The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 1, 1918, Page 1

THE WEATHER GENERALLY FAIR THIRTY.EIGHTH YEAR. FRIDAY, FEB! RUARY 1, 1918 EVENING EDITION THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE = BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, POLISH LEGION TURNS ON BOLSHEVI GERMAN LABOR TROUBLES CONTINUE TO GROW MORE GRAV < E NOBODY LOVES A SCHOOLMA’AM, COLLEGE PROFESSOR OR EDITOR IN KAISER WILHELM'S DOMAIN: - Because They. Have No Union or Other Organization to Protect Them, These Classes Are Compelled to Work. for Practically Nothing. SHABBY-GENTEEL SUPERMEN COMMON, AMONG ALL PROFESSIONAL CLASSES) As High as $7.50 the Day Paid far Munition Workers, But No Premium Is Placed on Mere Brains— Their Problem Growing Serious Ce a ee a ee NOW WE KNOW WHAT VON PAPEN MEANT! Extract from a famous letter of captain Von Papen, former Cer- man naval attache in America, to his wife apropos of the stealing of @ one of his portfolios: “4 always tell these IDIOTIC YANKEES that they had better hold % their tongues.” Extract quoted by Victor ‘Morgan from “Von Tannenberg's ‘‘Gross- © deutschland”: Q “ENTHUSIASM FOR HUMANITY IS IDIOCY. Right and wrong are notions needed in civil life only. The German people is a'ways right, because it IS the German people, and because it numbers 87,000,000.” eee oe ° oF oo oo ° By VICTOR MORGAN. > Editor of The Cleveland Press. | SPAJN MAKES HUN DEMANDS (Copyright, 1918, by the ‘Newspaper Madrid, Thursday, Jan. 31.—The Enterprice Association.) teabinet met today under the presi- No groups in civil Germany must} bear the greater measure of respon-! f | dency of King Alphonso and decided to send a strong protest to Germany sibility for the .world war than: The school teachers. demanding reparation to Spain for the| | sinking of the steamanip Giralda. ee a WOULD. CAGE. AND STARVE | _. AMERICANS Mark now the moving of the hand) German Plan. n of Trea Treating United of juatice—retributive justice, the: kind the poet sings about. For—the | ‘ . Btates Prisoners Revealed | \ groups in civil Germany who are suf: in Documents | fering’ most today are: SEEK MILITARY SECRETS The school teachers. The college professors. ‘The office ‘holders. The newspaper writers. With the American Army in France, Thursday, Jan. 31.—American officers at the front have come into possession of documents said to have been taken i ' i | | | i | | | ) | i eo e rs ee et oe ee % % & od ° * * oo { le It is they Who: put tue poison in the) fact-wellj and drugged the German people tito a. cotidition that made it! easy for the kdiser and the militarists to work their will with them, © ~~ Teachers, professors, newspaper writers and office-holders are wage! earners, just as machinists and black- smiths are. But there is. this difference—tie, machinists and blacksmiths -have unions to bring them recognition in | rograd says. | sian army have revolted against the the. mass. Because they have unions and be- from, Germans opposite our positions, and which deal with the treatment to cause they are essential to the pro-| be accorded prisoners. duction of munitions and the carrying on of the war, the machinists and ‘blacksmiths, in fact, all skilled manu- al labor, have had pay increases to help make living bearable under war: conditions. Because they have no union and because they. are not, essential to the carrying gn of the: war, the teachers, etc, are working today for practically the wages paid in peace time. Of .course there are exceptions, The documents say that all prison- ers, including commissioned and non- commissioned officers, after being captured, are to be kept in cages for four’days without food and compelled to stand all the time. After the four- day period, only small quantities of food are to be given. Although ° definite information on the point is lacking, some American Officers, today expressed the belief that ‘thé order resulted from the diffi- culties the Germans probably exper- ienced in extracting information from the first American prisoner captured POLES MAKE WAR AGAINST * BOLSHEVIKIS Legion of Russian Army Revolts Against — Socialistic Government ATTEMPT ON LENINE'S LIFE ) Young Man in Student's Uniform Seeks to ‘Assassinate the Premier ‘London, ‘Feb. vs has reached iev irom Minsk that the. Polish le- gion has declared war against the so!sheviki, a Reuter dispatch from Pe- Both: the German and Russian ar- mies contain divisions made up of Poles. ‘The Germans has organized-a Polish legion, but it was disbanded several months ago to make way for 2 Volisi naniona: army. Minsk 1s be- und the Kussian lines, which would mdicate that the Poles in the Rus- dolsheviki. Attempt on Lenine’s Life. Another unsuccesstul attempt on the lite of Premier Leniae was made| sast night,, according to the Petro- grad correspondent of the Daily News. A young man in a student’s uniform entered tne Bolsheviki headquarters | and fired a shot at the premier with-| out hitting him. The Red Guards sta- tioned. qutside the premier’s room j Were arrested “and will be charged | with neglect of duty. . | .To Confiscate Boats. ‘Owing to the break between . the Bolsheviki government and Roumania, | che revolutionary committée ‘of the’) itiack Sea fleet has’ resolved to con- tiscate the means of transport belong: | mg to:Roumania, according to an Ex- ghange Telegraph dispatch from Pe-| gfograd. About: forty steamships and sevéral warships: have béen ‘seized avi vlack Sea harbors. HEPTINGER COUNTY WILL BOND FOR AT. LEAST $100,000.00) County Agent Now i in Twin Cities! Looking Up Seed for | Farmers Mott, N. D., Feb. 1.—The Hettinger county commission has voted to “ond the county for at least $100,000 for the purchase of seed and feed for needy farmers. County Agent Orr now. is in the Twin Citics looking up seed grain. Seed corn which he recently located in Grant county has been purchased by farmers’ elevators at Mott, Regent and New Engl id. LAD EXTRACTS A BULLET IN RUSH; LODGES IN LEG 4) i ssesesescesasvesroceseseasaans ©. ———— | THE ANNIHILATOR | OF ALL DISTANCE | 2 6 Oo OO & 3| ® fast table chat with a Bismarck % boy over there in the (trenches, 2 wounded, but up and coming—a %. Bismarck boy tobe proud ef." | % This boy evidently was a mem- & berof Co. I of the Second regi- +| ¢ ment, for he tells of having been +) ~ transferred from -his original @ guard command to another: More & than 150 Bismarck and Burleigh & county and Missouri Slope boys & > wentiout in this company under & ~ Capt. A. B. Welci. The identity +! of this particular boy, lying:over there in a field hospital, is not + * disclosed, but we know he is one & of our boys, and Wismarck, his & “ home town, enjoyed his. plucky + talk at the breakfast table this ¢ morning just as did New York and Chicago and the Twin Cities, # because Lismarck, in The ‘Morn- & ing Tribune, has a metropolitan newspaper with >the full leased ¢ service of the Associated Press, & the greatest -news-gathering agency in the world. We know. now, through the me- 2 dium of the Associated. Press, 4 that our boys are actually over ¢ there, in the trenches. They're ¢ no longer on the o ‘the English channel, compara- tively safe in British canton- % ments., They: are there at the front, In. the thick of the fight, and ‘shrapnel spraying and ma- % chine guns rattling. + The Bismarck boy we talked * with’ this morning is going back + tomorrow., Others will go back ¢ with him. Bismarck will want to ¢ follow its boys over there, and it e can follow -them, 24 hours’out of & every day, by means of the Trib- % uné’s 24-hour wire service. oo ee oe 8 Oo 8 oF FIVE ENTENTE WARSHIPS HAIL _ VEADIVOSTOCK Appearance of Fleet Reported in Spscial Dispatches From Petrograd |CHINA CUTS OFF SUPPLIES Forbids Exportation of Food: stuffs to Ru:sia—Mussel- men Organize . London, Eng. Feb. 1.—Five more entente warships’ have arrived at Vlad- lvostok accoraing to special. dispaten- ! ° oo oe & ~ Bismarck folk enjoyed a break- <| side of ¢! where Boche shells are dropping * | STRIKERS AND POLICE CLASH: CLIMAX NEAR i man ‘Capital Show That | Labor Is Desperate Deputy Koersten : and Other Lead-| in Hard of the Authorities ers | | Amsterdam mere was a} clash beiween strikers and the police in the northwesiera part of werhn | | Thursday. One policeman was killed, and a dozen simkers injured. There | were minor disturdances in other sec- | tions and in the suburbs of Berlin. The German press generally agrees that the outbreak has’ reached its | slimax in Berlin and is now receding. ‘The demonstrations are said to suow lack of centralized control. Reports from the chief industrial sections of Germany indicate that the strike movement nowhere is finding the support necessary to carry it along. 1 | Situation Unchanged. London, Eng. Feb. 1.—The latest telegrams received in Copenhagen | jfrom Beriin report the situation as | unchanged, says an Exchange Tele- igraph dispatch from the Danish cap- ital. The strike has not been ex- tended. The Berliner Tagesbladt reports | that the police seized the trade union | building in Berlin and arrested Deputy } | Koersten and other leaders. H Socialists Plan Program. i | | | | | | i n The socialist party committee met in“Berlin on Wednesday evening to decide upon the attitude of the party im view of. the extension of the strike. The committee considered a program, | {which the Vossische Zeitunz says, was regarded as offering a suitable basis for negotiations with the goy- ernment. . The program :was restrict-) ed to political demands affecting do- mestic affairs, omitting reference: to the desires in .regard :to. tue foreign policy expressed ‘by the strikers. The} committee also considered measures tu prevent the incitement of a strike| of bakers. The fighting yesterday in Berlin, | which a policeman was killed, was| brought about by an attempt on the! part of a crowd of men and women to; interfere with street car traffic. An-| other policeman was injured seri-| ously. o! n German Estimates. German newspapers generally esti- | mate th enumber of strikers at 180,000. | FRENCH RAID in the vicinity of Nieuport, and in the Rheims sector. w SAMMY STOOD Unexpected Resistance From For- | |NEW IDEA OF “PIG DOGS”) DECLARATION OF MARTIAL LAW IN GREAT PORTS OF HAMBURG AND BREMEN INDICATE A CRISIS Continued Disturbances in Ger-/] ack of Definite News from German Sources Thought Proof That Labor Situation Has Grown Graver —Government Minimizing Its Importance UNION OFFICE 18 SEIZED | ‘MORE THAN 700,000 WORKERS ON STRIKE IN CAPITAL OF EMPIRE ‘In Other Sections Strikers Are Reported to Be Returning to Their Tasks—Military Operations On West- ern Front of Minor Character. (Associated Press) Declaration of martial law in the great ports of Hamburg and Bremen, and a lack of definite news concerning the prog: ress of the strike movement in Germany indicate the possi- hility that the authorities have taken stern measures to deal with the discontented workmen. Belated reports, however, show that the movement has spread widely since Monday. Some correspondents in Holland believe that the situation has grown worse, owing to the efforts of the German govern- ment to minimize the importance of the strike and the scarcity. of news. While a report from Copenhagen says that all the socialist leaders have been summoned to Berlin to diseuss polit- val questions, advices received in Amsterdam are to the effect that Chancellor Von Hertling, following the example of Minis- ter of the Interior Walraff, refused to see a strikers’ delegation: In Berlin there has been a fatal clash ‘between the strikers. and the Police, and minor disturbances are fe- ported to have occurred: in other ‘sec- tions as well as in the suburbs. Of the capital. The Berlin, press ‘saya that the movement in Berlin has réached its climax and that.it is Tosing’ ite ef- fectiveness. Reports-recelved. at Arh- sterdam from other’ industrial: centers say the strike is not getting full 8 port. ‘More than 700,000’ workers haye ‘been reported on’ strike in ae | There are reports of new. strikes | the Dortmund: mining district ‘and i | Dantzig. and: Munich, while. i sald j that the strikers in ‘Nurem’ | varia, have returned ,to, their ta On the Western Front. Military operations on the we ster’ id front are still of a minor character. |On the.front between Asiago andthe Brenta, the Italians. persist ‘iy ‘their attacks, although not in such a large scale as earlier in the week. New. | talian positions west of the Frenzela valley have been extended. Berlin |says that new Italian attacks ‘have heen repulsed. Severe Blow to Ukrainia. A severe blow to the ambitions of TEUTON LINES Paris, Feb. 1.—‘French troops last ight made raids on the German lines Belgium, A number f prisoners and one machine gun ere captured,” the war office an- jounced today. PAT AND HUN WAS DEFEATED | | | ' | ward Platoon Surprise to Germans i i | With the American Army in. France, Thursday, Jan. 31.—(By Associated Press.)—Conditions were quiet on the American sector all day today be- cause of the fog, which tonight They say the disintegration of the! movement is proceeding rapidly. The | riots of yesterday are said to be due to danger of the strikers on realiz- ing that the movement was doomed to | viki. the Ukrainian republic appears to~ have been dealt in the capture of Kiev, the temporary capital by the Bolshe- The city is said to have sur- rendered after four shots had been fired. es from Petrograd. China, acting forbidden exportation of foodstufts to Russia. It is added that on allied advice, has carly: failure; The trades unions are declining to pay out strike benefits. As an indica- \a few shots from both sides at regis- showed no signs of abating. Beyond The peace negotiations between Rus- sia and the central powers have re- tered targets there was little artillery opened at Brest-Litovsk. A report firing. There was virtually no infan-| Turks Offer Peace. It is reported in Moscow that the; Turks have proposed a separate peace to the Trans-Cacausian council of workmen’s ahd soldiers’ delegates. It is said negotiations are in progress looking to the restoration of steam- susp service between Odessa and Con- tion of the lack of centralized direc- : tion, it is said that only a few of the big plants of Berlin were forced to suspend operations completely. The government board of the social democratic party announced that it had not taken over the management of the strike. The trades unions through the general commission also a try activity. raids show that only the heroism of the platoon in the trenches nearest the listening posts raided prevented | the enemy from entering the trenches | Additional details of yesterday's | ind perhaps capturing prisoners. As soon as the barrage fire lifted, | | from Petrograd says that the first question taken up concerned the oc- |cupied territories, which has been a stumbling block since the Pour Par: lors began. BOLSHEVIKI AID SOCIAL REVOLUTION the platoon came out of its dugouts| and stepped to the firing platforms Their rifle fire held off a superior Mott, N. D.. Fed. 1.—Frank Hinget, | stantinople, and Odessa and Galata. 15 years old, was shot in the: leg! when a rifle from which he was en-| mainly college professors and writers. The prominent ones of before-the-war are prominent still, and receive the disclaimed responsibility, and the strike appears consequently to have | been orphaned, so far as these two in November. . Such treatment of prisoners could ‘be designed only to make them give up military informa- Musselmen Have Cabinet. pay of:the prominent. A few have achieved ‘prominence. with books or) articles, and have advanced to the pay of the prominent. But the great majority” have no prominence and only .the meager income of pre-war days. AUSTRIANS AGAIN REPULSED; ITALY’S LINE Yet INTACT Attack on Aitago Pi Plateau in At- tempt to Rout Italians Fails Mame. Weh. 1.—The Austrians. yes: terday attacked on tte Asiago plateau in an attemtp to’ drive the Italians fom their newly won positions and ‘Monte di Val Bella, the war office an- nounced today. The enemy, owever, was unable to reach the Italian line. The Italians by a sudden attack at dawn yesterday advanced their lines as far'as the head of the Telago valley in this sector. { tion. CONGRESSMEN 10 PAY INCOME TAX LIKE PLAIN POLK Internal Revenue Commissioner Ruper Makes Ruling Hit- ting Solor Solons Washington, D. C. D.C. Feb. 1.—Members | of. congress, although exempted by law .|from the so-called occupational tax, which operates on incomes of more than $6,000, in addition, to thd regular income tax, will have to pay it never- theless, by a ruing made today by Internal Revenue Commissioner Ru- per. The law exempted officers and em- ployes of the government. The intern- al revenue commissioner ruled that congressmen are neither. So much criticism was made at the exemption of congressmen that a bill fo remove it has already passed the house.and is pending in the senate. GAMBLERS OF FAIR SEX CALLED LUXURIOUS QUARTERS ARE RAIDED NEW YORK, N. Y., Feb..1—Luxurious gambling estab- lishments known to be frequented by Wealthy. women and slocated in a fashionable residential section of the city, are to # ‘be investigated thru taking of testimony in open court ses- sions, it was announced today by the district attorney ’s + office. <The inquiry. is expected to begin next week. Informa- tion in the prosecutor’s possession, according to an assistant. district attoriey, , shows that the wife of one prominent New « Yorker lost $10,000 within two hours in one of these places, jen by Miss Lucille Van Solen for the deavoring to extract a lodged bullet was accidentally discharged. FRONTIER DAYS AT PARKIN RANCH ARE RECALLED BY BALL Solen, N. D., Feb. 1—The famous old Parkin ranch house, scene of many social gaieties in the pioneer days of the cow country, was the set- ting for a brilliant Red Cross ball, giv- benefit of the Sioux County Red Cross} chapter. Geaveanunnnonennucanensuanuecanteauennecacessycascagnnvasuaseencensusonnncenseessuegsonacnsnesnenuiessuegnvcnestient UOREDEGONDRANOUAOEAOGAONODOUNOL Publicati The Musselmen in South Russia, in- bodies are concerned. number of Germans who tried to ap- cluding the Crimea are reported to have formed a government in opposi- tion to the Bolsheviki and are cooper- ating. with the Ukraine. More than 20,000 Musselmen troops are said to be acting against the Bolsheviki in the south. To Protect Allies. The British embassv in ‘Petrograd on January 26 informed the Bolsheviki government that British, warships were at Vladivostok to. protect allied | subjects against possible disorder. TheNORT ad Feed Act This aet:is of Vital in North Dakota and s\ ion Martial Law Proclaimed. proach. When. the enemy saw the London, Feb. 1.—Martial law has| Americans were determined to hold been extended to Bremen, and Home-| the positions they withdrew into the} lingen, a nearby town, according to re-| fog. Later a number of bloody enemy ports received here. rifles and other equipment were found The Vorwaerts of Berlin in anj beyond the Americ American positions. INFINLAND MORE FAVORABLE NOW Sirtkes have broken out in two more | Red Guards Have Been Disarmed Dortmund mines. The strikers at; Nuremburg, Bavaria, have resumed | or Willingly Have Surren- dered Weapons | work after a two-day demonstration | f, London, Fed. 1—The_ situation in strike. Finland is more reassuring according to the latest reports received at the Finnish legation at Stockholm, and transmitted tby tue correspondent of the Times. The Red Guards have been S| disarmed or are willingly surrendering their arms all over the country. The revolutionists, however, still hold 1 HDAKOTA mportance to farmers of hould’be read carefully Petrograd, Feb. 1.—An official state- ment issued by the Bolsheviki govern- ment says that new Worwmen's and Peasant’s Red army will serve to sup- port the coming social revolution in Europe. FARMER CHARGES NEIGHBOR sTOLE AND KILLED COWS Shields, N. D. Feb. 1.—Charles Arndt, a well known farmer residing northwest of Shields, was arrested on complaint of George Nedella, a neigh: bor, who charges him with’ stealing and butchering cattle. Arndt bas fur- nished bail in the sum of $1,000. SEGUR ROBERTSON, POPULAR RANCHER, BRINGS HOME BRIDE Fort Yates, N. D., Feb. 1.—Segur Robertson, one of Sioux county's most successful young farmers, is home from Renville, Minn., accompanied..by his bride of a few.days, formerly Miss Jeannette Wigdahl.. Their lioneymoon was spent in Chicago and the Twin Helsingfors, the capital. Cities. Appears in Tribune Subscribe to The Tribs f x | . HAE HNMR by all who contemplate purchasing seed or feed through the County Commissioners. The Tribune will furnish extra co- pies of the paper containing this act to any farmer of the state at 5¢ per copy. .In lots of 100 copies or more, for banks, County Commissioners, Agricultural Societies, ete., copy- Remittance must accompany order. or stamps will be accepted. The Tribune is publishing this act, as officially approved This is the first. publication in any “newspaper of No. Dak. on this important piece of legislation, “by Governor Frazier. the price will be 3e per Check, money order ways first with news. o % o @ oo © ¢ 08 6. ¢@ IS CHARGED WITH O'HARE STATEMENTS St. Paul, Minn., Feb. 1—Joseph Gilbert, manager of the Nonpartisan league, was arrested here today én a. warrant charging him with obstructing enlistments in connection with a speech made at Kenyon, Minn., on August 8, 1917. i The warrant was sworn to by Dr. J. A. Gates of Kenyon, ° former member of the state legislature. He charged ‘Mr. Gil. bert said, ‘‘America is only pulling England’s chestnuts. out of the fi ire,’? when speaking of the entry os this bere ) the war. : Gilbert was released on $500: bail to hue county court in March,