Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-09-01

to mention that a cry extensive pro.
gram Of entertainment has also been
decided upon and from the actual
knowledge Ue.have of the acts which
have been engaged for the Exposition
during the two weeks from October 4th
to 18th, we can say that the talent en-
gagged is OF the very best procurable,
and a vaudeville performance both
afternoon and evening will be given in
connection with the Exposition, that
has never before been attempted in
this city.
Boost immigration.
The Tribune has no hesitancy in
stating to its many readers that they
predict the attendance at the EXPOSE
ton this year will far exceed any pre-.
vious year and they look forward to a
successful Exposition under the man
agement of the new association. We
are very glad to note the above, for!
the effort being put into the work by
the members of the association will
deserve the hearty support Of the en-
tire state. Particularly are we inter.
ested in the success of their Eastern
advertising campaign in the interests
Of inning iation, as this will mean a
greater prosperity to all of our rural
towns by bringing in more people and
settling up our adjacent farm terri.
tory. sr SCI
NoRTHcLlFFE. EXPOSES TIE MI
NITIONS SITUATION.
When anything happens in British
journalism you may be ure that
Lord Northcliffe will not be unrepre-
scented. He is the greatest single.
newspaper proprietor in til world.
His Daily Mail has tn geatest circula-i
ton in the British Isles. His Times
is a Northcliffe revision Of the Old
British bible Of journalism. Wlen he
speaks out he makes himself heard.
What happened next has beeh told
many lines already it will bear tell
ing again. l am not sure that the in.
cident was the real climax of the war
for Great Britain. Colonel Kepings,
ton, military correspondent of the
Times, was at the front. The French
held the line south Of the village OF
La Bassee, the British held the line
ito the north. The, French were plan
ming to take an important position.
To render their attack effective, the
British also must make a strong
bluff in order TO prevent the Ger
mans from reinforcing the troops op-
posite the French. The whole story
of May 8, 1915, may not be known
until the end of the Apparent
ly, Sir John French believed that he
might as well attempt an advance as
to lose his men in a mere demonstra-
ton. He probably thought that by
one sharp burst of speed, he could
succeed before his high. explosive
gave out. The French and the Brit
ish attacked simultaneously. The
French, in an hour or so, fired 200 900
high explosive shells and gained the
position. The British were stopped as
dead as a football team which has
failed on a line-play, after, firing few.
er than 10000 shells-which was all
they had. Several thousand British
boys In khaki were strung up on the
!barbed wire, killed or wounded, with.
in alquarter Of an hour.
Repington wrote this: Lord NORTH.
cliffe published it in the Times. It
is unnecessary to- recount in detail
what happened afterward-the hot
'Northcliffe editorials in the Daily
Mail, the amazement in Great Britain
over his revelation of weakness, the,
Indignation, not against
and the wart office, bu
against this mlckraker, and the dram.
attic change in the cabinet. What is
perhaps not generally understood in
America, since the war Office has, a
strong influence with the Lon.
don correspondents, is the quiet reaca
ton which set in, as the weeks pass
ed and more and more facts came
out, in favor of Northcliffe. For it
seems to me that no unprejudiced
outsider, watching British affairs,
could doubt that this piece Of muck
constituted a very great pub
lie service. 1t was not time, any
for polite evasion and con
cealment and patchwork methods. 1t
was time for light and an appeal to
tho people.-Will Irwin in the Sep
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