The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-08-05
YA6KS HOLD
LINE IN SIX
ALIEN LANDS
American Artillery Several Miles
Inside the Border of
Hunland
OUR MEN NOW IN ITALY
Courts Knock Into Cooked Hat
Objections to "FOreign
Invasion"
OUR MEN NOW IN ITALY

Washington, Aug. 5.-The war map
WIN its trench lines struggling
athwart international boundaries
shows American fighting men holding
their footing on strangely alien soils.
As, it now stands army units OF Tie
United States are at their grim work
in six countries, France, Germany,
Russia. Austria, Italy and Belgium.
The swelling volume of their move.
menl overseas has been so necessary
a response to the emergency OF the
nations responsibility, so thoroughly
implied by the original war declara'
ton, and so entirely natural picture
to a people prepared by three years
of observation of world war, that II
may take historians perspective to
visualize completely the departure
from traditions and the smashing OF
precedents that the movement in,
vOlved.
Checking the six, American artillery
has been reported on the French line
opposite Mulhausen, several miles IN
side the border of the German empire. |
In Austria, the olivedrab uniform sup- |
ports Italian sectors which sWine |
round the toe of Lake Garda, and Am
erican filters have Unanswered over
the Venetian lowlands where the Aus
trian drive was forced back this
spring. In Belgium. they have gone
over the top with Australians and in !
France their forces in action now can |
be counted by army corps. In Rus
STA, at Vladivostok and now on the
frozen reaches OF the Thurman coast,
they are putting disciplined force be-
hind the manifold manifestations OF
national purpose. Likewise, in Eng |
Ian. Scotland and Ireland, they fill up
me school camps and prepare them.
selves for action.
These men, drafted nearly all. are |
the agents in the far-flung journeyings
OF nation whose military history has
shown more than one instance in
which cvolunteers. ordered to cross
boundary, have sat down, private ana
officer alike to debate the cOnstitu>
tionality of warlike expedition TO fol-.
eign soil, and still more instances
where militia organizations have sue
cessfully opposed national attempts
10 send them beyond their own state
lines. rr
Yet today, under the urge of the
war resolution, which directed the ad-
ADMINISTRATION ITO exert all of its power
and employ all Of its resources to car
ry on war against the. Imperial Ger
man government and to bring the
conflict to successful conclusion
drafted men aud volunteers have not
raised q single protest of serious i'm
port.
1t was not until January of the pres.
ent year that the supreme court form
erly construed the constitution to al
low any sort Of war operation the ma
ton desired to carry on. The court
said OF contentious opposing that view
that they were too frivolous for no.
tice.'
Yet long before the decision The first
drafted American had fallen III battle
overseas and legions more had stream
ed after him to every quarter almost,
Of the Eurasian continent.
Thus the historian has been given
large and interesting mile-post to
build to the future, but for the aver.
ave American, the news Of the day
shows that this interest is purely alb
stract. 1t having been definitely de
cided, up due and formal considera-
ton, that complete defeat OF Ger
many was necessary to democrcy in
the world, the ntion has not even re-
membered presidents of history or
traditions of the past.
Apparently, the men least inclined
TO consider that have been the sol
diers who have gone gravely but with
good cheer into the valley of the sha
dow overseas, and there are making
pnnd tho nurnOSe