The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 23, 1918, Page 1

While the government has nominally taken over the telephone lines, actually the control remains in the same old hands, There have been no changes. The government has not got around to that yet. The poor IF IT HELPS WIN THE WAR, THE STAR IS FOR IT hia VOLUME 20. NO. 203 RINCE MAX D HUN CHANCELLOR SAYS to wd na ‘ e 8 *© #8 & & ak- > at of ; de. we not in ¥ ooo =|FOE MUST GIVE an aa fF ex. ta : =| FOR ARMISTICE eer ent ee } ted DISPATCH FROM ROBERT J. BENDER (By United Press Leased Wire, Direct to The Star) WASSHINGTON, Oct. 23.—President Wilson to- er | day was communicating with the allied governments so- | On involved in the disposal of the latest Ger- es | man for peace. cn It has been emphasized that President Wilson will > I abide by declaration that he will propose no ‘oe | armistic Germany has evacuated occupied ter- the ‘jxplained by a, cabinet member today, the “situa- now reached the stage where it is not only neces- act of courtesy to discuss with our associates a a dt E stated that the country could depend upon our ‘ices in this war will ever be Wilson.” E d eH | relative to the next step in the nego! sie way of retreat from Eastern | | swept } | service Seattle is getting now may even be in line with an attempt to discredit government ownership. don't be fooled. The managers of the Bell Telephone company are to blame. They are to blame if, But the girls. wages, , by discrimination against They are to blame if they offer “beginners wages to experienced operators who are willing to re- PARRA PRAPR AL PAPEL DLP PDD PDD PDP PADDED PPD DPD DPE DPD PPP PPP PPP P PEPE PEPER, union operators, they are breaking down the morale of They are to blame if they pay inadequate The Seattle Sta THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST Entered as Bocond Clase Matter May 9, 1899, at the Postoffice at Beattie, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 8, 1879, ULL LEASED WIRE REPORT OF THE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS Rhine Zone Forecasted Expert Believes Foch May. Start Americans on New Campaign | WOULD SCATTER HUNS J. W. T. Mason United Press War Expert NEW YORK, Oct. 23 —Renew- al of American and French trol activity the Push in burg border is impeded by the large number of new German divisions | that are being thrown into that sec: | tor to hold open Von Hindenbure’s | France. It in probable that along the 20- mile front occupied by the Ameri- cans, Von Hindenburg has concen- trated 20 per cent of his active fight: SEATTLE, WASH., WED: turn to telephone work in the present emergency. to blame—and they They « countable, Seattle is either from the present managers— change of officials. NIGHT DON'T BLAME THE GOVERNMENT FOR POOR TELEPEIONE SERVICE shall be held ac- going to get better servi -or there will have to be a EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE Por Yeas, v7 COMPLETE SERVICE OF THE NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE XSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1918. Weather Forecast: Mall, $9.00 to 59.00 ASSOCIATION Tonight and Thursday, fair; moderate southwesterly winds * * *& &© WAR MAY GO ON German Revolution Near, Says Shepherd Guns to Pop in Berlin Stronghold | | | BY WILLIAM G. SHEPHERD WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—There will be machine gun shooting in the streets of Berlin before long. German soldiers, using the weapons they used in France and Belgium, and German workingmen, using the rifles and ammunition they themselves have manufactured in the munitions plants, will be ranging the thorofares of| fn, Wnsea Press |German cities, mad as Russian Bolsheviki, shooting at) | that stands between them and peace. will be a rout of soldiers back to their homes. the German soldier , as male ison foreign soi, but once tack ot everything There the Mul peck ‘op ils RIOT AND MASSACRE WILL BE THE RULE ALL OVER GERMANY The workmen will seize the factories ; will be the rule in every German communi THE KAISER ABDICATES, and unless the affairs of the BELGIANS PROGRESSING ; by the crowds where they can find it. Martial law will be| _»“ruerere . ‘aside by the force of the mobs, and riot and massacre) cams a nistorie. spot ity. ALL THESE THINGS ARE INEVITABLE UNLEss! Is Entered by British Haig’s Troops Are Reported to Be in City of Valenciennes Leased Wire| Direct to The Star i ree _—— PARIS, Oct. 23—The British are in Valenciennes, it was learned today. LANDON, Oct. 23—Valenciennes, Sind Sas SE es See Paine aie has been penetrated by British troope. Announcement of its complete oc- food will be taken cupation is expected hourty. lies Just 20 cniles east which be- spot in the great British Fetreat thru Flanders in the early days of the war, is 11 niles north of Maubeuge, A great part of the intervening territory between EFIANT + + # * “ENEMY AT OUR | | (By United Press Leased GATES!” CRIES _ TEUTONLEADER Wire, Direct to The Ster) ‘milian in addressing |day. oe = COPENHAGEN, Oct: 23.—“The enemy s at our gates,” declared Chancellor Maxi- the reichstag yester- “Our first and last thoughts must be for the brave defenders whom we must defend against unjust charges. There are bad elements in every army. With the funda- mental will of the people, the army ple have spoken “This fact lends added voice to the ~The German the chancellor sai will disown them.” to President re utteranées of the. representatives of | “Therefore, regarding the inter- | national situation, I say only that the | president must first answer Ger- is peace efforts, which, thru- out all the countries, have brought | to the highest point the question of | ® peace of justice or violence. | Speaks With Reserve “The whole German people are anxious to hear the government's views regarding the success of peace now has advanced so far that equal direct suffrage has been secured. | Tells of “Reforms” “Bills now pending before. the reichstag make it possible for mem- bers of that body to enter the cab- inet without resigning their seats. ‘There is also a change in the law regarding the chancellor's repre- sentation. Provis- | ing units. A gt HEE TCG A FES are | German government are turned over to men, trusted by the German people, with whom the allies will be able to) these two cities and Valenciennes is difficult wooded country.) North of Valenciennes the British negotiations. eeersrcnae a 8. Le “Hitherto only the highest im- constitution contains ober | “I speak with the greatest reserve. | perial authorities were able to rep- fons which must be eliminated or able to maintain so strong a defen- 3 : evaded amended before the kaiser wil! te five north of Verdun is the absence | talk. s g |penctrated deeply into the great |/ % certain the parties will observe | resent the chancellor. In the future, | ealled to shorn of his autocratic warmaking | of any large activity disturbing them | Enough time has elapsed since President Wilson’s note Raismes forest. They also drew /*,relcenar consistent with the seri (Continued on Page Seven) ousness of the hour eee ats aes power. Should Reduce Junkers action—expect: Among other changes which offi delay—it will be in close co-op | cials declare vital are with our associates in the Removal of the Germany army from the kaiser’s personal con- trol Abrogation of his power t) dis- solve the reichstag at will. Curtailment of the power of the federal council, or hundes- rath. Redistricting of the German empire to eliminate the “rstien borough” evil and reduce the Junkers’ power in the reichstag. With regard to the first of ‘The official text of the German | Rete was delivered at 1 a.m. by Swiss | Charge Oedertin. | A cursory reading of the official | showed that it was substantially as that sent out by German | Ei i an eae By main potnt of discussion fn of- | quarters hinged on Germany's | constitutional reforms, which | nt stressed as of prime im his last reply. read press reports of | man constitution specifically pro- Max's speech with interest, | vides that every German soldier is ‘Without comment. | sworn to obey every i Seaee by | the emperor; that army officers are Het Unongh Refer hamed and promoted by the kaiser, While widely at variance on toe without review by the bundesrath or question of Germany's sincerity 1” rejehstag, and the the kaiser, there- her latest peace note, officials and fore, has power to build up a personal ft i i | Mich further than she has promised government or natiOm, except thru | fe amending her constitution before | him. | tbe can satisfy the world tha: autoc: | | Mey has been shorn of its powers. | kaiser to dissolve the reichstag at The proposed amendment 1o tho | will, thus causing a general election German constitution now befere the | for Kaiser regarding declatation of should the kaiser, head of a great a | personal army, desire to make war, he could prorogue the retehstag, and before it could meet again could declare war on some pretext involving the safety of the empire, territory al- jt was pointed out today. has been invaded or its coast} The power of the bundesrath r must be curtailed, it was declared. mndment regarding peace |-rhis council is named by the kaiser and the kings of the various states of peace and treaties| making up the German confedera- states which deal with /tion, Under the present constitu- geming under the competence | tien all bills must either originate imperial law-giving bodies re reviewed by the bundes- ire the consent of aw © fe and the reichstag.” stitution now provides that @mperor whali declare war and) "The consent of the federfl coun ‘the soverign and the ruling classes of the various states. emclude 2 Germany cannot amend its con- Rite oa ents, officiate agree, Mitution, for instance, if 14 of the Mit a step Mments, officials agree: ¢§ membérs of the bundesrath dine . but they estate thet the | Approve of the proposed amend- — Prussia has 17 votes in the bundesrath, hence Prussia can still ‘dictate how far the democratization of Germany shall go, and the kaiser really 30 times as powerful as the vote of a man from a large city, ‘where progressive thought centers, leaders are practically unanimous p- military machine owing allegiance di- | ‘Mone point—that Germany must £O rectly to him, but not to the German | The constitution also allows the) the federal path, which really represents only | 5 is the king of Prussia. If you have a Upon the redistricting of Ger« reasonable want, many for the purpose of electing you are almost the reichstag, depends whether the certain to have it reichstag really ix representative of fulfilled if you tell all the people. it to the largest The original districts have not Audience in the been changed since they were laid Northwest. out in 1871. i Some are 30 times as large as ge pial 5 others, so far as population is con- You can have it ? cerned, but the large ones terri- charged. § torially have the same repregenta~ tion they had originally. Thus, the a vote of a junker landholder in| |for the Germans it was pointed out today that the Ger-| } | in Alsace or along the Lorraine bor: | der. The Rhine in not for the moment threatened by direct assault. There fore, it is not immediateiy necessary to scatter their troops thru allied terrain. A new attack toward Bersine by the Americans would change the sit vation very quickly. The Germans therefore, would be ummble to concen trate so important a part of their waning reserves over an extra bun dred miles of threatened frontage | south of Verdun, and the possibility of a break-thru by the allies would these, | be increased. Uniess the winter intervenes, the Rhine's turn to become a major ob- jective is probably not far off. SPURCK SPENDS NIGHT IN JAIL; | FIGHT SLEUTHS Spurck was ‘arrested at the home of his mother-in-law, Mrs. McGuire, | at 1119 19th ave,, shortly after 9 o'clock Tuesday evening, by Detec tives A. E. Benjamin and F. C. Fuqua. According to the detectives, Spurck ‘was seen seated at a table in a rear room of the residence as they ap proached. Mre. McGuire answered the door- bell, and, according to Benjamin and Fuqua, stated flatly that Spurck was not there. She is then said to have | slammed the door in the faces of the operatives, despite the fact that they | had revealed their authority. Following the closing of the door, Detective Benjamin immediately darted to the rear of the residence, to forestall any attempt by Spurck to| escape. No such attempt was made. | At the end of 10 minutes, Mrs. Me- | Guire appeared at the door with the | information that the detectives were mistaken, and that the individual they were watching in the rear room was a friend of “William's.” Benja min and Fuqua expressed skepticism, and demanded admittance. Then Spurck Appeared. Detectives say he first denied he was the man they were looking for. Following, a mild battle was stag: ed, when, according to the opera: | tives, two other women appeared to | augment Mrs, MeGuire, and a con-) certed attack was launched on the| two detectives. Detective Fuqua left | Detective Benjamin to repulse the attack, and accompanied Spurck, Jr., upstairs for his coat and hat, and |GERMAN-AMERICANS WILL RETURN |TO GUIDE GERMAN DEMOCRACY to Germany to make it a safe assertion that Wilson is holding the German rulers up against the hot blaze of public, opinion like toast before the fire. He has given them a chance to squirm off the fork, voluntarily, but he has made it plain to them and to the German people, as well as to all the rest of the world, that, if they don’t get off the fork themselves, they will be thrust up against the fire of a revo- lution, as fierce a flame as the czar of Russia tried to face. There is no open talk in Washington of trying to moderate the storm that is coming in Germany. The world does not want to look on, agasp, at a repeti-/ tion in Germany, of the Russian horror, and when we finally talk to German leaders, whoever they may be, we don’t) want to be dealing with German Bolsheviki, as unreliable,| from our viewpoint, as were the Bolsheviki of Russia at the Brest-Litovsk peace table. A transition from kaiserism to republicanism in Ger- many would be an upsetting process. Anything may ha pen in the accomplishment of it. Wild party leaders, seek-| of for power, will try to lead the German folk into politi- cal excesses and “force unstinted” will be suggested in car- rying out the plans and hi of these leaders. There isn’t anything that can be done by the allied leaders, at present, to head off the coming “blow-up” in Germany, If the Germans, in taking things into their own hands, turn their guns on each other, we can only stand aside, while the internal strife is under way, thankful that their guns, at last, are turned upon each other instead of upon) our own fine boys and upon the civilization of Belgium and| France. There are republicans in Germany, not a few, who have kept silent for decades. In the United States there are literally scores of thou- sands of Germans, many of whose parents left Germany and came here after the revolution of 1848, who believe in the republican form of government for Germany. Just as thousands of Russians hurried to Russia, after he revolution, to try to help establish a republic there, so floods of American Germans may be expected to hurry to Germany, as soon as the frontiers are open, to try to help tide the German people over their rebirth. ___,It is going to be a jolting, even bloody change, before it is accomplished. The kaiser, with all his vaunted love) for the Fatherland and the German people, can make it an) easier change by stepping out before the resistance against | him becomes too great. | He and his clique form a great carbuncle on the German body a The. sooner this is lanced, the less the fever wi . the trio departed for the police sta- | BRITISH LABORITE ON tion. ee wan Tetum’ this attor | — OFFICIAL ITALY VISIT morning, after promising to report to his draft board at 3 p, m. Spurck is alleged to have made numerous fights last year to obtain his release from his draft board, and even when sent to Camp Lewis, se cured his release, LONDON, Oct. 23.—Vietor Fisher, British laborite, has gone to Italy on an official mission in connection with the promotion of industrial and commercial unity, it was announced today. He will visit Milan, Turin, Genoa, Naples and Rome, close to Tournai and advanced north and south of that city, practically surrounding it from the south by reaching the Scheldt et Bruyalles. Progress was made by the Beigians and French on practleally the whole front between the Dutch border and Tournal, The Belgians cleared the entre west bank of the Rarenebure canal, except at Ooverbroeck. The French advanced two miles south of Denyze, crossing the Lys near Vive- St. Bavon. The French pushed the Germans back again in the Serre valley, clear ing the south bank of the river as far east as Mortieres. Fierce fighting was renewed in the region east of Vouzieres. In the face of German counter attacks, Czrecho-Slovaks, co-operating with the French, recaptured the village of Terren - Sur - Ansne, four miles north of Vouzieres. In the Balkans, the French have reached the Danube at Lom Palanka, and now hold the south bank of that river on a front of nearly 20 miles in Bulgarian territory facing the Ru- manian frontier. Serbian, Montenegrin and French detachments continue to cut the rear guards of the retreating Austro-Ger- mans to pieces, taking numbers of prisoners and great quantities of ma- terial, HUN WORKERS DEMAND PEACE ZURICH, Oct. 23.—Meetings of German laborers at Delitzch, Ammen- dort, Teutschenthal, Wittenburg and Esleben adopted resolutions demand- ing an immediate peace on the basis of international socialism, according to advices here today Brieulles Again Taken by Yankees WITH THE AMERICAN ARMIES IN FRANCE, Oct. 23.—Brieulles has been recaptured. ‘The important defense point on the Meuse, south of Dun, was entered by American patrols today after the Germans had evacuated. ‘The enemy, following their with drawal, began shelling it vigorously. Staff dispatches stated the Ger- mans had set fire to Brieulles, which was captured by the Americans sev- eral days ago, only to be relinquished later. Texas Prohibition Law Is Knocked Out AUSTIN, Tex., Oct. 23.—Texas statewide statutory prohibition law was held unconstitutional in a de- cision handed down here today by the state court of criminal appeals. “President Wilson's last note has not made clear to the German people how this public agitation will end | His new answer, perhaps, will bring a definite certainty “Meanwhile, we must in all our thoughts and actions prepare for both eventualities—first, that the en emy governments are eager for war. In that case, we have no choice but to assume a posture of defense, with the strength of people driven to the last extremity. In the event of such necessity, I have no doubt that | the German government, in the name Sad the German people, will issue a call for national defense, in the way | it spoke for the people when it took jaction for peace. “Regarding the second possibility, the German people must not be blind. ly | They have a right to ask what a peace on Wilson's terms will mean for our life in the future. Our answer | to President Wilson must be framed on the people's understanding of this question. The people want clearness. The discussion with our opponents, and not our strength, will decide what we think is right. “Peace of Justice” “We who honestly took a stand on the basis of a peace of justice are undertaking this duty of not without fighting “The essence of President Wil son's program for a league of na- tions cannot be accomplished unless all peoples have the right of self- determination, Realization of com- munity law means arrangement of part of that unqualified independ- ence which hitherto we, with others, considered an indication of sov- | ereignty. | “Should we at home maintain the national egoism which until recent: ly dominated our national life, then there would be no restitution ard renovation for us. There would be a feeling of bitterness which would cripple us for generations. But if we comprehend that this frightful jwar is, over all, a victory for the idea of justice and submit to it with no mental reservation, we will find | in it the cure for our present wounds and a reservoir for our strength. | Equal to Task | “None can foresee whether the next few weeks will call us to fight on, or open the way for peace. ‘There is no doubt we are now equal to the task of either war or peace by carrying out our government's program and definitely breaking away from the old system. “The legal question will not stop at our boundaries, which we will never open for violence of our own | accord |we have agreed as our rule of con | duct also involve international ques: tions. Thanks to the parties’ ac- quiescence in the government's pro- posal for electoral reforms, Prussia brought to the conference table. | submitting to a peace of violence | The principles upon which | _ REPULSE HUNS BY RAYMOND CLAPPER (United Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—Luxem- burg, from which Germany is draw- ing iron for munitions, will cut itself free from German domination and join the allies after the war, according to diplomats here today. Allied military successes may make this possible early. Informa- tion leading to this conclusion has [been received in official quarters, it Is stated. After the war Luxemburg will be either: An independent state, under pro- tection of the League of Nations, lor a province of Belgium, adjoining Belgian Luxemburg. | Nominally an independent grahd |duchy, Luxemburg has been held | vassal by,Germany for years be- cause of her extensive iron mines, which have fed the Krupp muni- tions factories and made possible |Germany's super-preparation pro- gram. The people of Luxemburg have now appealed to President Wilson for protection, and have demanded that the German armies evacuate their territory, which was overrun at the outbreak of the war in viola> tion of a neutrality treaty. Surrender U-Boats and Leave Alsace, Two Allied Demands LONDON, Oct. 23.—The British foreign office today issued the fol- lowing statement regarding the lat- est German note to President Wil- son “The reply was addressed to Pres- ident Wilson. He must deal with it and determine whether it shall be communicated to the allies. Until |then it is not desirable to make a statement officially.” The Chronicle today published the following | “England will demand surrender of the U-boats and France will de- mand evacuation of Alsace-Lorraine as a condition of any armistice.” Peace Talk Delays War Work—Baruch WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—Decla: |ing that peace talk is hampering {4% labor and production problems of si. |government, Chairman Baruch, are the war industries board, today ed upon the nation to “think talk war and make war.” Pe said, “may be left to the re Cn A Speearerer nee yee gee