Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-12-01
SAY DANES
ARE |NSO[7ED
Those Of That Nationality Suffer
as a Result Of {. the
Conflict. =

Copenhagen, Nov. 3O.-Remarkabl
reports are in circulation here in the
Danish capital regarding the. treat.
ment of the Danish population in the
north of Schleswig- Hollstein, the Ger
man province which borders on Den.
mark and which was formerly Danish
territory. There are still over a hun.
dred thousand inhabitants CT Danish
extraction and of Danish tongue, com.
monty known as South Jutlanders in
this German territory and ever since
they came under Prussian rule there
have been charges that the Danes suf-
fered persecution, although for some
years before the outbreak of the Euro.
pean war the trouble had nearly ceas.
ed. 1t is now chargd that the Danes
arc meeting with new affronts, which
are bitterly resented since a great
number of the Danes have fought with
great bravery and distinction as part
OF the German army in the present
war. 1t is said that German cam
manders have been drawing up GER
tain black-liats of the Danish South
Jutlanders, and that persons are be.
ing punished with severity out of
proportion 10 the offences committed.
Under Military RUE.
When war began, South Jutland, or
the North of the province of Schles.
wig7H0lstein, was placed under mill.
tary rule which superseded the author
ity of the high bailfff. One of the first
measures taken by this military COM
mand was to send 900 South Jutland.
ers to prison. 1t is charged that many
Of these persons we're awakened in
the middle Of the night and rushed off
to the jail scantily clad. It is declar.
ed that the arrests were made on ten.
nous and imaginative evidence, such
as the fact that large number of
fishermen who were arrested were
put in prison because they possessed
boats in which it was thought that
men eligible for military service would
try to escape. Many of these fisher
men were over 20 years old, and one
Of these old men, who has four sons
and three sons.in-laW serving in the
German army, complains that he was
kept for six days in prison cell on
most meagre prison fare. Most, of
the prisoners taken at this time were
kept in Jail for a month
Rigid Censorship. y.
Danish newspapers in the province
are subjected to the most rigid censor.
ship and one of these papers, Helm.
dali was suppressed for eight days be.
cause it failed to mention the birth.
day of the German Empress, accord
ing to the editors, who added that
their protests that the Empress had
expressed the desire to pass the day
| Quietly did not serve to move the
authorities from their stand in the
matter. The censors' work is also
seen in the fact that they deleted an
item in one OF the papers which re.
ferred to the Italian Crown Princes
celebration of his eleventh birthday.
lnnumerable reports Of such! cur.
tailment of privileges are current in
Copenhagen. some OF them we'll auth.
enticated and others mere rumOr In
the latter category perhaps is the re-
port here that practically all persons
formerly rejected by the German
army authorities on account of physi.
cal deformity have been accepted for
military service, even, the rumor goes,
men with club feet, others who are
lame, crippled, and suffering from
chronic illnesses OF various sorts.
Draft horses are valuable because
of t:o oroa tor onovnt of worE thov