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Grand Forks herald., 1917-01-09
RUSSIA SOON
TO LAUNCH BIG
RIGA OFFENSIVE
Muscovites Attack in Ter.
rifle Snow Storm and En-
ter German Trenches.
MACKENSEN STILL
GAINING GROUND
Drive Against Sereth Line
Continues-Harnmering
New Positions.

London, Jan. 9.-Russia is prepar.
ing to launch Il great new offensive in
the Riga sector according to a Copen-
hagen dispatch to the Exchange
Telegraph company, quoting German
newspaper correspondents at the east
ern front. The Russian troops are
said to he equipped with great quan-
titles Of munitions and to have large
reserves.
Near Mitau and south of Riga, the
artillery fire is reported to have con-
stantly increased on both sides during
the last few days and to have become
extremely violent.
The weather is frosty and clear and
the country covered with snow
One German correspondent s-ys
that the Russians made a surprise
attack on Sunday near the Riga
bridgehead Great masses Of the at.
tackers, with white shirts over their
uniforms, succeeded during a violent.
snow storm in entering the German
trenches on a front of 1000 meters.
The correspondent says that evidently
an attempt was being made to break
the road between Mitau and Riga.
The Germans seeing the danger sent
all available reserves into the battle
which reached a pitch Of tremendous
fury. The two armies fought with
bombs and bayonets until sunset.
WAcIl, dCCOIu " IAc
the Russians retreated to their previ-
Gus positions over snow that had been
Redeemed with blood.
Mackensen Pushes Ahead
Field Marshal Won Mackensen's
drive against the Sereth line in Mol
dayia continues to gain ground and
the Teutonfc thrust against the Mol
.davian mountains in the fianking Op-
| nroffnpu i'm x..ny 10
showing progress.
Pushing northward from Fokshanf,
Won Mackensen's troops have driven
the Russians across the Putna and
are now hammering at new position
which they have taken up there.
Further southeast. toward the Da-
nube. the Russians now are beginning
to yield again. according to Berlin.
losing another town. which the Aus
tro- Germans held against counter at
tacks delivered last night.
In the Moldavian mountains the ad-
vance was chiefly in the Masino and
Suchitza valleys. The German report
declares that every day new gains
are being scored and maI.tained de-
spite all difficulties.
One point favoring the Russians in
their defense is the superior communi-
cation routes they now command. Be-
hind the advancing Teutons the rail-
ways lines have thinned out. but in
the rear of the Russian positions lies
a network Of roads. They are fed
both from kishinev. on the east, and
Czernowity on the north.
While the Russians are continuing
their offensive in the region between
Dvinsk and Riga along the northern
end Of the line in Russia, they are
meeting with further success in tho
vicinity of the river Aa, according to
Berlin.
Grand Forks herald., 1917-01-09
Harry K. Thaw is
Indicted in NJ "

New York. Jan. s.-Harry K. Thaw
was indicted by the grand Jury today
on three charges of criminally as
saulting Fred Grump, Jr.. a high
bench warrant was issued for Thaw's
arrest.
Grand Forks herald., 1917-01-09
Calls GERARD'S
SPEECH WARNING
Manchester Guardian Thinks
u. S. Ambassador Sound
ed Warning Note.

London, Jan. s.-The Manchester
Guardian in its comment on Ambas-
sador Gerard's speech in Berlin says
it regards it has a plain warning tc
Germany.
After quoting the version Of the
ambassadors remark in which he is
made to say that SO long as Germany's g
destiny Is conducted by her present
leaders he did not fear that the re-
lations between Germany and the
United States would suffer, the
Guardian continues:
THAT is the diplomatic way Of say
ing that II more extreme parties came
into power. or IL the present rulers
of Germany yielded to their clamor he
would not like to say what might
happen. Evidently Mr.. Gerard is
anxious to support the chancellor and
his associates against the attacks Of
the Won Tirpitz clique and wild an
nexationists. And he is anxious to
do that because he thinks the triumph
of the opposition would mean very
serious trouble between Germany and
the United States. 1t is important
that the English people should under
stand the angle at which Mr.. Gerard
stands"
Grand Forks herald., 1917-01-09
Different View i'm Berlin.

U1HeTeuC view IN beTNn.
Berlin. Jan. 8. (via London. Jan. 8.
The Boersen Zeitung. Berlin's lead
ing financial organ. seizes upon the
dinner given to Ambassador Gerard
by the American Chamber of Com
merce as an opportunity to discuss
peace again. 1t declares that the
banquet had unusual Importance and
expresses almost enthusiasm at the
cordial relation existing between the
United States and Germany as 1t finds
them in the expressions Of the speak
ers.
The Saturday evening papers de-
clare that Germany will welcome
every support America may lend to
the peace movement
Grand Forks herald., 1917-01-09

tcontlnusd on Pare 3. 50
Morris tribune., 1917-12-14

This may seem like q simply favor
we are asking Of you, but It e big
in possibilities to US. If every mer-
chant could know just how many of
his customers were attracted by his
ads. many more would advertise, and
your opportunity would be doubled.
Bear this In mind when you make
your next purchases and give the
Tribune full credit. Also remember
to buy from the places that adver-
tise in the Tribune.
Morris tribune., 1917-12-14
Just Mention Il.

We venture to say that every
week there are any number Of our
readers who pick up the Tribune.
glance over the ads. note the at
tractive offerings Of The merchants,
and then 60 straight to the stores
making these offers and make their
purchases. Often the customer Sc
cures q decided bargain by his
promptness. Now II the merchant
had any means Of knowing just how
many Of his customers secured their
knowledge from the columns Of the
Tribune, he could place q correct
estimate on the value to him Of the
space that he uses III this paper to
disseminate his store news. And It
is but Justice to himself and also to
the publishers that he should have
this knowledge.
This suggests q caance for our
readers to confer a great favor on
Morris tribune., 1917-12-14

Red Cross to tighten the burden our Army and Navy
and those Of our allies are called upon to bear
This cooperation with the Red Cross real service
of which may all be proud And that this service.
when rendered by one, be known to his neighbor
the Red will urge each old and each member
to display at his home Red Cross service flag which
each red cross stands for a member.
The hundreds of thousands Of these flags already
being shown by old members will swell into millions be-
fore Christmas. each flag and each little bearing
testimony that ones Christmas has been made hap
pier for himself herself happier for boys and
happier for the soldiers Of our allies.
Let all help to make this Red Cross Christmas
which is another way Of saying Let make 1t the hap
piest Christmas possible with the clouds hanging
low.
Morris tribune., 1917-12-14
RED CROSS CHRISTMAS CHEER

The people of the United States approaching
the Christmas holidays under conditions this country
has BEFORE and moreover it is probable that
this year shall not experience most sorrowful
Christmas while this world RACES
With the thought of the nation dwelling largely
the infinite suffering abroad the certainty that
flesh and blood will be enduring its full share
of that suffering and the absence from home of hun
dreds Of thousands of dear Christmas 1917 will be
a war Christmas.
to bring something of cheer In campaign lasting
December 16 till Christmas Eve it will ask for 900
new members It will urge these 10 100000 to become
RED Christmas recruits that they may enable the
Morris tribune., 1917-12-14

us as well as your merchant, and it
will cost you absolutely nothing,
either In money. time or effort.
II you will simply state, when call
ing for any such advertised article,
IT saw your I'd In the Tribune, "you
will be giving the merchant just the
information that he Is most desir-
ous Of obtaining, and ct the same
time you will be giving the Tribune
just credit for its efforts in your be-
half and his behalf.
Morris tribune., 1917-12-14
More Christmas Box Contributors

The following have made contri-
buttons to the fund for the Christ
mas boxes for the soldiers during the
past week:
Mrs. H. w. Macumher,
Mrs. Burbank,
Mrs. Chas. Lewis, Chokio.
Mrs. Geo. Farwell, Alberta,
A friend Of the boys.
Morris tribune., 1917-12-14


any ntmation Of the position of the first contngents
of American troops enter the trenches The German
the other hand have been less retcen They promptly
discovered where our troops were and quite as promptly
announced the capture of prisoners, together with add
tional Details which, if accurate disclose the position Of
Americas first troops to fight European battle
field
We have thus the anomalous situation growing out
of the characteristic policy of the War Department in
which the Germans inform the American public to
the whereabouts of American troops Now do not pre-
tend to any information in the matter but the
Germans have that they have taken American
prisoners at the point where the Rhine-Marne Canal
crosses the firing line. If this be truthful then the
American troops in Lorraine and at least
tion of their numbers occupied the village of
roy which is situated where the Rhine-Marne Canal
crosses the firing line
Look at any standard atlas and find Nancy and
Luneville the old frontier between France and
Germany south of Metz and west Of Strassburg Parroy
is half miles north Of Luneville twice far
east as Nancy. It is not than two miles the
French side of the old frontier the German state
ments accurate troops holding the Lorraine
gateway to France They occupying positions fought
over in the great battles for nancy in August and Sept
ember 1914 and the and canal they covering
followed, first by French troops marching to de-
feat at Mohange and later by German troops rushing
westward to their defeat before Nancy.
visited all this ground in the spring of 1915, get
ting within two three miles Of Parroy is country
Of rolling hills clear swift rivers considerable forests
Zone of the largest Of which is close to Parroy) In
wide circle about Parroy the villages destroyed by
the Germans in the invasion It may be that the
lying about the American position It may be
that the assignment only temporary and purely
the of training green troops relatively
quiet front But at the least the presence Of Pershngs
in Lorraine If it be there must suggest interesting
speculations Would it not be strange turn Of the
wheel if American troops should by their campaign win
back for France those provinces lost in 1870? Such
repayment by Perhng of the debt of Lafayette laid
under, would supply of the of all history
At all events have the German official declaration
and the atlas to fall back upon though the War De-
partment fails us-From Another Year End by Frank
simonds in the American Review of Reviews for De-
cember 1917.
Morris tribune., 1917-12-14
THE DANGER IN WOMAN SUFFRAGE
An analys

An analysis of the vote in the recent New York
election shows that suffrage carried there
by pyoGermans, pacifsts and socialists according to
statement issued by antisurage organization. The
analysis is too long to print in full but the significant
facts brought that the Socialists (who took
ant-war atttude) gained 110021 the legitimate
socialist vote Of 32O57 in 1913. and 31,7S7 in 1915
Hlquit made this gain in city having 102,512 Ger
man-born men Of voting age in 1910 and many more
now Hillqut urged woman suffrage, and the suffra-
gsts gained 95913 and the antsuragists lost 1858
votes 1915 The antis twit the suffragsts with
having lost the straight American elections in Maine
and Ohio and claim that every proGerman pacist and
socialist hopes to force countrywide suffrage by
Federal amendment-and then demand a referendum to
men and women voters the war. weaken America as
Russia and Italy have been weakened lose the Of
America and her Allies, and let autocrat rule the
world
The facts and argument presented by the anti
suragss should have the serious attention of thought
full people The editor believes in suffrage the
right of woman but has been blind to the
fact that extension Of the suffrage will swell the
of those voters properly qualified for the duties
of citizenship. 1t will swell the ranks of the intelligent
voters also but it is too much to hope that the two will
offset another. Extension of the suffrage will be
fraught with danger danger which intelligent and de-
voted women will have to help meet from the outset
The danger is there and its must be realized
and frankly met in order to avoid disaster
The organizations which are now fighting tuber-
culosis in this country or which the sale of Red Cross
seals provides the means) will find their task greatly
increased the progresses and after the Not
only do the present methods Of warfare place
strain upon the soldiers engaged but 1t is certain also
that the soldiers will bring back tuberculosis to COM
munities from which it has been practically eliminated
Confrmatory Of the prevalence Of lung disorders,
note from the Official Bulletin that of five deaths from
natural in the forces, three from
pneumonia; in another list five out Of six from
pneumonia ofthe national guard regiments in this
try 143 out Of 164 deaths due pneumonia and
in the national army 80 out Of 79 deaths due to
pneumonia The reader is not to infer from this that
the boys all dying from pneumonia because both the
national guard regiments and the national army each
contain about many men as there are in the whole
state Of Minnesota but the figures do show that In
crease in pulmonary diseases may be looked for. !.
Morris tribune., 1917-12-14

Read Ed Nelson's letter from England in this ISSUE
and then see how much sympathy you have with the
who playing politics with the fate of this
try
Bisbee daily review., 1917-09-23

cost field-Arizona, California and
Nevada-has been notified that our
share in this work will amount to
$4,000. AS Arizona has only three
established Y. w. G. A. institutions,
our proportion of this amount has
been placed at $1,000, and having
read the report of our budget, the Ma
tional finance committee has decided
that Bisbee and this district should
be responsible for $1,000.
Copies of the National budget sug-
gestions for raising funds in financial
campaigns have been sent by the Ma
tional board and copies may De OBJ
tanned from Miss Meyer.
War has hitherto been with the ex'
ception of caring for the sick and
wounded, considered primarily as a
mans work. Now in this greatest of
all wars, the woman-power of the
world is being modified and if we can
arise to the need, giving all the best
Of our spiritual, physical and finan-
cial strength, in as much as we give
we shall be the gamers, for besides
the material assistance we can render
we must strive to make of this wark
a true spiritual mobilization.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-09-23
THE ADDRESS.

Miss Meyer has asked me to tell
National Young Womsns Christian
association, which we have been re-
quested to do by the war department,
and which every association will wish
sible extent
The first week in June, Mrs. Speer,
our national president, received from
the war department commission on
training camp activities, an urgent
letter requesting that the association
furnish 80 expert workers with wom-
en- to train local committees to cope
with the problem of women in the
training camps.
As this work promised to be very
extensive, covering a large field and
for long period of time. war coun-
Gil was organized for emergency war
work. to cooperate with the Red Cross
and the Y. NJ c. association. Our
part, being to help the men by help
ing the girls and not to interfere with
the work of either of these associa.
tons
Mrs. James Stewart Cushman was
appointed as president and as she had
TO give all her time to this she was
forced TO give up her work as presi-
dent OF the n. Y. City association,
and the Metropolitan board. That
work has been taken over by Mrs.
Fellows Morgan, wife of the president
Bisbee daily review., 1917-09-23

Few people know anything about
or begin to realize the vital importance
of the great work undertaken by the
National Y. w. c. A. in connection
with the war. Nor do they have but
a dim idea of the tremendous task
ahead and its wide scope and far
reaching consequences for good. More
than a million men will be modified
this winter into cantonments stretch
ing in a line from California to New
York. Thousands of young women
will also be called to shop, factory
and business house by the war. The
moral problems arising from these
war conditions are multiplied over
those confronting the nation in times
of peace.
The Y. W. c. A has stepped into
the breach heart and soul and viii
do all it can to grapple with this
social vortex of the war. Its frs,
great effort will be directed towards
the social and moral side of the can
tonments. 1t has been called upon
by the governments of the United
States, France and Russia to aid in
this work. 1t does not make a move
or enter a camp without direct invi-
tation and cooperation of the war de-
partment and the officials of that
camp.
1t must raise million to carry on
this work. California, Nevada and
Pacific coast field and will be called
upon to raise $4,000 of this sum.
Arizona, with only three Y. w. c. A.
institutions, will be asked for $1,000
and of this sum Bisbee, with her fine
Y. w. c. A. record, will furnish $1,000.
Mrs. Walter Douglas the other day,
by request of Miss Meyer, secretary
of the Bisbee Y. w. c. A, addressed
the members in which she set forth
the plans and purposes of this great
work. Mrs. Douglas is a member of
the Pacific coast field committee, has
made a close study of this problem
ana is penang her energy and deYot-
ing her thought to this work which
three national governments regards
as vital to placing first class and eff
fective armies in the field. In her
address she makes remarkable dis
closures, gathered throughout Ameri.
ca and Europe. Her facts regarding
how much has been done and how
much more is planned are astounding.
Then again, every step and movement
of this work has been and will continue
to be intensely practical Silly and
false stories have already been cir.
culated and printed about this move,
ment, but here is the real and wonder
full and gripping story of it all as set
forth by Mrs. Douglas in her Y. w. c.
A. address:
Bisbee daily review., 1917-09-23
DECORATION TO U. S. ENGINEER

LONDON.-(Correspondence of The
Associated Press 1.-The first decora-
ton given by General Korniloff after
be assumed the office of General-in-
Chief of the Russian armies, was
1enned on the breast of Colonel James
w. Boyle, a member of the American
Committee of Engineers in London, -
in recognition of the assistance which
Americans are giving Russia in this
critical time.
Colonel Boyle, who is railroad en-
gineer of wide experience in the Uni
ted States and Canada, was sent tc
Russia two months ago by the COM
mittee to assist the Russian govern
ment in connection with the rehabili-
tation of the military railways. He
was decorated by General Korniloff at
Russian main headquarters on August
s.
In cabled report to the committee,
Colonel Boyle wrote hopefully Of the
prospects in Russia. The govern
ment," he asserted, lis making big
Improvements in the organization and
working system of the military trans
port. These improvements should
greatly improve the condition and ef
ficiency of the army and concurrently
improve economic conditions throught
the country"
At the request of the Russian gov
@rnment, Colonel Boyle has now gone
to Rumanis to examine the urgent
transportation problems there, parti-
.ularly in connection with caring fOr
the refuge population.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-09-23

in buildings which have no fans, no
screens and no rest rooms. The more
immediate question has been that OF
housing them adequately and safely.
The commandant of the navy yeard
and the officers of the Y. w. c. A.
have worked together well in this re.
spect. Each woman employed at the
navy yards is turned over to the Y.
w. c. A, which places her in good
home in the city. The Confederate
College for Women has been used as
a wormitory for 40 girls working dur
ing the summer vacation period, and
will be replaced when college opens
this fall, by a house of about the same
capacity, now being remodled. A
recreation house has been equipped
at Sullivan's Island. a pleasure resort
near Charleston. There the women
may meet men friends under proper
conditions.
In California. :.
In California-the camps at Linda
Vista, Mare Island, Preside and San
Pedro-are having surveys made at
the present time by Miss Suothwick
of Santa Barbara and as soon as her
survey has been completed we expect
to erect as many Hostess Houses as
possible and send paid and volunteer
workers to these places to look after
the girls and women and direct their
activities into useful and normal,
channels.
You all probably know of the work
which is being done on the border
San Antonio, FL Paso and Douglas
where the association is now at work.
The comparatively small needs in the
little towns along the Mexican border
and the limitations of funds and work
ers directed our attention to the larg-
er cities where hundreds of girls with
little or no home influences made nee
cessary positive answer to the ques-
don, What are you going to do about
it?"
Special Opportunity of the Y. w. C. A.
The special opportunity of the
Young Women's Christian association
was to guide these young girls into
good relationship and to help them
to find higher ideals for their lives.
At one of the three most important
centers-San Anotnio-the special
workers can use the splendid equip
ment of the association in organizing
Girls clubs, where the girls feel the
responsibility of upholding the digni-
ty and hoor of the club and sharing
with the next girl something of the
| new interests brought her through
the war
The plan carried out in San Antonio
is being followed in general in FL
Paso, first in importance as to its
number of troops. With a u months
"out of door climate" the city offers
splendid setting for an enthusiastic
Recreation League. Organized to
NEE the girls where they are"
Club at Douglas.
In Douglas, Arizona, no Y. W. c.
A. has been established. but through
the interest of many of its people
and through their feeling of RESPONSE
bility for the girl "who had nothing
planned for her." Y. w. club is now
busily at work. II is already over
Bisbee daily review., 1917-09-23
Nothing Doing
at Chihuahua

Ell PASO, Texas, Sept. 22.-Fcur
officials of the American Refining &
smelling company, Karl Eilers, H. A.
Prosser, w. S. Morse and G. A. Brack-
ington, left for New York on Sunday
night after their semiannual inspec-
tion trip through the west. The pres
ent conditions in Mexico with regard
to the opening of the Chihuahua smell
ter were discussed by the officials and
local representatives of the company.
Although the report has been
abroad for some time that the smell
ter was to be reopened at Chihuahua
and business resumed, c. L. Baker.
general manager of smelling plants,
said Monday morning that there was
no immediate prospect of so doing,
as the coke to run the smelter was
not procurable on account of the
enormous demand for it for war pur-
poses. Mr.. Baker said:
Says Mexican Story "Poppycock"
"A little construction work is be-
ing done at Chihuahua, but it is not
with view to the reopening of the
smelter. and the idea circulated that
Mexican officials have offered the
protection Of General Francisco Muir.
guia's forces is all poppycock- The
/ only reason the smelter is not being
run is lack of coke. No Mexican Of
ficials have approached me with the
suggestion that We begin operating
again, and the fictitious suggestion
that the Mexicans take over the smell
ters-and reduction works is not to
be considered | have no statement
to make concerning the smelter sit
uation. The work OF the American
Smelling & Refining company will
continue as before. We have three
shelters operating at Monterey, Mate
huala and Auguascalientes."