The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 10, 1918, Page 1

RRR AR AR ARARAAARARAAAAARARARRARRARARAL. PPP LP LPL PPP PD PPP LAP PAD TEN PER CENT OFF! Soldiers who have fought and bled; soldiers who have faced death, will not be permitted te own uniforms, according to a war department decision. They will be permitted to buy t per cent reduction of their original cost. Oh, the shame of it! In place of honoring these men, some bureaucratic official wants Uncle Sam . with them—to bargain with | them over their fighting togs. What an insult to the fighters-what a humiliation to the great American public. THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST ee ee eee si) Entered as Second Class Matter May 3, 1599, at the Postoffice At Meattle, Was h., under the Act of Congress March 8, 1879. ee VOLUME 21. NO, 242 SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1918. Weather Forecast: Ton!sht and Wednesday rain; warmer tonight; moderate southwenterly galem, WIRELESS WARNS WORLD WILHELM TRIES TO COMMIT SUICIDE First Seale Man Mastered Out Life Saved Americans Urge Just Peace Puzzled by g After Service in France Is Home | New Moves| £0 Prevent Vast, rate tin wer New Catastrophe q ‘ ( STOP THIS HAGGLING: ~| CLOSE THE CAR DEAL One month has elapsed make a further reduc- since the voters approved tion, the city (which up the purchase of the Puget to this time, has paid Sound Traction line by nothing to the company), a vote of four to one. should have the privilege Since that time the com- of paying the debt in pany, the council and the place of the company, ration counsel have and because of this fail- backed and filled and ure the company is to quarreled like children. forfeit $1,000,000. Seattle is tired of this... This, practically petty procedure. agreed to by the city and The company agreedto the company, protects sell for $15,000,000 pub- _ the city amply. Count Karolyi of Austria Is | Also Reported to Have President Wilson’s Terms for Settlement BY RAYMOND CLAPPER Written for the United Press | . | WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—A warning against inflict. SITUATION "BEWILDERING | ing a “Bismarckian peace” on Germany, and credited to the KEEN London Daily News, was made public here today thru al- Correspondent. | lied channels. va ie oo }0.—Do the Euro- The text of the article was picked up in this country pean allies Intend fully to carry (from a wireless, apparently sent out from Lyons, France, fa Foy spirit of the 1 peace over the signatures of the committee on public information Tried Death |EX-KAISER IS DEPRESSED COPENHAGEN, Dee. desperate but unsuccessful at- tempt was made by the former A 0 | Paris representatives. kalner to commit suicide, it is |} lic utility bonds, payable How is the company ‘This in the question most serious- declared by the the Lelpaiger’ tage || in 20 years, Cod bonds _ protected = ay ay ly raloed recently in | Americas Urges Wilson Backers to Speak 8 bevoead mewapaper |] to be a lien on the cal out its ol Seis seamen ees] eminent carne, oad Sapo he mi yl te kk. a wounded in wu 1 es were on etm. Sa aE yi ey Ay ech, should reduce the ¢ - aoe themselves heard before it is oa late ae woe the ar and saten “Tere Pepi args epeechity— i) = Bdicaled an bespattered by theo by the only voices one viet | Aakeiies DS nn secniy cecatinens| ‘If the spirit, animating at the present moment the surplus over expendi- tures to redeem the util- Karolyi, the Hungarian premier, at every spike and pound of inmaar AMSTERDAM, Deo. mec | tempted to commit suicide Sunday, | according to a dispatch from Buda-|| Wire is accounted for. That could be taken Great Brita t of the| press and gai . politicians of Europe and America, ins con’ nee eyostved Keng. ibang «| Yet the haggling con- care of by an agreement 1s cre Barter ‘election akmipatan in | Of the peat conference, there will be born a cat the polities! situation. tinues. that the city should pay years. | that will be the end of the European social system. First, came the appar- off the bonds out of the ent discovery that the receipts of the car company owed a lot of fine That would compel money—some 27 million the city authorities to dollars. manage the property Yet this ought to have soundly, and not reck- occasioned no surprise. _lessly. It was published widely This is all the company and broadly thatthe com- _is entitled to. It is not Americins are generally bewild-| “The world may eventually emerge safe for democ: fered. | Some are frankly astonisbed; but it will be in ways that our present ruling classes would | pledge to make peace on the basis do well, in their own interests, to avoid. With the example of Wilson's January § speech, and) of Russia before us, is it statesmanship to drive the German | his subsequent addresses, people to despair? | Expects Acceptance ; Fas |The United: Press is in a position Points Out Danger of Anarchistic | to state the lent ex! . the’ ilies, as weilas Germany, to| Alliance Between Germans and Russ |adhere to the principles laid down Ex-Emperor Now Writing Defense | of His Actions LONDON, Dec. 10.—Two German experts on international law have conferred with the former kaiser, who is dictating an autobiography, which will be submitted in his de 4 : 4 “D editors and politicians see no danger for thi ° ‘0 cast last ve an | in these speeches, with the exception lO our t , ) da: r the por ng pet ay on wer tg ie ieee aero Poe pe id the city | of clause 2, upon which the allies rest of Europe, in an alliance of desperation between an- spondent of the Express. 000 additional loan. should tax itself to make [| "Noctua ay tae dite |archistic forces of Germany and Russta? 7 “Can Bolshevism, energized and strengthened, be de- esti, te 1 peel dom yen resmeien pended upon to halt at the Rhine? | “National armamenta must be re- “Are there no explosive elements in Italy and Spain? | duced to the lowest point consistent | Ts France herself so utterly immune from every instinct? Pegi a ose oat ax ead “Are English lower orders quite as tame as our capital- The exemperor is said to have! abandoned his uniforms and is wear- ing mufti. LIEBKNECHT IS The city, of course, up any deficiency in case does not want to assume __ the gross receipts were this debt. And the com- not sufficient. It must pany does not expect it take the utility bands un- to. An agreement was der these conditions, vir- Andy, Believed Dead | | ‘ ts. ist press imagines? Has America no labor problem of her Drops in on Friends ric dhe Sys hon ea” pot "othe | Sear arena Om 5 as oo 4 0 DEFYING ALLIES are to te put in escrow. be so yl oe e city will }]| justification of the recent authorita. | Sena me Sepak entaniee chair so re against all — Andy Th When the company re- break faith. | tive British statement, the central | “ theught ppt dead. Rn ot Rata Sree ree | PARIS, Dec. 10—"“We refuse! duces its debt to $13-000,. Mayor Hanson, in | powers must pay the cost ot the war | “A Wilson peace, bere eae to people still ‘They bad heard the report— [return to the States, tho, French or Pape Hag agree 000, the city is to turn an interview yesterday, to the limit of their capacity. |in their passions and hatreds, giving to the war-maddened It is admitted that the French | 8, , ve ochthereiog * S08 emageseat. of. the world new hopes, new visions, may yet save Europe.” (Continued on page 4) over $1,000,000 of the said: “The people voted bonds, the remaining to four to one for the pur- stay in escrow. When chase. We'll put the deal the company reduces the over, if it’s humanly debt further, the city is possible.” repeatediy. |no French girls. ‘They were always | {0 overthrow the prestnt Kove |, Then came the rumor that he | talking about it when lying around yi noche, leader of the German | lest a tes. ia i the trenches, smoking and rest-| Fi sneviki, declared in a prociama: | And finally came Andy Me tore the draft called Private|#on issued in Berlin, according to aj ; Monday night, with a crin | Before th . Zurich dispatch to L'Information to | Such indemnity as many are calling for, the article de- |clares, would mean occupation of Germany by allied armies for years, during which time “English, French, American PRESIDENT T0 and Italian working men will occupy German territory and | | act a role of slave driver to the German people.” face, but Some (Thompson to the colors, he gave his |* } day he lived thru the jonne |services to one of the local ship |e it aw naw been proclaimed to make a further pay- That's the kind of talk 2 and fought in a @elage of | y« corer i bomen, is PO lin Bertin, the dispatch says, Two ment. Seattle expects to hear his would make mammoth armies. President Wilson’s fire without a are Disses Corte In to return to a Seattle ship-;hundred and twenty persons have Always there would from the corporation | agai for a peace without annexation has been forgotten, - _ Andy is back home at 22: mone Yard after a long, bilaatut r long, biisatul rest. lheen killed and a thousand wounded = sserve of $1,000,- ° ia d fi the article states. As for a lasting peace, as demanded by Ave, lie is the first Seattle boy to| yard after a long. |in the recent #kirmishes in the Ger- pe a reserve ,000,- counsel, too, and from be mustered out of the American Ex: | man capital between Bolshevik 000 to the advantage of — the councilmen, and from the city, as long as the — the traction officials. y owes any mon- Four or five hours ey. If, after the com- of sincere discussion be- pany has reduced the tween all these parties debt to $15,000,000, it should end the whole Wilson, the article declares that the “Chauvinistic press of __ NEXT FRID FRIDAY Paris” is discussing the proper moment for the “next war against Germany—against the German republic, this time, oh ae ae * Mentions Attack of Roosevelt and WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 President Wilson has called a Lodge Upon President’s Peace Ideas Belionary Forces and returned ‘0| 5 FLU C ASES |forees ‘and. government. troops in New York city. Other Seattle @en have been mustered out at Camp Lewis. But they had not} | been overseas. | Thor: ember of Com-| h nee! g of the cabinet for this pany Cae Engineers, 2oun a] What is designated as a “danger. IN FULL SWING fails, for any reason, to matter. aternoon by wireless, ibe was | wi i Turning to America, the document notes opposition td Vision, which arrived in France last] ..1, high” total of influenza cases ts | announced at the White House i son. ‘ e nas seen all | today. At his request, Vice “ - snl “I bring back only the memories,"|)o0 2" Totorted ‘Tuesday morning, | Th counter revolution at na ” at the conference between the | | aU iences thruou yids laces ridicule upon the mere @ys Andy. “Since coming back, 1 with three. deaths. A. total.ot.-632| 1" = aeae according to reports | “= BERGI 000 YANKS heads of the executive branches. | |idea of a league of nations. e@ says it is nonsensical and Mave learned that reports had M¢| seg was recorded for Monday, with | ree Ino. report : 5 _,. hypocritical. A league of nations to prevent future war Milled or tacerated several times: 17 deaths. ‘iar’ ie ; “ ~ would necessitate lowering American tariffs and “would be pe am glad to be back, but I won't) 1+ i4 estimated by the health de ace tn French girls. In My’ partment that the average of daily the French girls think * | cases is now 500, as large as during | jouncil | Brat deal of the American boys.) 13 CHICAGO, Dee, 10.—One juror h Vice versa. 1 believe that many | orkmen's and soldiers’ coun. ‘them wae under ban cil here announced today that Bol will marry in France, and) mne oid courthouse emergency hos against the commercial interests of America.” ‘x-President Taft calls for conscription being made permanent, so that Germany, which is to be immediately dis- s tomorrow | a >med, may be kept in perpetual subjection. Senator Lodge ter its course will no peace that satisfies the German people can satisfy us. “est WATCHES TRIAL = DUE IN TODAY NEW YORK, Dee, 10.—More than been selected late today for the Ber-| 10,000 troops are due in New York wert here. The defense discharg the recent epidemic, when the city harbor today on transports and hos. |sheviats planned a coup d'etat in later, the government 0 mnpletely renovated, | . ed one man after another in the first 6 ® northwest, The president | Sa) Make Kome nm for the boys verre ne Mae nicty were talon | Hamburg, last. night, Leb tatead, Bat 1 using four of its 10 peremp: | >!tal ships. and his party will arrive at Brest “At the present moment, the larger and more influential pi | ¢ i pe trated. Several arrests were made The Empress of Britain was the | Friday morning section of the American press, is demanding what practice ~\| there by noon Tuesday. de The health department appeals | uesday to nurses and nurses’ aida to| German mine hidden in cellar of | , |help out in the emergency. Nurses |Bethancourt railroad station ex are needed at both the courthouse | ploded = three nths after emergency and city hospitals. were driven out MAIL AVIATOR 1 Otiaruch have] ally amounts to a Bismarckian formula—‘“that our enemies tand ready for 4) be Jeft nothing but their eyes to weep with.” Jig momentarily | first big transport to arrive. There! McCormick Proceedings | were 76 officers and 2,239 men| been advise aboard. ‘The vessel left Liverpool | “ll to Fran The message he in J (Wireless station at Washington ™ , Siven out here wee signed with the of the | November 30. SALA PR amie Th ties 14 ve{names “Sharp and Sisson,” presumably Ambassador Sharp forfeit} Among other transports due to | goubtful by is!and Sisson of the committee on public information, who took it from the London Daily News, In that newspaper and a et te day are th Adriatic, with 80 of-) Baruch. 3 ht wandered into ficers and 2,280 men aboard; the| Vance McCormick of the war tr it appeared under the signature “By Jerome.” fter it was supposed to open A >| board.) scanius, with 14 officers and 1,427 70,000 Poles to |Germany Dismisses _ When you want anything, tell as Many people as pos- sible what it is you want and you are my certain to get The Seattle Star has #. Victor L. Be wife of the ‘ ; chief defendant, and Ella Reeves |™en, and the Kroonland, with 63 of-| The president today witnessed the Bloor, once socialist candidate for|ficers, 1,180 men and 704 sick and| practice of dropping a depth b HT punded } After th liminary confer | Sy lieutenant governor of New York, | Wounded | . os the largest daily cir Hevisnans aoyacnee “of New ott at Paris, President Wilson 1 Take Over Posen Spanish Minister culation of any news- Me on 10.—Lieut cue ‘ will not sit at the peace tat BERLIN, Dec, %—-An army of| MADRID, Dee. 10.—Louis Polo y paper in the Pacific ig rb fy Wick, insurance broker, was|Boche Bolsheviks will remain in France, |70,000 Poles, under command of Gen.| Bernabe, Spanish ambassador to Northwest Nhs ee ea the'lone juror selected | P Vallor, is expected to land at Dan-| Germany, has been dismissed by the it. weather TE SoA peageepaeet eee Attack Democrats sfficlal conviction on board| gig and occupy Prussian Posen. | Berlin government, it~ was’ am mountains between here mento, is off on the last pathfinding trip for an route between, Sacra ttle «ce Washington is he will | nounced here today urn to the United States be ERDAM, Dee, 10.—An Amer » first of February ic ish division, commanded by| Previous reports from Spain inti micr Clemenceau undoubtedly Haller, is en route to Danzig,| mated that the Spanish government will preside at the peace conference m where it will undertake the oc: | planned to expel German Ambassa, | session, {nasmuch as President Wil-|cupation of Posen and Silesia, a War-| dor Von Ratibor RH |here today, Bolshevism is i | (WSSIWSS) ‘be egcctMthe thruout Bavaria, |son will not sit in it saw dispatch stated today, | alleged espionage, the lines of the first day, the showing particular interest 4 } ~Weavavann Transient rates for ant Ads are 111% Cents per line. 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