The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 9, 1918, Page 1

oo Full Leased Wire of the United Press Association. Complete Service of the Newspaper Enterprise Association. - Graei THE GREATEST Entered an Second “TOLUME 21. VOLUME 21. NO. a nad WOES Fai {0 PROTECT TOWN DISPATCH FROM WEBB MILLER (By United Press Leased Wire, Direct to The Star) pera THE AMERICANS IN PRUSSIA, Dec. 8.— troops are in Coblenz. A small detachment, at| request of the German authorities, went ahead of the) Lol the Third army for immediate occupation | tt Rhine city. It traveled in a special train to arrive in at. noon. Premature occupation of the center of the American! | bridgehead resulted from a written request by the burgo-| 7 commander, who asked that Americans | immediately after departure of the German) reported in that} lack of bitterness, considering the officials de} Germans admit they believe Ameri ca’s intervention snatched victory | away from them. Several reaxons are assigned. One iis thatthe people are so weary | they are glad the war is over, even | if it means defeat. Another In that te hrs or ete they erubenit | bra crate, the theory that the plying a ‘shrewd propaganda game, thus trying to , Ba sympathy of «the Ameri- they would a 4 2 bd f ih let E ! i : i : phone and the billeting of officers pwtth civilian families, it has not af- fected the private life of the Ger mans in the slightest. 20,000 YANKS ON WAY HOME NEW YORK, Dec. 9.—After ast of the roughest voyages in history, | the American transport Sierra, with 35 officers and 1,581 men, all conva-| people, yet there | lescents, arrived here teday from overt act by Brest. A number of transports, de of responsible age. layed by storms, are due to arrive! ‘The military officials experienced during the day tion of enemy conntries| Army authorities estimate that ap | @msider. this a remarkable record. | proximately 20,000 troops from over | They are puzzied to account for the | seas will be landed at this port dur a EEEEERee! WARDEN PANS FORM "ECEMPEROR FORM TRIBUNAL } | | | | Missed his vocation, he should have FOR HUN TRIALS BY HAROLD E. BECHTOL | European Manager of N. E. A. | imilian Harden, in an interview with the Berlin correspondent of the Lon. LONDON, Dec. 9.—The allies secon mean business when they say (prens. . “The kaiser had no personal part| ‘ey intend to punish the Ger. in the war, He was discredited and| man criminals. a tool of the junkers. They Steps have already been taken thought him a coward and feared he| ¢ set up @ grand court of the Would fail to sign the declaration of . | Sar, 20 they sent him to Norway,| ‘ilies to try the bochen guilty of j saw the kaiser’s facade,| outrages and outlawry—from but never saw his interior. William Hohenzollern down ‘The armistice terms are hard. If| the German private criminal. they form the basis of the peace Acting under the authority of the tems, Germany will be ruined. BY | pritish war cabinet, Attorney Gen Doasession of Alsace-Lorraine | ora smith has named a commit And'Hilesia, she cannot become an in ia h ia already at work on the pre Ak i @wtrial country. Millions of Ger Mans are sincere, The entente (Continued on Page Four) fhoyld treat them as men, not as} ina WILSON SILENT ABOARD THE U. 8. 8. GEORGE ee ° ° WASHINGTON, Dec. &—(Night) (By Wireless to the United Press) President Wilson hae « jon of his views concerning dis position of the former kaiser, but he is expected to be consulted by in ternational law experts in this re ard. Mother, Ill, Deserts Baby, 3 Months Old n no indi Hi $Have you a mes- sage for the bank- er? Do you want (to speak to the Merchant? Have you something to ¢ say to the work- With many requests over th t ingm 9 telephone for information concern ; an: ing a 2months-old baby boy desert A imei the Byron hotel O17 ae cisenen read = The First ave, Sunday night, city he | Star; otherwine it could @| pital physicians Monday stated that me | aaa tave the largest audi the little fellow would provided | amy ne Narchwest with a home in short time i on care for my bY Rows Moore? " PHONY MAIN 600 Tam Mt and cannot keep him. Hi Mother The baby was dincovere You Can Have Mt Charged & tre, If G, O'Connell shortly cecccecoes after 10 p.m .| president regards formation of the | krems and is expected | shalt not be clouded with minor ia * | sues, | forgotten thie Christmas. ay man covernment * Talk Peace — Details on Wilson Ship: BY ROBERT J. RENDER | United Press € ABOARD THE U, 8. 8. GEORGE | WASHINGTON, Dec. §—(Night)— | The president today neld his frat | conference with his advisers. Becre | tary Lansing and Ambassador White had a long talk with him concerning America’# altitude .toward specific | | problem at the peace conference. | Wiliam Howard Teft’s specoh + New York, favoring the league of nations, was read with mubh* offi. cla matisfaction ft iv known the league of nations as one of the fun- damental objects of the peace oon to take the thie important matter | stand © that ‘The weather is getting warmer! and the seas smoother as the George | Washington approaches the Azores, which are expected to be reached Tuesday President Wilson and hie party at tended religious services this morn- ing with the enlisted men in the low er quarters. He joined in the Sad ing and prayers Later he rested and then took walk about, the decka, The youngeters along the road to the Washington country club, where the president plays golf, will not be The pres | ident has arranged to purchase ean: | and presents for thee children, | who always waved thelr bands and/ saluted him on his way to the club, | The gifts will be delivered by the White House car, the same as usual, | but of course some other than Mrx. Wilson will distribute them. | LONDON, Deg. 9—-Philip Scheide- | member of the present Ger declared, in an in terview with the Herlin correspond. | ent. of a London, newspaper, that | jermany will have six delegates at a the peace conference, and that they will be backed by the national as sembly PLANNING ARMY. OF 500,000 MEN WASHIN abe, De The war department will soon ask congress to authorize @ peace time standing army of half 4 million men, accord The department does not contem: | plate recommending universal mili tary training. 1 two outstanding features of the party tal army reorg au tion plans were learned today from | 4 source close to both Secretary of War, Baker and Chief of Staff March COUSIN OF WILSON PREe (Special to The Star by N PARIS, Dec Mins Cunning hem, a distant cousin of President | Wilson, who bas been ‘a prisoner in the hands of the Germans four years is been released e ris S Pa | Only hid t as@ yj, NF 3 DAY Ga~wawiD Qvazeu'raan cAR DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST U.S. FORCES ARE RUSHED INTO COBLENZ The Seattle Sta NIGHT EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE Por Yoar, by Mail, $5.00 to $9.08 Clase Matter May 0, 189 at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wee i, under the Act of Congress March #, 1879 ATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1918. Weather Forecast: aeeeaea Lee a Pa, On October 25, The Star printed the first of several editorials, calling attention to the fact that at that time plans were already being discussed at the capital for transcontinental and coast airplane mail service. The Star urged that Seattle hesitate not a moment; that the city at once present its claims as a logical terminal for the coast-to-coast route. But .the war was still on—and Seattle passed up its opportunity. Neither the city officials, the chamber or even the Northwest Aero club, saw airplane mail except in the hazy distance, And so Seattle is NOT named as a terminal city. designated. Airplane mail from the Atlantic will go | to San Francisco first and then come north to Seattle. But if we do not NOW prepare and provide suit- able accommodations, such as = sites, we may lose even oar Germany Is Lacking in Strong Men BY J. W. T. MASON Written for the United Preas NEW YORK, Dec. %.—The spread San Francisco has been of disorder in Germany ix beginning | to menace the stability of the pres ent combination of moderate social iste, Bolaheviam is not threatened, but 4 more radical policy on the part #, Wa government Ie certain to re in ee This is a matter of city-wide interest. If it was [ot We government hon io. practic | very little power and has been able THOUSANDS UNDER ARMS IN BERLIN: RIOTS SPREADING | (By United Pri Leased Wire, Direct to The Btar) LONDON, Dec. 9.—Sweden has severed diplomatic re- lations with the Bolsheviki, according to an Exchange tel- |egraph dispatch from Copenhagen today. | The Swedish foreign office has requested M. Voroffski, | Bolshevik minister, to leave Stockholm immediately, the |dispatch adds. BERLIN, Dec. 9.—Twenty-eight persons were killed and |48 wounded, in street fighting here on December 6, between | government troops and forces of the Spartacus group of . radicals, in which the latter wére completely defested. The Spartacusites, under Karl Liebknecht, planned a coup 4d’ etat in which the police station and AUSTRIANS ARE chancellor's palace were to be seized EDr and the government ejected. Ap peals were made to the workmen to call a general strike. Many of them responded and marched into the streets of the royal palace. Spartacusites placed machine guns before the reichstag building. Lieb- Knecht addressed the crowds from the roof of a motor bus, while the republic.” ¥ The mobs were finally incited to the public buildings, but | f | | attack not as apparent to city officials on October 25 as it was to The Star, at least now it is clear that air mail ser- vice is a definite thing. Let's get busy. Preparedness counts. A committee, representative of the whole city, should * be appointed at once to take charge of this matter. INCREASE OF FLU IS — CLOGGING HOSPITALS With little, whitefaced ’ chill- dren lying desperately ill with influenza en cots in the | | | ;outaide, partitioned off several days) . Was filled with patients, Three | | Httle gt lay on cots in a row. | The opening of the old courthouse | hospital proved an immediate relief to the city hospital, additional cases being diverted there, This allowed the public safety a second wave of influenza, seemingly mor: serioos than the first, aweepin over the elty, | the city hospital corps to catch up Seattle Mond.» ‘cces ao crisis in | with its work, and elimimate con- public health, according to — gestion, so far as possible. Hicatn Commissioner J, S. Me- Nurses and nurses’ aids are ur-| | ently needed for the staff of the| At noon Monday, five deathh that |! courthouse emergency hospital, | san ate dundas, night and | Dr. McBride mys, ‘The, situation | early. Monday mofriny, had beenire:| there is expected: to “be critical in, & few days. and the present staff ported, aridi itiie belived by health | department officials that Monday's |W! Ye inadequate death fotal will be ‘higti, Seved ine| Dr. MeBride Monday urged the! practicabilityeof vaccination against | Nuenta deatha wete! recorded arty PORT FIGURES LEAP | TO GIGANTIC TOTAL . and Seattle's export import Port Warden Pa to the city trade has leaped to the gigantic | council average of over $2,000,000 a d Foreign exports thru Seattle to sex to a total value of | taled $15,544,186, and imports $282 70, * for the first six | 900,927, during the six months just months of 1918 totaled ‘Thin is a gain of $119,644,070 over If Seattle succeeds in controlling the first six months of 1917 the vast new Russian commerce These flures* were made public even iter figures will pile up, today in the semiannual report of pointed out PETAIN HONURED NEW R. R. BILL | METZ, Dec, 9—General Petain re. WASHINGTON, Dec, 9—A na ‘eived the baton of a marshal of tional railway system under federal France here today, on the occasion ineorporation and character, but not of the opening ceremanies of the for owned by the g ment, is provid mal transfer of Alsaco-Lorraine to ed in a bill introduced in the house French authority itoday by Representative Gray. . | ployers, who make promises one day | } and break them the next. to wecomplinh practically nothing in| were defeated after a sharp encoun- the way of reforms. |ter, in which machine guns were used The workers in German industries | on both sides. are stil) negotiating with their em: | _ PARIS, Dec. $.—Chancellor Ebert's government is bringing new troops ‘This xituation cannot last. Yet, it}into Berlin in an effort to crush the is not pomible for the Eberta- Haase Spartacts movement, which has now group to promulgate at present ef. | spread thruout the northern suburbs, | fective regulatians in behalf of the | According to a Zurich dispatch to | workers because no sufficient power | L'Information today. exints in Germany for carrying out Pillaging continues, the dispatch orders issued in Berlin. | says, especially in the populous ‘The present status cannot be im-| parts. proved until the forthcoming con-; One confused dispatch received stituent assembly decided upon Ger-| here from Berlin declares Karl Lieb- many'’s future form of government! Knecht followers have organized a and the people accept the decision. | revolution thruout Germany. The | reichstag building in Berlin is report Fermal Anarchy ed to have been taken and the trou Germany is now a nation without | ble appears to have spread to Munich | a head and is in a condition of for-| and Pilsen, Bloody riots continue in mal anarchy. That the usual an-| Berlin archic conflicts do not prevail is! Another message says that allied due to the innate sense of obedience | intervention in Prussia may save the drilled for many generMtions into | government. the German character and also the | |fear of utter destruction that might | te Germany's lot if the conditions | of Russia were to be duplicated. | The disorders now threatening | Germany give evidence of being eco- | nomic én origin father than political and for that reason they can be quelled by an Improvement in the COPENHAG Dec. 9.—Ten thou#and members of the republican guard were ordered under arms in Berlin last night to quell rioting | there, according to dispatches re- ceived from that city today. The best Bolshevik organizers from Russia are arriving in Berlin material well beng of the German | to lead the Spartacus group. Among | people ‘ them is. said to be “Lewine.” It is T . |not known whether this is a mis-| } spelling of Premier Lenine'’s name. | Sens irae) as nttat Se: EOD iejsosion atatlang wares weno’ (1) s Spartacualtes, broke: up noneocial edad sack shies aeahhcedn tained by the. city, aid “tint teary! Ex-Crown Prince ist meetings in Munich, and compel mate wat ae @ pl r elty al . ed the police to promise removal of | pager echo i erie att ie Inttone 1 by De Me Bride Carry Revolver } te from tat city today ore 716 cases reported Sat.| that in event the quarantine system 4 i a is rege ; | There Were 715 canes reparied BAt| tatix to khow a perceptible decrease |) -, AMSTERDAM. | Dec. 9—“The }| BERN Switzerland, Deo. The} hith département 'eniployes Were |i!) déathe and Influenan cases in aif’ Os covcive visitora, unless he }{7 mann legation in Berne has ceased | ; short time, Seattle will again be un to exist. Bolshevism refused to re viehed | Monday > piacarding” -hosaee | as tan is permitted by the Dutch au- ?/ onect the neutrality of Switzerland, oder the new influenza isolation "0 - a thorities to carry a revolver, it and 20 the representatives of the #0 *, which Dr, MeRride thinks ‘ . was learne here today viet w: politely but firmly told to began. ee is bee bei Frisco Police Are ; ahs af ree cite get out. Several days were given eity, reports of new influ A ne has abdicated, s regards * 4 “pens enza caver and names and addresses.| Not Wearing Masks)\ iimseit ax an interned soldier, ts \| {hem to make thelr preparations, ane were poured in from private physi:| SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 9.—De-|} indicated by his request that he ¢/ man border in 15 automobiles, escort cians and recorded in the health de-|«pite Mayor's Rolph’s proclamation, |{ be allowed to wear mufti while }/0)'to'the frontier by two companies | ment's books calling upon the city to mask}{ visiting a dentist in this city ce wine theoeil | he old courthouse emergency hos- against the influenza, even the po It is understood the govern ys inde sellieded a4 | pital was opened at noon Monday, | lice went unniisked today ment has granted him permission z completely renovated, and a stream) Aitho fewer. cases of flu were re-|) to come here and will provide )| A orobatic Dishes of ambulances and private autos | ported te Health Officer Hassler |{ bim with an escort xtarted the conveyance of influenza | threatened to ask the supervisory |? A special German cook has ar Annoy Georgetown sufferers fo that destination for an ordinance compelling San ¢ rived at Wieringen, The former infie ‘china’ On the Ginner tables ¥i:| In the eity hospital, influenza) Franciseo to wear masks until the ( crown prin quoted as having }! rates vigorously out in George-} casey accumulated ao rapidly day disease is wiped out in the entire |§ said that he would die if he were }\ town, in. the neighborhood of the and Monday morning, that the hall) state forced to eat food “a la Dutch.” }) traction company's power house, amr! when the folks sit down to the eve meal ks behave in peculiar fashion Mrs. hinek Pinchot VIENNA, Austria, Dec. 9—(Via Switzerland and Paris.}—1 find three million people in Austria on the edge of a Bolshevik outbreak, which may start at any minute,.tho quiet prevails for the moment. Two machine guns and 200 rifles, found hidden in one factory, are but an indication of the, preparation be ing made for such an outbreak. ~ I visited a barracks of the Red Guards where there were 800 men, armed and organized by Erwin Kish, an ex-Londoner, and Alfred Walker, formerly of Cleveland, “The Red Guards,” said Walker, “propose to seize the estates of the archdukes for the public benefit." I was besieged with questions by Vienna journalists as soon as [ alighted at the station. I am very | much in the limelight in the Vienna newspapers today. “Will the allies occupy Vienna?” “Do the allies propose to reinstate the emperor, or will they compel Austria to unite with the German people?” These were questions most fre quently asked me. Austria would welcome the Ameri- cans, for the people believe their coming would insure food supplies. The Viennese say that the Czecho- Slovaks have refused food and coal to Vienna. The city has a three weeks’ sup- ply of food, and but enough coal to ast two weeks, under the present ‘ations. Operation of subways has been halted. Tramears may be stopped and the supply of electricity is threatened, Hidden stores of food are supply- ing the wealthy, and knowledge of this fact is stirring revolt in the lower class, whose misery is un- speakable. I visited ten charity kitchens, each of which is feeding 6,000 per- sons daily. The ration is a half pint of sickening soup, containing cabbage, potatoes and flour like sawdust, ‘i x Chileans Place ¥ Wrong Color on Wilson Message SANTIAGO, Chile, Dec. 9.—The tone of the Santiago press indicates that a bad impression was caused here by a dispatch from Lima, stat- ing that President Wilson has offer- and frequently gain as much as one | ed esgic se the controversy be- vour during the night tween Chile and Peru. In some cir Is Given Divorce Sometimes whole dwellings trem.| cles it was believed the Peruvian in- ‘ Asics a 9.—-Mrs, AMOS | die trom garret to crtlar terpretation of Wilson's message was n tlt of, Berle Sn ten “ All this, claim the residents, is Malicious: er husband is well known due to the vibration set up by pow 3 us om oe ang founders of the pro- | or tttion machinery Hogland Resting gressive pa : “" Walter F. Meler, corporation ° rhein ent nae ped the | counsel, has ruled that if vibration Today in Eugene sue ta, Proceed Withouk MAKINE ANY | 4s /q public nuisance the remedy lies! EUGENE, Ore., Dec, &—After ber Mra. Pinchot receives the custody.‘ the bands of the city council. ing in the for more than an hour, of the 14-year-old daughter, Rosa | Surine wh he ree well bia mond, and Pinchot is entrusted with RS sight in t and was suppost ae iilarshin of the won, citera | Envestigate Death to have been definitely o¢ton the laa Pinchot, IE, named after his uncle. of War Prisoners "” ° 8 "ete fisht trom Seattle Gifford Pinehot, who headed the bu sAREE DEB manak "to Sacramento, Lieut. A Hor- reau of forestry during the Roose-| PARIS. | Dec eparation for! land, army aviator from Mather field, the shooting » French prison: returned to Eugene at noon and an- velt administration wer - ers to death and the serious wound: | pounced that he would not attempt ing of 15 at the Langensaliza, Prus-| the flight today. “foxy Ferdinand,” Bulgaria's ex-| sian prison camp, reported by the netic king, now in Vienna, saya he's go- demanded b: the } neh govern “Shell shock” is a term frowned ing to spend the rest of his life;demandde by the French govern-| on by sclentists, They call it mew studying botany. | ment | rosis IEF ORDERS TO LEAVE EF EBERT CALLS TROOPS |