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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1918
Page
1
The document outlines goals for world peace including ending arbitrary power, settling disputes by free consent of affected peoples, ensuring equal conduct among nations, and creating a peace organization to check invasions and enforce justice through a common legal framework.
United States Admiral Sims announces to the Anglo American fellowship that 250 vessels and 43 000 men are in European waters from the White Sea to the Adriatic. Gen. Biddie claims ten million like soldiers can be mobilized. submarine warfare continues, with more subchasers and merchant ships in the war zone.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels declared U boats fail and confirmed entente claims on the marine situation. He spoke during a forenoon celebration noting 14 destroyers launched that day and many more to come by summer to aid in freeing the oceans of the submarine threat.
Paris reports French forces advancing between the Oise and the Aisne in two attacks. They took 1 606 prisoners and pushed forward about a mile on a three mile front. West of Autreches troops attacked German lines and gained nearly 0 8 kilometers.
Dispatch reports British forces under Haig advancing during World War I as casualties mount on the battlefront. W P Simms notes continuing heavy fighting and movement across the lines with soldiers pushing forward amid artillery exchanges.
Allied artillery and tanks supported an assault in France with objectives in Mortancourt reached on a 1200 yard front. UK authorities say Hamel village fell between Villers Bretonneux and the Somme with lines advanced about 2000 yards and 450 prisoners taken at Mortancourt. Waire wood also captured, Haig reported.
American artillery maintains total control west of Chateau Thierry. German guns fire briefly but are quickly silenced by US shells. Americans fortify new positions amid the wreckage of Vaux, where not a single building remains standing and no second stories survive.
Sixty three ships with total tonnage over 250000 were launched from Pacific coast ship yards today. Twenty four were steel vessels, aggregating more than 150000 tons. Thirty were ferris type wooden ships, totaling about 102000 dead weight tons. Chas M Schwab, director general.
The tobacco fund drive ends July 12 with $31,216 raised toward a $40,000 goal. Hazen J. Titus, general manager, says the quota must be met this week. Red Cross women parade four cars to aid promotion and volunteers boost funds in parks, streets, and shipyards. The campaign has sanction from the King County Council of Defense.
Maurice Casenave, minister plenipotentiary of the French diplomatic service and financial adviser to the French high commission, delivered the chief address Thursday afternoon at Woodland Park. A group of Seattle sponsors christened multiple ships by Skinner & Eddy and Meacham & Babcock, including the West Gambo, Delight, Wyncan, Western Cross, and Daca.
Seattle plans a 7:30 to 9:30 street celebration with nine bands along Second Avenue from Pine to James Street. An expected crowd of 50,000 to 75,000 will join Mayor Hanson and Maurice Casenave in leading a citywide Fourth of July pageant from parks to shipyards.
The article urges readers to save and buy thrift stamps to support the war bonds program. It highlights nationwide participation and emphasizes penny pinching to fund military needs.
A statement proclaims that Huns have stirred forces that cannot be crushed and urges a world tribunal to ensure justice and freedom of expression for all nations, extending friendship to Russia.
The column frames a final settlement as the sole path to the reign of law. It condemns Prussia’s rulers and warns that unorganized peoples, including Russia, face domination by ambitious governments who profit only themselves.
President Wilson, addressing an international gathering at Washington's Mount Vernon, invokes liberty for all nations and compares Washington and his colleagues to barons at Runnymede. He stresses rulers must serve all people, not narrow classes, and envisions freedom extending beyond America.
With a naval band and a cheering crowd, Seattle launched the Daca a 3500 ton wooden ship at Meacham & Babcock on Salmon Bay. The event began the local July 4 double header with further launches the Forester and Wyncan.
Amsterdam July 4 dispatch from Constantinople via Vienna reports the sultan of Turkey is dead He died at 7 oclock Monday morning after suffering from influenza.
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