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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-05-04

Is indaning the peasants Of both the
Ukraine and Russia. The Germans are seiz-
ing grain stores wherever found, and send
ing able bodied men back to Germany as
actual slaves. The villagers and peasants
are arnling and resisting the German adj
vance and guerilla warfare on an immense
scale is already an established fact Such .
situation will make Russia and the Ukraine
far more Of "a liability than an asset to Ger
many, and will require more troops than
the established battle line did for six
months before the treaty was signed.
Nothing further has been heard from the
counter revolution in Petrograd, and no
news of any kind has come from the former
capital since Monday.
The revolution in Finland was stamped
out with the massacre Of the Red Guards
at Viborg, but no further news has come
since then.
Americas Program.
The fourth class of favorable news con-
sisted of the reports from Washington Of
the speeding up Of the American program
1t has been semi officially announced that
Secretary Bakers estimate of half a mil
lion men early this year has already been
far exceeded, and the aim now is million
men in France by July !. Tt is a conserve
tive estimate that the United States now
has an army of at least 100000 and per
haps 100000 in France, and the movement
of troops is being accelerated beyond all
expectations three months ago. Moreover,
encouraging news comes from the ship
yards, and from the airplane factories. In
three months more the American army
should rank with the French and the Brit
ish as an opponent of the Hun, and it will
be an army in its infancy, where all the
other forces are at their maximum.
In the Far East.
Z There is one other feature Of the war
news, the Importance Of which has not
been given due consideration in the news
dispatches during the last month. It is
the British advance in Mesopotamia and
Palestine. Every few days comes mes
sage telling of the advance OF few miles
in one of these theaters, but little is heard
Of it's Importance. These messages show
that two British columns are advancing In
Mesopotamia One has progressed north
OIL baSQdu aDOut I1O miles toward the
ruins of Ninevah, and the important center
of Mosul. just west of Mosul is the ter
minus Of the completed part of the Bagdad
railway from Constantinople. The other
column is following the Euphrates river
toward Aleppo the railroad center which
is key to all Of Palestine. IF the British
reach Aleppo the Turkish and German
forces fighting the British in Palestine will
be cut off from all supplies and can be
annihilated or captured. Such an advance
would leave more than half Of all Of Tur-
key in Asia, and much the richest half, in
British hands; and it might well force the
Turks into separate peace.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-05-04
WHO IS YOUR NEIGHBOR7

"'I know scarcely anybody in Fargo and
/ have been here---years.
How often Fargo residents hear such an
expression.
Sometimes it is said despairingly; some
times boastfully to leave the inference that
the acquaintance are chiefly in New York
or Newport; sometimes as a simple state
ment Of fact.
Fargo ism t such big city that it should
be impossible for the resident of five or ten
years standing, to be able to walk down
Broadway and call by name, preferably the
first one, virtually every permanent resi-
dent he meets.
One good friend in Fargo is worth a
dozen in Minneapolis, or Chicago, or New
York, and the man who can't find friends
among his neighbors and fellow citizens is
either recluse or not the kind who de-
serves friends.
''I have no friends in Fargo" isn't g.
boast. It's confession. The friendship
Of street sweeper in ones home town, is
preferable any day to the privilege Of bow
ing to the owner Of a Summit avenue
limousine once year.
And the best way to make friend is to
be friend.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-05-04

Guatemala is No 10 in the list Of Ger
many's enemies. Can you name them allf
Let's see Serbia, France, Russia, Great
Britain, Montenegro, Belgium, Italy, Ru-
mania, Portugal Japan, United States,
Brazil, China, Greece, Cuba, Panama, lii
IBERIA and Siam. That's our guess.
Then there are dozen more that have
severed diplomatic relations
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-05-04
THE CASE AGAINST THE HUN.

The final installment of Prince Lich-
nowsky's now famous memorandum is
published on this page this evening.
This last installment sums up the case
against Germany, and coming from her own
ambassador to London it is a most damning
Indictment.
It also contains the authors prophecy
regarding the future Of Germany.
Even those who have missed the earlier
installments should not overlook this sum-
mary, for it is the most important part Of
what is probably the most significant I'M
official document published since the war
began.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-05-04
Other Mems Views

The st. Paul Dispatch: If 1t was either sat-
isfaction or renown that A. G. Townley sought
in demanding hearing before the senate mill
tary committee he is not left in a position to
felfcitate himself over the outcome. It has been
one of the obscure theories of the manage
ment OF the organization of which he is the
that it must be advertised even if the result is
to its disadvantage 1t has not been averse to
attack OF every kind, shrewdly hoping that 1t
might include that variety which would enable
tice But what Townley could have hoped from
a grill at the hands of the senate committee
cannot be imagined. At any rate he got the
grilling.
1t is not an especially interesting develop
ment that he admitted that the Nonpartisan
league had subscribed nothing to the first Lib
erty loan nothing to the second and $4,000 to
the third. This is not new evidence of the pro-
gressive loyalty OF the organization for 1t is
admitted in league inner circles that he has
been loyal for four months"
That the league has war chest Of 81 goo
annually is an interesting admission. What dis
position is made OF this enormous income would
be still more Interesting, The members who
contributed this comfortable sum for the privi-
appreciate such an accounting as would assure
them of all OF the purposes to which this pletho
rio campaign fund is put.
But most interesting is the naive statement
by Townley, after listening to excerpts from
the writings OF C. A. Lndbergh, that Lindbergh
is only the candidate of the league, the It
picked out for governor, not a league oracle or
director and not the custodian OF It's views and
principles Under the battery of the attention
OF the senate committee, Townley was forced to
admit reputation OF the Iindbergh express
field OF his operations Townley will have had
time to compose suitable explanation OF this
apparent abandonment OF his gubernatorial Sc
lection and It liz not improbable he will dismiss
the whole subject with a reference to the kept
press and the constant MISREPRESENTATION with
which he is prosecuted.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-05-04

GrODnG OF WHICH our BONS4 ~ :.
ment had made itself guilty in
opposition to my advice and my
warnings. -,
''The report was persistently
circulated by official quarters
that I had let myself be de-
ceived by Sir Edward Grey, be-
cause IL he had not wanted war
Russia would not have MOBILIZE
ed. Count Pourtales, whose re-
ports could be relied upon, was
to be spared, IL only because OF
his family connections. He
vas said to have behaved
'splendidly,' and he was en-
Enthusiastically praised, while I
was all the more sharply blarn-
ed.
What has Russia got to do
with Serbian this statesman
~ "A 4 4 - A .-- a
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-05-04
TEE PASSING OF THE HERALD.

The Chicago Herald has been the stormy
petrol of the Chicago newspaper field.
Once again it figures in a merger Of
newspapers, and Chicago now has but six
daily papers, two morning and four even
ing.
Tt was but few days ago that The
Forum had some comment on the modern
tendency toward fewer newspapers, and
the Chicago situation is pat enough to
warrant a little repetition.
Only few years ago Chicago had
seven morning newspapers, The Tribune,
Inter Ocean, Record, Chronicle, Times,
Globe and Herald. The Times and Herald
combined and later the Record was taken
In. Then The Examiner was started by
Mr.. Hearst. The Globe and Chronicle
suspended publication, and the Record
Herald and Inter Ocean combined to make
the Herald. Now the new Herald Exam
iner and Tribune divide the morning field,
and in the evening field are The News,
American, journal and Post.
Despite the fact that Mr.. Kelley, the
editor Of The Herald, had the reputation
BIZ being one Of the most brilliant and re-
s0ureeful men In American journalism,
The Herald is reputed to have lost $780,
900 last year. It is doubtful if all Of the
evening papers are paying ventures.
1T ID rather interesting to note that the
analgamation, which gives Mr.. Hearst 9
morning Associated Press franchise in
Chicago, comes just when the supreme
court is hearing the argument Of the case
id which the Associated Press seeks d
permanent injunction against Mr. Hearst
international news service, to prevent it
pirafing news dispatches.
No limit il Do be set On the size of the
American army, says B Washington dis
patch When you have royal flush,
don wait ID count your chips Just shove
~ ,&&Gs &S4
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-05-04
The Amazing Memorandum Of
Prince LichnoWsky

(THE NINTH AND FINAL INsTALLMENT)
"on my arrival in Berlin saw at once that
/ was to be made the scapegoat for the catas-
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-05-04

The first concrete ship is called Faith.
1t is easier to have faith in concrete ship
than in abstract ships such as were turned
out during the first few months Of the
war.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-05-04

ii was too bad all Of us couldn' u have
heard Major Anderson's talk to the Town
Criers Thursday noon.
This gallant and modest Canadian officer
told in chatty, conversational way q
thousand things that everybody wants to
know about the war
One story that illustrates the spirit ct
the trenches ID worth repeating
IA Canadian soldier in q trench that was
undergoing heavy boubardment, was
Cleveland County herald. (Rison, Ark.) 1888-current, 1918-09-26

boys the Rhine. It up to buy bonds with
every uninvcscd dollar own, plus every dollar we
save by CAREFUL frugal living for six months
You don't have to pay all cash for your bonds You can
make your first payment from cash in the bank and take
Of the balance Of your daily, weekly monthly
savings.
The forced saving you Go now will mean nice egg
later, for the bonds you buy and pay for go
along will prove splendid investment that will pay youa
rood nteres every months After the war; the bonds will
be wos' h 111 you paid o7 them. Don't hesitate
to do you1 duty AID DO It quickly. "Don'f let the SON
co down.
Cleveland County herald. (Rison, Ark.) 1888-current, 1918-09-26

They are esOver there nova million and
8 half strong; they are going over daiiy-a
million and half more Of them. Another
million and half are waiting for the call
that soon will come.
Those who have been under fire have demon
8crated superbly the qualities that make fight
ers-they have shown that the barbarous hun
IS no match for them.
Many an American son has gone down
has made the supreme sacrifice for his Coun-
try and liberty. Before the german horde
is driven back within its own borders, many
more American sons will go down. How
many, depends upon us at home.
a small American army, no matter how brave,
will inevitably suffer severe casualties A
gigantic American army will overwhelm the
hun and bring quick victory with the least
loss Of life.
The lives Of our sons are in our hands. The
boys are ready, willing and eager. They
must be trained and equipped No time
must be lost It IS up to us to provide the
money necessary 70 make these boys invinci-
bic. We must do it and do it quickly. With
our own sons already in the fight, every
days delay lays at our own doors the blood
OF brave American sons.
IL: SsIIow long shall permit this to 60 on?''
,st 10 help equip and put into the field an
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16
-ine Casualties Summary
Strike of Machinists
In Bridgeport Ends

BRIDGEPORT. Conn, Aug. 15.-The
strike here of approximately 1000 ma
chinists and tool makers in three of
the most important war industries in
the country, which threatened to
broaden and check war production
throughout this district, was COM
pletely broken tonight when a tele-
gram from Frank P. Walsh, Joint chair
man Of the National War Labor Board
was received at a meeting of 5000 Of
the union men.
Mr.. Walsh assured them in the tele-
gram that the minimum wage scale
asked by the union will be substantial
ly granted in the boards decision. The
message stated that not only will the
award of the War Board be a decision
IN the local issue. but it will establish
labor precedent and revolutionizc
wage standards throughout the coun-
trv
The men were enthusiastic to return
to work, and termed those few who OBJ
jected as spies" seeking to prevent
the success Of the union. It was
learned here that Otto M. Edlitz. direc-
tor of the Department of Labor's hous-
ing bureau, has been selected as an
umpire to decide the wage question,
over which the War Board in Washing
ton has been dcadlockcd for davs
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16
Ship-Bomber Fay
Caught in Spain

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.- Robert
Fay, who was convicted of placing
bombs on ships carrying supplies and
troops to Europe and who escaped after
being sentenced to the penitentiary,
has been apprehended in Spain. Sec
retary Lansing announced to-day that
he is being brought back to the United
States without extradition.
Fay was arrested with several other
German agents, indicted, tried and con-
victed in New York on charges of con-
spring to destroy ships which were
conveying food and munitions to
Europe by placing Internal machines
in their cargoes and attaching time
bombs to their rudders. He also was
connected with plots to destroy rail
road bridges in Canada and generally
committing sabotage with the purpose
of interfering with the movement of
supplies and Canadian troops in
Europe. being part of the vast agency
created by Bernstorff, Roy-Ed and Won
Papen. of the German Embassy.
Several months ago he escaped from
the Federal prison at Atlanta. Ca,
and eluded pursuit until recently,
when agents of the State Department
found him in Spain.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16
Big raining Camps
Will Be ENLARGED
Many Millions To Be Spent in
Added Facilities for War
Preparation

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.-Plans for
the enlargement of several of the big
training camps We're announced to-
night by the Army General Staff
Camp Hancock, Georgia, designated as
centre for the training of machine
gunners. will be enlarged to accommo-
date between $4,000 and $4,000 men. An
officers training school, housed in
tents there now, will be given bar
racks and quarters, and the total cost
of the new work will be about
$4,000 900.
The capacity Of Camp Grant Illinois,
which has been created an infantry
replacement cantonment. will be in
creased from 5000 to 10000 men.
Field artillery firing centres are to
be located at West Point, Ky; Camp
Jackson, South Carolina, and Fayctte-
vile, n. c., with six brigades of ar
tillery located at each of them, except
Jackson, which will have four.
Officers training schools, with tent
accomm odations, at Camps Lee. Vir-
ginia; Gordon. Georgia, and Pike. Ar
kansas, are TO be given permanent
housing, at a cost Of $4,000, 900 each.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16
Dau Brings Counter
Suit Against Wife
"Blue Book" Publisher Asks
Separation for Alleged
Inhurnan Conduct

Frederick w. Dau, publisher of Dau's
Blue Book" filed his answer yesterday
in the Supreme Court to the separation
suit brought by Mrs. Edna NJ. Dau. He
denies the charges of cruelty made by
his wife and makes a counter claim for
separation on allegations of cruelty
and inhuman conduct.
Mr., Dau admits accusing Mrs. Dau
Of gambling and explains that he has
not lived with her and their two chill
dren since 1915, because his family
moved to Los Angeles. Mrs Dau's al
legged cruelty, the husband says, began
in 1903, the year they were married
Mr.. Dau says he has suffered from his
wife's alleged fits of anger and i'll tenn
per and has been greatly Inundated by
what he terms her false and malicious
accusations. He also alleges that Mrs
Dau is Excessively jealous and suspi-
cious" and has interfered with the
orderly conduct of his business by spy
ing on his Office force and searching
through his papers for letters from
other women. While they were living
at the Hotel Woodward, Mr.. Dau says
his wife compared him unfavorably
with "a certain German officer in Han
over -
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16
Second Passenger ON
Norwegian Ship Dies

The second death among the passen-
gers of the Norwegian steamship
Bjergensford, who were taken from the
ship to the Norwegian Hospital, Brook
lyn, occurred last night, when Avid
Sondstrom, seventeen, succumbed to
the epidemic which descended upon
fifteen Of the passengers and crew.
DR.. Edward Cornwall, visiting ply
sician at the hospital, declared last
night that Sondstrom died OF pneu-
monia. When the first eight passen-
gers were removed from the ship Mon
day it was thought they were suffer
ing from the so-called Spanish infiu-
enza.' At the hospital Mrs. Olsen died
IN two hours, and death was caused, it
was also announced, by pneumonia.
Wednesday night waiter and a sea-
man of the ship were taken to the hos
pital, also suffering from pneumonia.
Eight patients removed from the ship
stili remain at the hospital, but it was
said last night that none of these
seemed to be in a serious condition.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16
Sailors and Their Band Pay Tribute
To Pop Howell, Fighters Friend
Man Whose Home and Table Always Are Free to Those
in Service Is Honored by Squad From
u. S. S. Recruit

When the entire band of the U. s. S.
Recruit disembarked in Union Square
and marched south to 8 West Ninth
Street yesterday playing patriotic airs;
when scores of sailors stood in the
street cheering, yelling, waving their
caps, D. z. Howell-"Pop" Howell, as
the boys called him-the recipient of
the noisy, hearty tribute, blushed,
bowed and, opening wide the doors,
with extended hands bade the guests
welcome.
Has any one ever heard of Howell
War Fund? Hardly, except the hum
dreds-in fact, more than five hundred
of soldiers and sailors whom Mr..
Howell's organization, unchartered, un-
recorded, consisting of himself and a
friend, Willard Goldsmith, has be-
friended since last November.
Mr.. Howell is bachelor with a
young, warm heart and an enthusiasm
that bellies the gray in his hair. Chat
ing under the enforced inactivity dur
ing these days of stress, he set out to
brighten the lives of the younger peo-
pie who are to strike for Liberty Of the
human race on the fields of France and
Flanders. He approached the self-im-
posed task in the most direct way.
Thanksgiving Eve he stopped a group
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16

of sailors on leave and asked them to
spend the day in his home. When the
men departed in the morning Mr.
Howell begged them thenceforth to
look upon his home as their own and to
tell their friends in any branch of ser
vice that there always is bed and
place at the table at West Ninth at
any time of the day or night for any
man in uniformA
There were other sailor guests the
next day; there were sailors and sew
eral soldiers the day following. Christ
mas night all beds, couches, sofas were
occupied. and Mr.. Howell and his friend
were busy until midnight. walking on
tiptoe from room to room, filling
thirty-six stockings. The task COM
pleted, they stretched their tired bodies
on hallway rug-their own beds were
needed to raise the conglomeration Of
sleeping places to three dozen.
It's no wonder that the boys yelled
aud cheered to show Pop" how much
they appreciated his fine hospitality;
that Commander Conn, head Of the
u. S. N. recruiting Office, sent the band
to rouse the neighborhood; that even
the statue of Cupid in Hr. Howell s
study, affected by the hilarious atmos-
phere, forgot his tender years, and, with
a cigarette put between his lips by a
sacriegious hand and a navy cap on
his bright curls, turned from Psyche
and directed his arrows at the head OF
a very prosaic operator of a moving
picture machine.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16
Surgery Profits by
War, Bishop Asserts

AN ATLANTIC PORT, Aug. 15.-That
great strides forward have been made
by surgical science, so far as savino
lives of wounded soldiers is concerned
was the message brought back from the
front by Bishop Francis, of the Episco-
pal Diocese of Indiana, who arrived to-
day on French liner Bishop Francis
came direct from the Toul sector, on
the Western front, where he has been
doing Red Cross work for several
months.
Men shot down, with great gaping
wounds in their bodies, Bishop Francis
said, are not only saved from death
but are soon made fit to resume THEN
places in the trenches.
The liner brought 212 passengers
Among them were French officers sent
here as members Of Il mission to this
country.
No U-boats were seen during the trir
across, according to the officers of the
ship.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16
Boardwalk. Stacker
Raiders Get Scores
Atlantic City Vacationists
Who Can't Show Draft
Cards Are Arrested

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., Aug. 15.--
Department of Justice agents, assisted
by members of the American Protect
i've League and a squad of policemen,
raided the Boardwalk tonight for
slackcrs. Several score young men had
been arrested before midnight, and the
raiders continued their search through
restaurants and cafes.
The only intimation of the raid was
contained in notice printed in the
daily papers, ordering every man OF
draft age to carry his registration card
at all times. Tonight no excuses were
accepted, and everyone who could not
produce a card was Immediately ar
rested and taken to the Morris Guards
Armory to pass the night.
Many claimed they had left their
cards at home. They kept the tele-
graph office busy the greater part o1
the night with their appeals for help.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16
Declares Our Men and Brit
ish Fight for Ideals, With
No Dream Of Conquest
Russia a "Volcano"
Thinks Growing Slavic Hatred
Soon Will Burst Into
Immense Flame

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.-Another
violent attack on Prussian policy, with
warning Of the storm brewing in Rus
sia and a frank tribute to British and
American soldiers fighting for their
ideals, has just been published in the
"Zukunft" by Maximilian Harden, the
reespoken German editor. An official
dispatch from France too day quotes ex-
tracts from the article, commenting
particularly upon the action of the Ger
man censors in permitting it to appear.
"At the moment when the fire of
Slavic hatred coming from the four
corners of Russia is developing into
one single, immense hame,' Harden
asked, chow can our rulers think of
finding supporters for thrones and sup
plying candidates for them? Are our
rulers desirous of supporting the plans
of the adversary and uniting in one
single fire all the sparkling flames
which are burning or smouldering be-
tween Vladivostok and Sebastopol, be-
tween Murmansk and Fiume?"
Harden declared the soul of modern
Germany is dominated by the idea of
bondage, is summed up in down on
your knees" He attacked the Prus-
sian house lords, and especially Prince
Salm-H Horstmar, who said, like his EN-
peror, that the present war was moth
ing but the conflict between the Ameri-
can conception of the world and the
Germanic one.
"You think that the British and
Americans are such as the conservative
papers represent them" he wrote.
"They have proved themselves to be
very different on the User, at Arras and
at Dormans. They have shed the best
of their blood, spent hundreds of thou
sands without dreams of conquest,
simply for their ideals Does this in
any way correspond to the picture that
you have drawn of them 2"