The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 31, 1918, Page 1

' i i | THE WEATHER GENERALLY FAIR THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR, THE BIS Germans | ns Launch ‘Attack | On American Sector 700,000 STRIKERS DEMANDING PEACE FROM CENTRAL EMPIRES BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, CK TRIBUNE |=: THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1918 FOOD FOR PIGS HUMAN DIET IN ‘VICTORIOUS GERMANY,’ BUT THE FARE IS IMPROVING No Actual Starvation But Much Malnutrition Evidence Among Teutons, and Disease and Subnormal Con- ditions Are Making Their Inroads. COW BEETS AND STRAW BREAD ON COMMON PEOPLE'S TABLES Not Recorded, However, That Kaiser Wilhelm Is Hoover- izing to Any Extent—Many New Maladies Making Their Appearance — Bitterness Grows. CO OO OO OOO ON OO Oe Oe ee “= Germany’s diet is pretty poor. ~ ‘But it’s better than it was at the close of last winter. ~ That's one important fact that Victor Morgan brings ‘back from Eu ¢ rope—Victor Morgan, noted editorof the Cleveland Press, who was sent abroad by The Tridune and associated newspapers to report on « WHAT IS GOING ON IN GERMANY TODAY. « This is the second of Morgan's stories. columns yesterday. ~ They are being published in this city exclusively in The Tribune. “ Every American should read every one. oS Oy ooo 6 eo edo The first appeared in our POS SEOT ESTE ee oe o % > e od og BY VICTOR MORGAN. Editor of the Cleveland Press. (Copyright, 1918, by the Newspaper Enterprise Association.) It is God’s truth that the farmers their cattle better food than millions of humans in Germany and Austria have had at times. Cow beets and straw bread—can alive on such fare? of America this night are feeding to you imagine human beings keeping Well, German people did, and because they did, one must feel that no privation, no pressure of any sort, can be made severe enough to start a general revolt among the civil population of the empire. If ever a revolu- tion comes in Germany, it must have soldiers in it. never revolt for lack of food or clothes. Cow beet is American for mangel- wurzel. It is raised both for Ameri- ca and Germany as feed for pigs. It is a hardy vegetable, cordy and un- palatable, but more or less rich in sugar, ‘and, therefore, : nutritive. Straw. bread is made from a sort of flour.or bran produced by grinding the dried stalks of wheat and rye. It: is mixed with rye flour, and the com: binatton“is:most unpalatable. although |. not entirely Jacking in nutrition. The-cow beet and straw ‘bread are off the German bill of fare at present—a proof that CONDI- TIONS IN GERMANY. ARE BET- TER TODAY THAN THEY WERE ‘AT THE CLOSE OF LAST WIN- THR.’ ‘It was then’ that the pota- to. stores became exhausted and recourse was had to the cow beet. The advent of the cow beet into the realm of human foods has given that lowly vegetable a promineice in Ger- man politics that it could never have attained in a million years of appeas- ing cattle hunger. In December, 1917, a meeting of 40 mayors of leading German cities was held to declare war on the cow beet and erect barricades against its re- turn. The German people grow bitter at the mere mention of the cow beet. In hate it ranks second only to England. The cow beet, it seems, was put in- to the soil unobtrusively, and in se- cluded sections of the empire, by or: der of the food directors, when it be- came apparent that the potato crop would not be sufficient to last through the winter of 1916. The may- ors demanded to know whether any such action had ‘been found necessary in 1917. They declared most positively that their people would have no more of the cow beet. It would be better, said they, to restrict further the potato allowance now, than to test the tem- per of he people with the cow beet. should the potato supply fail toward: the end of the winter. Further, said tue mayors, it was common talk that the ‘aristocratic agrarians, or land own- ers, were feeding potatoes to their pigs. If that were so, how could the potato supply last? The mayors were assured that the potato crop would prove ample for the year, and the report about the agrarians was denied. The cow beet, the mayors were told, was off the menu for good. Tue mayors adjourn: ed and went home satisfied. Now wouldn't it be an odd page in history if the calculations again should &0 awry ,and the cow beet should come ‘back, bringing with it the germ of revolution? . ete es 2 8 Living ..conditions. in Austria are vastly worse than in’ Germany. In Switzerland I met an American family who had lived 18 years in Austria and who had left there at the time America declared war. on that coun- try. The women of the family had kept household accounts carefully over a period of years. They said that in 1917 it cost the family five times as much to live as in 1916. “Even at that,” they said, “we were not adle to live as well as in 1916.” Bread and potatoes are the only foods that can be counted upon by the mass of the people in Austria, and even their sapply. is limited. The Austrian government has held down the prices of these two arti- cles, but has been compelled to cut the allowances to a point that makes living difficult. If these two foods were allowed to follow their natural economic tendencies, millions of Aus- trians would be without food alto- gether. Conditions in Hungary are ‘bet- ter than in Austria or Germany. It is a common practice for Aus- trians to go to Budapest to get a square ‘meal. Contiwed And the soldiers will They have plenty of both. SWEDEN WILL KEEP OUT OF ‘FINN TROUBLE Prominent New York Swede Makes Statement After Visit to Northwest WHITE GUARD IS WINNING Faction Defending Government Reported Victorious in Many Battles Washington, D. C., Jan. 31.—Declar- ing that “Sweden would as soon burn down one of its own large cities as to take part in one of the Finnish diffi- culties,” Edward Bjokman of New York City, representing the commit- tee on public information, today com- mented on London reports that Sweden is believed to have inter- vened in the civil war in Finland. Mr. Bjokman has just returned from an investigation conducted in Min- neapolis and St. Paul. Fears of Americans regarding the loyalty of Swedes in the northwest are groundless, he. said. GOVERNMENT WINN Stockholm, Jan. 31.—All is quiet {at Helsingfors, a dispatch from that city reports, but fighting is under way at other points in Finland, be- tween the Red Guards, which are ‘supporting the, revolution, and the White Guard, which upholds the Fin- nish government. The White Gaurd is fighting with enthusiasm and scor- ing successes everywhere, disarming the Red Guard. SOCIAL REVOLUTION. London, Eng., Jan. 31.—Finland ts going through a social revolution, similar to the November revolution in Petrograd, says the Petrograd correspondent of the Daily News in describing the Finnish _ revolution. The opposing forces in Finland are very equally balanced and a com- paratively painless revolution like that pushed through by the Bolshe- viki is verv_unlikelv. Manv of the wealthy in Petrograd fled into Fin- land to escape the revolutionary troubles in the Russian capital. Mem- bers of the Finnish Senate are said to have taken refuge in Vasa. ——_ | THE WEATHER | ‘For 24 hours ending at noon, Jan- uary 31: Temperature at 7 a. m. . —26 Temperature at 9 a. m. —28 Temperature at noon li Highest yesterday .. 17 Lowest yesterday —29 Lowest last night —26 Precipitation ... Highest wind velocity Forecast For North Dakota: Fair tonight and Friday with rising temperature. Lowest ‘Temperatures Fargo .. Williston’. Pierre .. St. Paul Winnipeg Chicago Swift: Current . Kansas City . San Francisco . ORRIS W. jobs A GERMANY’S GREATEST AMBITION TODAY: TO ENSLAVE THE WORLD ‘These are enslaved natives of Morgan, in his first article on ject slavery for the rest of us. fighting on German soil.” German East Africa, guarded by a native German-Atrican soldier. “What Is Going On in Germany Today,” wrote: ‘Most observers feel that this obsession cannot be cured until there is actual Victor “Dizzy heights for Germans; a)- LABOR TROUBLES CONSTANTLY GROWING IN MAGNITUDE AND BECOMING SUCH AS TO BE REAL MENAGEO KAISER'S WAR PROGRAM WE HAVE OUTRAGED YOUR WOMEN IS TEUTON TAUNT —___ WHILE SCREAMS RING OUT PREPARE 10 RESIST WILSON WILSON TELLS FARMERS NEED | LABORERS QUIT WORK Cessation Made Almost Complete by Walking Out of Thou- sands of Men Rezolutions Adopted Defying Goyernment to Adminis. ter Reprisals London, Eng., Jan. The. German strike is growing in magnitude, the Exchange Telegraph corres- pondent. at Copenhagen re- ports. In Berlin 700,000 per- sons.are on strike, he reports, 58,000 of these being women. A ‘great number of socialistic leaders have been arrested in various German towns, ac- cording to this authority. The cessation of work in Hamburg is now virtually complete according to a Daily Telegraph dispatch from Rotterdam. The strike has extended from the Vulcan ship building works in Hamburg to the works of Blohm- Voss, another large ship uilding con- cern. The strikers demana an 1mmed- fate peace on the basis of no annexa- tions and no indemnities. The socialist party leaders in Ger- many, according to a statement in the Lerliner Tagebladt, forwarded by the, Amsterdam corespondent of the Cen- tral News, have asked President Kampft of the reichstag to summon the reichstag immediately in view of | the alarming events of the last few days. At a meeting of the Berlin strikers on Wednesday, the Tagesbladt adds, a resolution was passed declaring that | the strikers would oppose to the ut-/ most. of their power. an reprisals | against their leaders or representa-| tives. STATE “OF SEIGE. Copenhagen, Jan. 31.—A state of | siege has been declared at Hamburg, Altona and Wandsbeck, according to the Hamburg Echo, a socialist news- paper. 120,000 ouT it IN BERLIN Amsterdam, Jan. 31.—The numver of strikers in ‘Berlin is estimated at about 120,000, according to a semi-of- ficial statement issued in Berlin yes- terday when there liad been omly an inconsiderable increase in the strike since Tuesday. The Berlin newspapers with few ex- ceptions have been published. The streets of the German capital, the statement adds, show no signs of a strike. All traffic is proceeding quiet- ly and undisturbed. The statement says there have been no disturbances anywhere in the empire. STRIKES “SPREADING. Amstertiam, Jan. 31.—(British Ad- miraity per Wireless (Press)—The strike has been extended in districts near Berlin especially in Teleg, Ald- ershof, Spandau, and /Mariendorf, where 500,000 men have quit work. A similar number of workmen are on strike in the remainder of the em- pire. —— PAPERS SUPPRESSED Berlin Tagblatt and Voerwurts Stop Publication. Amsterdam, Jan. 31—The German censor has ordered the Berliner Tag- blatt and Vorwarts and Eeliner Post to’ cease publication, according to a dispatch feceived here from Berlin. The ban was placed on the newspaper owing to their attitude toward’ the striking. workmen in, Germany, aya oe the dispatch, OF THEIR “AID Says Uncle Sam Is Backing Them | Supreme With Sound Seed and Money to Win War. | CULMINATING CRISIS COMES Sacrifices Necessary Upon Part of Every Ameri- can to Save World Washington, D.C. Jan. 31 —To the farmers of the Unit- ed States, President Wilson today sent a message in which he called attention to the country’s need of their 0 tance in the coming year £ winning the war. The message was sent thru the Farme! h nois at Urbana. s’ conference being eld at the University of Tlli- The message was delivered by President James. of the University of Mllinois in the absence of See- retary of Agriculture Hous- ton. who was to have repre- sented the president. The president’s message said in part: “You will not need to be convinced that it was necessary for us as a free people to take part in this war. It had | raised its evil hand against us. “We are fighting, therefore, as truly for the liberty and self-government of the United States as if the war of; our own revolution had to be fought over again, and every man in every business in the United States must know by this time that his wiole future fortune lies in the balance. I nee dnot ask you to pledge your lives; and fortunes with those of the rest of the nation to the accomplishment of that great end. We must win therefore, and we shall win. Culminating Cri: “You will realize that the culminat- ing and crisis of the struggle has come, that the achievements of this year on the one side or the other must determine the issue. out It has turned that the forces that fight for free- dom, the freedom of men all over the world as well as our own depend on us in an extraordinary and unexpected degree for sustenance for the supply of the materials by which men are to live, and to fight, and it will be our glory when the war is over that we have supplied those materials and sup- plied them abundantly, and it will be all the more glory because in supply- ing them we have made our supreme effort and sacrifice. The Field of Agriculture. In the field of agriculture, we have the agencies and instrumentalities, fort- unately, such as no other government in the world can show. The depart- ment of agriculture is undoubtedly greatest practical..and scientific agricultural: organization in the world. The banking legislation of the last two or three years has’ given the farm- ALES ers access to the great lendable cap- | Beastiality Exhibited on Italian Front Equals Worst That Belgium Suffered By MILTON BRONNER. “Washington, D. C., Jan. 31.—"You Italian pigs, here we ‘are! We have outraged your women. We have at- tacked your sisters.” This terrible message was shouted by Austrian and German soldiers to Italians confronting them in the Chiesa Nuova sector January 19. It was followed abuse. bureau. 1 was allowéd access to the cables received by the Italian embassy from its government. These cables are not sent for publication, but for the information of the ambassador. cities were scattered amid routine re- {ports on political and military hap- | penings. By going through tne papers with Signor F. Cuniberti, and attache, 1 was enadled to extract a story of outrage las vile and as shocking as anything the Teutons have perpetrated in Bel- gium, Serbia, Poland and France. It is the same routine — attacks upon women, enforced labor by helpless civ- ilians, senseless destruction of art ob- jects, looting of public and private houses. ‘A proclamation was issued at Udine | of which this is the gist: “All workmen, women and children over 15 years old are obliged to work in the fields every day, Sunday in-| cluded, from 4 a. m. to 8 p. m. Rests) of one half hour in the morning, an hour and a half at noon, and half an| hours in the afternoon are permitted. Disovedience will be punished in the! following manner: “Lazy workmen will be accompan- ied to work and watched by German soldiers. ery third day will be given nothing but bread and water. Lazy women will ‘be exiled and obliged to work months’ imprisonment. Lazy children will be punished by flogging. The commandant reserves the right to pun- ish lazy workmen with 20 lashes daily.” Near Zenzon the ENEMY PUT ITALIAN WOMEN AND CHILDREN’ IN THE FIRST LINE in order to shield the Teutons from the fire of the Italian soldiers who were compelled to sacrifice the innocents in order to repel the attack. ‘Luigi Barzini, war correspandent of the Corriere della Sera of Milan, tes- titied that Italian soldiers on the Piava river by the Teutons. Numerous proofs of pillage are be- have been discovered loot taken from Italian shops and homes. Prisoners have told of massacres of Italian citi- zens by Teuton troops on the same kind of pretexts employed in Belgium. On some sections not only have the invaders taken all cattle and food, but they have used furniture for fuel for their bivouac fires back of the lines. In the note book of an Austrian of- ficer, who was captured, was found the following copy of an order that had been issued: “Forward boys, let us be thor- ough. Let us take away what is movable, detach what is attached and use what is useful.” by. unspeakavly filthy | I didn’t get this from a propaganda | items concerning Austro-German atro-/ TWO KILLED, FOUR WOUNDED, ONE MISSING AS RESULT OF HEAVY DAYLIGHT SHELLFIRE Casualties Occurring Almost Daily on Section of West Front Held by Samocrats, Against Which Re- peated Assaults Have Been Launched. ENEMY LOSSES THOUGHT TO HAVE : BEEN GREATER THAN THE ALLIES United States Troops Stood Their Ground and Fired Into Dense Fog at Moving Shapes Which Came Toward Their Trenches—Earlier Details Withheld. With the American Army in France, Jan. 31.—An American position in a certain section of the French front, was raided during a heavy fog shortly after. daylight. this morning. barrage. The attack was pr eceded by a violent artillery Two Americans were killed, and four wounded.’ One soldier is mi the enemy. sing, and is believed to have been captured by Casualties have been occurring almost daily for several days on this sector. It is now permitted to disclose that all the recent casualties given out from Washington occurred in this sector. shrapnel, TWENTY DEAD, FIFTY MAIMED IN BIG AIR RAID Germany Drops 14 Tons of Ex- plosives Over Paris as ‘‘Re- prisal,’’ Says Berlin HUN MACHINE CAPTURED Plane Brought Down and Mem- bers of Crew Taken Pris- oner by the French Paris, Jan, 31.— Twenty persons were killed and 50 wounded in last night’s air raids, it was ia nounced this morning. One of the German air ma- chines which raided Paris, was brought down. The oc- cupants of the airplanes were made prisoners. Reprisals, Says Berlin Berlin, Jan. 31.—‘‘As a re- prisal,”? says the official statement issued today by the war office, ‘‘we dropped 14 tons of bombs on Paris.” BOWEN BANGED IN The deaths were caused by shell fire, mostly NIGHT WAS QUIET. With the American Army in France, Wednesday Jan. 30.—Last night was fairly quiet throughout the American sector. The usual number of shells came over, do- ing no damage, and there was the: customary spradic outburst . of machine gun fire from both. sides at points where the oppos- ing lines are at rest. At daybreak this morning the heavy fog whith had been enveloping the whole position and the country: for miles around for several days became still thicker. blotting ‘ out: all except: ‘the nearest enemy positions. At) 7 o'clock three muffled reports: sound- ed through the fog. There were three whistles quickly followed by three shell bursts. The projectiles explod- ed on three sides of an American. list- ening post, just outside the wire, within forty-five feet of the enemy's listening post. Hell Broke Loose. “Then hell broke loose,” said one.of the men there. For 15 minutes, the enemy broke hundreds of high explos- ives, around the post and surrounding ground, cutting off the men. there. Two of them were killed in the first few minutes. Another man, who was at the post, told the correspondent later, as he was lying on a cot in the field hos- pital, that he saw four Germans ap- proaching out of the fog as the bar- rage lifted. He brought his automatic rifle into play and saw two.of the Germans fall. He kept on firing un- ‘il shell splinters hit uim in the head and arm. Shadows in the Fog. © ‘The last I remember in the time before I reached the hospital,” said another wounded man, is seeing some- ‘hing moving through the fog. It de- termined to get some Germans and nut my rifle to my shoulder. but. nev- er pulled the trigger. There was a SENATE FOR LOSS deafening explosion behind me. Frozen. earth( shell splinters, and stones came my way.” After the harvest they will) be imprisoned for six months and ev-| and afterd the harvest receive six! front often during the) night heard the desperate screams of} women on the opposite bank occupied | 5: ing found on the bodies of the Aus-} trian soldiers in whose coat pockets | 1446 of the house journal, and OF RAIL MEASURE Chief Clerk Charged With Wil- fully Interfer:ng With Leg- islation Last Year, More light on the methods of the last Non-partisan house of representa- tives was shed in a set of resolutions introduced in the senate during the closing hours Tuesday. These resolu- tions read as follows: “Whereas the taxation of freight line companies was a question of pub- lic discussion during the political campaign of 1916, and “Whereas senate bill No. 225 of the Fifteenth Legislative assembly pro- vided for the taxation of freight line companies, and “Whereas said senate bill’ No. 225 was passed February 15, 1917, by a vote of ayes, 44; nays, none, absent and not voting, 5, as shown on page of the senate journal, and Vhereas the house of representa- ives did on March 1, 1917, amend senate bill No. 225, as shown on page) “Whereas the house of representa- tives did on March 2, 1917, pass said senate bill No. 225 by a vote of ayes, 111; nays, 2; absent and not voting, none, as. shown on page 1541 of the house journal, and “Whereas, A. E. Bowen, chief clerk, of the house of representatives, did during the closing hours of the ses- sion falsely report to the senate that senate bill No. 225 had been indefi- nitely postponed, as. shown on page 1109 of the senate journal, thereby defeating the action of both houses in their efforts to provide a practical method for taxing freight line com- Inspection of the scene of the raid last night showed that the ground was plowed up by the explosion of shells. In the recent fighting in the Amer- ican sector, one of the men wounded was hit by a sniper’s bullet. He fell in a trench filled with water, and al- most drowned before he was rescued by his ‘captain. Several of the wound- ed had been listed as accidental woundings, and these were mostly wounds on the hands. é The Enemy Casualties. It is certain that the enemy casual- ties from the American canton and machine gun fire have been as great or greater than ours. The casualties given out: in’ Wash- ington recently occurred over'a cer- tain recent period. The dead were buried within the sound and range of the guns. One man was blown to pieces by a shell in a regimental head- quarters town as he was following his colonel into a dugout.. Three men were killed by one shell which fell in a trench and another died of wounds in.a hospital. Quite a few of the men sent to the hospitals were wounded on the upper body or head . from shrapnel. For military reasons it has been in- qutinetla to send earlier or other de- ails. GERMAN WAR OFFICE SAYS BLOW FAILED \ Berlin ce eanden, Jan. 31.—The at- ‘tacks which were launched yesterday, — against the German-Austrian | south of Asiago on the ‘worthern panies, “Now, therefore, be it resolved, by] Other, officers, who were captured, ured admitted oles treatment_ be tne ely, the_civ- ounite ie ection, 8 : Pad Mh the senate that A. E. Bowen fa | fire, the German.