The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-09-08
.[US|IAN|A HERO !.
At AUDITORIUM
HERE TOMORROW
Wesley Frost, Consul to Queens
town, Who Saved Victims of
Sinking Ship, to Talk
CARRYING PATRIOTIC
MESSAGE TO COUNTRY
Sent Out Under Auspices of Four
Minute Men to Tell Of Ger
man Ruthlessness

United States Consul Wesley Frost
hero of the Lusitania, formerly sta
toned at Queenstown, will bring tt
Bismarck tomorrow afternoon his
message which has left in its wake
across the continent wave of indig
nation and detestatiOn for the su
preme German ruthlessness which II
discloscs.
Frost is telling what he knows OF
German frightfulness from personal
contact with the methods of the
kaiser, Won Hindenburg and Won Tir
pitt. Frost was at Queenstown when
the Lusitania, with it's several hun
drcd helpless women and children
passengers, was sunk without warn
ing by German torpedo. He assist.
cd the survivors of this disaster and
of 81 others, which crowded one ol,
the heels of another so fast that at
times it was impossible for the con-
srlate to complete it's report on one
disaster before the victims of another
appeared on the scene
First Hand Information.
He obtained first-hand accounts, af-
fidavits and sworn testimony from sur
vivors of the Lusitania describing
that greatest of all tragedies of the
war, and he met at Queenstown Sur
vivors of the Arabic, the California,
the Taconia, the Hesperian, the City
Of Memphis, the Abosso and numer-
Ous other merchant vessels torpedoed
by German submarines. He lived
through the German terror; to him 1t
is very real, and in his stirring adj
dresses he has impressed the actual
ity of, what, German dominion would
mean to America. ~. ,-r,-'' ..--s l,
-. Needless Sacrifice.
y He tells details of these inhumane
and needless sacrifices of non-combat-
ants which have not before appeared
in print; he shows how Germany,
while seeking to maintain neutrality
in America, trod under foot the rights
Of American citizens in Europe, and
maintained in this country complete
spy system which brought news of
events to the kaiser even before Pres
ident Wilson had heard of them. He
will prove that these spies still re-
side in America, are found in high
places. and are continuing to do the
work for which their kaiser is paying
them literally.
German Spy System.
Tomorrow afternoons address was
obtained through the enterprise of
the Bismarck Commercial club, which
succeeded in inducing Frost to stop
off here while en- route from Fargo,
where he speaks tonight under the
auspices of the Fargo Four Minute
Men, and Butte, where he is next
scheduled to talk. The meeting will
open at 3 o'clock. Music will be fur
nished by the Second regiment band
of Harvey, and G. l.. Young, former
president of the Commercial club,
will preside. A general invitation is
extended the public, and 1t is antici
pated the big amphitheatre will be-
filled. Frost is one Of the ablest
speakers who ever has appeared in
Bismarck, and he brings message Of
vital interest.
Rev. George Buzzelle, rector of st.
Georges, and one of Bismarck's pl-
Oneer Four Minute Men, will ask the
invocation. A small party of Capital
City men will meet Mr. Frost inform
ally at luncheon.