The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 5, 1918, Page 8

FORGING JAPS | Imited. States Has Made No! ; Statement of Attitude To- | > ward Proposai. \ UNS OCCUPYING FINLAND! ‘hreat of Further Complications | Makes Discussed Action Im- peratiye Diplomats Say London, Mar. 5.—The British, French and Italian ambassadors in Tokio intended yesterday or to- day jointly to ask Japan to take the necessary steps to safeguard allied interests in Siberia, accord- jing to the daily mail. The newspaper adds that the ‘American ambassador was not ex- pected to join the request, but that no disturbing conclusions are to be drawn from this fact as no American opposition is expected. ‘Washington, PD. C., Ma ary action by Japan in eas' pria to check German influence and to protect her war stores at Vladivostok, | is believed here to be imminent. The nited States has not yet expressed its views on the proposed step, but it| as said in diplomatic quarters to-| ight that the Japanese probably ould move quickly to meet emerg: | Ancy conditions, leaving to the pend- Ing diplomatic exchanges develop- nents of an understanding with Am-} prica and all the allies upon the scope | nd purpose of the enterprise. | Huns to Occupy Finland. j While it has no direct bearing upon | he situation in Asiatic Russia, the| jews which came Monday to Swed-! sh legation that Germany has given| otice of her intention to occupy the| hole of Finland will tend to hasten | n agreement upon Japan’s plans. The German explanation to the Swedish foreign office, which has protested gainst the proceeding, that the oc- upation is to restore order and with- put intent to take permanent possess- ion, is regarded as a very clear indi- pation of what the Teutons may un-| fertake in any part of Russia now that | the. Bolsheviki have been forced to cept their hard peace demands. Preparations Secret. Officials.and diplomats here profess ignorance of what preparations have been. made by Japan for the opera- ions about to be undertaken. As a matter of course secrecy has been ob- erved and a strict censorship in re- d to the Siberian question is in orce at Tokio. Possibly the next word 10 come out of Japan on the subject fwill:be an announcement of something complished. In this connection it is recalled that t-the beginning of the Russo-Japan- ese war, the Japanese acted without fheralding. Before there was any such Hormality as a declaration of war, a Russian fleet had been smashed and tthe war half won, Method Not Question “It has been stated in official quar-/ ters that this is no concern of the) entente allies nor of America how, japan goes about the task, once the) iquestion of policy is settled. If the de-| cision is reached to give Japan a free} luaua In-eastern Siberia, it 1s noW vou-| lceded that no other military or naval ipower, is in uosition to render her any| substantial aid owing to the lack of available forces. ONFIDENCE OF DEALERS WAS INJURED Poultry and Egg Dealer Testifies He Lost Money in Comply- ing With Ruling ‘Chicago, Ill., Mar. 5.—The effect of ‘Orders of the food administration, rel- ative to the disposal of cold storage poultry and egges entered Monday's; hearing of the federal trades commis- sions “investigation of the packing house industry. A Chicago poultry, egg and produce dealer testified in re- ‘sponse to questions by Francis J. Heney, counsel for the commission, thk there seems to be a lack of con- fidence among the trade” in the’ food ‘administration rules. The witness, H. 's. Jones, of the Schweizer Commis- jon Co., told of the experience of his ‘company in connection with the food fadministration’s rule that cold stor- ‘age poultry of 1917 should be disposed fof December 1, January /1 and March 1. 5 Loses; Won't Try Again The witness declared that a stock small poultry, clagsed by the trade 8 lights, was sold by his firm in obed- fence to the administration rules at a loss and that the firm had not re- ‘stocked its storage house. ‘We would not try. it again after that experience,” = “My judgment is” said the witness, | jm response to a question concerning; the state of mind of the poultry deal-| ers, “that ‘the trade will take any) tule without question, But that since this’ investigation began the full con- ice of the trade has been disturb- if the trade should lack confidence honesty of the presént investigation you, Mr. Heney, the lord only § what would happen. We might have. Bolsheviki. If the hon- ‘esty’ of the present investigation is ‘proved the trade will go any limit to General Pershing, commander of the American forces hown here about to enter his automobile in Europe, i BISMARCK EVENING TRIBUNE after a session of the great inter-allied war council at Versailles. David Lloyd Geoi lowed Pershing from the cou packers; the establishment of a cam-| paign of educational advertising by} the Swift and Armour companies, the} other three big packers not joining in the activity and the decision of Swift & Co., early in February this year to make prompt answer to pub- lished attacks on the packing indus: | try. ‘ Other subjects which received at-) tention were plans for the compilation | of statistics touching the packii house trade to be assembled in book-| Successful Surprise Attack Gives, Worked havoc among the Germans by ‘Intelligence Bureau Officers Raid| let form and furnished ready means to packing house employes to confute| mis-statements concerning the busi-| ness, “Soft Soap” Plummer | Letters were introduced which dis- cussed persons qualified to assist .in the compilation of the book of infor- mation. Passing attention was given by Mr. Heney to newspaper comment on the incident of a package of soap and toilet articles having been sent} by Armour & Co., to Major General) E. H. Plummer at the Camp Dodge! cantonment where Armour & Co., were permitted to erect a temporary | depot at the camp. | The Camp Dodge corespondence be- tween Armour officials made refer-} ence to the position of the war de-| a’front of 1,200 metres and to a depth} partment at cantonments of the nat-) ional army. ea | Shows Methods Used At the conclusion of the reading | of the correspondence on this subject which’ included a letter from Armour} & Co., to its contract department sug- gesting a “little assortment” to the yeneral, Mr. Heney said: ‘This subject is not introduced for the purpose of reflecting on Gen- eral Plummer, but to show the meth- ods adopted by Armour & Co., in con- nection with securing government bus- | iness.” Figures were introduced taken from ; | the files of various packers. to show he amounts spent for advertising ‘he Armour totals for the years 1916 and 1917, the documen were for 1915, 144, for 1916 $ 924, and for 19 8 TO COMPROMISE ONRATE POWER “Unique and Workable” Plan May End Senate-House Deadlock Shortly. ‘Washington, D. C., Mar. 5.—A com- promise on the rate making authority section probably will bring an agree- ment tomorrow between the senate! and house conferences ‘on the admin-| istration railroad control bill. Chair-| man Smith, of the senate interstate’ commerce committee discussed with President Wilson Monday this prime point of dispute in the conference and said later he had a compromise to propose which he believed would, be acceptable to both sides. H Smith Retient. | The bill as it passed the house in-| vests the president with final rate making powers, while the senate, measure provides that the president; may initiate rates subject to review! by the interstate commerce commis-| sion. Senator Smith would not dis-} close the exact nature of the proposed compromise. He said it was ‘unique and workable” and indicated that it would harmonize the powers of the president and the interstate commerce, commission without curtailing the powers of the commission. i One of the important differences in the conference over the provision for; compensation to the carriers while under. federal. operation. was settled, ‘Monday, the house conferees accepting the senate provision, This is: consid-} ered less elastic and liberal than the house section, but ‘it adopts the same basis’ of, compensation;'the average of net income for the three years ending |Jume 30, 1917% Under this pian ¢ campaign of publicity in 1916 t the Borland congressional for 9g investigation of the $945,000,000a year.” ” Tribune Want Ads Bring Results. pitts pac Sa , coming t - finding the: ridden capital indicate that while the rge, British premier, has fol- ncil, and is seen on the steps. FRENCH GAIN CAPTURE 150 HUN SOLDIERS French Upper Hand for 600 Metres RUMANIANS ACCEPT TRUCE Berlin Announces Armistice Will be Held; War Sum- mary Paris, Mar. 5 st of the Meuse, we carried out a surprise attack at the Calonne trenches and penetrated as far as the fourth German line on of 600 metres,” the war office an- nounced Monday. “We captured more i than 150 prisoners.” Berlin, via London, Mar. 5.—‘The Kumanians have acepted our armis- tice conditions” says a German official communication ued today, (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Although the military operations | along the western front in France and Belgium daily are growing in magni- tude until it seems apparent that fierce battles cannot much longer be delayed, the situation in Russia con- i s to hold an absorbing place in nterest throughout the world. a ces from Petrograd are h, but those that are way out of the turmoil ermans have ceased operations in reat Russia ollowing the signing { the peace compact with the Bolshe- , they now are striking against Finland, and that in the south Aus- tro-Hungarians are making inroads in- to Podolia in an endeavor to drive out the Bolsheviki and thus secure an un- trammeled hold on the country upon which so much dependency has been placed for the feeding of the Teutonic allies. Germans Invade Finland. While ostensibly the German opera- tions in Finland which are being car- ried out from bases in the Aland Is-| povernor of the Urovince of Sin Kiang | === lands have as their purpose the driv- ing of the Finnish revolutionists and Bolsheviki Red Guards from southern Finland, it is probable Germany's am- bitions in this regions have in view the securing of control of southwest- ern Finland to as far as Helsingfors. This stretch of territory along the northern shores of the Gulf of Fin- land, taken in conjunction with the holdings of the Germans on the sou- thern shore to the region of Peval, would give the invaders absolute mas- tery’over the western approaches to the Gulf and paralyze completely the movement of Russian ships of war or commerce into the Baltic. Peace Not Public The contents of the peace treaty between the Germans and the Bolshe- viki have not yet been made ‘public, but there is not room for doubt that the Teuton representatives exacted from the Russians a price in keeping with their full desires. The treaty is to be ratified next Thursday. In Podalia, the | Austro-Hungarian forces evidently are meeting ,with slight resistance as they overrun little the Vienna statement that they al. ready have captured more than 776 guns and 1,000 machine guns, and in ials, ‘ * : Bolsheviki Opposes J: In eastern Siberia the Bolsheviki.) element evidently are placing. obsta-: fhe | cles‘in the way of a possible Japanese t alread mn railway bet Russia. A strong indication of this is) addition large amounts of war mater- Batkal end the Chinese frontier, tn’) GENERAL PERSHING AND LLOYD GEORGE AT. VERSAILLES Lloyd George recently silenced his critics, who oppose a unified war direction, by asserting that he would resign rather than repudiate the Versailles policy of a, single allied front under a high command, which he believes so vital to the success ‘of the allied arms. addition to having mined for eventual! destruction,. if, necessary, other por- | tions of the railway. line. | Since Sunday the Germans have left | }the Americans in-comparative peace! [on their sector near Toul. Probably | | finding that their “attempted forays) | were too costly, they have failed to| | launch further attacks and even have | ; cut down materially their. artillery | fire and gas shell bombardments. | Again the American gunners have! heavily shelling a ‘large ‘cantonment | where troops were assembled. In Palestine, General Allenby’s forc- | es again’ have delt the Turks a hard blow, driving forward their front) | along twelve miles to a. maximum | ‘depth of 3000 yards., Little. opposi- tion was: encountered by the’ British | | commander against the Ottomans, ; | whose morale seems to be deteriorat- | "NEW DRAPT LAW Would Have Draft Made on’ the |. Number of Men in Class One, Not Population’ |. Washington, D, C., Mar. 5.—Provost | Marshal General Crowder appeared | before. the house military committee | again today to urge prom passage of the joint resolution providing for j a ohange in the draft law so as to base | the quota of each district‘on the num- i ber of men in class oné instead of on | the population. |» Under the new classification there | | will be nobody in class one except per- | ‘sons. immediately available for ser-| | vice, so General Crowder explained, | | by basing the quota on that class the {unfair burden placed‘on states with | large alien populations will be avoid- ed. INVADING OUT OF __ | RUSSIA IS THE | LATEST GAME) Russians Mass | on Frontier of | Chinese Province for In- | vasion, Report. ng _—— | | Pekin, Wednesday, Feb. 27—The! j western China, from which have come reports that Turks and Germans are} | stiring up the Mohammedans, tele- graphs that the Russians are massing. on the frontier, evidently intending an invasion of Sin Kiang. The telegram adds that the people are panic’ strick- en and asks that rifles and ammu- nition be sent to the governor The Province of Sin Kiang is gen- erally designated as Chinese or east- ern Turkestan| It is. bounded on the north by Mongolia, on the west by Russia, and ‘on’ the southwest by: Af- ghanistan and: northern. India. STIFF JONTS In cases of rhenm ‘and lame back it penetrates quickly; drives out Lge Lien Judge Amidon probably will ap- point. a master of chancery to take. evidence as to railroad values. f ~ WON BANK SAYS” | President of Cass County School | District Defends Self in | : Disloyalty Trial. | Bank, president of a Cass county ; school district near Buffalo, N. D., on | trial in federal court here charged | with violation of the espionage act, ; took the-witness stand in his own dg. fense Monday and admitted he made «| the statement: to the school teacher | that he “would © just,as.soon see a | pair of old trousers, flying from the, ; School flag pole as the “American flag,” ' but declared he did so only in a jok- {ing manner. ¢ Belgian, But Naturalized, The defendant, a Belgian, but a nat: ; uralized American citizen, declared he: { made the statement in a joking man- ner because he was of the opinion that the bag would have to be displayed | day and night in all kinds of weather | and as it would be a heavy expense to | the school district to keep‘ purchasing | flags, it would be just as: well. to:put ' would soon become torn to’ pieces and Va new one would have to‘be substi- | tuted. ae | Witnesses for the government at the morning, session testified as to the ‘etdtethentes fade by the. defendant regarding the.trousers and of his re- fusal to purchase a flag for, the school i house, as well as to the statements made by Von Bank in which he de- cleared that if one were to ‘try to keep all the laws of the land one would not find time to leave-the house.” Would Talk “Dutch” J, W. Riley, superintendent of Cass country. schools testified that when he mentioned the fact that. Attorney | —_———_ "General Langer, of North Dakota had | Fargo, N. D.,-Mar., 5.—Henry Von } Feduested? all school houses ‘in the state to fly the American flag and pointing to the absence of one on. the school; under Von) Banks Jurisdiction, the defendant declared: i “Well you'tell Bill Langer, the next time he mentions, anything about the flag not. being on my schop! house tell him to’ come to. me and I'll taik “Dutch” to, him. MINOT BOY ENLISTED IN GUARD IN JULY Minot, N, D,, Mar. 4—Frank Midak, 19 years old, who was reported killed in action’in France on March 1, was the first Minot boy to'die in battle: He joined A company, North Dakota Nat- ional Guard. July 15 last. He was an Austrian’ and has brotherg, in. the Austro-Hungarian army. 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Aside from saying that no°arrests had -been made, aMrshal ‘McCarthy ‘tonight re- fused to comment on. the: case, nor would the army mem jdiscuss it. | First ‘reports today were. that the | plant, of a new type, Was powerful; enough to transmit .or receive mes- sages from Germany,.and that through an ingenious arangement, no “‘aerials” were essential to its operation, It was said that two iron structures on the top ‘of the building served in their stead. The truth of these reports was scouted by agents of, the building. DISMISSAL OF TAX, CUT SUITS ASKED Fargo, N. D., Mar. 5.—The state of North Dakota, represented by F. E.; Pachard, of.the state tax commission, Monday filed answers in United States district court to actions brought by four railroads inthe state which :ask cancellation of about.$900,000 in tax- es against them, The state_asks dis- issal of the suits, pleading that the ases: are, improper in ‘the court of equity. 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