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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1914
Page
1
A fiery anti piracy editorial denounces food price hikes as criminal greed. It urges the Department of Justice to stop profiteering by packers and retailers, warns of wartime hunger, and calls for strong action against speculators and price gouging.
Reports say German forces drive Belgian posts back along the line and entrench near Brussels while Antwerp becomes temporary capital. Paris dispatch notes the action may be a feint as Kaiser massed troops behind the Rhine. Brussels fall seen as likely with Namur and Liege of strategic note.
The article estimates Europe spends about fifty million dollars daily to wage war and adds this to prewar national debts of Austria 3.97 billion, France 6.575 billion, Germany 3.705 billion, Great Britain 3.535 billion, and Russia 4.5 billion as the looming financial weight on its people.
In Sauk City and Osseo Wisconsin the school principals lead open evening meetings to bring townspeople together to discuss local issues. Candidates may appear to explain their platforms in a nonpartisan forum aimed at clearing public opinion through calm dialogue.
A wartime notice warns that makins or rolling papers will become scarce as Austrians and French suspend production to support the war effort. It notes American supplies will last only a few months, with Austria providing brown or wheat straw papers and France supplying rice and silk tipped papers.
St Petersburg dispatch reports the war office announcing Russia's army mobilization is fully completed. The statement says the effort finished brilliantly and earlier than expected, with completion before month end.
Rev Matthews of Seattle's First Presbyterian, described as the world's largest church, received a call from Winnipeg seeking his leadership. Past offers included $10,000 yearly from a Pittsburg church and $15,000 from a Los Angeles church, both declined.
The Yosemite Valley railroad roundhouse and machine shops in Merced California were destroyed by fire causing a loss of seventy thousand dollars.
Washington Aug 18 Dr Paul Ritter Swiss minister renewed his appeal to the state department for a loan of gold from the United States declaring Switzerland in a siege with soldiers and civilians facing starvation He ridiculed the idea that such a loan would breach neutrality.
Michael Donlan aged 70s, father of police and patrol officers, died in city hospital at 11 20 after being struck by a Mr Baker car at 21st Ave and Jackson St. He suffered a deep head wound and fractured skull during the incident. In other news, Gen Smith Dorrien will succeed Gen Cher son who died suddenly while commanding an expeditionary corps.
A nationwide inquiry into food price rises, led by Seattle District Attorney, finds wheat prices falling while flour climbs in Kansas. Federal authorities are puzzled as Chicago seeks cost-based canal zone supply. Col Goethals may explain logistics, New York plans to ask house wives how current retail prices compare with August 1.
Paris reports military experts doubt allies can halt the German push in Belgium. German forces are said to outnumber previous estimates, with lines from northern Belgium through Luxembourg. The Meuse army besieges Liege forts while Moselle forces prepare farther south. The Kaiser's plan may be to smash through Southern Belgium into France before allies regroup.
United Press from Berlin says the German advance has begun and Brussels may fall within days. The Kaiser and von Behmann Hollweg keep reviewing bulletins as Mainz hosts the staff, while Germans display friendliness to Americans with intertwined flags and hospitality plans for penniless visitors.
Washington August 18 Charge d Affaires Von Haimhausen of the German embassy called on Secretary Bryan to say the best way to spare Germans in Kiaochau would be for Germany to relinquish the province to China. He confessed no word from Berlin on Berlin’s stance.
Two German cruisers, disabled in battle, arrived at Hongkong as prizes according to a dispatch from there today. Their upper works were riddled and their decks spattered with blood, though their names were not disclosed.
A huge French column advances through the Vosges into the Schirmeck valley. German troops retreat before the invaders, with a likely German stand planned at Molsheim, about 12 miles west of Strasbourg. French aviators report Kaiser's infantry intrenched there in force.
The pope, bedridden with bronchial catarrh and gouty symptoms, suffers deep melancholia from war developments. Doctors Amici and Marchiafava attend him as he expresses pity and disbelief that nations he calls his people fight each other.
A newspaper domestic brief lists food bargains for housewives including lettuce two heads for 15c, cheese 20c per lb, canned tomatoes two for 10c, rice two pounds for 15c, cabbage 2 for 5c, new potatoes 1c to 1 1/2c per lb, cantaloupes from 1c, corn meal 5c per lb, oats five pounds for 25c, green corn 25c per dozen, radishes 1c per bunch, bananas 10c 15c 20c per dozen, apples one dollar per box.
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