The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 2, 1918, Page 1

“How is the city to railway property if the v favor of the purchase?” IF IT HELPS WIN THE WAR, THE STAR IS FOR IT Some persons have asked the question: The answer is simple, pay one dollar in wae | or incur one dollar's indebted- ness for the property, It does not intend to nor can it issue general bonds in payment. It proposes to issue and can only issue special utility bonds, payable out of, and only out of, a special fund created from the gross pay $15,000,000 for the street oters on Tuesday next vote in The city does not intend to CIRCULATION OF 1899, THE GREATEST DAILY Entered as Second Class Matter May 3, at the Postoffiee at revenues of the posts Pie such revenues prove sufficient to pay the principal wd interest at the times agreed on in the bonds, the bond holders will get their mon trary to all expectations and for any reason which can- The Seattle Sta ANY PAPE Beattie, W }R IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWE bh, under the Act of Congress March 8, 1 street railway system. not now be seen, such revenues shall at any time be in- sufficient for such purpose, the bond holders will have to wait for their money until such revenues become suf- ficient; they cannot compel the taxpayers to pay one cent of either principal or interest. NIGHT EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE Por Year, by Mail, $5.00 to $9.00 ey at such times. If, con- FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT OF THE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS VOLUME 20. NO. ; j have been captured up to the announced today. SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, COMPLETE SERVICE OF THE NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE 1918. ASSOCIATION ‘Tonight moderate and Sunday, rain; southeasterly gales, Weather Forecast: present, the Italian war office) Tagliamento, four to five miles to the westward) have been! portant villages, together with more than 1,000 prisoners. t _ mers have been released. “Toon Diaz will begin a Sender. diplomatic advices 5 it states and Germany * ation, the allies are conducti: - fronts—in . Three distinct drives are With Austria-Hungary split up into at least five inde- | Valenciennes is in the hands of the British. They cap- Several thousand Italian soldiers who were held as pris-| tured two villages and between 2,000 and 3,000 prisoners yaya} Section of Armistice in the advance. march on Vienna if Austria) Italians, British, Americans and French, on the Italian in accepting the entente terms of unconditional front, are advancing in the entire region from the Asiago today stated. plateau. to the Adriatic. The Asiago plateau has been entirely cleared. Italian also in a serious political situ-| patrols are reported to have reached the Tagliamento, Thou- ing major offensives on three sands of additional prisoners and hundreds of guns have France and Belgium, in Italy and in the Balkans.| been taken. under way in the West. The In the Balkans, Serbian troops have reached the outer French and Americans are attacking along a front of nearly defenses of Belgrade. | 40 miles, from the Aisne to the Meuse. They have advanced) _ four miles, capturing more than a dozen villages and several!are completely across the Pane: J POILUS, YANKS | TAME 19 TOWNS «QU NORTH LINE Fivers, are advancing on a - front of nearly ten miles along the } Jatter stream, Field Marsha! Haig an- today. 7 Franco-Americans, in two! @yy fighting, have advanced from five to ten miles, capturing 19 vil- ho. Among the important towns occu | fare Audenarde, Deynze and Naz Cross Closed; Even the Red Cross headquarters Cheed Saturday. The workers will ~ their rest. ‘AMERICANS ON ITALY TROOPS MEUSE SWEEP REACH LINE OF | QVER DEFENSE) TAGLIAMENTO on IN POSSESSION OF HAIG'S In _an advance of three miles they Deynze, Nazareth and other im-| The Austrian war office reiterated that Austrian troops * Last Events of War Are inProgress to Germany Arrives } in America ENEMIES MUST SUBMIT Dispatch From Robert | Nov. 2—The next 48 to 60 hoars are expected write dramatic events on the No announcement of the contents AUSTRIA IS INVADED! ARIS PRESS SAYS KAISER ABDICATES GEN. DIAZ PREPARING TO MARCH ON VIENNA More than 80,000 Austrian prisoners and 1,600 guns | important woods and taking over 3,000 prisoners. The French and Americans also are advancing on a The Italians crossed the frontier into} front of more than 12 miles, along the Scheldt, on both) Austrian territory in the Sugana valley yesterday evening.| sides of Audenarde. Both the Cellina and Meduna rivers (paralleling the| have taken Audenarde, ANGERED GERMANS PLAN PUNISHMENT OF WILHELM PARIS, Nov. 2.—(4:30 p. m.)—Abdication of the kaiser may be considered to be a fact, according to a Geneva dispatch to the Temps. The dispatch said that official publication is being de- layed awaiting a favorable opportunity. WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.—Punishment for the kaiser and the Prussian war lords guilty of German crimes of the past four m years will be meted out in summary manner by the German peo- diplomatic advices today indicated. } PARIS, Nov. 2.—Terms for an armistice which have been pre- —%lsented to Austria are based on President Wilson’s 14 principles, | according to a Rome dispatch to La Liberte today. They render it impossible for Austria to resume the war or to wean oarde nn ie Ned naga ody bape situation. An answer is not expected i ly as the Austro-Hungarian representatives | ple, Will Open Monday} Sgain on the floor Monday, after! | WITH THE AMERICAN ARM-| mento river, according to battle TES IN FRANCE, Nov. —The| front dispatches received here Americans, with the French co-oper: | ating on thelr left, have advanced) pose Nov. 2.—TItalian troops |more than four miles in an attack |haye practically cleared the Asiago| on a 20-mile front, between the | plateau, capturing a number of tm- | | Aisne and the Meuse, launched yes | apie peaks and villages and tak- | terday morning. ‘— 3,000 additional prisoners, the A deep wedge has been driven in- | war office announced today |to the German lines, increasing the | Cavalry has reached the plains menace to the enemy's vital com-| north of Pordenone, 30 miles beyond munications. More than 3,000 pris the middle Piave. ‘The Livensa | oners have been taken. lriver has been passed on a wide | The villages of Bayonville, Lan. | front dres-St. Georges, St. Georges, Rem-| “We have captured the tormidabie | onville. Chennery, Clery Le Grand| positions of Mont Mosiagh, Mont) land Aincreville have been occupied | Longara, Mont Spitz, Sasso Rosso, and important parts of the Freya-|Mont Dardo, Lambara and La Stellung line have been penetrated. |Maletto di Gallio on the Asingo The important Loges wood, north-| plateau, taking more than 3,000 east of Grand Pre, was auied x and 232 guns,” the state cleared of the enemy. ment said a Po “At Patealto, we overcame enemy | | cur The Sea ‘VCut out this review of the week's news and mail it to { soldiers, sailors or other Seattleites away from home } $ ance and entered Relluno, “Our cavalry has reached the plains north of Pordenone. Between infantry has re: Sactle and San Stino, | passed the Livensa.” LONDON, Nov. 2-—Valenciennes ia wholly in the hands of the British, Field Marshal Haig announced today The city was taken this morning, aft- er hard fighting. | ‘The battle continued on a six-mile front south of the elty until this |morning. Several counter attacks wero repulsed. Four thousand addi tional prisoners were taken. “The fighting yesterday, south of Valencinnes, which was very severe, was continued until this morning on a battle front of six miles,” the state [saat said. “Large numbers of the enemy were killed. Many hostile counter attacks were repulsed. Four | thousand prisoners were taken. | “The Seventeenth corps, Gen. Ferguson, and the Twen ty-necond corps, under Gen. Godley gained the high ground southeast of | Valenciennes this morning, and, | pressing forward, seized the village of Preseau “A Canadian corps, under Gen, Cur | rie, after fighting in the outskirts of under Valenciennes, has now passed thru the town, which ts wholly in our fn sama | quirements of “every prudent man,” so that travel will be safe on all the enn Whether occupation of the German fleet was made a temporary or per- manent condition was not stated. But it was suggested that a question such ax final possession of the submarine | was made, but assurance was (oo will refer it to their superiors. Accept Stiff guard had been taken in these terms, | NEW UL S, PUSH 'Teutons a IMPERILS HUNS’ Terms, Diplomats Declare WAY OF ESCAPE *—, (By United Press Leased Wire, Direct to The Star) "WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.—“Germany or grand fleet would rest with the conference. H fj be 2g oo EI ly Battle ° | will accept stronger terms than is generally ly coming to a head. Within the|| J, W. T. Mason || believed,” a prominent allied diplomat here in official quarters that Austeia will submit to armis- | tice terms equivalent to uncondi- tional surrender. Versailles will finish its armis- ‘g_Diited Pron War Exwert | \gaid today. NEW YORK, Nov. 2—Gen. Per- | shing’s new advance toward the Lux lemburg frontier brings the Ameri cans within eight miles of the great communcation center of Stenay The direction of the American at tack is toward the Metz-Longuyon tack is toward the MetzLonguyon He expressed the opinion that Germany probably would yield to almost any limit the allies might go. Another well informed diplomat said: “The terms which the allies are offering to Germany will be stiffer than those which Turkey was forced to accept.” The kaiser may abdicate. President Wilson labored late last night and was astir early today on the information from the Versailles conference that there was reason to | believe that armistice terms fully |"UPP!Y rallway, which has Leveathas | (Continued on page $8) |cently under long-distance bombard Weekly News Letter for Men in Service ttle Star DRIVING ENEMY in three hours for masks. cademy building will hotel. © week total 82; Fig feaths ‘BOW cases, 1, for 73. hog yard workers to get 10 per | increase in wages. Tenants of cold apartment houses health department. Kick to Pattebeera and flu masks equally | Dopular lioween night. itt Vote expected at polls next because of influenza. Camp Lewis football team beats | Multnomah club of Portland. Twenty thousand Camp Lew: hola mimic Hy epcattle shipbuilding plants join in of car line purchase. elt. E. J. Brown cuts hole in his flu mask so he can smoke cigars. rt giving free anti- ns next week City witl fia serum injec All fyores and offices only open “from 10 m. to % p. m. next week. sere wearing flu masks chase eae for three blocks. He gets Duthie, yard head, bears in ten en” three big ice All Beattie order a while on st fu. City engineer Pied yaliway Year. “and twenty-five hundred weirs under fire by federal fair Fentals board. tle marine men mourn loss of ia, op in Lynn canal, with Jone of 226, Zen months will be required to anport American army home, men hear. to wear gauze | et cars to beat says Seattle ele- be completed by gy brattic fammed for two hours as underground cable First and Yerler. Moe SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, NOV. 2, 1918 ACROSS PEAKS _ Elections Tuesday. | Seattleites to get $3,000,000 inter- | Call “e Seattle draft men in No- r levy. jest yearly from their war loan in-| veutmenta, offi | BY HENRY WOOD | (United Preax Correspondent) | | WITH THE ITALIAN ARMIES IN THE FIELD, Nov ‘The Ital | serum, declared by City Health jails estimate. Re Beginning Monday, | One million U. 8 girls asked to ive $5 each to support army aux- j sive $5 a pp y antitoxin “Local | Ulery needs. girls support | plan. ans, follow! collapse of the Gra ——. ng ; tag dhgers prado tne| Commissioner J. 8. Mefiride to | Corporation Counsel Meier pans| pa defenses, are steadily ¢ sat public service commission for not! 4 | sins, lantinn is Saas be almost a sure preventive jeorrecting Seattie’s poor phone | Austrians A of Spanish influenza and pneu- service ward across the mountains toward | monia, will be administered free of charge by the city to those whose financial circumstances will not enable them to receive eee from private physi- meas, Dr, McBride was plan- ning the distribution of the serum at vantage places in the city, where it will be accessible. The stations have not yet been determined. Working with great intensity, city laboratory men have succeeded in preparing a large quantity of the vaccine, which must pass thru a certain period of growth before it is Two bandits hold up A. Borlund, | the frontier. fe etn vente return the money |enmy’s Piave army, completely cut in disgust. off from the other Austrian forces, George Rumbaburo, chef at the|is being pursued across the Venetian American Oyster House, is locked in| plains, constantly under the threat of ice cheat by robber, who rifles cash | encirclement from the north register of $125. | At the same time the | Albers Is Indicted by Federal Jurors PORTLAND, Nov. 2.—Henry Al- bers, millionaire millman, was today indicted by a federal grand jury on| a sedition charge. Albers recently | Dr. James Sinclair, Los Angeles | entomologist, informs Seattle that | beer-drinking butterflies 12 Inches | wide exist her | All stores, except food and drug | stores, artially closed Thursday and Friday and all day Saturday to prevent flu spread lot tite mieer of death tn, action resigned as president of the Albers | effective. Two hundred thousand onet instructor in the 91st division, Bros.’ Milling Co, which has held | injections have been administered in received in Seattle. large contracts for the allies, He 18| geattle since the first of October, | Major General Charles Goula| free on $10,000 bail. | Dr. McBride says. Treat, heading American rive | ¥SAESERS | With stores and offices closed and | ogmiges Avetris. te rother of Harry | BORDEN TO PEACE MEET people at home Saturday, but four anol | OPTAWA, Nov. 2.—Sir Robert | ‘ths and 74 cases were reported Primo Lawrence, 3660 Phinney! ee sy up to noon. ave., listed in casualties as “miss- | Borden, premier of Canada, will go Cont Closi lng.” ia "O. K." and still with Amer-|to Europe as a delegate to the’peace ntinue Closing jcans, he writes friends | conference, if one is called as a re- wult of the present negotiations, it was learned today. Canada in to have a voice in the final settlement, Mayor Hanson announced that the regulations ordering offices, stores and wholesale houses, except those serving food and medical needs, to Dr. J. Louis Saboung!, former sec- | retary to Abdul Hamid, sultan of | Turkey, arrives in tle. Hel speaks ‘seven langua, | Ten Milwaukee union men say they were fraudulently brought to Seattle as.strikebreakers by Frye & gg ie —sotbagg WA CH FOR EX RA! John Boyd, Armenian, closes hin | | ry drug store and holds carnival at his | Aleppo—John's old home town. Big things are happening. Any moment the com- plete collapse of Germany may be announced. When that happens, The Star will be on the job to give you the news promptly. Watch for The Star extra Sun- day—if the expected Austrian' and Hun surrender should come, if the kaiser abdicates, if the armistice terms are settled. 7 when he hears allies saptare | “A. La,” mysterious “nut” corre- spondent, writes twentieth letter to mayor urging that national capital) be moved to Seattle. Says his first name js Alonzo. | Patrolman Robert Hagen jumps) ning board of auto containing liquor supply. Three inmates) of car put on speed, beat Hagen on | head with wrenches and throw him | into the street, making their ea- cape. Closing Orders to main in Effect J open at 10 a. m. and crose at 3 p, m., | will continue in effect Monday, and | probably longer | “We've got to eliminate crowding in street cars to prevent a big loss of life,” he said, “and to do it we must keep up the closing order. Employes must not be kept longer hours, and then released to jam traffic in the rush hour, when in dustrial war workers are being car- ried.” Restricted to Drugs Provided people comply in spirit and action with health regulations, the pandemic is slated for an early departure from Seattle, Dr. McBride stated Saturday, while issuing sup: plementary regulations in response to the numerous queries which were poured into the offices of the health | department regarding the closing | orders, | Restaurants are unrestricted as to | opening and closing hours, Dr. Me- | Bride says, and may serve ice cream and confections with meals, but not as a side issue. Drug stores are | prohibited from selling confections, cigars or clgarets Sunday as well as Saturday, The public markets will be closely patrolled, and crowds assembling in them broken up, beginning Saturday and continuing thru next week. In answer to numerous questions, Dr. McBride said Saturday that a person recovering from influenza | should remain indoors at least three | |go outdoors until all | sneezing, ete, have vanished. Don’t Favor Quarantine In answer to a telegram dis | (Oontnites on page bf ‘GARY. PREMIER Count Karolyi has been appointed premier, and M zatthany foreign minister of the new Hungarian cabinet, according to a Budapest dispatch today, days, following the disappearance of fever, and that it is not advisable to | coughing, ment of Gen. Pershing’s artillery. | The movement is headed straight for Stenay, where the maip Luxem | burg highroad crosses the Meuse. It is apparently Gen, Pershing’s purpose not to concentrate his ef. | forts on the secondary work of ham pering the movement of supplies for | the German armies in France, but to continue his attempts to cut off the jerman retreat from France by way of Luxemburg. Wins Success forward of the Americans toward Stenay is the most | successful maneuver Gen. Pershing jhas conducted since his first offen- |sive north of Verdun, over a month | | The sudden lurch | Stenay is now directly menaced. | {Only two more advances similar to the one made by the Americans in | Bulgarians Establish have no adequate room to conduct al the past 24 hours would be necessary to close the Stenay gap. Thereafter the Germans in Eastern France will retreat homeward thru the difficult | mountain passes of the Ardennes, ex- cept for some fortunate units which may be able to squeeze into the | western tip of Luxemburg by way of the 12-mile stretch between Stenay | and the Ardennes, The strong tesumption of the American effort at this time to reach the Luxemburg border means that Marshal Foch is bringing to bear on the Germans the only argument about the allies’ armistice terms that they can understand, When the terms are presented to |the kaiser, the fact that the Ameri- | cans are still going ahead toward) Luxemburg must exert a profound influence upon the decision of the German general staff. It is strictly in accord with the higher necessities of the case that |the enemy shall be given no rest | while unconditional surrender is be CZECHS IN CONTROL OF AUSTRIAN NAVY LONDON, Nov. 2—The Austro- Hungarian navy has been handed over to the Czecho-Slovaks’ national council, which is in Agram, it was |announced today in a wireless mes: | sage from Vienna. The dispatch said an imperial proclamation | ordered the navy to be handed over. Italians and U. S. Men Land on Austrian Coast WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.—Italian forces, accompanied by American troops, have ef- fected a landing on the Austrian coast of the Adriatic, near Pola, a Swiss dispatch re- |ceived here today thru diplomatic channels announced. It was indicated that the land- |ing party is under the protection of the en- tente Adriatic fleet, how in absolute contro] of Adriatic waters. ‘Republic; King Is Out LONDON, Nov. 2.—King Boris has ab- dicated and a Bulgarian republic has been established at Tinova, according to a Cen- tral News dispatch from Vienna today. M. Stambuliniki, at the head of a peasant army of 40,000, is reported to be the repub- lican leader. The Central News claimed to have veri- fication of the Copenhagen dispatch from Vienna. '23 Foe Divisions Revolt ZURICH, Nov. 2.—Twenty-three Aus- trian divisions, which mutinied and deserted the Italian front, are fighting each other, Vienna newspapers declare. LONDON, Nov. 2.—The German sub- marines are concentrating at their bases, ac- cording to information revealed here today. 2 CE ee