaions sorta neo in the world’s biggest battle, e slow mines. now wrecking Cambrai have sent With the a wave of rage thruout the country. The Germans have bree For re day apm | rout Detween ane ana we. Guaatia, made another blunder ‘in the psychology of people. ance that German territery, in. | ling back before the merciless Had the French or their allies ever entertained the cluding Alsace-Lorraine and Pol. {"*™M™ering of the French and slightest idea of hol out to Germany any peace Prussh 4 ded. | AMericans in the Cham a st be will not be: Argonne regions, and withdrawing proposition, not the slightest vestige of such an idea remains. “During the peace negotiations between Rhei a Lao German troops are to remain i | Foch hae mudden feclly atresia ie ey The Temps asks what will be the fate of Lille and ws [ing trom Cambral to Verdun Valenciennes. It says the public is beginning to won- §| AMSTERDAM, Oct. 11.—The kal! raUNCH NEW ASSAULT der why it is necessary that retaliatory chastisement of 9) **" "4* semmoned to Berlin three | AGAINST GREAT FORT the enemy shall be withheld. Hecke tae cities ahenon, eyes shes , “We have to thank God for the fact that the re cere anaes Mendinat git ain cotu arone Te necessary weapons are in our hands to make the Ger- mans feel our anger,” the newspaper says. “Let them be employed at the earliest possible moment.” NEW YORK, Oct. 11.—Ameri- bs WITH THE AMERICAN can units in the Pieardy offen = ARMY NEAR VERDUN, Oct. 1 ive have begun a new movement —St. Juvin (three miles east of toward the fortress of Hirzen on | Grand Pre), is = mans the western fringe of the Arden. | ts various depots and raliway nes manaif, for the purpose of | establixhments smashed ‘and | | i separating the German arnies in burning. Chievers (between St. the Champagne from Von Hin- ee a . Peenae end Plante, ee | Center tn the German is | ‘The Americans are now 25 miles, burned or sinashed as & result | rectly went of Hirten. ‘Their posi-| of the biggest aerial affack in |tion between Wassigny and Bohain q (6 iw astride the main German railway! More than 450 planes participated. leading to Hirzen from the west. Hir.| Under the direction of the rican | | American, Fenech and | zen is an important supply center. It | Firet army 9 | 9 | was along the Hirgen line that Von | British bombing planes dnopped 32) @@ (Hindenburg kept his stores moving | tons of high explosives, Phe entire i into western France by the Luxem- | fleet, Including convoys, swinging | burg route, which Gen. Pershing is | over the lines, blackened the sky. In| j | now attempting to close north of the addition, other machines engaged in j Argonne. their regular missions | | | Is Junction Point | More than a thousand allied air-| tomorrow. before dispatching Ger-| that in this new assault, directed at many’s reply to America’s note, ac- the heart of the great St. Gobain cording to a Cologne dispatch today.| massif, the village of Servais has [been captured. This brings the Ten deaths within the last Double Fourth Liberty bond Hirzen in the junction point where | P!anes were operating over the front Unofficial reports state that the | French to within less than two 2% hours due to pneumonia and quotas! Luxemburg line, after skirting the) pane poy 200 gg pas yep i ash riaCirOnd nae |German reply already has been trash] Met of the Silage of rs a re Spenish influenza have been re ‘This was the taken up by = southern front of the Ardennes mas 6:78 “ag /AS NGTON, t. .—Germ: iers ed at a conference of Chancellor gree parted to the city health depart- | employes of 45 Seattle firme Fri sif, meeta the line running along the |% Mezieres and Sedan (49 milex be | samara are engaged {0 Kalbe Ammar a aoe end Maximilian, Vice Chancellor Payer | fit of the St. Gobain ‘massif, recog: ment from among Seattle's civil day, who immediately set a pace northern side of the Ardennes from | Yond the lines). Damvillers (north of "| pe! frightfulness and §) ana the German ministera and mili- peter e greatest natural defense _ pepalation, while 102 new cases for the whole city in an effort to | Liege and the Meuse. If the Ger.) Verdun) was set on fire | destruction, as they see defeat staring them in the. ff) tary representatives. pe a oe tae t.-would precipitate _ @f influenza have been reported speed up subscriptions to a gait | mans can be forced back quickly Twelve German planes attacked|B face, | a a a te [Wop rened which would utterly split within the same period. This that will insure success for the | upon Hirzen from the west, the |the allied squadrons near Damviliers, | This was evidenced today ‘by accounts of the is re ian armice and probably brings the total of cases re drive here. whole of Von Hindenburg’s troops in| Téeut. Phelan's machine caught e | row hundreds of\ thousands of the * ; fire and plunged 4.000 feet. brutal murder of men from the United States enemy into a trap from which there ported to 1,441, ‘These workers are now in the | the Champagne from the St. Gobain | - - cargo fi} Soctad he ue aaa i _ ‘It in estimated, however, that) “300 per cent class.” forest to the Argonne will be blocked | He righted it just before it struck carrier Ticonderoga. / pe. “possibly between 100 and 200 of! ‘The list follows: from escaping by way of Liege food einer Mapai « eget The counter part of* this» inhuman «slaughter is Beat PATROLS ENTER these have recovered in the in-| American Oyster House, Arctic! They will have to crowd into the) Wasa tentneh eae se atzeal found in the wantonness with “which the retreating | GRAND PRE BASE terval. “But 72 new cases of in-| Chub employes, American Surety Co.,/mountainous and almost roadless a across No Man‘s ‘Land | G ki Nh acd 2 | } TBI ionthcla “heibe.ol n ‘n Cater Ardennes, or else try to retire via|!nto the American lines, | Germans are wrecking their’ way out’ of’ France and §j} tered Grand fluenza were reported up to noon | pattersby & Smith, Bird's Cafeteria, | - eomisnmed tao: SS hf r f, - Pre, the important int the Feeieet ‘Friday. Butch’s Place, Boldt’s, Burke build. Laxemburg, If, at the same time, i \ Belgium. Nothing is spared. Dispatch From northwest of Verdun. The Germans “Friday sees Spanish influenza | ing, Balfour Guthrie & Co. Gus Ho Gen. Pershing bars the way thru | Hindenburg is believed to. be bent«on creating a i] | dre reported to be evacuating the With 2 firm grip on Seattle.” eaid | yan’s Cafe, Canadian Pac. Ry. | Luxemburg, only the Ardennes route | desert in so far as he can just as he made a desert Lowell Mellett Chemin des Dames defenses, Health Commissioner McBride. “The freight depot, Dairy Machinery Co.,| will be left. A success to the allies J g 5 } farth vest lier in th ris aes | By United Press Leased Wire \| ‘The greatest air raid in history was fact that there is a decrease in’the | viremen's Fund, J. A. Folger & Co.,-#uch as this would be one of the | a er wes eariier in e war, ij Direct to The ‘Star | carried out yesterday. Four hundred Rumber of cases reported is nO Fisher Flour Mills, Grand Union major victories of the war ' | Fruit trees, houses, whole towns—everything §}! ® ——+ | and fifty French, Italian and Ameri cause for confidence. It is probable nan, Would Lose Army 5 jg to which the Germans can apply dynamite or fire be- WITH THE BRITISH |can planes participated. With the the next few days may see Supplies could he sent to the Ger fore the allies overtake them—are being destroyed be- ARMIES IN FRANCE, Oct. 11. || machines engaged in regular pur- —British, French and American | suits, more than 1,000 allied planes fore the eastbound hordes. troops, pressing on after. the re- | were in the air at one time ~ Military authorities are at a loss to understand treating enemy between the In the Balkans, French and Ser- ‘that { ( more deaths than before. |} Wealthy Men }/mans in the Champagne only with | ‘All of Beattle’s citizens are not} ¢ 99 ) the utmost difficulty thru the Arden | | erevenee. er Ge many vem to); “Coming Thru” } nes and a catastrophe might fall | / vl ; t | {upon Hindenburg that would practi! WASHINGTON, Oct. 11— | Such insane actions and attribute them to the complete Gouches and . the Clee, are. | blan.tepopa.are. progressing Gori: | Lagging business men who )) ny wipe out his Champagne army | spreading out fanwise and en- | ward toward Nish and westward to- reached | r 2 caution be taken by every individual |} failed to take their quota of }/ irae it could penetrate the Arden-| Ameren has now co Paemc breakdown of reason under the ravages of unexpected larging the gigantic wedge they | ward the Austrians who are retreat- in behalf of the general public|) Fourth Liberty Loan bonds are {) "On its return home / 000,000 inen in troop shipments defeats. are driving into the heart of the | ing before the Italians in Albania health.” * } now “coming across” as the re: |) "™2,) guard against title possible sev-| pe » rn . Gen. March an- German armies. U. S. Chief of Staff March an- hy val|) sult of the publication of the } ce 1 orces, Hindenburg has | ; } {4 cap! of Bi nounced today that 1,900,000 A: ® oa sige linger names of two wealthy bond }/¢rine K beri agth the Bt. Gebain| ‘ae an be men are | There is one answer to the dispatches above— bacon Fallen 8 te Fr} ey pe can soldiers are how in Europe, - to be in-|{ slackers Thursday, according 9 }) mansif, 45 miles southwest of Hir-| shighaants ae cee sald, and Buy Liberty Bonds. west of Valenciennes. British troops | Gen. Sir Frederick Maurice, of Lon- ogra ering to the refusal of ov Chairman C. 8. Wills {| Jon 1 French opera.|_ 7° assure victory, the War depart are also reported in Beaumont, four $n, tee oe eee eve a formation Sseunerving ‘hen Fone| Wills charged, however, that Ring orth of the Bt Cobain post.| ment changed the draft ages so that emeiieny ts (Gerc'Le Catsau nae pereon ik second battle of the Marne. . men. were te. i wd |) men of the industrial classes and {| jon® nO St. Gobain Pork | 2,000,000 men might reach France ax | yond it, et 3 me reported to have di on of the intostrial classes and || iJon, however, are now making this| Soo," a) Hossible, and asked siore| - | The roads running northeastward juraday. ert ce uctng baok thet ode, } {ee valueless. oP ached tor wuppiios onl thdukiek: |and southeastward from that place| PARIS, Oct. 10.—(Delayed)—Prog- ‘Three sailors at the navy yard at || were still holding ba : tirement from the St. Gobain forest jare congested with enemy traffic.|ress on four fronts was reported Bremerton died Friday from influ- criptions in numerous cases. (\by the Germans may, therefore, enza. “These men must be brought to (| «i Wills said. rete s | Low-flying allied airplanes are exact-|py the F yar offic j expected LONDON, Oct. 11—(By Wireless ? by the French war office tonight. \ shortly be: pec ted. ; Piess)-Writing in ‘the’ Boadon | ing @ terrible toll from the confused | French troops advanced their lines Daily News, Gen. Sir Frederick Mau- | oe east of St. Quentin, in "the St. Friday being treated und: : 4 ler the Per nnnnnnnnrrrnnrnnnrnnnrnn | | The Americans, pushing on after f , th of S gonal supervisi “ rice declared that since the second i a a oa “ | « re " "|Gobain region, south of Laon, and bor, en re rd city Health || sundry, Jas. Griffith & Sons, Godd- hattlo of the Marne, the Cermana |. 1® furious attacks on allied ships, | commander of the U-boat, | the capture of Busigny, have encoun: | in the Argonne. ‘ “8. McBride, at the | year Tire & Rubber Co., General have lost. 200,000 in’ prisoners and | “erman submarines have committes The Ticonderoga’s gun crew went | red stiff resistance in the big Do |" Hegnite resistance from German ; ) Sixty-nine cases of influenza are |) realize their duty,” ) ¢ (Continued on page 4) Electric Co., Goldwyn Distributing have suffered casualtien totaling | *MOCkIN& murders, sending 951 per | to their stations, but both guns were Ia ana Wena pert Detween BO-| rear guards, the French advanced Sy Hopper-Kelly Co., P. B. Harris 1,000,000 men. sons down, according to reports of| shot away. The crew then tried to | hain and Wassigny. : nearly four’ tailed aaah? off ae & Co., Hydraulic Appliance & Equip “Ag they have been unable to make | thé, tragedies. Women and ore take tO the boats, but the U-bdat’s| To the southward, the French are Quentin, occupying a number of scdde Oe, Geuacn’s Cate, Jones’ Tire : geod tthe. Woes,” he cres, "they | Met NO mercy at the hands of the | cannon were turned on the life bouts | battling along the Sambre-Oise canal | Vintages, Co., Metropolitan Lumbermen's Club, PARIS, Oct. 11.—French troops) jaye had to reduce their establish. | Pirates: American soldiers were | and they were torn to splinters and have approached to within five len Mitsui & Co. Ltd., McCormack Bros.,/ maintained contact with the re-| ments on the Western front by not | %20t while swimming about in the) One boat was lowered while the | Miles of Guise | Modern Appliance Co., Nippon Yusen treating Germans on many front® jou. than half a million men jgonan, Shrapnel exploding over On?) «ubmarine’s guns hurled shells at it " Germans Leaving Kaisha, Nordby Fisheries Co., Peo-|thruout last night, the war office | puting thin mame period, allied |2@P killed scores of men. Men fell by the score, killed or| WITH THE AMERICAN FIRST| ° ple’s Cafe, Pioneer Drug Co., Rube's | announced today |atrength on the Western front has ’ wounded, as they tried to go over) ARMY, Oct. 11.—French troops, oo-| Chemin Des Dames Cafe, Rockwood Sprinkler Co., Seat Jmporant gains were made in the| been growing steadily, as more and AN ATLANTIC PORT, Oct. | the side of the sinking ship | operating with the Americans in the | Li f Def. tie Merchants’ Assn., Seattle Quilt! cnampaghe and Chemin Des Dames| more American troops have come in 11.—Two hundred and forty- | As the vessel disappeared, men in| Argonne, have reached the outskirts | ine oO} erenses Co., Standard Confectionery Co, L.| regions, The French lines were/to the field, so the ba of mili-| three men, including American | the one boat successfully launched | of Grand Pre LONDON, Oct. 11.—(1:06 p. m.)— C, Smith Bros, Typewriter Co..| carried to within three miles of| tary power in the West ix changing| army men detailed to care for | tried to pull away while a storm of| Further to the left, the French | Allied patrols have entered Grand Thompson's Cafe, Frank Waterhouse | youzierou, in the former district,| very rapidly in our favor.” horses, are believed to have been | shells burst over them and over the | have seized the railway station at the| Pre, according to battle front dis: & Co., auto department, Geo, A. Burr! 444 to within four miles of Cra- _ - | slain, mainfy by shell fire, when | men struggling in the water. | western approach to the Grand Pre | patches here today. & Co. lonne in the latter. Craonne ts now| NEW YORK, Oct. 11.—Baroness| the U. S, & Ticonderoga, former- One man swam to the U-boat, | pass. The important cut thru the| The enemy is holding the heights Saturday is Liberty Day, as | practically encircled. Ione Wilhelmina Zollner, Ameri-| ly the German ship Camilla Rick- | which was less than a quarter of a| Argonne massif is thus in control of | to the northward proclaimed by President Wilson ‘The French occupied Seide, to-|can-born wife of a captain in the! mers, was torpedoed and shelled | mile away, begging the German lieu: | the allies and the most important; The Germans are evacuating the (Continued on page 4) gether with other villages west of|German army, will be interned on| 1,700 miles off the Atlantic tenant to stop. He was commanded | defenses in the great forest have | Chemin des Dames region, The draft haa made a nig dit. in the plans of many. Has it affected you? If you With to dispose of or buy a news, a few lines descrip. tive of what you want, insert 4 in the Business Opportuni- flee column of The Star, will Argonne. Jorder of the attorney general, it| const, to swim away by the lieutenant, who | been wiped out Dut you in touch with the larg: | “Thru the night we maintained | was announced today, for having The story of her destruction, | levelled a revolver at him The Americans to the eastward | ut — *ut audience in the Northwest. contact with the retreating enemy at|broken patrol, underwhich she had! brought to this port by 17 men, who The boat was then ordered along | have reached Sommerance and occu: WHY WAIT? BUY YOUR : different points on the front,” the|been placed at Knoxville, Tenn. She| were rescued from an open boat, ix! side the raider, which tled it by 4 |e another large section of the BONDS NOW. | communique sald, was arrested at her apartment here.|& tale of Telentless murder by the (Continued on Page Twelve) riemhiide line, —<$<—<_$__—_—_—_——————_s ¥ "