Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-05-07
Side Lights From
the European War

ACSCAlIA1 ouu'SoSCu ~ leLlcl " d LOI
don client to London, Germany"
reached its destination here safel.
but in passing through the Londo
past the word Allemagne Germany,
vas underlined and endorsed in re
pencil: Not yet.
Eerne,S witzerland, May G-Seve
cars, supposed to contain mineral W;
ter for Germany, have been held II
at Como, having been found to b
loaded with iron ore. At Brigue on
car labeled fresh vegetables prove
to be filled with machine guns. TIL
inspection Of all through freight ha
become very much strictcd since tn
beginning Of April.
Christiania, May 6-~Representa
tives of leading yachting clubs in al
three Scandinavian countries have
just finished an important meeting
here, at which they organized a ne"
"Scandinavian Yachting Union It,
object is to promote the common in
terests, to create a joint information
al form Of procedure and to organize
international regattas in accordance
with definite relations.
The first provisional president is NJ
Johan Ankcr, a wellkroWn Norwe'
gian yacht constructor.
Christiania, May Cdr. Gabriel
G%ustafson, the leading Norwegian
archeologist. is dead at his home
here, aged 81.
DR.. Gustafson was born in Sweden
but came to Norway in 1889 and be-
came head Of the Antiquarian section
Of the Bergen Museum, which under
his direction developed into ar I'M
portant institution. Later he was ap-
pointed Professor in the University
Of Christiania, where he completely
re organized the museum and conduct.
ed numerous excavations, making
many important discoveries. He was
regarded as the worlds greatest all.
thority on the civilization of the Vi
king Age.
British Headquarters, France, May
6-Among the many in~congruities Of
the present campaign not the least
strange contrast is that between the
waging of trench warfare and the gar
dening which is carried on in man"
places by the British soldier. The
gardens, which are mostly lear the
dugouts, r not of a very ambitious
order, but when circumstances per-
NIT, considerable care is devoted to
their cultivation.
In some cases the small plots Of
growing prinToses and daffodils are
not more than 200 yards from the
enemy, close behind breastwork pro-
tecting their owners from the bullets
which whistle overhead and bury
themselves with a vicious thud in the
sandbags a few feet away.
Berlin, May ga large number o.
shop girls have brought action
against firms, which after inducing
them at the beginning of the war to
a reduction Of salary have
them. There. have beer
more than seventy prosecutions OF
one firm. r.,
A special court at Charlottenburg
has now given Judgment that such
are Illegal, holding thai
the reduction in salary YVES arrange"
and accepted on the understanding
that it would prevent the employe
suffering from unemployment during
the war, and that employers cannot
give notices Of dismissal until normal
are restored in the labor
market. If, therefore, a shop girl Is
she is entitled to all sums
deducted from her wages since the
Of the war.
London. May Major Phillips,
late of the Sth hussars and one OF
the last two surviving officers of tho
charge of the Six Hundred
at Balaclava, has died at Reading in
his S5tIl year. Phillips obtained his
in 1851 and served
the Crimean a In 1857
he went to India where his regiment
helped to subduc the mutiny. He re-
tired from the regular army in 1869.
In his history of the Crimean war,
says: ..r.
Lieutenant Phillips, who had just
had his horse shot under him, and
Private Brown, who had been dis
abled in both hands, were attacked
by %lancers, and although Phillips was
able to keep off the assailants with
his revolver, both he and the soldier
he was protecting must have
been on the point Of being dispatched
or taken when the recall being
sounded, the lancers rode off, and he
and the soldier he had guarded, made
good their way back to u lines
London, May 6--Society women
have called a meeting to be held in
the Mansion House on May IL to or
ganize a campaign against the en-
ployment Of "alien enemies in Eng
land. Lady Glanusk is at the head
Of the movement, and Lord Charles
Sir Henry Dalziel and Sir
E. Cornwall will be the principal
speakers at the meeting.
There are now 10000 Germans at
large in England, and in London
alone 10000 German men Of military
age walk about at liberty. 1t will be
the aim OF the Anti-German League
to work up public sentiment against
allowing these to roam at large or
to continue employment as walters.
BARRIERS and the live, and also to IN
duce the public to restrain from buy
ing German-made goods, both now
and after the war.
The propaganda Is based on the
supposition that every German now