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

= — ae W— get eae eee | IF IT HELPS WIN THE WAR, THE STAR IS FOR IT FU VOLUME 20. NO. 198 —_——— WASHINGTON, Oct. tain way to win.” erty Loan. Star Liberty Bell Ringer No. 22 ‘This is no time to slacken effort or to fail to do our part here at home. To keep up and to increase the Pressure on the retreating Germans is the only cer. Secretary of State Lansing, who fas been handling the diplomatic dealings with Germany made this em- phatic declaration today in support of the Fourth Lib- He declared that Germany is “bending, and with more pressure she will break.” LAST CHANCE! 17.—"“The war is not over RECEIPTS TO BONDS ‘BOND SLACKERS! ‘Tee folowing men have been branded as Bond slackers by the i “colonel” haa bought $400 worth. of Rated able to buy $10,000 ittee of the Liberty Loan committee: ‘also brands Armour & Co. as unfair to Seattle, accounts here. This > upon this bank balance | If these corpora ' W. L. Gwinn, of the Gwinn Investment Co., in the Pioneer building. rated to buy from $5,000 to $10,000, bought $750 worth. And Gwinn has been putting up @ lot of small houses recently Which he has sold at fancy profits. He told Chairman Wills he has $20, 000 tn “4 banks. He has two boys at the front—and so he th takes the attitude he has done his share. the names of “Colonel” to the two super-siackers named Motor Co., Cadillac and of the Yesler estate. Bitle to subscribe $2,995,800 in Fourth Liberty Loan bonds, and se meet her quota of the na tion's biggest war loan. Will Seattle business firms turn their receipts into Liberty Bends Friday? If they do Seattle’s place of honor is assured. If they neglect this last oppor: tunity of service Seattle may face Wamiliation. oe continued to vol-| Unter to. good” Thursday, pected to call Main 600 and enter the “Friday's receipts” list during the ‘Rext 36 hours. More big concerns, it is hoped, will foin the honor list, and follow the example set by the Chauncey Wright Restaurants company. Thea tres have been closed for nearly two Weeks to help the fight on “flu” germs. Other concerns ought to! give up one day's receipts to invest ‘With Uncle Sam to fight Huns. The complete list of firms that have already called up and agreed to buy bonds with Friday's receipts are: Old Home Cafe, 522% Ballard ave. Higgen & Matthews’ Fund Agency, 4165 Ballard ave. Austin & Salt, 1213 First ave. Chatterton Bakery, 1514 Third ave Stetson System Tailors, 921 Third ave. Middleton Pharmacy, ave. N, Middleton Pharmacy, 2405 Tenth 14th 5517 prop. Holshoe Cloth- , 221 First ave. 8 Brown & Hulen, Baillargeon bide (soda fountain department) Campbell Drug Co., California ave And Weet Alaska ste W.C. Brown, 7858 Green Lake Ty big thing to remember when u you want any- thing is to say it in a Voice that carries out to the MOST PEOPLE. let The Star be the Medium thru which you tell your wants to the largest audience in the Northwest. Want ade Mine. Phone ean ebarge \t 11% Main conte conte per You i % ee enen eer oes eS ecoar coin eorpore to to Armour & Co. other outside corpora Henry Landes and W. L. Gwinn last week—G. EB. M. Pratt, of the and Gamma Hupmobile agents, way (buteher), The Bell Town Dealers, and 2031 First ave. Lang Sanitary Box Lunches, 3225 First ave. 8. Chauncey Wright Restaurants Co 2107-9-11 Stavig Bros, grocers, 2328 EF. | Madison st. | Lioyd Transfer Co., Joseph W. Daw, president, Pier 4. Hatfield's Oyster House, 214 Union st. Ye Olde Curiosity Shop, 811 Rail road ave. Aloha Street Pharmacy, 824 Fifth jave. N | Madison Drug Co., 2030 BE. Madi-|administered by an agreement be-|in the Champagne. [son st. Melvin Cloak and Suit Co., | Third ave. Transportation Club, L. C. Smith building (gross receipts for Wednes day, Thursday, Friday and Satur day). Stanley Nelson 5305 Leary ave. Model Bakery, 403 Cedar st Yukon Market, Stalls 30 and 32, Sanitary Market Hood Candy Co., 1501 Pike Place 1301 Service Station, Market. Kelly's Drug Store, Second and | Washington. Washington Title Insurance Co., 816 Second ave. bs aeeccaadioc Eline TURN TO PAGE FIVE More Liberty Loan news on | Page 5. »——— —3 \Star ‘Newsies | Give Daily to __ Help Belgians | Down in The Star press rooms, where the newsies congregate just | before edition is a Belgian relief milk bottle, chuck full to the top with pennies, nickels, quarters, time, dimes and~-bills: These merchants have formed a club—“The Penny-a-Day Keeps the Hun Away” club. And every time a newsie comes in, without a word to anybody, he |alips more money into the bottle. lin fact it’s so full the boys got another bottle Thursday. They say they're going to keep giving until the war is over. young LONDON, Oct. 17.—Pritish caval ry has oceupied Tripoli, about 86 miles north of Damascus, according | 11. German reply to President Wil-| to a statement on Palestine opera The Seattle Sta ATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST ingress March #, 18 {TE SERVICE OF THE NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE THE GRE. Prtered as Becond Clans Matter May 2, LL LEASED WIRE REPORT OF THE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS BOLSHEVIS IS GRIPPING pected if Peace Fails to Come DENY SURRENDER NEWS Stipe eae ms |} By United Press Leased Wire i Direct to The bene a AMSTERDAM, Oct. 17.— Official denial that the kaiser |has abdicated is contained in ceived here today. AMSTERDAM, Oct. 17.—The Rotterdamsche Courant declared Sat the German army com mand has ordered all plunder: | Ing and destruction in France and Belgium to be si This is one of the conditions de manded by President Wilson in his last note. LONDON, Oct, 17. — Unless peace is effected immediately, a | Boishevist revolution will break out in Germany, according to dispatches received here today received by the were from Amsterdam, Daily News from Stockholm and the Chronicle from Geneva All came from their staff correspondents, Bolsheviam haa been noted among |the industrial classes. The regular socialists are alarmed and have drawn up a government which they will seek to establish in the event of the kaiser’s abdication, hoping to head off anarchy and Holsheviam Change Constitution Reports from Amsterdam declare Kaiser Wilhelm has decreed that martial law in Germany can only be | tween the civil and military authort ties. A Copenhagen report states that the federal council of Germany has accepted an amendment to the consti tution, by, which consent of the fed eral council and the reichstag is re- @uired for a declaration of war in the empire's name, except where im | Perial territory has been invaded or attacked. REVOLUTION IS ON IN TURKE GENEVA, Oct. 17—A_ revolu- tion has broken out in Constanti- nople against the Young Turks, the Tribune de Geneve reported today. The Germans are said to | have rushed 20 warships from | the Black sea to protect the ad- herents of Enver Pasha, Turkey's friendship with Germany dates from the time the Young Turks came into power. Enver Pasha was until recently the Turkish war min ister. He faithfully served the kal ser's interests in Constantinople. The German warships in the Black sea are primarily vessels taken from Russia. It has been reported in this country that the Germans, determin- ed to hold the Turks in the central alliance, announced they were ready to bombard Constantinople to hait any nove against Germany. GERMAN. NEWSPAPER IS ORDERED SILENT | AMSTERDAM, The government is said to Deutsche Zel- Oct 17 German have suppressed the ltung, one of thhe principal Pan lGermanie newspapers, for three «. Such action was probably the result of an uncomplimentary attitude taken by the paper toward | son, KAISERLAND \“Red” Revolution Is Ex-| a dispatch from Berlin re-| Beattic, W! under the ot ¢ COMPL SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1918. Act 1899, at the Postoffice at ENY KAISER’S ABDICATION NIGHT EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE $5.00 to Per Year, wy Matt, ASSOCIATION Tonight and Wriday, fair; light northeasterly win: Weather Forecast: IFE AND DEATE That’s What Telephone Service Means These Days The Star never had any doubt that its conclusion that “t phone nervice here is scandalous” was correct. Yet it is some satis faction to hear the many volces of approval of our position. Telephone conditions must be improved. The Star feels that all of Seattle is behind it in the demand that improvement be made forthwith or the present management be fired by Postmaster Gen eral Burleson. ‘The Star in prepared to begin a petition to this effect if no marked improvement in servite is obtained, The Star charges the telephone company with obtaining thousands of dollars from Se- attle people—and giving nothing in return. This is more expecially true of the nickel-slot phones, where the nickels are paid and often eyen Central does not respond. In the present influenaa emergency, it is often a matter of life and death to have the proper service Doctors are plaining. Patients are complaining are complaining A telephone employe called us up to say that we “don't know what we're talking about because we «tated In our editorial yes terday that the girls ‘mix wires There is no #uch thing a» mix ing wires, we were told The Star was not attempting a technical explanation of the rotten service. If we were ‘technically wrong, we Were nevertheless right in stating the fact that the service is outrageous, We do not blame the girls, They are probably harder worked than ever We do not know the CAUSE of the trouble. But there is trou bie—and there is no reason why this city should suffer the Intoler able telephone service it in getting. Scores are dying of the influenza, Who known but that some of them might have been saved if the telephone message to the doctor would have sumnioned him as quickly as was desired? Hospitals ALLIES: ae CUT GERMANS OFF formation received here today | BATTLE ANALYSIS BY J. W. T. MASON | a. (By United Press Leased Wire, Direct to The Star) | NEW YORK, Oct. 17.—The Brit ish offensive launched this morning | between Le Cateau and Bohain, ts |atarted will of itvelf forces Von Hindenburg to hurry his evacuation of western Belgium and north along the Mine of the Hirson rail; western Franc The |way, where American unite in} Picardy were last reported as| communications between the Ger- operating. man armies, but also of the| capitulation of most of the German forces in the Champagne. The latter possibility depends on ‘This movement is supplementary to the new advance of the French fifth army north of Laon, reported yeaterday to have started under | the continued success of the Ameri mmand of Gen. Guillaumat,|an push north of Verdun. If, co incidentally with the occupation of Hirson and the western end of the lArdennes massif, Gen. Pershing | were to close the Luxemburg front former military governor of Paris. Marshal Foch is now attempting one of the most ambitious strokes lof the war. His purpose is to run two armiea toward the ‘Hirson|‘er at the eastern end of the Ar fortreas, one from the south and one|dennes, 65 miles away, disaster would overtake the Germans be from the west The capture of Hirson, which ts the key to the southwest corner of the Ardennes massif, will prevent the Germans from keeping up direct communications between their re treating armies in Belgium and Western France and their armies tween these points, ‘This is one of the major possibilt ties in the situation, which now is causing the Germans to ask for an | armistice. 'HUN FIRST LINE I$ MOVED BACK | Blocking the Gates | It will at the same time compel | Hindenburg to direct his present re- | |tirement entirely by way of Bel gium, where terrific congestion ts 4 a bound to result BERLIN, Oct. 17.—The German ‘The mere fact that the double|front Ine in Flanders has been attack against Hirson has been| Withdrawn east of Thourout, Cools ———— camp and Ingolmunster and behind BRITISH START ~NEW ATTAGK LONDON, Oct. 17.—The British | began a new attack on the 10-mile |front between Le Cateau and Bo: |hain at 5:20 this morning, Marshal Haig reported. They are making | satisfactory progress | ‘The attack already has resulted in an advance of two miles, ISHE’LL SUPERINTEND office an. the Lys river, the war | nounced today Occupation of Thourot and Cools camp already has been officially announced. Ingolmunster is seven miles northeast of Courtral and) about three miles east of where al-| Hed troops were last officially re-| Thinks War Soon to Be Called Off BASEL, Switzerland, Oct. 17 That Germany has given up all hope of victory and that Bulgaria's u collapse has hastened the downfall WOMEN’S EMPLOYMENT of the central powers, is admitted Miss Birdie C. Campbell, secretary) py Baron Burian, the Austro-Hun to Mayor Hanson during his cam-|garian foreign minister, in a state paign last spring, has been named) ment to the Hungarian delegation | superintendent of the women’s di-|at Vienna | vision of the U. 8. employment) He contended that, on the other service here. Under Director Law-! hand, the allies are not sure of be rence Wood, her task will be to/ing able to win the military de place hundreds of registered wom-| cision that they desire, and that therefore “further bloodshed is use less."" en in non-essential positions, to be left by men transferred to war HUNGARY ANNOUNCES TTS INDEPENDENCE | | LONDON, Oct. 17.—The Hungarian parliament has lissued a proclamation declaring Hungary to be an in- | dependent state, with only a “personat union” with Austria, \according to a Central News dispatch from Copenhagen, | quoting a Berlin dispatch. By a “personal union” is probably meant retention of ‘Emperor Karl as king of Hungary. | ‘ UN SUB BASES GON ALLIES OCCUPY ZEEBRUGGE AND OSTEND Lille Is Captured; Cavalry Gallops Thru Gap LONDON, Oct. 17.—(4:22 p. m.)—Brit- ish naval forces have occupied Ostend, it was officially announced by the Royal Air Force this afternoon. Aviators reported Ostend clear of the enemy this ‘morning and Vice Admiral Keyes, commander of the Brit- lish channel fleet, landed in rine base at 12:55 p. m. tho. have been practically Zeebrugge, formerly -' LONDON, Oct. 17.—(5:20 p. m.)—Zeebrugge is believed according to in- companio base to Ostend, is 15 miles east of the latter. While Germany today lost her sub bases in Belgium, she still retains her main base at Heligoland, an island to the northwest of © dan ot > ° ° ° Sniy exists of the severance ot the Germany. This base is about 500 miles from the Belgian coast. PARIS, Oct. 17.—A complete break-thru has been effected by the allies in the Germans’ second defense line in Belgium, accord- ing to battle front dispatches received here today. Dense masses of cavalry are pouring thru the breach and are reported to have advanced nine miles. Belgian cavalry has penetrated Thielt, northeast of Courtrai, \it was announced here. lent fighting, according to the Petit Journal. The British captured Courtrai after vio- The break-thru probably was in the region of Thielt, where Belgian cavalty miles. An_ additional cavalry to Nevele, advance only six lis reported to have entered that city after a sudden advance of more than three of nine miles in this vicinity would carry the allied miles southwest of Ghent. LONDON, Oct. 17.—Lille has been captured by allied forces, it was learned here today. ing that British troops had dustrial city. AMERICANS ARE | GAINING NORTH | OF GRAND PR ——* Dispatch From Fred | | | S. Ferguson = WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Oct, 17.— Fighting in the mud and rain, the Americans are threatening to force the Germans out of the re. mainder of the Kriemhilde line. The Yanks, advancing northward from'Grand Pre, have practically cleared the enemy from Loges woods, and are approaching Beffu, two miles north of Grand Pre. They have passed La Musarde farm Around Landres and St. Georges, the Americans have consolidated the first line trenches of the Kriemhilde The Aire has now been crossed ree in the region of Grand Pre, the engineers pushing ahead of the infantry They are constructing foot bridges under artillery and ma chine gun fire. New rman divisions from the Champagne and Metz _ regions,| thrown into the line here, show greatly reduced strength. Many boys of the class of 1920 are included in| these new units, Oct. 17.—The continues its | WASHINGTON, First American army attack east of the Meuse, Gen. Per. shing reported today, announcing | fresh gains in the Bols de Le Grand! Montaigne. | 20 miles The reports were received thru dispatches from the battle front, stat- completed the occupation of the great fortress and in- British and Americans suddenly launched a new attack on a 10-mile front between Le Cateau and Bohain this morns ing. This drive is aimed at Hirson, less than 25 miles eastward, which guards the western side of the impassable Ardennes. Capture of Hirson will definitely | split the German armies and leave the divided forces no choice of exit from Belgium and northern France. | ss ARE TOPPLING tvery mile gained to will narrow the time extend the southern face of | the salient which contains Lille, | Tourcoing, Roubaix and Valen left to the enemy and at the same ciennes. Directly in the path of the Anglo- | gj. American assault, which offi H ahi: cially repor to be “F essing | Dispatch From William "is the important rail of Wassigny, less than the advancing al: | satisfactorily way center four miles from lies Belgian cavalry is reported to| have entered Thielt, 15 miles from Ghent and the same distance south: | Philip Simms fa 2 eu PARIS, Oct. 17.—Tourcoing and Roubaix are in precisely the same fix as Laon was a week ago—on the verge of east of Bruges. | falling. British troops are reported to have | King Albert's t x completed the capture of Courtral. | ud : 3 ena des 58 Field Marshal Haig announced, Posed stubborn Belgians, that the Belgians, French and Brit-| French and British, are threat- ening Ostend and the entire coast in that region. gained four miles on a 30-mile} He confirmed the | ish front yesterday pture of Thourout, Menin and) : f " several other towns. | ‘Tee Britigh practioahy howl The French war office reported |Poual, while in the Champagne, |French and Americans are steadily marching northward in the direc continued contact with the retiring Germans between the Oise and the Serre. United Press staff dis-| tion of Mezieres. patches report important gains by! ‘The allies are flattening out the the Americans between the Argonne | Hun opposition all along the line, |and the Meuse, resulting from the| President Wilson's last note to capture of Grand Pre, Berlin still dominates the — press bian troops have advanced | h re is no word of disap north of Nish, capturing | p' almly awaiting Aleksinaty, rench cavalry oc: | the next move with full knowledge upied Pierot, 35 miles southeast of | that many must break off nego Nish, near the Bulgarian border. | ations or capitulas