The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 28, 1918, Page 1

ALLIED WARSHIPS MAY ATTACK RUSS “REDS” — ULL Leased Wire F Cowmitts Service of the News- paper Enterprise Association. Press Association. of the United "VOLUME 21. NO.,25 HUN REVOLT WIN “ALLIES AGREED ON FUNDAMENTALS’ —WILS0 =* NO AGREEMENT IS | REACHED ON SEAS Tnited Preie Leased to The Star Ry i] Direct LONDON, Dee, 28.—President Wilson, speaking in the historic Guild hall, declared today his conversations with British satesmen had revealed a com: plete agreement that the mere items of peace “would be worth. Jess unless there stood back of them a permanent concert of power for their maintenance ” “That is the most reassuring thing that has ever happened in the world,” he said. “When this war be an. the thought of a league of na tions was indulgently considered as the interesting thought of closeted students. “It was thought of as one of those things that it was right to character fee by the name which, as a univer sity “nan, I have always resen “It was said to be ‘academic, as if that in itself were a condemnation fomething that men could think about but never get Distinguished Honor “Now, we find the practical, lead ing minds of the world determined to get it,” he said. “The address which I have junt heard is most generously and «ra ctously conceived, and the delightful accent of sincerity in it seems like a Part of that voice of counsel which is now everywhere to be heard. “I feet thag a distinguished honor has fo aay upon me by this to Ber saad you, Seaennd appreciation. “But I know that I an only part @f what I may call a great body ot! eireumstances. “I do not believe that it was fancy on my part Voice of welcome uttered in the Streets of this great city and in the Streets of Paris something more Ahan 4 persona! welcome. Voice of People “It seemed to me that I heard the Voice of one people speaking to an-) other people, and it was a voice in which one could distinguish a singu- lar combination of emotions. There was surely there the deep grateful- Ress that the fighting was over. ‘There wus the pride that the fight- ing had had such a culmination. “There was that sort of gratitude that the nations engaged had pro- duced such men as the soldiers of Great Britain and of the United States and of France and of Italy— men whose prowess and achieve _ Ments they had witnessed with ris- Ing admiration as they moved from culmination to culmination. Duties of Others “But there was something more in it—the consciousness that the busi-) Rese is not yet done, the conscious- ‘Ress that it now rests upon others to See that those lives were not lost in vain. “I have not yet been to the actual | Battle fields, but I have been with | many of the men who have fought | the battles, and the other day I had the pleasure of being present at a session of the French academy when they admitted Marshal Joffre to their membership. “That sturdy, serene soldier stood and uttered not the words of tri- umph, but the simple words of affec tion for his goldiers and the v' tion, which he summed up in a se fence which I will not try accurate ly to quote, but reproduce its spirit, | Was that France must always re member that the small and the weak | could never live free in the world Unless the strong and the Ways put their power and their strength in the service of right “That is the after-thought—the thought that something must be done now, not only to make the just | that I heard in the; reat al-| BY LOWELL MELLETT (United Presy Staff Correspondent) LONDON, Dee, 28.—Britain and the United States have not yet reached a common basis of understanding relative to free dom of the seas. With an agreement reached every essential of a league of na- tions, leaders of the two great Eng lish speaking democracies are today striving for a solution of the second of the most important factors in the Peace, negotiations The be friendship with which the two nations are approaching the subject cannot be questioned. But Great Britain, as well as America, is frankly taking into account the ma terial factors in the case ‘The British View From a very bigh British offictal the United Press today obtained the following outline of the British point of view, with permission to present the statements aa authoritatively representing the attitude of the British government Great Britain is absolutely con vinced that no international author. ity on the sea in able to take the | place of the British navy in safe | guarding British interests. on |" ‘The government agrees readily to my So een ete her in tte te polities, c—~ government wishes to start this retrenchment by sink- Se Renan ame Defensive Weapon It wants the opportunity to main possible strength consistent with the | safety of its mercantile marine, and its colonies and dependencies scat i | in the world. “and as I have conversed with the soldiers I have been more and more aware that they fought for something that not all of them had defined, but which all of them rec | ognized the moment you stated it to | them. Unstable Equilibrium “They ought to do away with an 4 order and to establish a new one jand the center and characteristic of the old order was that unstable thing which we used to call the ‘balance of | power,’ a thing in which the balance | was determined by the sword which | was thrown in on the one side or the other—a balance which was deter mined by the UNSTABLE equilibri a bal |um of competitive interests- }ance which was maintained by jeal ous watchfulness and an antagonism | of interests which, tho it was gener ally latent, was always deep-seated “The men who have fought in this | war have been the snen from free na | tions, who are determined that that sort of thing should end now, for ever. It is very interesting for me to observe how, from every quarter from every sort of mind, from ev concert of there suggestion that there must now not a balance of power, not one pow erful group of nations to set off |against another, but a single over whelning, powerful group of nations who shall be trustees of the peace of | the world “It has been delightful, inmy con | ferences with the leaders of your gov ernment, to find how our minds | moved along exactly the same line, |and how our thought was always that the key to the peace waa the guarantee of the pe not the items of it; that the items would be worth counsel comes the Settlements, that of course, but to! leas, unless there stood back of them fee the settlements were observed|a permanent concert of power for and that honor and justice prevatled' their maintenance. That is the most AN APPEAL TO THE MEN IN INDUSTRY a few day 8 War are left to get Savings Stamps. and Seattle is $400,000 behind her quota, Surely the proud Se attleites who have put- this city in the limelight of the world, are not going to stand peactfully by and see this, the first failure, blacken our wonderful record } et us all get behind the guns } and add a little more to our t ccount for a prosperous { w Year. Those of us that € not been able to purchase the limit of 1,000 must reall } that those who could in most in em itself in this fact, that we who have not purchased the ust do our best and try one-half million that Se is short cannot be taken up like a bond who could limit now the wage assistance This attle at the drive and would. #0 moment those last because have requires earners to rally to the of our government their necessity the w that are with our Christmas pleas: let down families ures over us and figur finances if we a few dollars more, thern with War Saving wit our n't nd de Sam and 4 Stamps for we na posit take curity Wishing you all a prosperous New Year. WILLIAM W, LADD. Chairman Industrial Division happy and ORR AA ARPA PAPO PP PPO | picion or rancor. tain its own navy at the smallest | motives other than reassuring thing that has ever hap | States, 62 tered over the world. Defensive Weapon It insists the British navy ts only weapon and cannot mrenai vely therefore. a threat.to the rest of the wo Aside from these facta, the aity is considering purpose the new naval «ram. Frankly a defensive be used and ts id. admir the pro naturally behind the own admiralty—in the Hight of its conception of Great Britain's necessity for maintaining the preponderance of its own navy faila t in America’s proposed great increase in building Mritieh and American naval of. fictals, whose xmooth cooperation at sea wan one of the wonders of the war, formal the useful habit of speaking plainly to one another. This was what made mnoothness possible Can't See Our Program ‘The British do not disguise their honest belief that any building pro «ram by America directed toward naval supremacy ix unwise. They say America, due to physical rea sone, need never become oxsentially wagion, while Cireat avald it. N reason, Sf America | ‘ in the world | fittural growth. At least, that wil! be the case of the next two cen turies, they may, | i The most hopeful feature of the |} situation is the fact that the two countries are able to discuss the is sue in such a manner without sus the desire reach a solution that will be the most helpful to each other and the Feat of the world pened in the world “When this war began, the thought of a league of nations was indulgent ly considered as the interesting thought of closeted students. It waa thought of as one of those things that it was right & name which, as a university man, I have always resented. It was said to be academic, as if that in itself were a condemnation—something that men could think about but nev- er get “Now we find the practical lead ing minds of the world 4 to get it. No such m potent union of purpos deen witnessed in the w without fear of ; to RAR nnn een PARAL AAPL LAL LLL LLLP EEE Stetina eae en a a aaa aR TO PARA PR AADR DPD DDD PPP PPP LPL PPP PPP PPP PPP PPP PPP PPP PP PPP wa — The Seattle Star THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF Rntered as Second Class Matter May 3, NIGHT EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE Wer oar, by Mall, $6.00 to 60.00 ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST 1899, at the Postoffice at Meattle, Wash. undor the Act of Congress March 8, 1879 i ee ie ‘SE ATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, DEC MBER. 28, “1918, Tonight and Sunday, rain Hi * * & Woodrow Wilson, the World’s Birthday greetings! To WOODROW WILSON, president of these United years old today, December 28, 1918. What an inspiring career! From the “barefoot bo The University of Virginia law student of 1881. The Atlanta lawyer of 1883. The law professor of Prin President of Princeton in Governor of New Jersey President of the United States in 1913! | with cheeks of tan” to school from the Presbyterian minister’s house in Staun-| to characterize by | ton, Virginia, to— 7 Wa e824 iit Wipes * * & ‘LLOYD GEORGE IS RE-ELECT®D Schoolmaster | LONDON, Dee, 28.—Premier Lioyd George was reelected to parliament by a huge major- ity. He defeated his one op- ponent, rrison, an inde- pendent, 13,993 to 1,095. Herbert Asquith, former and ler of opposition in fp Hament, was defeated for re-eleetio Sprit, a unionist, was elected fro Asquith’s district The trudging | premie a n. m vote stood: | HIS BIGGEST BIRTHDAY GIFT BY BIG VOTE LIEBKNECHT NO IS IN CONTROL (By United Press Leased Wire, Direct to The 8tar) THE HAGUE, Dec. 28.-The Ebert government has virtually been over- thrown, according to a dispatch filed in Berlin Thursday night and received here today. The dispatch says Philip Scheidemann, socialist member of the government, had fled the city. It is predicted that a new cabinet will be formed, including Karl Lieb- knecht and George Ledebour, and that the central soviet will be summoned. | LONDON, Dec. 28.—Brutus Molken- shur, supporter of Karl Liebknecht, has been made commandant of Berlin, accord- ing to a dispatch from that city to the Daily |Mail today. ‘Allied Warships May Attack Russian Reds - bot mre: 9 yo Dec. 28.—The entente quietly is en- couraging the movement to throw a republican barrier be- ltween the "Rede of Russia and of Germany, it became | known here today. This barrier is being reared by Polish occupation of Danzig and parts of Prussian Posen so that the Moscow firebrands shall be isolated from the Berlin group. An allied naval concentration at, bassy declared that if sufficient Unit- Danzig, possible under the armistice, po Soe — ee meee to Will be in effect to support Poland) -overnment in the East, the Archan- and the Russian Baltic provinces, in gel government in the North, and case of further Bolshevik advances,| the Kiev government in the South, according to diplomatic indications | the republican troops will be able to hete. | complete the task of redeeming Rus- Sources close to the Russian em- ' sia. “What Will America Do?” Ask Bolsheviki — x prit 8,996; Asquith 6,944; Moran, BY CARL SANDBURG asked this question point-blank: nd., 691 N. E. Staff Correspondent “When the Bolsheviki overrun ceton of 1895 Coalitionists had an overwhelming STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Dec. 28. | Germany and threaten France and eto! 0. lead in the parliamentary elections | Bolshevik agents here believe Amer-| Italy, will the American troops join 1902 of Dec. 14, according to reports to-| ica holds the balance of power in a|the British and French to drive : day coming contest between Bolshevist | them back?" in 1911, to— | Arthur Henderson, labor leader,| Eastern Europe and democratic! That immediately started a hot whose defeat was forecast, ran a} Western Europe. discussion, in which it was clear poor third in his district. Edwards, One of them approached when I/| that the Swedish liberals, as well aa | Oop pats wenines taibatone. neat A ; @ | coalitionist, got votes; Ham-|was in conversation with some | the Bolsheviki from Russia, consider eke tat we Oe Oe ee It’s a long journey that, with no foot of ground lost, |\t' independent, 5.561, and Hender.| Swedish politicians (socialists) and| America will be the deciding factor, who represent you, I am eager to|MO retreats ever sounded. son 5,024 __ set at the business and oe tent | ‘The returns at 3:30 showed Milli T ° Stake dione nie ig oat At the helm of the great American republic at 56, law-| Coalitionixts 240; laborites 16; un-| 1on lerrorists on larch oe * 2 }ionists 14; liberals (Asquith support: | . particularly happy that the ground yer, politician, statesman, author, peaceful schol then | lonists iT. d G F; i cleared and the foundations laid /in 1917 war president— omy 4 | LOwar ermany's Frontier ter we have already accepted the i side | LONDON, “Eng, Dee, 2 |ic nations same body of principles. Those are Now, in Versailles— 4 : betwi Bolsheviki Russian Bolsheviki already have clearly and definitely enough atated és . }Wilson Receives ee | east , ' : nd Polish f in the Dom. | turned against nations in Eastern to make their application a matter Spokesman of peace! Schoolmaster of the world in Congratulatio: ve cab gutgnes - | Europe that do not accept the Bol- that should afford no fundamental | 1918! F are G ns , se ypstan bay rested in ® | shevik program. difficulty { vi patcl irom Moscow There are 7 . oy ne i tals 4 : rom Kin eorge || Wireless disp There are well proved stories that It’s the Wapld Yearning | Mindful of the interests of the average man, he sits} © 90 wig gts ge {| today. The outcome was not | guns and munitions left by retreating And back of us is that comparative|where forgotten kings sat. Europe's great bow to him—}$ George walked into. President), known. Germans and Austrians have bene earning of the world. To alles 4 aN seized by Bolshevik troops and us i Euro) oor hail him, the representative of a brave and Wilson's artment at 10 a. m. ( The dispatch also stated that . ~: disturbing question quieted; to have | EUrope d Ly representa and and congratulated him on his 624 {| Bolsheviks had disarmed gov- or subdue Polish and Ukrantan fave doe eee an Dee sllenned: to | generous America. birthday, wishing him many hap } ernment militia in the Ashov dis- | Patrols have just men everywhere come to f Feit nt ' Similar scenes of pillage and mur- le tiic ! py returns. | trict. Dene gether for a common object. The | High distinction today ee 5 ee der have been enacted in the Baltic kage of the world want peace and Tomorrow ? ey (Special to The Star by N. E. A) | provinces inhabited by Lithuanians, they vant it y no erely b: ‘ Tes j. . , " etts c ‘ Ss. naasat of aid Gert moeccan President of the United States of the World? 1,000,000 , aoe | LONDON, Dec One spies |e eae of mind. It was this in Perhap: If a League of Nations is formed under his to Be Discharged | 2.3". ag et he Pee sheviies: in! Pirkay abAcbebes mae great thing that brought me over| leadership it will need a ¢ead. Who so likely to receive! wWasHINGTON, Dec. 28.—More | mi | Moderate socialists seem supreme es saul tank ticeticane ble? than a half-million men have been his amazing news was given to|!" Austria. Hungary appears to be deemed excusable for a’ president of first honors as the man who makes the league possible? : dy: " ; Lidia sae: he authority for it} More settled than any other of the bg od Maten te lene the a dismissed from army to date, | London today he autho 0 i toes te thettiin a een America greets you, watches over you, listens to you, and more than 1,000,0 booked | is Lord Northcliffe, publisher of the | former Teutonic allies, But the Bol- Ty tit thdue tes ent kn LWooksow Wiles! for early discharge here and abroad, ndon Times and Daily Mail sheviki are sending agents agd prop- know that I have the support of the) Woodrow Wilson! Aiist clilltate March antounced ts he Reds have invaded Poland, ac-|@8anda into these countries, and judgment of my colleagues in the GOD SAVE YOU, WooDROW! rhe cording to today’s report, and the | Striving “to uproot provisional go government of the United States in| 7 ; | Poles are fighting against this viola. |¢rnments which overthew the Haps- pra, Sr it was my tram. the | Aidsnctinaedatt | The 11th United States civil serv-| tion of thelr neutrality burg dynasty duty to turn away, even from th autistic’ Scie bys nis é Premier Lenine, of the Bolshevik Jice district is sending out an appeal| french troops have been sent to nier ‘ such counsel and aid as I could to and riggers t@ work in the Puget gtuyation may develop into open war | @Oted as boasting he could raise an this great—may 1 not say fnat—|) Ten’t Such a Bad Sound nayy yard, Bremerton between the Bolshevik government of | *™y of 3,000,000 men enterprise of humanity } : be, i and the Western allies. The president and: Mrs. Wilson ar Sort of Specimen | eee = a and t} 5 ‘ he ¢ at 12 f aid that the Bolshevik object rived at the Gi es at 12:30 and AMSTERDAM, Dec. 28.—Presi- | soarching, Saturday, fo ali {lis to go to the assistance of th McAdoo Will Open were received by the lord mayor and r i se. aaoaatll 4 ow Bi pst is Caan emaie tha N. Y. L Offi others. Mra, Wilson received a bou.|} dent Wilson may be proclaime mond Shaughnessey, 16 years of | ) b+) Helebyeviki In Germany, whece | . Y. Law ices quet from the yr’s daughte ne first honora president of a \ lare known as “Spartack and are ° Pero tital cretonice coialt c. Gaisantccclaat eaneni following teiexraphic intorma:| Upwards of a {ended by. Kart Liebineent, the ex About April First " the Wiener Neus Journal de halis state trainin 1001, of his ¢€ ) prison during the war « McAdoo will open a law office i welcome on parchment in a gold |) x ning sc \ * to pri e ¥ fice im casket. Following his reply, the|{ clares, according to a dispatch (| cane early this week { Pairs of Eyes Are testis: Sia’ New York city about April 1, it was* sreaident and Mrs. Wilson went to| from Vienna today laa , . ’ , learned here today Fea tcaruian houses abraveats of the ‘A new superstition is spread Shaughneassy ia believed: to: b ' Looking. Even if the violation of Potan : — a ing thruout Austria that Presi- (| member of a youthful criminal gang, ce a : hee )} | whieh Hes between Russia dl € Von Hindenburg Is (Continued on page 7) dent Wilson is reall the late §| eight members of which were arre Paint a little 1 picture {|many, does not bring war betwe ‘ * é aii Crown Prince udolt, “whowe }) ed with large quantity of Toot and of what you want, and pyt | ye tolsheviki and the alles, itis re- Marching on Berlin } death many did not believe,” the }| four revolvers at 1604 Ninth ave. Fri it in the classific dver dicted in London that war would fol 3RRLIN ia BRaclae . To emonilize Pare |) newspaper said (jday. The police are working on : tising columns of The Star : low if the Bolsheviki gained control Mois tig Le Rudsuewaunset oP ae Tenth Division { “In lower Austria, it is popu: {/ clues that are expected to result in| } ‘ } | of theGerman government. In such! royal palace this morning, killir WASHINGTC Dec, 2%—Demo.|) Mfly believed that Wilson will {| the arrest of the remainder of the| Phone Matis. GOB; ..) | an event, t ia: probable that the Bole) several of the anbtinous maiioret aa bilisation of the nth division, sta |) * We Austria from a final gang within 24 hour ‘ Y Cc Ch \ sheviki would refu to make ANY | trenched there ‘The defenders final tioned at Camp Funston, probably |) SAsnuP. ; When this is accomplished, a large | § amends for the things Germany did! ly surrendered, Te nae unre Chet at wture|) crown Prince Rudolph, heir to {/number of recent burglaries and| } on Sar arge } |during the war, ‘The allies are de Vield Marshal Von Hindenburg, March told the United Press today the late Emperor Franz Josef, (| noldupa will be accounted for, say | } It } | termined that Germany shall mae | witt army of loyal troops, is re He explained that an order innuea|) M¥steriously disappeared several |) the police. The eight’arrested may | { | full amend: po ted to be marching on Berlin to before Christmas, requiring that only |) Ye#?s 289. His death was never }/ he sent to the Monroe reformatory aa That would mean a renewal of the order, The Bolsheviki still ciewent Cases ti damianed, bere atn-)) Dearne entanlished: {| criminals, instead of be Ing returned } | wa with Bol vist, Germany ao | conan the former socialist news: ply on the immediate present nnn’ | to the state school, teh police predict. | faa —— ~tg Kussia leagued against the democrat- paper ‘ 4