The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 30, 1918, Page 1

Fu Leased Wire of the United Press Association. gpardg om Service of the News- paper Enterprise Association. CLEMENCEAU DOESN'T ACCEPT ALL OF PEACE TERMS NIGHT EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE Per Year, by Mall, $5.00 to 60.00 “| The Seattle Sta THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF 1899, at the Postoffice at Beattie, Wash, ——— C_VOLUME . NO. 259 Some time | Later on Will the joy . Of giving . To the Red Cross Seven in Oy The pleasure “. Z ment Fails | Be cloud DEMANDS VINDICATION ges Or $42.20, or $423 | Or $846 | o- Direct to The Star) —————%| When the boys a agreed with i Come home | all point.” = And see in ‘ o- One star missing 1 im the same united spirit | | ment by the city. r urn it over to defend several prin- morning. Councilmen Lane, Mall points. He said to me: ‘I try to convince you, and you will convince me.’ under these conditions, would | sistance us from rendering the same} protraction deal | Be conversation. He on my loyalty to Great Britain, |e} and Traction that each of the allied nations | 1 ,onard. tons which must be regard-| proposed deal. Vital, because if no agreement ched everything must be begun! ayer for instance am sure that great nations like | asked and France should fly to h nother when one is attacked. | the morning. Bnd in this spirit we will go to Peace conference. Nothing must | te after the war the four| Mations, which the war united. pe __ Continued on Page Eight) pone " jing of the contract, = Upwards of a | the courts. 4 | tracts held by the poking. | th e Paint a little word picture | per reve of what you want, and put 7 Main sie ft in the classified adver | could be put before ( tising columns of The Star cetieat af VPhone Main 600, $ \tovsss ‘You Can Charge It ph jeity going into the Of meeting all calis = Fer patriotic funds ‘Says Conferences Will Have The sstistaction of buying to Start Again if Agree- A load of Liberty ] By failure to lend “®y United Press Leased Wire |! For War Savings TRACTION DEAL AGAIN DELAYED the conclusion of his speech.| | The company agreed to spend Passed a vote of confi | | an amount on repairs a in his government 398 to 92. tenance equal to siremain faithful to the countries! | spent during the past five years. | have defended France with! | This action by the mayor was | armies and navies,” Clemen-| | taken to offset opposition to the oud. | deal arising from counciknen Demands Vindication | who declared that the company has a right to vindication| | Was permitting the property to | Wrongs she has suffered. 1| | deteriorate rapidly, and Phot divulge my ideas an to these| | t to y tions at thie time, however.| | dilapidated conditio possible some of them may to be sacrificed. The peace | es will be submitted to) Purther delay in the traction deal fehamber for confirmation. whereby the majority "President Wilson came to | council proposes to purchase the car line system for $15,000,000 in public I would be lying if I said | utility bonds, developed with President Wilson Haas, Erickson and Cotterill, who previously refused | to vote for the bills pledging %, Lioyd George said to me! credit of the city for the payment} day: ‘Do you admit that, with-| of the traction bonds, stenatastly re the British fieet you could not| fused to attend Monday continued the war? I replied, | special session of the council, on the Lioyd = George continued: | agsertion that they could be of no as- be disposed to do anything to The session was attended by Byice?” =I replied, ‘No.’ | keth, Moore, Thornson, PF recounted to President Wilson | geraid—the | mayor, ongratulated | counsel and assistant traction coun. President A. W. FAt retain its own viewpoint on| when the meeting question. counsel for the traction was the beginning of the! prought forward a new phase of the What if some third party should try and | quash the deaj thru Pleads for Unity the federal courts?” Britain, the United States, ‘This new angle of the transaction P| was debated for the greater part of | War was fought under this spir Would Cancel Penalty ‘The city finally agreed that in case of an injunction or restraining order | being obtained by a third party, the | ity of $400 a day required of the any for any delay in failing to| cohsummate the transfer after sign- | would be cancel ared of| led until the matter was cl Thomas Murphine, superintendent 6f public utilities, informed the meet: | illi |ing that in event o airs of Eyes Are | 315.000 yearly trom dvertising con peels advocated the continuing of rramn, company ted to car passengers ge in this wa ndvertisements were 1 aid. Councitn then entered a protest advertising busi coept advertisements for a \wtreet car newspaper, we are making ay a undesirable precedent,” he declar * 36- | (N CO. PROMISES TO | | | MAINTAIN PROPERTY | Just before the close of Mon- | day morning's session between Gsplayed in the war. traction officials and mid the present conversations! council, Mayor Hanson exacted | allied leaders are vitally im-| | a promise from the company that | as they will have to begin| | it would not allow its property to | again, if no agreement 1i#| | deteriorate pending its acquire: i|* er: it must | European politics,” in European partnership of right no combination of a combination We are not interested *| hopeful that the assembled, | Attorney Howe | ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST fr the Act of Conm Entered a Becond Clase Matter MONDAY, DEC EMBE Weather Fe ore U.S. NEGLECTS SOLDIERS’ rT LE, WASH., : } ' poegeme ee: SENATOR CHARGES * {RETURNING YANKS “VTREATED POORLY (By Untted Press Leased Wire, Direct to The Star) ou 30.—‘America is as unprepared today to take care of the returning soldiers as she was a <pedite their departure to France, tor Chamberlain today on the floor of the senate. lives have been sacri- i “Now that [S OPPOSED |. Manchester Audience U. S. Will Join No Combination or Alliance ecapun. i] WASHINGTON, Dec. PARTNERSHIP OF RIGHT ” said Sena- year ago to e “God only how many ficed because of our unpreparedness,” the war has been won and our soldiers are coming back America is as unprepared to legless and eyeless, take care of them as she was a year ago.” HUNS PLAN TO FORCE ALLIED INTERVENTION Dispatch From Frank J. Taylor By United Press Leased Wire Direct to The Star BERLIN, Dec. man group which favors ages occupation of Berlin as a litical coup, plans to force this move by arresting all American and British newspaper men in » Police Prefect Eichorn warned me today. Eichorn said the politicians in this group believed arrest of the corre- spondents would draw allied troops thus changing the entire complexion of the political sit- uation, and probably resulting in the | overthrow of the radicals, Conditions here are far from sta- socialists and | By United Press Direct to The Star “LONDON, Dee, 20.—President Wiison will leave Dover for lais at 11 o'clock tomorrow, it was announeed today. make the trip Brighton and will have a naval and aerial escort. tened to every word as Chamberlain a charged were grave mistakes of the past with | warning that they be not repeated in | the steamer Now that the lid has been lifted, | we have learned that every made by the military affairs commit dasting. tothe investigation of a followed his famous speech that stirred the country. He then read into the record Gen, Pershing’s statement in the annual re-| port, tending to show that the lack | ordnance in the warning that America would join NG. COM eer aE “Wague of Addressing 5,000 working men in| Free Trade hail ——— | the league of nations must be a Great covenant, by which all nations) “for the maintenance and tri The stateraent we 30.—The Ger. of equipment days in France was “A been pictured Reading further from Pershing’s | in showed how, umph of right.” oa by wild applause, States has always | Chamberlain quoted from Chas. E ’ report on the reraft probe statements i reganting the n built airplanes to power which of all of us in the peace of Europe, | peace of the world. now before am t* into the capital, given the public ment of Americ “The American people were led to| partnership eats has governed has broken down. come jealousies. thing that can bind peopl@ethat is a common devotion to th abroad in quantity,” said Chamber eS TERMINAL PLAN IS EXPLAINED Lister and the port commis Tacoma and Ever ett were ncheduled to meet Monday to hear recommendations ‘lof the state public service commin consolidated rail terminals to serve the ever-growing Mayors and commer cial representatives from all } west cities were invited to attend. The plan for switching terminals, and Tacoma, and at a point north of Everett, waa worked out by 0. 0. e commission rate expert world. This In view of Vorwaeerts’ call demonstrate | Pershing tells us the first American the Spartacides squadron did not cross the German | Mines until August PADEREWSKI IN POSEN BATTLE; _ ESCAPES DEATH Machine gun} against “terrorism,” called for rival demonstrations. Further disorders, with some cas- ualties, were reported | There was also said to be some plundering in Hamburg. In 20,000 factory workers were sioners of Seattle voila of hu. y in abroad in the A paltry $350,000, as compared with Seat- tle’s millions in war donations and invest- tands between us and a hundred per This $350,000 is our present’ deficiency in war savings stamps. Today and tomorrow are left to clean up this A dozen casualties were reported to have occurred yesterday on the in fighting between and Germans. The Berlin are obmying . but the mandates of hu export trade streets of Posen, Settlements Perplexing The president admitted he was not | individual items of ¢ settlements would be h@nor record. were precipitated by nace Paderewski, arrival of Ig- who is expected to be President of the Polish _the Polish republic, GOVERNMENT OF HUNS IN DOUBT All independ. ent socialists have retired from the German government, sists entirely between Seattle ments would be, aim is to eliminate present can do it—if each of us buys another ’s only a small amount for Let us do it. troubles may be taken up when they | to grow | Masonic The meeting wan to be held at the President Rhod the Chamber of Commerce ‘REDS’ ATTACK BRITISH FORCE COPENHAGEN, | forces have been landing at Riga, ac- cording to advices received here can flags to be hoisted, Warsaw, received stamp or two. each individual. are as good as cash, anyhow. vert them into cash whenever you want to. You draw 4 per cent interest as long as you Let us end the old year right, so can start the new with a clear record. Let’s go! Having just been made The stamps You can con- which now con- of majority socialists, dispatch received citizens of Manchester Wilson declared that the land has recovered her independence again mistress of her the German denrat warned him to depart ops his Polish backe: rs | Britain was no from Berlin today. . but a principle. “Men give more than is demanded | from impulse,” » comes from friendship.” Sees “Mystery Ship” While en route from the } house to the ; i hold them. direct contradiction to us dispatches, jemann coalition min- had been overthrown and that cabinet would be Shortly after the landing there was the president saw |an outbreak, killed and wounded wski was received in Posen He was hail The majority eat enthusiasm moored in t Jed by newspapers | assembled outaid: r British were conferring with threw off it dis | ealed | with the crowd was dispersed. comparatively ported the old government Boys Find Booze Cache and Sell Whisky at $1 a Quart’. are in the ears | armed warship. » president was suffering from | a slight cold Wilson were itself as a bh Disquieting rumors quieting rumor: and general disorder lared the govern- vbandoning the a quart wrapped in 4 | chief and slung over his shoulder, s British sailors dry squad Monday thonian troops eff ment is consid ion of being able — nee of blocks he met a man, just an average man Within a couple (Continued on Page Eight) 1 seaheitss thas Bartinides A uetuaa at ported today 1 boy named Jimmy Posen between Ger we're going to run advertise. Yankees at Front Make Complaints on Y. M. Cc. A. Affairs ments in the ed aground Bolshevikt warships unobtrusively, of smell for German officer the bills sent out to customers of the city lighting Bourbon whisky elling Wulf island. U. S. Ship Ashore in Bay of Biscay , and the man ripp Councilman Moore, who presided at nie ig out of his vest ’ . a prominent Ballard chureh nounced that final vote tion bills could not be eral days yet Highly elated, Jimmy returned for taken for sev affairs of the Y. of the entire tall is contin’ stumbled over burlap sack, with blankets: confronting us » meet to talk traction, some ported today )PENHAGEN » possibly can,” consultation, , Wherein the 10 to determine ¢ ure Justified » result of unavoidable condi from Vienna American foodstuffs | wh t from France to Aus-| or jtria, the advices state, It should bring | reported today But what is sold at $1 a quart and! at least $15. Tuesday ta the last day to mae then took it downtown. while three guarded the sult case at to be done? war office announced today