The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 14, 1918, Page 1

‘It was even reported that many of “the men were caught rage from their own guns. ee. Ee VOLU UMt Full Leased Wire of the United Press Association. Complete Service of the Newspaper Enterprise Association. The Seattle Sta THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST Botered « 21. NO. 246 Second Class M ter May 2, 1899, at the Postoffice SEATTLE, WASH., SATU RDAY, at Beattie, Was fh, under the Act of 2 t DECEMBER 14, 1918. Congress March §, 1879. NIGHT EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE Per Tear, by Mall, $5.00 to $9.60 W eather Forec and southerly unday, ral winds. ast: GEN. FOLTZ DEGRADED WSSIWSSIWSS) NG ORDERS HEAD OF 91ST DIVISION HOME WSSWSSIWSS) ST RUMORED CAMP LEWIS MEN SHOT |BY OWN SHELLS i 5 bit fr Weeks at Camp the inefficiency of Foltz. ‘The Mist division. survivors wrote, iid i sacrifice THE RHINE, Dee. 13.<By courier | had been Army friends of Col. Foltz, at Pist division, with the) Camp Lewis, expressed natisfaction Bae ea wieanes | today over Gen. March's statement command, and sent to the| tending to clear the air, tho many | civilians insist the war department should make a frank announcement of just why Gen. Pershing recom | mended his return. Answering questions, Gen. March today at Washington stated the Sint reached England July 17 to 26, w sent to Flanders in October, on vember 1 advanced six kilometers to Audenard, overlooking the sheldt November 3 and 4 was on patrol duty, and on November 5 was ax signed to a billeting area. Hi Manner of rumors, many of based on information contain letters from the front, haw in circulation during recent} Lewis concerning in the bar. _ “NET OR GROSS Net or groas? If the street car deal fails, it will be over the question of whether the utility bonds should be paid out of the gross receipts or net earnings. Py gross receipts is meant the total amount taken in from the Operation of the street car system. By net earnings is meant the amount left Operation and maintenance are paid The company wants the bonds to be a first lien on the gross Teceipts—that is to say, that the bonds should be paid first, every year, out of the money taken in, and what is left shall go to main tenance and operation. The city’s usual utility bonds recite that the bonds are a “firnt charge on the revenues.” Whether this means a first len on the gross receipts, ahead of maintenance and operation, or whether it Means a firet lien on the net earnings, has not been determined by the supreme court. The city is willing to give the bonds, no Matter which way the court decides It is easy to see why the company insists upon a first lien on the gross receipts. With such a clause definitely in the bond agreement, the company can easily convert the bonds into cash, can easily obtain the consent of its trustees and the mortgagors of its property to lift the mortgages in exchange for the bonds Will it make any difference to the city if the company’s point is conced The only difference there can be in if Want to repudiate or fail to pay these bonds That the city should want to do that is mconceivable If it ia assumed, then, that the city will not repudiate the bonds, will not shirk ita indebtedness, then it makes no difference whether the bonds recite “net earnings’ or ‘gross earnings.” The city’s credit is going to be maintained. It has never yet failed to meet its obligations. If the revenues of the car line will not be sufficient any year to pay bonds aa well as costs of operation and maintenance, the city as it has done in similar c borrow temporarily Out of rome other fund, or else will iseue a new series of bonds take care of those falling due. It is beyond any probability that the city will not pay every of those bonds—and it doesn’t make a particle of difference the bond agreement says “net” or “gross.” y is going to maintain its financial integrity. going to permit its credit to suffe It means, therefore, how ay ers will argue it, that when once the city any be ompany, those bonds are going to be paid hen, is thi to buy the after the costs of the city would ever the w It is not no matter passes 0’ in full, 000,000? t will buy r lines for $15 t us give the company the bonds th t us forget the whole thing. were led to believe that and there would be no taxation to maintain the A. Does the ¢ ac not it “ it the car lines would e voters ve that the won't be now, too reason in the world to belie revenues—that there ery Il pay for itself out of the ny taxation Only remote contingency that there should be a revenues will not be sufficient for to look elsewhere for funds. But it new bonds, and thu it may have the ver lean year at all purposes will not have instead of any time, when the people car system in 20 It can iswue ‘sd years to CROSSING OF RHINE RILES. THETEUTONS Yanks Cross Famous River; |} Germans Call for Reichs- tag Session 5 ASK FOR “Quick PEACE COPENHAGEN, Dee. 14—“All measures must be taken to pre vent Foch's armies from mareh- ing east of the Rhine,” the Ber. liner Tageblats declared, support. ing the demand for quick sum- moning of the reichstag. Ry WEBB MILLER Ss ackoss to Nancy.}—American troops croseed | the Rhine about & o'clock this morn from drizzling rain Four bridges and two ferries were utilized along the front of 60 kilo meters (27% miles) upon which the croming was made | The first division went over at lowering clouds and | Coblenz on a German pontoon bridge. | at the head company of was the first Brig. Gen. Parker was of his own brigade. A ighteenth infantry to reach the East bank The Americans occupied Ehren breitenstein, one of strongest fortresses in the nan guards remained to surrender huge stores of munitions Two French divisions n camions to ald in occupying the bridgehead. This was an interna tonal exchange of courtesies, aa an American division wax sent to Maing to cooperate with the French occupying the bridgehead there. hurried 14.—Ger ce negotia WASHINGTON, Dec many has asked that ped tions be started as quickly as ponmi ble because of the famine in Ger many A communication from Germany {thru the Swiss government today asked the state department as to the and date of the negotiations: presdnting the inquiry ment asked for prompt re so that it could the information to Germany place In Swiss the a give Sweden and Finns May Plan Defense Against Russians w ASHINGTON, | “9 mM offict circles are peauptanen of a defen it was learned today Finland wants protection Russian encroachment, and len would profit by having a friendly buffer state opposite her, it ia pointed out Ask Dismissal of Ebert Government AMSTERDAM, Dec, 14.—Dismiasal of the rt-Scheidemann govern ment, giving the soviets legislative power, is advocated in resolutions adopted ommunist meeting held t Munich the anti-Hisner fac tions, to dispatches from that city today. The resolutions also that a revolutionary tribunal lished Swedish Finnish din cussing the sive alliance and by according asked be estat Report Armistice Time Is Extended COPENHA Dec, 14.-—The has been prolonged to subject to further extension, to a dispatch received to ar mintic Janu 17 accordin from ary 14.—The inter-allied commission is now in sion reves, with Marshal Foch presiding. It is believed the commis will remain there until the peace preliminarie concluded, on it transformed into an adminis body to handle affairs in the territories: BERNE, Dec armistice at alo are wh will be trative | occupied NGTON, Dec. 14.—The dis medal March WASHI uishe has been by tir rvice rred on Gen, Seere aker, up} } Well, Bill Isn’t Starving, Anyway, if Homefolks Are AMERONGEN, Holland, Dec. 14.—Thia is a sample of Herr Ho henzollern's daily meny Breakfast—Two cups of tea, buttered toast, two boiled ones, two ups of chocolate Luncheon Grilled chicken or steak, fried potatoes, omelette, Erapts or apples, sweet wine Dinner Champagne, hors { Voruvr, soup, fish, roast lamb Vegetables, coffee. TRACTION DEAL: ) 5 } 5 _ STILLIN poet,” With four members absent, the city council met again Saturday morning to complete the ordinances for the purchase of the traction sy» | tem. The morning was spent in dix | cussion of the interurban contracts} | the city should offer as tts part of the Fey me [ite pe refusal to ag age yn ‘% bond offgred by the city In pay. ment of the $15,000,000 purchase | price for the lines, and insists that | rumors.” | 'n€ in — haif light which resuited | ‘2° bonds must be a figt lien on Krom revenue of the system. | Councilman Fitzgerald, chairman of the city finance committee, de | clared Saturday that everything might finally be worked out to the) satiafaction of the city and the sys:| | tem acquired | “There are several ways in which the matter can be cleared up.” he mid. “The council has stood for mu nictpal ownership right along and I don't believe we are going to be balked by a technic y in the phrasing of the agreement we ten der the company On the other hand Councilman Lane Saturday morning said Let the people of Seattle make no mistake about who's to blame if the deal falls thru. The city Nas kept its part of the agreement and it's up to the company to accept ou tertns on the original understanding | Lane further charged that the com. pany in offering to lease the system |to the city pending the outeome of negotiations, was merely ling for | time until they could secure a fare! increase from the legislature. F. 8. Pratt, chairman of the board | of directors of the traction company, in discussing the situation said It's a mistake to imagine that the deal is all off. Buch is not the sta YANKS WILL BE PERMITTED TO KEEP UNIFORM WASHINGTON, © 14 Amer ican soldiers may ie » the uniform and overcoat they wear when mus tered out of service Thin was the decision of Secretary of War Baker today communicated to Chairman Dent, of the house mil committ Dent prep extending proper authority policy. It had previously been to demand ret of uni months after discharge. given 3% cents transportation allowance nt of demobilization to their and one month's pay tary ed bill this planned forms three Soldiers per from pp home town, for are to be German National Assembly to Meet IRLIN, via Amsterdam, Dec, 14 The national aasembly will be elect January 16, and will hold its first meeting within a fortnight of that date ‘The government i« anxious to im Wilson with the or eter of the new Germany press P' derly cha: British Papers Welcome Wilson LONDON 4 papers welcome President Wilson to Europe and give great prominence to the formal announcement that he ac cepted King George's invitation to Dec British news visit London FINNS AID MONARCHI STOCKHOLM, Dec, MM-—The Fin nish government is financing the Russian cnonarchists, according to a dispatch published in the Social Dem: | ‘okraten. s? NSSIWSS) PARIS, Dec. 14.—( By Government Wireless. )—President Wilson, in the first address ever made by an American executive on foreign soil, de- ‘ Germany's the world must be made acts of terror and spoliation.” aware that such acts without the certainty of j f just punishment.” What President Wilson 1 Replied | Replying welcome by President Poincare at the official luncheon at the Palais de Klysee today, Presi- dent Wilson said: Mr, President: I am deeply in debted to you for your gracious greeting. It iw very delightful to find myself in France, and to feel the quick contact of sympathy and unaffected friendship between the representatives of the United States and the representatives of France You have been very generous in what you were pleased to say about mynelf, but I feel that what I have said and what I have tried to do has been said and done only in an at tempt to peak the thought of the people of the United States truly arf to carry that thought out in action Eatablish Justice “From the first thought of the people of the United States turned toward something more than the mere winning of this war. It turned to the establishment of eter of right and justice. It merely to win the war enough; that it must be 4 way and the ques. settled in such a way as to insure the future peace of the world and lay the foundation for the freedom and happiness of its many peoples and nations Never before has war worn so ter rible a visage or exhibited more grossly the debasing influence of ‘1 licit ambitior I am sure that 1 shall look upon the ruin wrought by the armies ef the Central Empires with the same revulsion and deep indignation that they stir in the hearts of the men of France and Belgium and I appreciate, ax you do, sir, the mecessity of such action in the final settlement of the issues of the war ax will not only rebuke such of terror and spoliation, but make men everywhere aware that they cannot be ventured upon with out the certainty of just punishment Spirit of America “L know with what ardor and en thusiaam the soldiers and sailors of the United States have given the best that was in them to this war of redemption. And they have ex pressed thet rue spirit of Amefica “They believe their ideals to acceptable to free peoples every where and are rejoiced to have played the part they have played in giving reality to those ideals in co operation with the armies of the the nal prineip! realized th wae won tior not in such raised by a acts be allies We proud of played and we are should been such comrades in the they that associate a common are part have happy the with cause “Tt is President France ing won, the Mr. in with peculiar feelings that I find myself joining with you in re} over the victory that has been The ties that bind France and United States peculiar: | " Arrival Is Marked by | Big Ovation ‘BY RED & FF 8, FERGUSON (United Preas Correspondent) PARIS, Dec. 14.—President ‘Wilson arrived in Paris, the pres- ent capital of the world, at 10:01 o'clock this morning. | His arrival was heralded by the j booming of guns thruout the city. | Vast throngs in the Champs Elysees | wet up @ tremendous cheer, Tremen- | dous crowds lined the entire way | from the railway station to Prince | Murat's palace, which will be the! first foreign home of an American | president | President and Mrs. Poincare greet jed the American executive and his! wife on the station platform. The two presidents rode in one carriage, and their wives in another. Both carriages were decorated with flow ere As the station, it | presidential party left the received a tremendous ova. tion from the crowds. The carriages started up the street, preceded by mounted guards, and with carriages containing members of the official retinue in their wake A great cry of “Vive Wilson! was raised, The crowds were thickly sprinkled with doughboys and poilus, | who shouted and whistled President Wilson raised his hat as both he and Mrs. Wilson smiled in acknowledgment of the greeting. Is Dramatic Picture The procession down the Champs Elysees, with the guard of honor drawn up on either side, and the Arch of Triumph in the background, Presented a new and dramatic pic ture in American history The demonstration increased as the parade moved on. Wilson and Poin care were continually acknowledging the wild outbursts of enthusia while their wives, in the second riage, smiled and smiled Premier Clemenceau and Gen, Per shing also were lionized. Many of the women in the throngs wept openly, and it was possible to distinguish a significant moisture in the eyes of some of the older men In a carriage sat two French sol diers and their mother. ‘I can’t help weeping,” ed to her boys m, ar she explain “I've feared so long |for both of you. And now you are safely back with me—all because of these two great men. In addition to the crowds in the streets, great masses of people fill ed every window and available van tage point, including the roofs Doughboys clung to trees and cap tured German guns along the Champs Elysees and the Place Con corde, looking like nothing quite so much as clusters of human grape ly close, 1 what other — comradeship could have fought with or enthusiasm. It will matter of pleasure with brought into consultation with statesmen of Fran nd her in concerting the measures by which we may secure permanence for these happy relations of friendship of co operation and secure for the world at large such safety and freedom in its life as can be secured only by the constant association and co-oper ation of friends, | “1 raise my glass to the health of the President of the French republic and to Mme. Poincare and the pros perity of France WSSIWSSIWSSIWSSIWSSWWSS)| do not know in we more xest daily b me to a be the allies ‘'clared today that the peace conference must take such action as to “rebuke The president further stated that |League of Nations, Free- “cannot be ventured upon| ad * What Poincaire Said to Wilson: Pres’ ems President Poincare, of France, in his address of welcome to President Wilson at the official luncheon at the Paials de Ely- see today, said: “Mr. President: Paris and France awaited you with impatience. They were eager acclaim in you the iMustrious whose words and deeds were inspired by exalted thought in the solution of from particular events, the emi nent statesman, who had found a way to express the highest political and moral truths in the formulas which bear the stamp of immor tality They had passionate mes. sage to offer thanks to you in per- son for the invaluable assistance to democrat universal laws also a | which had been given spontaneously | during this war to the defenders of and liberty Praises All America Even before America had resolv ed to intervene in the struggle had shown to the wounded and the and orphans of France and a generosity of which will always in our hearts. liberality of your Red Cross, the countless gifts of your fellow citizens, the inspiring initiative of American women, anticipated your military and naval action and show ed the world to which side your sympathies inclined “And on the day when you flung yourselves into the battle, with what determination your great peo ple and yourself prepared for united success Some months ago you cabled to me that the United States would send ever-increasing forces until the day should be reached on which the allied armies were able to sub- merge the enemy under an over whelming flow of’ new divisions. And, in effect for more than a year a steady stream of youth and energy has been poured out upon the shores of Fran right she a the be solicitude memory ensbrin “The Lauds Heroic Yankees No sooner had they landed than your gallant battalions, fired by their chief, Gen. Pershing, flung themselves into the conflict with such a manly contempt dame such a smiling disregard death that our longer exper of this terrible war often us to counsel prudence They brought riving her the enthusiasm sader: leaving for the Holy it is their right today to look with pride upon the work accomplished and tell themselves that they powerfully aided by their (Continued on paye of nee moved in ar of ecru with them, have courag 2) the philosopher delighting | Land. | REBUKE GERMANY, SAYS WILSON Scores Hun Terrorism in First Paris Speech UL S. PEACE TERMS ARE DECIDED ON dom of Seas, Two Im- portant P Points DELEGATES AR ARE AGREED | | BY ROBERT J. BENDER (Copyright. 1918, by the United Press) PARIS, Dec. 14.—President Wilson's whole effort will be di- The American delegation to the peace conference, in carrying out this Drincipie, stands equarely on these fundamental contentions: First—The leagie of nations must be a part of the treaty, in order to insure a square deal for all peoples concerned. The president, lacking support of such a league, would feel that American participation in the negotiations is hardly worth while. Prevent Big Navy Second—Freedom of the seas must be one of the chief principles estab- lished thru the league of nations, thus making it unnecessary for America to build a navy big enough to insure her against arbitrary action by any nation. Third—Just claims against Ger- many for her crimes must be ascer- tained, ard then the possibility of payment, and the method of collect- ing determined. Fourth—While the preliminary conferences may be confidential, the final conclusions should be reached publicly. Fifth—All peace delegates should sit as representatives of the new world, not as masters of any nations. | Any other attitude would mean that consu-nmation of peace would leave hatreds which might breed future wars. Would Include Germany The American conferees are under- stood to favor inclusion of Germany | in the league of nations. But only on probation, until it is proved that she can be trusted The president will approach the conference with the utmost frank- ness, and by such processes as will not involve any unnecessary antago- nism. It is perfectly clear, however, that |for him the strategic centers of the whole business are the questions of the league of nations, Indemnities and freedom of the seas. ‘The first task of the president will to get acquainted with the allied premiers, lay out the preliminary li of procedure, and attempt to clear up any points of difference. There has been some talk of a pre arranged agreement having been formulated by Premiers Lioyd George, Clemenceau and Orlando at the nt London conference, but it is assumed the understandings reach: ed there were only provisional and for the purpose of supplying a con- crete basis for discussion It is understood, among other things, they discussed the indemnity to be exacted from Germany. The © ontinued on Page Four) SAN FRANCISCO BOATS COLLIDE SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 14.—The Gen, Frisbee and the Sehome, both passenger boats plying between San Francisco and Valiejo, crashed in col lision today The Sehome sank, First reports said there had been some loss of life. The Sehome and the Frisbee are owned by the Monticello Steamship They are large ferry boats, For merly they were routed up the Napa river Officials of the company no passengers were on the but that several passengers were on the Frisbee. ‘The Frisbee was badly dam- aged. The Sehome sank half an hour aft. the collision, Boats from the Fris went to the aid of the Sehome The collision occurred during |a dense fog. The Sehome was rum ning toward San Francisco. Co. said Sehome bee crew