Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-05-02
Germany Day by Day
(By Frederick William Vile in III,
London Daily MALL

London Daily Mail.)
Enemy newspapers with the
earliest accounts Of the decisive bat
tie" are now in London. They are a
! symphony in bombast and bluster.
! They are oppressively silent about the
fr!ghtful cost at which victory waa
purchased by ''the German tribes"
n tone for expert comment. leading
articles and hamboyant headings was
supplied by ~Ludendorff's Berlin press
bureau-''The Greatest Defeat in
British History"
Herr Karl Rosner COT 'corpse-utili-
cation notoriety) is apparently the
! correspondent told of. to boom" the
kaiser's part in the battle. He re-
ported:
Again today the kaiser has been in
the midst Of the troops from early
morning until far into the evening. /
had the honor Of being near him, and
I could observe the constantly hot
flaming joy Of the men to whom he
! related our successes and with a few
situation for the benefit Of those who
only knew what had happened on
ther own sectors. Those who were
battle-tired were refreshed by his
words and handshake, and those
about to enter the fray unspcnt did SO
with strengthened hearts. The kaiser
gave me this message for those at
home: Everybody out here is giving
his all these days-everybody knows
and believes that we shall gain every
thing. All Germany is battling for its
free future"
There is a Prussian army tradition
that the supreme lord after a battle
must cross the battlefield and look his
dead soldiers in the face. Herr Ros-
ner does not indicate whether Will
lam II. followed on this occasion an
ancestral precedent which would have
kept him very busy.
The Murder Gun. NJ
There is, OF course, in the Berlin pa.
pers a scream Of triumph over the
Paris long-range gun sensation. The
Krupp product which did its best to
duplicate st. Bartholonew's massacre
on Good Friday is acclaimed as "a SUI
preme achievement of German engi-
neering science" Even socialist
Forward is ecstatic and exc1aims that
1.-The possible consequence of this
astounding mechanical feat are inn
measurable"
Forward says that Huns will better
appreciate what the murder gun is
when they realize that seventy-f1ve
miles is tho distance between Berlin
and Stettin. and that the Average pas
senger train takes nearly two hours to
cover it.
Food Minister ~ H0arder.
One lighter touch in the midet Of
the a~ll-absorbinE battle news is the
arrest at Stargard. P~oraerania. OF the
man servant Of Herr Won Waldow. the
food minister. He was caught trying
to smuggle two trunkfuls Of food into
Berlin for his master. The trunks
were cran,med with country produce
Ut all kinds. Investigation Is proceed
ing. and the, press hopes that Herr
von Wsldow will lose no time in ex-
planning matters"
Bertin's "Under the Tobacco"
Few war DEGREES in Germany have
been more remarkable than an ordi-
nance just proclaimed by the federal
81 Institutes. fHenceforth manufactur-
ers Of tobacco are permitted to use az
Substitutes the leaves OF chestnut,
lime. maple and sycamore trees. e
well as the branches Of vines and Wild
shrubbery! Beech r leaves have
been in use for soms time. THE fed
eral councils action." laInents the
Lokal Anzeifer, rs enough to make
old Mother Nature turn in her grave.
OULcI VSD AhlDGU Nlu0 AOSNVAS @~HVNs
boulevard. whose name means under
theslirnes') now means under the to-
oacco.'" aS
Gown from Curtains.
A friend just home from Berlin
says: III anyone in England IS
grumblin1 let them reAliEe that an
English woman married to q weli-oh
member OF the Berlin bcurse told me
that she had Just made . dress for
herself from q pair Of curtains. II
was not q question Of money but OF
famine Of material. Yet one Of the
curious facts about the war n that
furs seem more plentiful everywhere
than normally. There - no lack OF
furs or Of fine diamonds in Berlin.
Friedlandea's, in the Inter den Lin-
den. 10 ablaze with Eems and silver
plate. 9ratz. the well-kndwn jeWelsr
Of $Chariott1nburg, told ms that he
had never dons euch business. Aespite
the increase In the price Of hk warss.
But unfortunately for the German
hsalth. " 70 easier to set pearls than
pork. II
THE lack Of trafic IN Berlin streets.
the mels neholy look ION the faces OF
the people and the dih1cnlty Of ket.
ting shout form asconts8onss element
Of derrsHxon. SaAAsst ard most 4ts-
aereeahie Of all are the wan fAcet OF
the children.
Sa German child lie today II Z
.ltra6edy, ard when the inevitabjs
crash corass the mob vii not forget