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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1918
Page
1
A Seattle family finds a censored letter from son Philip in France with a playful masking note. Recruits at Camp Lewis trade jokes on religion and duty while a captain corrects muddy heels. A theater line hearlds an army librarian impersonator, and a Washington boy in a Southern camp writes home. Veterans and doctors mix humor with wartime strain and a boy’s exemption bid.
Australian and Italian forces push Austrians back four miles from Venice in the Piave valley. Italian artillery blocked enemy resupply as thousands fought through water to the waist amid mud and flooded dykes. More than 1,300 machine guns and six trench mortars captured. Rome reports progress on Asiago plateau with prisoners and weapons seized.
Paris region report states several American officers died in a collision between two automobiles near Fontainebleau about 37 miles southeast of Paris. Authorities announced the fatalities today and began investigations.
United Press reports on day 496 of the war with Australian and American brigades advancing on the Somme front. Heavy artillery duels erupt from the Marne to Villers-Cotterets while Australian raids hit German trenches near Hazebrouck. Austrian reinforcements mass in the Tyrol and Trentinos, and German plans reference Mirbach murder as a pretext for troop movements toward Petrograd.
Washington reports a potential government move to seize control of oil fields and related transport for war needs. A shortage of 10 000 to 30 000 barrels daily is noted, with a looming overhaul of Garfield's fuel administration. Some appointees face removal over conflicts with intrastate interests cited by Attorney General Gregory.
Portland expects to press its claim for federal recognition as the premier shipping point for Russia bound war supplies. Director General McAdoo arrives for talks with railroad men to review Portland’s deep water harbor and its current congestion status compared with other Pacific ports.
Australian troops renewed offensive along a two mile Somme front field Marshal Haig reported. The Australians advanced on a 3000 yard stretch on both sides of the Somme and a raid by Scottish troops south of the La Baassee canal netted a few prisoners. Enemy trenches east of Hazebrouck also entered with prisoners taken. Artillery was active on both sides of the Somme and near Beaumont Hamel and Bethune.
Senate military affairs committees were informed Gen Pershing will command over 500000 men ready for the fighting line within a month or less. Current fighting line totals 251000, not counting Americans with British and French units. June reinforcements remain in training, about 400000 expected to be ready by August first.
The French war office reported an artillery battle along a 15 mile front between Villers-Cotterets forest and the Marne. The communique noted there was artillery fighting between the forest and the Marne without detailing casualties or outcomes.
Rejections for the last draft total 12.2 percent with 1,433 discharged out of 13,157 who reported at Camp Lewis. Common causes were insufficient height and ear disabilities. New June 15 regulations set a minimum height of five feet three inches, down from five feet one inch.
The courier brings a mystery cargo from the Orient and explains that the sun rising in the west is Japan. Burton Knisely, a keen observer and trained writer, will present Nippon stories in The Star, offering the most comprehensive Nippon survey yet.
Silverware valued at 6400 and a mink fur set worth 600 were stolen from two Capitol Hill homes between Friday afternoon and Monday morning. At 1052 Mast Galerat the Greer residence was entered via a rear window and a maid found the scene after the family left for Edmonds. Jewelry and other valuables were taken at 1910 St. ave. N, the Lima home, while the Greers’ maid tended the child. The tweet includes details of the missing items and the ongoing police probe.
The body of Maj. John Purroy Mitchel, killed in a Lake Charles airplane crash, will arrive in New York tomorrow morning and go to his mother's home. A state funeral will be held Wednesday in City Hall rotunda, with a military service Thursday at Church of St. Francis Xavier and burial at Woodlawn. Honorary pallbearers include Col. Theodor Roosevelt, Cleveland H. Dodge, Nicholas Murray Butler, George W. Wickersham, Jacob H. Schiff, and Frank L. Polk.
The Commercial Telegraphers' union strike order for Western Union workers was withdrawn at the eleventh hour. President B J Konenkamp said there will be no strike until the government has further opportunity to act after requests from Secretary of Labor Wilson and Samuel Gompers.
United Press reports Congress weighs a wire takeover bill as telegraphers agree to quiescence until action. Senate committee plans hearings on the measure after House passage while water power bill advances to aid inland waterways as rail adjunct.
General Pershing reported raiding in the Vosges on Sunday as German forces were warned to stay alert for an American offensive on Independence Day.
Seattle waterfront worker Cash Gollar said he paid a New York attorney $10 to fix his draft exemption appeal. Gollar recalled the lawyer claiming many lawyers would charge more to handle the appeal and that he could “fix me up for $10.”
July 8 the senate agricultural committee approved a bone dry amendment to tighten prohibitions. It sets that no beer or wine shall be made after November 1 and the sale of whisky wine and beer shall cease January 1.
Paris reports Ludendorff visited Austrian headquarters in the Trentino to speed preparations for resuming the offensive on the Italian front. Reinforcements are said to be massing in Innsbruck and the Trentino as the Swiss frontier closes.
Atlanta Ga July 8 One hundred fifty telegraphers employed here by the Western Union left their keys early today after the company locked out union employees over Sunday Union officials sent a message to President Wilson saying the action was taken because the company failed to play square and issued lockout orders A Southeast strike over the wholesale discharge of men by Western Union yesterday is predicted by President A F Joyner of the local union if the action continues at noon he said there will be no continuation.
New York July 8 Western Union officials here disclaimed any knowledge of lockout orders issued in Atlanta and declared business at all points was going ahead as usual.
Dispatches indicate Germany may use the murder of Ambassador Bach as a trigger for conquering European Russia. Berlin breaks off Russian diplomacy, seeks troop passage to the coast through Petrograd, and would assume policing rights over Petrograd and Moscow. Bolsheviks strive to appease the Kaiser.
An army of trade and business experts supported by allied troops will be sent to Russia to aid in establishing order. The program, not military intervention, is to be announced soon with a cabinet list to submit by tomorrow.
Stockholm reports Germany will demand the right to police Moscow and Petrograd after Count Mirbach's assassination. Berlin seeks free troop passage to the Murman coast via Petrograd and expects Bolshevik compliance or possible abdication, with Lenine preparing an apology to Berlin.
A July 8 dispatch from Copenhagen reports a serious counter revolution in Moscow with severe street fighting between Bolsheviks and Social Revolutionaries. The Bolsheviks are said to be gaining the upper hand.
A German ambassador to Russia was murdered in the Moscow embassy by two men with forged credentials. A bomb exploded in Mirbach's room, killing him within minutes. The incident prompted instructions from Adolph Joffre to notify Germany’s Foreign Minister and to express condolences to Mirbach’s family.
Several socialist revolutionaries arrested in Moscow have confessed to complicity in the murder of Ambassador Mirbach, according to a Berlin dispatch.
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