The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 11, 1919, Page 1

Tides in Seattle rripay SATURDAY APRIL It APHIL it RAR; AARAAARAAA AA AAA AA AAA AAA AAA AAR An American Paper That Fights for Americanism eSeattle Star nd Clase Matter VOLUME 22. NO. 44. » SEATTLE, The Mutiny at Archangel From a_ military standpoint, the Michigan drafted men who demurred when ordered to fight the Bolsheviki are guilty of a serious offense. For much less serious infractions of the military code have men been court-martialed and sentenced to long terms in prison. But there is also another phase to the case—one that has nothing to do with military law. It is the phase of entire justice and equity. The men who mutinied were selected for service in the war against Germany. They were not pro- fessional soldiers. They were taken from civilian life for a certain emergency. When that emergency was over, their service in the army was to terminate. As long as there was any danger of Germany in- vading Russian territory by military strength, there was excuse for the American government to send its soldiers, drafted men and others, to the Siberian front. That danger has long passed. The Siberian situation now offers a different character of enter- prise—one that has its analogy to the Boxer uprising in China. It is a situation in whieh this country has not declared war upon the invaded territory or people. Whatever military operations are necessary in such a case, if any, belong wholly to the regular army, to professional soldiers. Volunteers in the war with Germany, National Guardsmen, and drafted men, too, are NOT professional soldiers. All thra France and in occupied Germany, as well as in Russia, these men are growing restless. They want to be back home. They have as much right, from a purely moral standpoint, to be home NOW and at work on their own chreers, as any one. They have as much right to be relieved of their war duties as the $l-a-year men who resigned their various posts when the armistice was declared. From a military standpoint, of course, their right is not so well entrenched. They cannot leave at will as the $l-a-year men did. But the justice of their case is none the less plain. The cry of the doughboys on all fronts is that they want to be back home. And their cry should be heeded. This is not Prussia. Morale of Allied Army in Russia Reported Bad MOASHINGTON, April 11.—Yankee) officer persuaded the men to obey Northern Rus#la will be| with the exception of one man, who reassured by the war department) wan placed in confinement and subse pops in ntly released. that their tenure of Arctic service against the Bolsheviki will soon be] A paraphrase of the code message over. states Chief of Staff March already bas| «yesterday morning. March 20. « announced that the last man should| 00" of intuntry, having recetved a iat: oe teat Souem y d0G0 9% | ogame, oc 4m thactder evens, ona or Reassurances are expected here (0) dered out of the barracks for the pur quiet the unrest among American pose of packing sleds for the trip troops, wome of whom nearly mu-| 4, vous tha fiver tothe raiiraad en tinted ‘several days ago as a climax! tio, The noncommissioned officer to a long period of discontent at|in Charge of the packing soon report The refusal of some of thes?) tused to obey. At this time some of troops to go into front line trenches | the officers took charge, and all ex announced by the war department) cept one man began reluctantly to late yesterday has not been un-| pack, after considerabl ay expected, it is known here. The “The s eel clemailaad “hit: ey morale of all the allied forces in| ¢,, North Russia is exceedingly bad.| cot stewart Revitte Waaer nest That of the tish ie generally | arrived, and had the men cca Fated best, the Yanks second, while | ty taik to them. (pon the mere the French morale is understood to|that the prisoner ‘at entice me. the lowest was released, the men agreed to go. The company, it was stated, '#/ this was done and the company then h infantry of the national proceeded to the railroad station and | and is composed largely .of | entrained there for the front paiens ran | “That they would not go to the The dispatch—a code message sent | front line positions was openly stated March 31, from Archangel—stated | pythe men, however, and they would that the company, on March 30, re-|oniy go to Obozerskaya hey also ceived order to £0 to the raliroad| py the men, however, and t front, The men refused to obey an soon come if there was not some def order to pack sied¢ fér the trip across | jnjte statement forthcoming from the river to the railroad station. An/ Washington with regard to the re - moval of American troops trom fue ia at the 2, 700 Troops Reach ced in confinement rliest possible date.’ | NEW YORK, April 11—(United Press.)-—The th infantry, com | plete, 2,700 men, for Camps Funston, . |Kearny, Meade, Custer, 5 are terested in the || Lewis, voaze, ‘Humpa Inayior, Ghercen:. ant Waleworily Lake B ur i en arrived On the transport Julia Luck enbach today. If you are in- The Pannonia was scheduled to ar | Hearing. being held in service. ed to the officers that the men re-| ‘LEAPS TO DEATH - TO ESCAPE FIRE {story in an effort to at the Y.M. C. A. hotel on the em: |man wrec ey would | lacking uch organizations. BOLSHES CAPTURE WILL REACH | SEATTLE AT EARLY HOUR Welcome Plans Will Be Com- pleted at Meeting Tonight EXACT HOUR UNKNOWN | SPOKANE, April IL—A spe cial troop train, carrying 600 re. turned soldiers, 122 of them Se | attle boys, arrived at Spokane | over the Great Northeen at 12:10 Pp. m. today, en route from Camp Merrite to Camp Lewis for din | charge, The train was to re main here untit 4 p.m. City commissioners met the train to convey the boys to sew- eral hotels, where they were ® | be the guests of the city at a “big feed.” | ‘The troops include men from the 18th engineers, 318th engin | cers, 30th M. T. € riermas. | ter corps ordnance and AL S.C. Six hundred boys in khaki— 12? of them Seattle's own—and every one of them with a ree | ord of having stood the baptiom of fire—will arrive in Seattle early Saturday, and the city is | preparing to do them homage. First announcement waa that the boys, who angeooming trom the Hast as casuals, would reach the city Fri day night. Spokane, however, would not be ot the opportunity of } entertaining the men, many of whom | are her sons. So, when they arrived | in that city shortly after noon Fri day they found the streets in gala array and plans for their reception | and amusement until 4 p.m. Friday. So they will not entrain for Seat tle until! tonight and will be here} early Sat | Complete Plans ral com-nittes on soldiers’ ome will meet Fri lock at the county ity building to complete plans for their welcome Tentative tion when rade th music galore with possi police force Northern sta- ain pulls in; a pa own streets with hool children in line, representation of the and other elty organt zations participating. + | | ns include a big s| | | Plan Big Feed | A big feed, and if the boys remain | over Saturday evening before contin: | Lewis for demobiliza m of the theatres, is uing to Cam tion, the fr W. €. Weir of the War Camp} Community service is also “ted to entertain the men in the eve ning Maj. B. E. Johnson ts in command | of the contingent of men and nine officers. The casuals are mem bers of the following organizations: | 18th engineers, 18th engineers, First, Third, 28th, 34th, 40th and 41st divisions 65th and coast artillery; Eighth field actilier Ninth field signal corps, 308th motor truck company and a quartermas | ter’s corps M. A. Hanson, of Seaitle, Dies in San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO, April. 1.—M.| A. Hanson, 26, of Seattle, was killed Whe early today in « leap from the sixth for | bacadero. pital: Hanson, a sailor, was awakened b. fire in his room, Tushing into the hallway, he leaped to his death fore comrades could detain him, The fire did #light dam Friends said Har leave for Seattle today to visit b | mother we | N. Y. Port Today| ‘The nother of M. A. Hanson could | b°4 not be located in Seattle Friday and lthe Seattle Y. M,C. A. reported it had no information about the man jor his relatives reported to be here ‘State Chamber to , Plan Year’s Work «\: District, see Sat- | orive this utternoon, with the A practical program along recon ‘ and 220th field artitlery, headquar ann xo" lines for the ear, wi be [£0 econd by alion. ja tterie shape ot tngalid ne divectors of the ree | G0 et urdey bd Star. ame || 2 eth ae vi = el Mee cently organized State Chamber of f i sisi sa e Commerce, in convention if Seattle adopte i Saturday ‘ | JUDGE BEAN 18 COMING The chamber, organized early in| when H | Vederal Judge Robert 8. Bean, of |the year, will devote special atten } the Portland district, will be in Seat-| tion to the formation of commerc | tle Saturday, to hold a naturalization | clubs in communities at present | went 4 PIPPI LILI LLL PLLA ALLL LLP PPP PPL PLP LLLP PPP PPP PP PPP PD PPP PP PL LATE EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE 00 to $9.00 | Saturday, fair; heavy ntle winds, mostly soul Greatest V War Baby of Greatest War Arrives! Mother a Nurse and Daddy a Canadian Hero! | ~-Center photo by Edith Fernee Nixon, British nurse, who now lives in Seattle, is seen in the top photograph. To the Byng Washington Nixon, the greatest war baby of the greatest and to the right is his daddy, Sergeant Jerry Nixon, who met Edith Fernee when he was taken, wounded, to Sewee hospital. left ts young Mr. ged arms War Ricuaine Unites Soldier esi. Nurse Who Met in Hospital Back of Trenches Wash ington st sent to face the foe in Belgium Came Back Unburt Then came the hurriedly | machine gunners. Canadian trench oth |** n of Kommel Hill, the Somme a dozen other battling oration, to hold the thin line while Britain) in a British front line hospital from the And Major Nixon bore |prevail, Hawker may make his start P | this afternoon. 1 . ; | Hawker's phine made a successful} be making preparations to ‘Leaders Say Nation Won Sign Hard Terms Hun until J Kemmel Hill sington Nixon fen pared in B Prussian guard and ered and died under the first great 4 one of the gallant wape a fire | fire kdorff-Rantaeu, advanced how. aguin | Hawker expressed entire satisfaction | today. e Which does net conform | with the armistice terms ‘Confronted by Mere appeal to the basis of Pouce agre ed to| “Montreal Will Be Great Oasis for Benes Americans | United * | Seattle Weather Due to Improve, Ue weather iy due to settle and | » within the next be according to Weather Observer Salis. about to dry | yuy heroe station: wen & peace deviat ing from the essential points ¢ becoming the great: | American con ” hey 160th trtantry Bernardino at a the seoond section at 1| | the Salt Lake | |railway announced today, to tabulation of 1 first * yolled up at training camp at , Hamp: of 100,000. ew | WAR THUGS LENINE 1S MAY ESCAPE TE PUNISHMENT GER ‘Allied Court Won't Try the Russian and German (ri | Kaiser; France and Bel- Would Defy Demands. gium May Ask Hearing | Peace Treaty LOOKING UP EVIDENCE PLAN HUGE. INV WASHINGTON, April t1L— LANDON, April 1L—By © (United Press}—The peace com | og Press. }—Capture of am ference bas made more progress allied camp in. northern in the last two days than in the was claimed by the rofl previous two weeks, private ad in an official communiqee fe vices to the White use stated ceived by wireless today, | today. Oficial were plainly communique follows: pleased with the turn of events, “On Saturday, near and cables today indicate that koye, in the Pinege region, the American delegates in Paris assumed the offensive, expect a settlement of the major flanking maneuver compelled | points shortly | enemy's hasty retreat. We . tured his entire camp, BY FRED 8. FERGUSON “In the direction of nited Press Staff Correspondent), eh the enemy attacks PARIS, April 1.—Germany a BY WILLIAM PHILIP | mast pay in full for “frightful | Vnited Press Staff ness. The former kaiser and i PARIS, Ay 11. his accomplices will be branded en of nai gon te as the greatest moral criminals Germany, as the initial of the ages, with the way open world-wide proletarian for their legal prosecution in the | fom has been received i countries where their crimes | foumernt tages ere Ht wae | were committed. { 3 : ‘This, in substance, Is the finding of | According «to:cavallable the committee on reparation and re-| U0? the Bolsheviki scheme: | sponsibility for the war, it was jearn-| Spartacans—with pownibie | ed today. Altho the “big fqur” have | Cenee Of the present [maintained official sence in this Wl! assunte administrative connection, these tangible Germany during, oF is have reached the surf after the Versallies congress. ‘The idea of an international high| Once in control. the court to try those indicted for war| Will greet the allied @ crimes is understood to have been | fled arms and a general abandoned. No local precedent could | f “do what you like, but as fan be found under which criminals could |W 4F¢ concerned, we will do. | be extradited to such a court. It has | {nS"—meaning they will sais | been decided, however, that this situ. P4Y indemnities or carry Ont | ation will not. prevent individual na. | ‘P* other peace terma, | tions, such as France and Belgium. |from extraditing enemy officials on s etna! |iocal indictments, providing suffl-| ore’ the einen we cient evidence ix obtained Burope, which they Sag Submarine officers and crews and embitter tie allied peoples |prison camp commandants and | their governments guarde and provisional commanders! With the allied armies in. jof conquered districts would be the | terior of Germany, the | omen most easily reached under such | would carry on an active a plan troops: Efforts would then be made tolSnevies” Goumasinte shel trace the sources of their orders to in this, the Spartacans “higher ups.” troops, returning to their While capital punishment for the | tries, would carry the (CONT?D ON PAGE TWO) volt made fertile by the allies’ peace plans, | with the general social MAY START SEA “sina. s oo am ‘soviet governments is being | | PLIGHT TODAY sss" M. Lamelli, personal conclu pont; 1 ne ive of Harry Hawker All Set for] tave “urisen'in omite, ie . reported to have promised the Atlantic Trip gurians an army of 150,000, them in strengthening their April 11.—4Unit-| of the country. Lenine, it | ST, JOHNS, N. F., Leaping from the ed Prew.)—That Lieut, Harry Hawk-| continues to counsel mod and racing thru @/ er would start to fly acrows the At- carried bis jantic in his Sopwith plane some time Por this gallant! today w bell expressed by halt }deed:he waa recommended for a dec. | one wan Migs <n Glee re but acor rpted a | the Hungarians, and advise t j avoid Russia's excesses, He soon to establish physical |representative aircraft officials here. | cation with Hungary, which ‘The governor inspected the Sop-| possible at present because | with plane this morning, and it is be-|foct that. strong Rumanian |Meved if good weather continues to | Czecho-Slovak forces now form Fr rier. Lenine also ts retiably rep joist of 35 minutes from the time of | Bolshevism in Rumania be ascending bere, yesterday afternoon, | ia, thus directly. linking Fe took just seven minutes for Hawk-| with Hungary pend: jer to reach the desired altitude, when ‘he sailed in the direction of Cape Race. ‘The witelesn station at Mount | BAVAFIA. Excluded _ : | Pearl kept in continual touch with | the machine all thru the flight, From the Ti declared his speed, while] BASLE, April 11.—(United averaged 100 miles an|—-The allies have notified rhe The machine carried full}man government that Bavaria: equipment, the same as will be car.) net be included in the peace” jried on the transatlantic flight,/a dispatch from Stuttgart Haw in the with the result of the test. Such action by the allies would All officials of the Sopwith com-|regurded as virtual recognition pany who witnessed the trial were | tbe independence of Ravaria, tho elated over the prospect of n early | necessarily of the new soviet start across the ocean. ment. A FEW OF THE FEATURES] . TODAY IN THE STAR “kK,” the famous novel by Essay by Dr. Frank Crane Mary Robert Rinehart fpootees 6 moo - Page 10 | Kiddies’ Liberty Loan-con- Little Bedtime Stoby wag) BOSE a. 8< oa. 6 tae 6 Page 16 | Woman's page, Cynthia Another of be war hero | Grey, club news, etc,... stories related by Gen. fh salty opine -Page 8 Pershing...,...Page 18 | Sporting news and fea- Everett True, ‘the Duffs, | | tures..-Pages 20 and 21 “Wedlocked,” Balmy , Gar ‘den lesson. ....Page 11 Benny.........Page 16] Webster cartoon. ..Page 6 te ketene