Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-09-07
WHAT is GOING ON
lin GERMANY
AZ Told by the Newspapers
We Get From the Teutonic
Empires and Neutral
Nations.
DEPUTY CHARGES AusTRIANs
PRACTICE ATROCITIES EVEN ON
THEIR OWN MEN,


PRACTICE ATROCITIES EVEN ON
THEIR OWN MEN.
The Vienna Arbesterzeitang, an
Austrian labor paper quotes Max
Winter. a deputy In the Austrian
Reiohsrat as accusing Austrian OF.
icers In q speech In the parliament e2
committing atrocities upon their own
mens
ION the testimony ef NEST reliable
witnesses I lay before The minister OF
defense an account OF recent occur
rences in Battery 5 OF the field artsl-
llerS at Nfnlsu, rear oinsaSa
"rhs battery sentmanaer. Laeusen.
ant Baron Won EoefeTn, ordered all
is~uhalterns TO bag.a the day by aa~
ministsrfnS q sound Shrashtng To the
men,, The lieutenant himself started
the operations by boxing the ears OF
q number OF soldiers,
"on the arrival OF the company at
pebree1in. 1t was found there was q
shortage Of 10 rations. Lieutenant
Baron Won Hoefern thereupen aus
tered the whole battery and at his
orders the suhalterns thrashed the
soldiers with dog whips until they dis
closed who had consumed double
rations Several of the men collapsed
and fell to the ground unconscious
during h incessant whipping, where
upon Lieutenant Baron Won Hoefern
kicked them as they lay and another
officer boxed their ears
"The next procedure consisted in
binding 30 men with thick ropes to
the top OF a railway truck whence
they remained hanging for two hours.
This punishment was inflicted by or
der Of Lieutenant Carl Kattinger and
while the men were hanging the
wagon was guarded by sentries so that
the population could not see what was
going on"
MAKE GERMAN FARMERS
BOOST NEW WAR LOAN.
The Frankfort Zeitung learns from
Berlin that a meeting was held re-
Gently between the directors of the
Reichsbank and the principal repre-
sentatives Of German agriculture to
discuss the measures to be taken in
order to place on a broader basis the
work Of collecting for the next wal
loan. which is to be issued Eat the end
of September" Something must be
done, It seems, ''to counterfeit de-
to the Fatherland, which have found a
favorable soil precisely in peasant
eircles. and which aim at preventing
agriculturists from contributing to the
war loan"
The R~eichsbank urgently o
mended that memorial should be
presented by the representatives of
agricultural interests, begging the
military authorities to release suf-
flcient men for the work of collecting.
so long as it lasts. A greater use, it
mo q vfroaI NH ynrrok he rooSo NfEro1Dlo
already called up for auxiliary serv-
ice.-Further, measures were agreed
upon for rendering competition be-
tween the public savings banks and
the credit institutions In collecting for
the new loan impossible. Country
officials of all kinds are to take a
much more energetic part in the
work than they have hitherto done.
PUNISH SECRET
CREAM TIPPING.
The office concerned with keeping
an eye on food-profteering is taking
vigorous action against Berlin restaut
rants which infringe the manifold
regulations bearing upon the supply
Of food to the public. The latest RES
taurant to get into trouble is Killers,
So, Inter den Linden, and the restau-
rant has been closed. the cellar. Of
more than 15C,U0O bottles has been
placed under seal, and the. proprietor
has been arrested. He is accused not
only Of selling fresh vegetables above
the maximum price fixed by regula-
ton, but Of allowing to be drunk on
HIS premises milk containing cream,
which should properly only be al
lowed to individuals under medical
certificate, to infants, and to %expectant
mothers. It appears that the source
of this secret drinking was some cows
on the proprietor's farm near Potts.
dam. Another restaurant, in the
Dorotheen-strasse, has been closed be-
cause there were found on the prem
Uses four and a half hundredweight
of beef unstamped by an inspector,
40 lib. of butter, 80 lib. Of roasted
coffee, M 600 eggs, which had been
secretly bought at prices above the
legal limit.