Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-05-01
GERMANY WILL NOT
LET PAPERS PASS
BEYOND FRONTIERS
No People Allowed to Leave
Country-Internal Strife
Yelled in Silence.
LITTLE CHANGE IN
BATTLE OF ARRAS
Sweden also Refuses to Let
World Know of Labor
Troubles.
STRIKE IS ON.


Rhine provinces more than half
the munition workers decided to
strike today" writes the CORE
spondent at The Hague of the
Exchange Telegraph company.
Essen, home of the great Krupp
works. is shut off from the rest
of Germany and completely iso-
lated from the world in order to
prevent the slightest information
about strikes at the Krupp works
from leaking out. Strikes are
general in small towns near the
Dutch frontier"
May day has dawned with the
armed hosts of England, France
and Germany still locked fast in
the most tremendous struggle of
the world war. But the eyes Of
the world are fixed for the time
on the stage behind the battle
line where inside the closely
guarded frontiers of the central
powers, the bursting of the long
brewing storm of discomfort is
awaited with a mingling Of fear
and hope.
Germany Yelled in Silence.
Extraordinary measures. have
been taken by the rulers Of the
central empire to prevent the out
side world from knowing what is
transpiring within their borders.
No German newspaper is allowed
to pass into neutral'country and
for the last ten days all persons
have been forbidden to leave Ger
many. Thus the scanty and dubi-
Gus news formerly CLEANED from
the censored German press, or
from casual travellers has been
completely cut off and the Teu-
tonic empires are ALMOST as iso-
lated from the rest of the world
as was ancient Japan.
Typhus Reported.
Reports from Switzerland of
vague and indefinite authority as
sert that the troubled conditions
in Germany have been intensified
by wide spread outbreak of ty-
phus, said to be especially prevail
ent in the great industrial region.
The epidemic is attributed to the
growing food scarcity, but the
story, like many other similar
ones, lacks confirmation.
Sweden Also Silent.
The same veil which has been
drawn over events in Germany and
Austria obscures the situation in
Sweden, where a great nation
wide demonstration by the work
ers was also planned for today.
Since the outbreak of a couple of
weeks ago, when rioting took
place in Stockholm, the only news
received as to conditions in Swe-
den has been the bare announce
ment that a general Strike has
been ordered by the labor leaders
for May day, coupled with a
warning to the government
against undue interference.
On the fighting front in France
little change has taken place for
some days.
Situation Not Altered.
The Frecnh are striking hard
in Champagne and have made
some gains without, as far as the
'ofhcial communications 20, ma
tcrially altering the situation.
The fighting in Macedonia,
which was resumed on 4 wide
front last week, is still in, progress
but information regarding it re-
mains too indefinite to judge
whether the allies are engaged il,
Ia major offensive. In Mesopo-
ltamia, the British are pushing
steadily forward. There, too, de-
tails are too meager to throw any
light on the extent Of the cam
lpaign or the immediate objective
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