Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-04-02
THE WIDE WORLD

LOnd0n-The establishment of wire
J less telephony between Ireland and
| Canada was announced by the Mar
conf company ercently
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Montreal in wireless
telephony across the Atlantic have
been proceeding for some time be-
tween the Marconi stations at Glace
Bay, Nova Scotia, and Clifden, Ire
land. These experiments are still in
progress.
Macon, Ga.-For cotton confiscated
in 1866 by the federal government a
claim for $1,4S5 has just been adjust
ed in the court Of claims in Washing
ton, and the money will be paid over
to the Mcdonald estate of Fort Val
ley, Ca The staple was seized dur
ing Sherman's march to the sea- and
shipped to New York, sold there and
the proceeds placed in the federal
treasury.
ariS-Reports that Russian pris-
oners in Germany were to be organ
lied under entente command, stir
Humanite, French Socialist organ to
say AHQ 81 LIE intervention COIL
tinues, after ALL And in spite of the
sentiment of the peace conference
1t is scarcely conceivable to make
these pitiful human beings fight the
Bolsheviks and perpetuate the civil
war in disastrous Russia. Why, these
men have undergone the most terrible
treatment in the German prison
camps. They have suffered from
famine during long months and years
and three-quarters of them have be-
come consumptive. Such policy
would be unworthy of civilized ma
tons. The Russian prisoners ought
to be sent back Immediately to their
homes and, more than that, get back
their lands and property"
Kansas City, MO.-Maj. Dick B.
Fosters charges that Secretary of
War Baker aided war obstructionists
by extending and perverting acts of
congress" for their protection, caused
wide comment and interest here Fos-
ter talked before the City club of Kan
sas City, telling of alleged "confiden
tial instructions issued by the war
department concerning DIRECTORS to
war" Foster served on a general
court martial at Camp Funston,
which tried 1875 so-called conscien-
tious DIRECTORS. He declared his
statements were based upon personal
| knowledge of the treatment extended
these Instructors" He read texts of
alleged secret orders which he said
dHmfounded army officers. Orders to
commanding officers, he declared, in
structed them to quietly ignore" and
treat with kindly consideration OBJ
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RSAW-Germany will dominate
the east economically and politically.
and thus prepare herself for another
assault on the worlds peace unless
Poland is sufficiently strengthened TO
resist this penetration, Premier Pad
erewsh declared in All interview re
Gently He said that Germany has
not yet acknowledged 1efeat on the
eastern front. sThe importance to
the peace OF Europe of a strong. unit
ed Poland, cannot be exaggerated. .
said Paderewski Germany made
war not for honor and ideals, but for
market and war materials. The war
has not yet been won. GERMANY is
ready to acknowledge herseIf beaten
IN the west, but not in the east. r.he
same men who organized the present
war count on reorganizing Russia in
their own interests. If thew do they
will have an endless supply of labor
and raw materials. Besides wheat
they Will have splendid cotton from
Turkestan; OIL tremendous lumber
supplies and coal and iron deposits
from Russia, to say nothing of gold.
platinum and other precious metals.
win these Germany would newt
ably stamp her dominion on the whole
world. Think of the effect on the
81 and'f body Of Americas highly
paid labor II Germany trained and di-
rected the cheap labor of Russia and
China. No one could compete with
such cheap production. What stands
IN Germany's way? Not France or
England. They are too far away.
Germany is at the gates of Russia and
once let her combine with the Ro1sha-
vlks and recognize Russi-as she will
have the leisure to do in peace time
and she will dominate the world A
strong Poland alone can block this
plan. From time immemorial if has
been the task of Poland to protect
civilization from the hordes of Asia .
O.
UmSk, Slberia-Lieut. Col. John Ward
treasurer of the General Federation
OF Trade Unions in England, is seeing
service in Russia, and seeing enough
OF Bolshevism to convince him that if
IS all wrong. Col. Ward has written
this survey of conditions in Russia
For the love of Allah, never more
talk of the glories of revolution. I am
IN 1t here Friend strikes down him
ne thinks his foe and finds the dead
man his brother. Princes, peasants
plutocrats, workmen, rich and moor
go down together in one welter Of
Dlood and dirt. The Bolshevik thinks
nothing of standing 500 social reyo-
| iutlonlsts against the wall and shoot
ing them down before breakfast. be-
cause OF one small petty difference Of
OPINION as to whether the railways
should be national or communaI rou7