Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-09-08
ALLIANCE WILL
CLEAN HOUSE
|. OF GERMANS
Labor Ranks to be Made
Free From Kaiser's
Propagandists.
WESLEY FROST TOLD
OF U-BOAT HORRORS
U. S. Consul at Queenstown
When Lusitania was Sunk {
Gives New Facts.

Minneapolis, Sept. s.-The local
committee of the Alliance for Labor
and Democracy. which concluded It's
big loyalty conference last midnight,
today opened its campaign to drive
pro-German propaganda from labor'S
ranks in Minnesota.
AS part of the campaign literature
hundreds of copies are being made for
distribution Of the address by Wesley
Frost, who drew a graphic picture Of
his experiences as American consul at
Queenstown, after the sinking OF the
Lusitania, the Laconia and scores Of
smaller craft. .g
All this was before the United States
was at war with Germany. stl
THE happy hunting grounds Of the
German submarine stretch out in the
ocean south of Ireland" he said.
Hundreds of men and women told
me their pitiful tales with the voices
of their dead still ringing in their ears.
They told, too, of the grim jokes Of
submarine commanders who in some
| cases placed survivors on the tops OF
U-boats and submerged later to re-
appear and permit the crews to take
snapshots of the struggling victims to
! be sent home to relatives and sweet
| hearts
were the statement of our weeping
men and women. sworn to before AL
mighty Cod
just Told ssRaw Facts =
He explained he was undertaking to
give only raw facts" about the wan
lton murders of American Eealnen and
civilians and american women and
4 childfen. s53 81 ~
when Mr. Frost HAD isss med his
y ssarief stu tal d d At
teHect, the conference adopted b mo-
ton, by John Spargo, that the address
j be printed for circulation among the
4 workingmen of America.
| Mr. Frost gave statements from
affidavits made to him by survivors
He told of sailing barlfs which had
cut down their nasts and had done
1 Everything possible in Desperate eff
forts to comply with the orders OF
the helpless vessels were shelled and
made into shamb bles. -
/ II saw the mangled fragments Of
4 the captain of the Anglo California
said Mr.. Frost, brought ashore in a
gunnysack on dismal February day,
whose only crime consisted in trying
to escape"
i Cruelty Unbelievable.
He told how the crew Of subna-
rine stripped of food the lifeboats Of
]
water casks with sea water and then
sank the ship. leaving 1s American
boys at the mercy Of the waves $50
miles from land. t
Most cases, Mr.. Frost said. showed
the sinking of unwarned vessels in
from l to 10 minutes. Often the sink
ing had evidently been postponed un-
til night to add to the horrors.
I'm all these cases the attacks, he
said, were guilty Of precogitated
murder"
Cases are many, he said, where the
victim ship carried neither guns nor
wireless, as could plainly be seen, YET
the Germans struck them like a rat
tlesnake without warming. s@
In one case, he said. a horse trans.
port was bombarded by torepdoes
|. while sinking. the last three bombs
exploding among the lifeboats and
carrying death to the survivors.
Victims often, he said were lefi
helpless in rough sea, in small boats
. 200 to 400 miles from land. In such
circumstances only a few survived.