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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-09-05
French Peasants Delirjons
With Joy When Rescued
After 4 Years Under Hun

Of the Germans since the beginning
OF the war.
They were unkempt, old French
men, staring at the bare, shell-shat-
tered fields and roads alive with
troops, and women carrying parcels
or limping along pushing peranbula-
tors bearing their few belongings or
children across fields where one OF the
most furious battles of the war had
been fought.
DeIirious With Joy.
They were almost delirious with
Joy as they threaded their way to the
rear between long stretches OF guns,
ambulances, horses and khaki clad
soldiers. On the road they passed
near men who had been wounded or
killed, the combination of such sights
and their grateful emotions at being
delivered from the Germans sending
tears streaming down their thin
cheeks. More than one laughed and
cried alternately, as they again trod
the free soil of France and tried to
thank the soldiers who had helped
them from their bondage.
The three men who had first come.
out of the town to meet the British
returned today, but the rest Of the
parry, becoming frightened by the
enemy shell fire, had found shelter in
the dugouts at the front. They were
given warm food and advised to re-
main there for a while.
One man told a story Of how when
the town was gassed, he searched
around until he found a dead German
and removed the gas mask, taking 1t
back to his mother, who was hiding
in a cellar On Sept. 1, he declared
the entire population was ordered
evacuated by the Germans. Some de-
cided that, rather than miss the
chance Of escape, they would hide and
await deliverance. The Germans,
anxious to get away themselves. did
not take time to search the town
thoroughly. -.
The refugees said that since 1914,
the food had steadily become worse,
until the last it was just enough to
keep them alive, but. it did not give
them sufficient strength to work. 1t
was almost impossible for them to
get clothing, and there was nothing
whatever they could buy. They had
not been allowed to leave their little
town since the Germans first swept
into it, almost four years ago.
Headquarters reports from the
northern part Of the front say that
has been made at several
places along the line. %
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-09-05

league. He ruled upon opening the
convention that proxies would not
be recognized. This ruling unseated
Ernest l.. Peterson, publisher OF The
Dickinson Press, holding a Stark
county proxy. and one other dele
gate. Peterson is an anti-leaguer.
The resolution adopted paragraph
by paragraph by the leaguers
endorsed individually and collec-
administration, especially command
ing them for their patriotism, eff
cheney and economy" The admins
tration was complimented upon the
fact that 1t had saved the state
mach money. The platform adopted
points with pride to the bank de-.
posits guaranty act. the moneys and
credits act, which the platform states
has added a million to the states as
sessed valuation; 1t praises the eff
forts Of tho administration to
federal farm loan administration,
and particularly endorses the
splendid and unequaled~ war record
of the state administration"
The platform commends the COVER
nor and other state and county Of
ficials for responding to the federal
government; 1t points with pride to
the fact that the cost per indicted
man IN this state was 1888, as COM
pared with a national average Of
S4.75.
Seed Act Approved.
The league amendments to the
seed and feed bonding act which
caused so much trouble for the far
mer last spring, are singled out for
most emphatic appreciation as hav-
ing been responsible for an increase
Of 100000 acreage in the states
seeded area this spring. and the idle
acreage CONSUMPTION resolution of
the state council Of defense is en-
dorsed as having added another 300,-
900 acres.
The platform "commends particu-
larry the loyal activities of the state
council of defense"
Hadn't we better hand the farm
or something" meekly protested
Delegate Rose at this tuncture
They said a lot of nice things about
the farmer across the hail." (refer-
ring to the Democratic convention)
continued the humble representative.
Don't you think we ought to say
something about the patriotism Of
the farmer who seeded all these
extra acres and who responded. so
nobly to the calls made upon him."
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-09-05
Fail To Keep PLEDGES.

The present state administration
is condemned for its utter failure to
keep its prediction promises to the
people to conduct the public affairs
in an economical and efficient man
ner, and attention is called to the
fact that there has been an abnormal
increase in the cost Of conducting the
state government The resolutions
also condemn the attempt OF the ad-.
ministration to CONVEX unlawfully
the last legislative assembly into
a constitutional convention to pass
so-called House Bill A. The reso-
lutions express opposition to all
forms of gang control in the politi-
cal affairs of the state.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-09-05
nv Associates presg.l

Il Il y
With the British Army In France,
Sept. 4.-British troops are on the
Canal Du Nord virtually along ifs
whole length from Peronne to north
or the Arras Cambria road, and in
the south at two places, where the
canal is only about half constructed,
at Ruyaulcourt and Moislains. Pa
trolls are pushing forward.
Along the canal to the north, how
ever, the enemy is holding the east
bank, apparently in great strength.
and has been using hisemachine guns
freely all day. Patrols who have
ventured anywhere in sight have
been heavily fired upon from the OPP
posite bank.
The Germans have destroyed all the
bridges and crossings over the canal
Exhausted and in confusion, the
enemy is being subjected to heavy
shell fire. But the British for the mo-
ment are making no attempt to drive
him farther. 1t seems quite evident
that the Germans intend to make a
desperate stand here, in front of the
famous Bourbon wood and Cambria.
Meanwhile the northern part Of the
Hindenburg line continues to be
cleared. The troops are making some
progress astride it in a southeasterly
Q1rSCJ1On. ok
Prisoners Liberated.
Villages which have been taken at
the crest of the advance had previ-
ously been evacuated by the enemy.
In at least one town some French in
habitants, including women, managed
to hide themselves in the cellars. and
after enduring several days of shell
fire, first from the approaching Brit
ish and then from the retreating
Germans, finally were rescued.
When British patrols approached
the town of Ecourt- st. Quentin, three
men in civilian clothing greeted them.
On the strength Of the story they
told the British troops rushed into the
town and there found As persons, so
of whom were women, hiding in cell,
lars. They were helped out, and
came back across the battlefield
struggling over shell cTaters, and oc-
casionally menaced by a hail Of in
direct machine gun fire from the
Germans. - ...e
1t was a strange and pitiful pro-
cession. Both men and women had
been under the domination of the
Germans since September, 1914; they
had not seen a single allied soldier
since then, for this was the first time
that the ground in the locality of their
village had been out OF the possession
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-09-05

Wen come to that later on" ex-
planned Chairman Lemke.
Representative Laageson took adj
vantage OF this interlude TO refer to
the patriotic address which Atty.
George Bangs had made before the
Democratic central committee.
That sort Of stuff just goes in one
ear and out OF the other with me,
said the league legislator, illustrat-
ing the coming and going" process.
The committeeman who had
pleaded for some small SOD Of recog
milton for the farmer then likened
Bangs criticism of Townley TO at
tacks made in former years on Alex
Mckenzie ''and before that on old
Alex Hughes" ata s+
Its the same old Democratic doc
trne that we listened to for 80
years." said this gentleman. ITS
simply opposition to republican prin-
cIples--that's all. !"
Mob Violence.
The platform commends the fed
eral administration for REFRESHING
mob violence, and 1t particularly
condemns the acts and utterances
of Governor Burnquist of Minnesota
ed to incite mob violence" The
leaguefs also particularly condemn
ed Governor Burnquist's utterances
in North Dakota and his attacks
upon the loyalty Of our state ad-
ministration" and especially his crit
icIsm of Governor Frazier.
The platform condemns the criti-
cism Of the loyalty OF North Dakota
in the press of this state or outside
1t, and 1t especially deplores recent
attempts to make it appear that the
administration has planned to take
over own and control all the sources
of production and distribution"
This has been done says the plat
form, to advance the petty political
ambitions of pernicious individuals.
The platform regrets that dis
trust as to the credit of the state
has been created. It endorses good
roads, approves the extension Of
better educational advantages to the
rural schools and commends liberal
support for the higher educational
Institutions. the agricultural college
in particular.
The committee reelected H. P.
Halvorson, Of Sheyenne, as treas
urer, while M. P. Canaan. was elect
ed secretary. Halvorson was in
dicted by a federal grand jury at
Fargo some time ago for disloyal-
ty.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-09-05

all the sources Of production. No,
they camadague. They say, We
will take over the railways and the
factories and the mills and the ele-
vators.' but the true Socialist has
his eyes on the land, and in House
BHE ia and the amendments which
the leagde now is seeking to submit
to the voters the Socialist has the
instrument through which he can
seize the land And this is only one
phase of Socialism Socialism,
means the elimination Of all private
ownership; it means the conflscation
of all private property, here 8 at
home. Nationally, it means dis1oy-
atty, treachery. As Democrats we
must fight 1t to the last ditch, here
in North Dakota and in the nation
at large"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-09-05
SUPPORT OF U. 5.
ADMINISTRATION
War RECORD IS
REJECTED BY Mp.
Resolution Declaring Con
fidence In President
Turned Down
NOT TIME OR
PLACE, IT'S SAID
Lemke Again Heads Re-
publican Committee; Hal
vorson Is Treasurer

Bismarck. N. D.. Sept. 5.-Hold!ng
that 'ft was neither the time nor
the place for the consideration Of
such resolution" the Nonpartisan
league resolutions committee in the
biennial convention of the Republi-
can state central committee We'd
nesday afternoon declined to report
for approval by the committee Of
the whole a resolution introduced by
one of the members endorsing Pres
idnt Wilson and his war policy. The
author of the resolution later brought
1t up on the floor Of the conven-
ton, special committee was appoint
ed to further consider the resolution,
and It's report sustained the resolu-
tons committee. The final action
on the subject was greeted with faint
applause.
William Lemke was reelected
chairman Of the Republican state
central committee without opposi
ton. He is one Of the committee Of
three controlling the Nonpartisan
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-09-05
Falls
Through Roof
tRv Associated Press. }

Vancouver, B. c., Sept, 5.-F7ying
at a height of about 1000 feet, Lien
tenant v. B. Bishop, Royal Flying
corps, fell with a ydro-aeroplane re-
Gently built for forestry patrol for
the provincial government, landing on
the roof of a residence. The engine
dislodged by the impact, crashed
through the upper story Of the house
with Lieutenant Bishop following it
into a room. 1t was said he was not
seriously injured. Thousands of per-
sons witnessed the accident. Bishop
is British ACE" and is home on a
months furlough.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-09-05
american Party
Reaches Finland
(By Associated Press. }

" 10y EAsbUCIdIeu IIVSS.l
Washington, Sept g. - American
consuls; members of allied missions
and civilian refugees who recently
left Russia on a special train, have
should have arrived yesterday at
Haparanda. This word came today
from Consul Haynes at Helsingfors
under date of Sept 8.
The train carried about $50 persons,
including some 80 Italians and Bel
gians. A dispatch from Stockholm
today says the American party is
composed of about 40 officials, 40 Y.
NJ O A. workers, % employees of the
National City bank, two Red Cross
workers and Is others.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-09-05
More Delays In
Passing Dry Bill
(Bv Associated Press. }

washington, Sept 5.-Passage OF
legislation which would make the
country dry from July until the
American armies are mustered out
after the end of the war, still await
ed today, senate action on a number
of amendments to the twelve million
dollar emergency agricultural bill to
which it is attached. Leaders who
expected the adoption of the bill
Monday still were hopeful that a
final vote would be reached before
adjournment today.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-09-05
KaiSer, Refers to
Present Battles
As DeciSiUe
fRv A.gsoclated Press. )

liam has telegraphed the municipality
of Munich a message in which he al
1udes to the fghting now in progress
as the present decisive battlesS, and
declares the German people will unit
defense of the fatherland. The emper-
orFs message reads:
THE German people understand the
difflculty of the present decisive bat
ties against an enemy filled with
hatred, jealousy and the will to de-
struction, but has unanimously deter
mined to devote all of its strength to
defeat its enemies assaults on its
sacred soil and its kultur which 1t had
won in peaceful work"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-09-05

them treated as outlaws BY civilized
nations.
Amsterdam, sept. The MOSCOW
correspondent OF The Frankfort.
-Zeitung reports that member of
the Soviet has asserted that the
Russian government conternplates
informing entente countries that
any further attempts upon the lives
of Russian government officials will
be countered by attempts upon en-
tente statesmen in their own coun-
tries.
The same correspondent is quoted
as saying that it has been declared
in Soviet circles that General Boris
Savinko9 organized the recent
crimes against high persons in Rus
STA.
Indignation In London.
London, Sept. ~5.--The attack on
the British embassy in Petrograd
last Saturday involving the sacking
of the embassy and the killing Of
Captain Cromie. the British attache,
has aroused intense Indignation
here The London morning news
papers in their editorials denounce
the act in the strongest terms and
endorse the British governments
action in the demand on the Boil
vishek government for repara tion.,
Details OF the search" of the Brit
ish embassy in Petrograd last Sat
urday are given in a dispatch from
Moscow, quoting the newspaper
Prada. Forty persons, for the most
part British subjects, were arrested,
the newspaper states. The reasons
for the action, it says, were that the
Moscow authorities had received a re-
port regarding a connection between
various counter revolutionary or
CARNATIONS in the British govern
ment and the embassy.
One of the Bolshevik commanders,
1t Is added, was instructed to in
vestigate the report. it being sup
posed that the counter revolution
lists, Savinkoff and Filonenko, were
hiding in the embassy. Accompan-
led by a detachment of scouts, the
account continues, this commission
went to the embassy and proceed
ing to the first floor was met by
shots which killed one OF the scouts
and wounded another A fight en-
sued in the corridor and the scouts
were obliged to fire, it is declared
and Attache Cromie was killed.
The police then entered the en-
bassy- and arrested forty persons,
including Prince Schaschowsky
1t is alleged that weapons and
compromising documents were found
in the embassy.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-09-05
DANES MAKE TYPEWRITERs.
sIRy Associated press

Washington, Sept. 5.-Typewriters,
said to be of much simpler COM
struction than American made ma
chimes, are being manufactured at
Copenhagen by a new Danish com
pany. Because no American ma
chimes are now imported and few are
sent from other countries, the COM
pany finds a ready market for the
100 to $50 machines it produces
monthly.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-09-05

them treated as outlaws by civilized
nations.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-09-05
.BOLSHEVIK ARMY
IS WIPED our
(continued from page one.l

Continued from page one.)
when the embassy was sacked. and
NCaptain Cromie, the British attache,
was killed.
The British government threatens
in the event, of the failure to the
Boshevik government to give salts
faction, or if there should be a repe-
tition Of acts OF violence. to make the
members of the Soviet government
individually responsible and have
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-09-05
Commend Newspapers,


Unqualified support of the federal
farm loan act is recommended and
the people are urged most strongly
to elect at this critical period cam
,didates to all the offices of this
state who are not controlled by the
Townley gang and men who viii
exercise their own judgment and
do their own thinking and not fol-
low the dictates of self appointed
bosses. In conclusion the resolutions
commend the various newspapers
in this stage that have taken q
patriotic stand against the auto
cratic bosses OF the Townley ma
chimes in the political and com
mercial affairs OF the state. We real
lie that in many instances this
stand has been taken to the detrf-
ment OF the Individual business OF
the newspaper, and we believe that
all such newspapers are entitled to
the unqualified support OF ali the
citizens Of this state who believe
in the free discussion OF public ques-
tons, and who are opposed to the
autocratic rule Of few men,"
MIR. Bangs Speaks.f
It is OR duty as Democrats to
The Washington herald., 1918-12-29
RAILWAYS NET
1O5 MILLIONS
Returns Show Big Earn
ings Under U. S. Con-
troll; Expenses Larger.

Net earning of 1S1 American rail-
roads for the month of October were
s1C5. .959, ,693. according to data made
public by the Interstate Commerce
Commission last night. The operating
revenues for the month were S4S9, ,3S2, =
259 and the expenses were $3.50, SO, 5G6.
In October last year, the roads earn
ed s122, ,4S7,O92, or nearly $lL0oO.0OO more
than for the same month this year
The reason far the decrease is shown,
however, by a difference of $52 per
mile more in operating expenses for OC-
tober, 1918. over the same month in
1917. Operating revenues were only
s461 more this year than last year,
the figures show.
Despite a gross operating revenue
of s4,OS2. .234.1H for the ten months
ending November l. the railroads
earned, net, only SIS, ,14S2l5, as COM
pared to net earnings of T,O11 12l, 10
for the same period in 1917. The op-
Grating expenses this year, however,
were 1924. .0S5929. while for the ten
months period in 1917. operating costs
were approximately s95O,OO0,OoO lower.
The Washington herald., 1918-12-29
Brig. Gen. Macarthur, 38,
Commended for Bravery
Graduate of Washington Schools, "Out Front"
in Actual Leadership of Rainbow Division,
Needless of Personal Danger-Thrice Rec
commended for Promotion in Most Remark
able Document Ever Filed in the Military
Annals of This Country.

first break in the famous Kriemhild
position.
Macarthur comes of fighting stock.
his father having ssrved notably in
the Philippines.
Mother Lives Here.
Tall, dashing and efficient, Brig.
Gen. Macarthur, who is 3S years
OF age, is the son of the late Gen.
and Mrs. Arthur Macarthur. Mrs.
Macarthur has lived in Washington
for years and it has been her per-
manent home since the death of her
husband seven years ago. She re-
sides at the Brighton Hotel apart
mcnts in California street.
Her son, as a boy, attended the
Force School in Massachusetts, aV-
enue for four years and later the
high school After completing his
course in the public schools here,
Macarthur was appointed to West
Point. He was graduated in 1903
as honor man of his class.
Assigned to the Engineer Corps.
Macarthur was stationed for four
years in Washington as a member
of the General Staff At the time
of the Mexican imbrogIio he was
named War Department censor.
Early in the present war he was
sent overseas and served with the
Rainbow Division. Last July he was
slated to return to this country and
assume command of the 21st brigade
of the Eleventh Division at Camp
Meade, but Gen. Pershing found
that he could not be spared. The
orders assigning him to Camp Meade
were therefore cancelled.
The Washington herald., 1918-12-29

Brig. Gen. Douglas Macarthur, of
this city, commander of a brigade
of the Rainbow Division and for
merly chief of staff of the division,
has thrice been officially recon-
mended for promotion to be major
general.
In one of the most remarkab BILE
documents ever filed in military an
nails. this daring young officer is
praised by Maj. Gen. Mencher. who
was Rainbow Division leader and
later Sixth Corps commander.
Needless of personal danger, Mac
Arthur several times led his troops
personally, said Mencher.
This leadership-Out front-caus-
ed the division commander to write:
Took Actual Command.
He has stood for the actual physi-
cal command of large bodies of troops
in battle. not of a day but days dura-
ton. and I believe has actually COM
manded larger bodies of troops on the
battle line than any officer in our
army. with, in each instance, con-
SpicuOuS success. His efforts
have been untiring, uninterrupted and
without the least regard for his per-
sonaI safety at each of the many
times when he felt his personal leader
ship required his NTesence in the thick
of the struggle"
For instance Macarthur. though Sc
verely Gassed on one occasion, refused
to permit his removal to a hospital,
but kept on with his duties. His lead
ership was largely responsible for the
The Washington herald., 1918-12-29
Lucky Stones" Prove
Unlucky for Woman
Doing Mail Business

Lucky stones" have proved unlucky
for Miss Helen P. Dolan, 276 fremont
street. Boston
Postmaster General BuTleson yester-
day issued a fraud order against her
for using the mails TO advertise lucky
stones alleged to possess occult and
mysterious powers
This is at least the second time that
the stones have turned false to their
name, according 10 Mr.. Burleson. The
other time was in 1915, when Walter I.
Rand, who also used the same Boston
address and who employed Miss Dolan
at the time. had a fraud order issued
against him.
Rand not only had his mail stopped
but he was afterward tried and con-
victed for violation of the criminal
code, and served nine months in the
House of Correction at Plymouth for
doing what Miss Dolan is charged
with doing through the mails.
Miss Dolan, moreover. the Postmas-
ter General finds, endeavored to show
sympathy for her former employer
when he was released from prison,
and employed him as her assistant in
the lucky-stone business until the gov
ernment swooped down on them for
the second time.