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Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1918-04-05

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meters Smfreos, ia bisie Ter bam
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Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1918-04-05

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slbonnenter, oerfor fan hi ttlbo f1n ogrottuloe
Qrpulier til IbonneHtidulere.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1918-04-05

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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-16
rBy the Associated Press.

tBy the Associated PreSs.I
samara, Russia.-Much Of the fer
tile land Of European Russia will
60 uncultivated this year. Less than
half the land, which has in times past
produced large quantities Of grain and
other crops, now remaining in control OF
the Soviet government, will not be titled
owing to the shortage Of seed, horses
and implements, and the unsettled con-
dition brought about by the land d.
vision.
The correspondent has made tour
of the government Of Samara, Sim
brisk, Moscow, Penza, Tamboy, Ryazan
and Saratov, the chief remaining wheat
producing districts. Thet majority OF
the large estates and the larger peasant
tracts have been seized and divided
among the poor peasants by local land
committees. Horses, cattle and imple-
ments have also been divided and scat
tered. The distribution of seed has
been unequal because Of the large requi-
sittons made by the central government
in some sections to feed the cities. and
because also of the disorganized trans
portation. 49,
Farmer Against City.
Peasants have hidden their seed and
resisted the food committees. Many dis
tYicts, consequently, have seed potatoes,
wheat, barley and oats, but the peasants
are not willing to plant extensively
fearina the future disposition OF the
crop. The hostility Of the farmers tow
ard city workers generally is SHOWN by
their unwilingness to surrender grain
to the food committees.
The wheat planting season ends this
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-16
CROPS FAIL IN RouMANIA.
Germany's Hopes Of Food Supply Are
Said TO Be Doomed.

Paris-Roumania's peasant popula-
ton is in a more precarious condition
from lack of food and clothing than
at any time since Roumania entered
the war. Reports reaching the Assoc
ciated Press from authoritative sources
Indicate that all crops this year are
failures.
What little food there was has been
requsitioned by the Germans. The
bread ration has been reduced further
and amounts to less than half pound
daily.
The crops In Bessarabia are In al
most as poor condition as In Rou-
mania. Owing partly to neglect and
partly to lack of labo", seeds and rain,
the greater parts of these countries,
which once teemed with agricultural
products are now barren wastes.
If the Germans expect any food from
this territory, the reports conclude
they can have only the slender hope OF
better crops next year
Roumania's plight Is desperate ow-
ing to the extortions Of the German
authorities. Conditions brought about
after the peace of Bucharest Have re-
suited in famine and peStilence. deci-
mating the population, according to
Roumanian refugees who have arrived
in Switzerland.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-16
JAP RED CROSS MAY HELP.
Prince Tokugawa Says That Japar
Nav Send Its Messengers Of Mercy

Prince Tokugawa Says That Japan
May Send Its Messengers Of Mercy
Honolulu, II. I.-Following survey
of conditions on the western front by
Prince Y. Tokugawa and his brother,
Count Katsu, the japanese Red Cross
may send a large corps of workers to
aid the other allied Red Cross organi-
cations in France. England and Italy.
This is the statement made by Prince
Tokugawa, who, passed thru Honolulu
recently on his way to pay the respects
of the Japanese Red Cross to the Off
Gals Of the American Red Cross in
Washington. The mission will stop
over in San Francisco a few days and
also in Chicago before proceeding to
the eastern cities. Following the visit
in washington the party vii! go to
England for a month and from there to
France To each Red Cross society Wis
tied the Prince will present a sample
boA OF bsiiidase5 and surgical dressings
made by the Japanese Red Cross work.
ers in Japan.
1.-THE Japanese Red Cross would like
to help in Siberia" said the prince,
but it is a very, difficult situation. 1t
is hard matter to help people who
doubt your motives and therefore we
have been unable to send Red Cross
workers to Siberia
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-16

week in central Russia, and IN most OF
the districts less than half the gram
land has been plowed. The exodus OF
city dwellers into the grain sections has
been so large that breadstuffs are ex-
trernely scarce, even in grain centers
like Samara, where bread sells for two
rubles per pound The price gradually
rises approaching Moscow and at some
town in the grain states children gather
at the incoming trains and beg bread
from the passengers.
Killed the Land Kings.
The land division has caused less
bloodshed than was expected altho
in some sections rich landlords have
been killed and their mansions pillaged
aand burned. The local land committees
are meeting with many difficulties. anu
there is general unrest among the peas
ants, who are especially uncertain about
the future land distribution because of
the fact that the central government
has merely authorized the seizure of
land, without legislation providing
methods for it's division.
The prices of grain and labor are un-
determined everywhere. The Soviets
have fixed the price of wheat at, from
eighteen to twenty -four rubles a bushel,
but the price the open market Is
several times higher and the peasants
are unwilling to take the deprecated
money, as they want cloth, leather, i'm
plements and other manufactured goods,
which the local markets do not afford,
or offer at prohibitive prices.
Cities Issue Own Money.
Several provinces have issued their
own money, but the peasants and mer-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-16
MANY BOUGHT HUN BONDS.
Secret Service Men Find 10000 Amer
leans Owning German Bonds.

Secret Service Men Find 10000 Amer
leans Owning German Bonds.
Washington, July ga fairly COM
plete list Of the holders of German
government bonds in the United States
is among the assets Of secret service
men fighting German propaganda, it
was said by officials discussing the
disclosure Of the $1,000, 900 holding Of
the Busch family, made recently BY Al
fred l.. Becker. New York assistant at
torney general. Names of nearly 10000
individuals are on the list, which has
been built up during the last two years
s The securities weer issued in denomi-
nations as low as $50.
Approximately six different issues of
the bonds were made in the United
States in order to evade the English
blockade, and, to make the bonds
valueless if seized, provision was in
corporated on the face Of most of them
that they should be considered invalid
unless countersigned by Count Won
Bernstorff, former ambassador to the
United States. They were underwent
ten in good-sized blocks by various
banking houses and syndicates, the
Transatlantic Trust Comany, officers
Sof which were arrested recently for in
terment, being an active agent.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-16
AUSTRIA is BANKRUPT.
End Of War Will Show Dual Mo-
archy Dead Broke"

End Of War Will Show Dual Mon
archy dead Broke
A couple Of months ago M. Tontcheff,
the Bulgarian minister of finance, in
presenting the budget for 1918 to the
sobranje drew a most sonlber picture
of the financial situation Of King
Ferdinand's kingdom. He admitted that
unless Bulgaria received a large por-
ton Of the Roumanian plumber the
country was bankrupt. Today it is the
turn Of Austria Hungary. The Aus
TRAP committee for the control of the
public debt has just made it's report to
the Austrian parliament. 1t is clear
from this report that the dual mon
archy is today practically bankrupt.
The total public debt, Austrian and
Hungarian, now amounts to more than
100, 600, 900, 900 kronen. The interest on
this debt absorbs $500, 900, 600 krQpen,
or considerably more than the total
revenues Of the empire before the war.
Under these circumstances. in order
to meet its financial obligations. it will
be necessary for Austrai- Hungary to
raise revenue of between S,000,000,-
900 and 5000, 900, 900 kronen per annum.
This would necessitate a per capita
contribution by the population of 1870
kronen. AS two thirds of the popula-
ton consists Of women and children,
who are not taxable, the burden will
fall on the $4,000, 900 male taxpayers,
who must make an average annual
contribution Of $40 kronen s(&1S0) per
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-16
Russians Afraid to S0lU Gram

chants refuse to accept 1t, unless forced
to do so by armed guards. Even the
provincial cities are issuing their own
money and are legalizing the circulation
OF officially endorsed checks on state
banks. sut the peasants do not will
| ingly accept such mediums of exchange.
Samara province has thousands OF
German colonists, owning from sixty to
eighty acres each, who have forcipiy
resisted the land committees and retain
ed their property. These colonists are
Russian citizens and have been In Rus
sian for several generations.
Millions of returned ssoldiers nave
been absorbed by the villages without
special disorganization. Many of the
soldiers, have retained their arms. and
consequently the villages of central
Russia are now able to protect them
selves against outside interference
The railways are resuming normal
conditions Local Soviet committees
and trainmen are now controlling the
trains, thus preventing "hooligans'
from disarranging the traffic.
The Siberian grain sections have an
abundance of seed and labor and the
land situation is less unsettled. AL
though lacking machinery Siberia prob
ably will plant 80 per cent Of the usual
grain crop. The Ukraine is short OF
seed because Of the heavy German re-
QUESTIONS and the general disorganiza :
ton of that country. The German are
Offering seed on condition that a heavy
percentage of the crop be given to them
But the farmers are distrustful, and the
acreage probably will be far below
normal
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-16
Deutschland Was
Ramn1ed by English
il, Mediterranean

New York.-John Thompson, the
man who sank the Deutschland is in
New York. He has been living quietly
for a few days at the Hotel Wolcott
and he Is exceedingly reticent ABOUT
the achievement that won for him the
d. S, o. ribbon and substantial cash
bonus from the British government.
MANY yarns have found their way
over the cables to this country as TO
what happened to the Deutschland ana
the final disposition of the Hun mer-
chant submarine has been Nariously
placed in the North sea, the coast
north of Scotland, the wide Atlantic
and Kiel harbor.
Rammed in Mediterranean.
AS a matter Of fact, the giant sub
marine was sunk, thru ramming, in the
Mediterranean, in June 1917. The ves-
sci that rammed the Deutschland was
commanded by Captain Thompson, and
he not only destroyed the submarine,
which had been converted into an
armed raider, but effected the capture
Of her crew.
Maneuvered For Hour.
Captain Thompson was on voyage
thru the Mediterranean and was on his
way from Malta to Alexandria. He en-
countered the Deutschland lying on the
surface and for an hour jockeyed for
position with the U-boat.
The Deutschland did not dare sub
merge, because Captain Thompson
kept his boat straight at the subma-
rine's beam. Finally the British COM
mander was able to get full speed
ahead and struck the great submersi-
BILE fairly amidships. Her crew was
captured. How that was accomplished
& Captain Thompson refuses to say.
Prisoner Two Weeks.
Some time after the Deutschland in
cident the vessel commanded by Cap
tain Thompson was torpedoed and he
was taken on board the submarine,
where he was kept for two weeks. Had
the German commander known that ne
held the man who had sunk the
Deutschland it is doubtful if Captain
Thompson would be stopping at the
Wolcott today.
Twice since then Captain Thompson
has met with disaster because Of u
boats but has always managed to es-
cape alive. But he refuses to talk
about his experiences and it is only
thru the medium Of his associates that
the story Of "the man that sank the
Deutschland" could be secured. He Is
here on business visit.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-16
Making Peace With
German, Commander
Unpleasant Business
Correspondence Associated Press.l

TCorrespondence Associated Press.
London, June 1.-THE business Of
making peace with Germany is not a
pleasant one for the persons who have
to conduct the negotiations. Tho Rou-
manian delegates who went down from
Jassy in March at the invitation Of the
Germans found no warm welcome or
pleasant hospitality awaiting them at
Bucharest 1--WE were treated as less
than dust" said one of the delegates in
picturesque Roumanlan metaphor, on
his return to Jassy.
These were merely the preliminary
and informal negotiations. The formal
parleys did not begin until some days
later. The delegation which undertook
these preliminary conversations was
headed by NJ. Papiniu, former Rou-
manian minister at Constantlnople,
and his associates included representa-
lives OF the principal political parties.
Altho they had come to Bucharest at
the personal invitation of the German
commander in chief Field Marshal Won
Mackensen could give them only five
minutes of his time. He kept them
standing and treated them with delib-
crate GOODNESS. His attitude was
summed up by his declarations: You
ought to be glad that we are prepared
to discuss peace with you at all. instead
of merely imposing it ppon you. We
extend you this favor only out of con-
sideration for the heroic resistance of
your army"
At the end of the five minutes
which Won Mackensen allotted the dele
gates they were turned over to some
subordinate officer who discussed with
them whether the ,abdication of 1.-THE
king ought to be included in the peace
terms. Only the most indefinite pro-
posals could be obtained from the Ger
man officers, and it was plain from Won
Mackensen's conversation that he had
very limited powers in these matters.
| Neither on territorial questions nor
regarding the rehabilitation of the
Roumanian army could he speak
! definitely, and it was stated that con-
iversations with German political per-
sonages" would be necessary to decide
these subjects.
It was very evident to the Roumanian
delegates that these preliminary con-
1yersations had been asked for by Won
Mackensen merely with view to bull
doing and brow beating Roumania.
The field marshal, in a speech full OF
bragadocio, said that his army was
fully prepared for business, and that
unless an immediate understanding was
reached he would begin "a terrible Of
fensiye." On the other hand, if Rou-
mania yielded quietly, he promised that
his troops would be withdrawn and
sent to another front.
| Helm qYired specifically as to the
whereabouts of the French, British and
American missions to Roumania, and it
appeared to the delegates that he hoped
to be able somehow to bag these mis-
sions and make them prisoners.
The subordinate German officer gave
the Roumanian delegates assurance of
generous treat ment on number OF
points, but none of these assurances
brought any result in the formal nego-
tiations which followed few days
later.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-16
DIGEST GOOSE IN eUARDHoUsE.
PurIoined Bird Source Of Trouble For
Guilty Sammies.

Correspondent Associated Press.1
HEADQUARTERS American Troops With
the British Army in France, June IL
A purloined goose was the cause OF so
much trouble for few soldiers of the
American army recently that they now
consider that the bird would have been
cheap even at the high war prices that
prevail in these regions.
The complaint from the woman who
lost the goose was. the only one re-
ceived at the headquarters Of the divi-
sion to which the men belonged; she
promptly received satisfaction In the
coin of the country and the men were
obliged to digest their feast in the guard
house while they reflected upon the
rules regarding 'foraging.'
"Of course there are worse things a
soldier can do than to swipe goose.
said an officer of the division In ques-
ton "but even that is more than shall
be permitted in this force. We came
over here to do a laudable thing and
we are going to do it Clearly. What
ever we draw from this country Is go
ing to be paid for in due form and the
few men in our ranks who dare try any
other system will pay dearly for their
experience"
Other units Of the American army IN
this zone have not had a single case OF
this kind. The men behave even better
than at home; they are getting on
splendidly with the inhabitants and
with their allies. Guard house cases
! are rare and are. generally for insight
! ficent misconduct
INSTRUMENTATION" said one officer. us
often the consequence Of crouch. Our
men have few grievances and we
have little trouble with them
The dignif1ed but friendly way In
which the average officer tells man
where he falls short provokes earnest
ness instead Of the resentment that
more brutal methods engender in some
European armies.
That's bad, said lieutenant II
charge Of company at rifle practice
handing a poor record back to a SOL
der You'd better try again"
II never could shoot much, sir" re-
piled the soldier. visibly relieved at
being let down so easily" but I'll dc
better next time" He came on with
another detail and did far better.
The excellent feeling between officers
and men that results from this kind OF
discipline is apparent everywhere
among the troops billetted in this area
1t is difficult to find a sour. conten-
ance or to hear a word of complaint
All the men seem to realize what res
spect their mission over, here com
mands. They are showing themselves
worthy Of that respect, /, & 1.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-16
sAPPING NATIONS STRENGTH
Alarming Conditions Shown In German
Labor Review.

LABOR REVIEW.
Correspondent Associated Pressl
Amsterdam, June 16.-What the Ber-
lin vorwaerts terms criminal sapping
of the nations stregth" Is revealed by
the returns Of the labor inspectorate
for Prussia for 1917.
These statistics have not appeared
during wartime and socialists have long
and vainly urged their reinsurance. The
Prussian board Of trade finally yielded
and last years figures have just been
made public Issued without text they
are eloquent in themselves as they show
increase use of the labor Of women and
children which, yorWaerts says. "yin
exact fearful revenue on the future
race"
Compared with pre-war statistics.
! male employees over 6 decreased from
2,622,152 to 1,956,202, but women e.i-
ployes increased 6S7,734 to 1,240,59S
i Employees IA to Is years old increased
2sO.14s to a27.9o4 and children under IA
1854. to e.o12.
In engineering workshops alone the
number of women increased from 51,o13
to 327,512.
Cases of attractions Of the workman's
protection act have grown alarmlngly.
BY the emergency law Of 1914 employ
ers were granted exemptions which
have been scandalously abused. Cases
Of exceeding the ten hours working day
rule for women rose from 1859 to 6,10S;
suppressions Of the legal luncheon In
terval from 1873 to 1922; nom observ-
ance Of the prohibition Of night work
727 to 1898; and non observance OF
the prohibition Of Juvenile labor 1852 to
1909.
"The number Of official inspections
Of factories having notably decreased,
it is safe to say" adds Vorwaerts. that
law breaking in this respect has as
sumed gigantic proportions and the
paper vehemently complains Of the ex-
cessive indulgence shown to employers
by the authorities who, for Instances,
granted permission for overwork by
women to the extent of 100000 hours
compared with 100000 in 1916, an1
| for night work by women to the total
of 44,oOO,00o hours, compared with Co.
! 100000.
| The two shift system still is prevail
ent while three shifts are comparative
| ly rare.
| Vorwaerts demands instant measures
to counteract these abuses and the alb
clifton Of the exemption law.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-16
MUST NOTICE YANkS.
German MiIitary~critic Admits Thu

German MiIitary~Critic Admits That
U. S. Has Arrived.
Wa Observation-Disclosures advices re-
ceived here indicated that the German
press was altering it's tone toward the
military activities of the United
States.
IF the war does not end in 1918.
these adyices credit Stegemann, the
Germanophlle military critic, as hav-
ing declared in a recent publication, IT
is no longer possible to assign term
to it, either from political or q mill
tary point Of view. The allies are
awaiting the battle with growing con-
hdence. They still have reserves at
their disposal, and the multitude or
American reinforcen is supplies them
with moral guarantees"
Regarding the Importance OF Amerl-
can military aid Stegeman confessessin
his article that his latest estimates had
already been exceeded.
eve estimated the Americans at
500 900 fighting men," he said. eve are
Obliged to add that these figures are
rapidly rising. The first million have
already been exceeded. The most
difficult problem consists in preparing
this mass for mobile warfare
"The English who have improved
with astonishing success the setting up
of several million men, have expert
enced this difficulty. But It Is the
French army. with it's highly trained
headquarters staff, its excellent officer
corps its troops full Of suppleness and
quick at adapting themselves to exist
ing circumstances. which provides the
brain and the marrow Of military re-
sistance for the entente.
"The forces of the German army will
find themselves faced by French, Brit
ish, and American troops. The new
battle will bring the decision nearer.
But can the political consequences be
foreseen? That is another question.
Stegeman. like Won Kuhlmann, the
dispatch received here points out,
acknowledges that he no longer be-
lieves in decisive German victory. II
u stated, also. that, while for 2 long