Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-03-19
PEACE DOVE M0LIED
EARLY ON FORD TRIP
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his condition was very grave and they
held little hope for his recovery.
impossible to Send Word.

Impossible to Send WORD.
Il had tried tried to communicate
with the Governors family here in
North Dakota, but it was next to in
possible to get any cablegrams
through. And all the time, while the
Governor realized that he was danger
ously i'll, he kept cautioning me not to
send any news home that would alarm
his family and friends, insisting that
he would be alright in a few days.
About that time. the Copenhagen
newspapers came out with story of
Governors Hannas illness, quoting
one Of the hospital doctors to the eff.
feet that the Governor could not get
well. was trying to get up courage
enough to tell him. when he took a
sudden change for the better. He i'm
proved rapidly and within a few days
was out of danger. | commenced to
breathe easy again and wondered
what would hit us next. AS the Gov
ernor became cOnVaiescent com
menced to figure how we could break
into Germany. The American minis.
ter refused to amend our passports
and ! had almost made up my mind
that my European trip would consist
of joy-ride with Henry Ford and a
month OF anxiety with Governor Han
ma in Denmark, when the thought sud.
denly occurred that maybe we could
talk the German counsel into giving
until Governor Hanna was discharged
from the hospital and we went to the
German consulate together.
Not Strong Enough.
I'VE convinced the consul that Gov
ernor Hanna was not strong enough
to attempt the trip back to America
across the North Sea on one Of The
small boats of the Scandinavian line,
and he finally agreed to revise our
passports so as to go to Holland
through Germany. giving us day OF
rest in Berlin en- route. He made our
passports good for five days only, but
! had bunch that if ! ever got over
the German border, | could talk some
one into fixing it SO we could stay
zoe. After we reached Berlin we went
to work with vengeance and sue
ceeded in getting our passports eX.
tended. This was our first stroke OF
good luck and the first indication that
the hoodoo had been sidetracked.
Has Inside Dope.
Governor Hanna has undoubtedly
told you all about our experiences in
Germany; we put in busy two weeks
acquainting ourselves with the actual
conditions inside Germany; we visit
ed several prison camps, civilian de-
tention camps, hospitals and had a
peep at the trenches. We met many |
prominent men connected with the
civil and military governments and
viewpoint as we'll as gaining knowl
edge of modern warfare and condi
tions within the Central powers.
-@ Got Wis Passports.
cat the end of two weeks the Gov
ernor was feeling strong enough to
make the trip home and secured pas
sage on the New Amsterdam. de-
cided to remain another few weeks
and started out to talk the general
staff of the German army into giving
me military pass to Constantinople.
You see, ! figured that after the hard
luck we had encountered on the start
that the pendulum had started to
swing back and | knew | wouldn't get
without asking for it. |
can't tell you just how the thing was
put over, but after several days of
earnest endeavor | found myself
equipped with the desired military
pass and credentials that would take
me anywhere | wanted to go within
the Central powers. | made the trip
from Berlin to Constantinople on
military train. ] visited Vienna and
Budapest. Stopped at Belgrade and
passed through the entire military
lines from there to Nish, following in
the wake of the German drive that
crushed Servia. | went through Bull
gara, stopping at Sophia and finally
landed at ConstantinOple. From there
| took a trip over to SantOrn in Asia
and down the Bosphorus to the Black
Sea.
Miles of Trenches.
81 saw miles and miles of trenches
and thousands and thousands of sol
ders; | saw what seemed to me
enough men and equipment to anihi-
late the world, and then saw more
and more Of the same thing. | prob.
ably got much closer to real fighting
than many Of the soldiers who are en-.
gagged in the war will ever get. !
heard the boom of big guns and got
just as close to the firing line as I
ever care to get. In fact much closer
than I will ever get again. The boom
of a modern big gun, even at long
range has tendency to take lot