Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-05-08

wounded soldier concluded an article
in the Express.
Am | a hero" he asks. His an
swer is, NO., | am not, and the wound
ed hero stunt has fed me up
Too much attention spoils the man
and it is besides unfair to the COM
| rades in the trenches, says the writer,
who continues:
Now | am living like a lord in a
beautiful imnrovised convalescent
home in a select suburb of London,
where lovely. ladies wait on us and
equally lovelyrladies come to visit. us,
generally bringing gifts. am touch
ed by the kindly thought, but I think
of the wives and children of my com.
rades at the front"
London, May 6.-Anton Kuepferle,
the American citizen of German birth
who is held for trial on a charge OF
supplying Germany with information
concerning the movements of English
troops and ships, is said to have been
the means of a%tfording English de-
tectives much inside information con-
corning the workings of the German
spy system with headquarters in Ho!-
land. ga ." 1'7'-.
Kuepferle's arrest was kept a Sc.
cret for nearly two months. Mean
time it is reported that Scotland Yard
men were using the prisoners name
as a meal of communicating with
German officials in Holland. In kuep-
ferle's baggage sheets of paper used
for invisible ink were found. Initial
ing K%uepferle's handwriting, the de-
tectives are said to have written let
tiers to German spy chiefs, between
the lines of which they traced in
invisible ink all sorts of questions,
asking further instructions. A rapid
fire correspondence is reported 70
have continued until Kuepferle had
actually been in Jail for many weeks.
The prisoner is charged with having
visited many English and Irish ports
for the purpose of investigating ship
ping and reporting to Germany con.
corning the movements Of transports.
Dublin, Liverpool and Belfast are said
to be centers where he a active.
He is also reported to have travelled
into other prats Of England, using
London as his headquarters. His cap.
ture took place the day following the
declaration of the German submarine
blockade, February. IS. He was en-
deavoring to make the trip from Eng.
land to Holland when taken into Gus.
tody.
Va
London, May 1.-THE attempt to
start a movement to keep up antago.
nism to Germany afer the war has
failed to make any Roadway or even
to interest the British public. There
are two of these movements, one
called the Anti-German League and
the other the British Patriotic League.
The anti-German league aims to get
signatures o his promise:
1--WE, he undersigned, agree togeth-
er to use our best efforts to combat
German trade and influence in Great
Britain and undertake to employ no
German labor in our Offices or homes,
nor handle, knowingly, anything which
is O German make or origin. We will
deal with no shops, banks or hotels
where German labor is employed or
German goods sold.inI 5u3a cls
These movements have little press
support. The following comment is
made on them in the Weekly Dispatch:
ut is, of course, all very foolish,
but the deplorable thing about this
league is that the promoters cor
scientiously believe they are serving a
great public purpose, whereas they
are doing nothing more and certainly
nothing less than bringing ridicule on
the coutry. If they were not so ter.
ribly serious and not so full Of
newborn German hatle they would
see to what absurdities they commit
their intending members.
1.-THE whole thing is an outrage on
common sense and on national dig
ity. We want no an:i-German leagues
to prevent Englishmen from doing
business with or talking to Germans.
We want leagues to get soldiers to
defeat Germany, crush Prussian mill.
tarism, and allow the subdued COM
mon sense and humanity of the Ger.
! man nation to reassert itself. We