The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-03-07
HUNS ! QUOT. !. E
INTERNATIONAL. I
LAW TO ALLIES
Declare Treatment Is lnhuman
and Is apping
Strength
RUSH TOWARD COBLENZ
German Troops on Baltic Defeat
BOlsheviki-Capture
Riga
RUSH TOWARD COBLENZ

Berlin, Mar. 7.-''rhe present unrest.
terror and crime are diseases of the
social body which it is unable to re-
sist because it has become weakened
through privation and the loss Of
blood" says the North German Ga
lette.
Our enemies are denying us food
and raw supplies. Their attitude is
the real cause Of the present crisis and
the prevalent activity In view OF
these events they should realize it Is
contrary to the international law of
humanity to allow fallen foe to lie
prostrate Oh the ground. The Weaken-
ing of Germany deprives it of power
against bolsheyiSn. 1t is u dangerous
thing to be next neighbor to u house
in which plague is raging"
CONDEMN STRIKE
The government board of the society
of physicians and surgeons has sharply
condemned the strike III Germany on
the grounds that it is endnngering pub
lie health. Sanitary crews engaged in
checking the spread Of typhus and
spotted fever declare they are unable
to do their work because Of the strike.
The NOerwartS. socialist organ, de-
cIareS railway men decline to walk
out. insisting, the strike is wholly the
work Of socialistic wire-pullers.
TERRITORY POPULAR
Coblenz, Mar. 1.-THE disturbances
in Germany and other parts OF unoc-
cupied Germany have resulted i'll such
an increase in the number OF civilians
anxious to reach the bridgehead dis
trict, where conditions are more nor,
NAL. that the allied troops have had
to exercise every effort to prevent con-
gestion. Within the last few days the
number Of civilians desiring to reach
CoblenZ or other parts Of the Ameri-
can district of occupation has been
more than double that of any period.
The American authorities have had to
take up permit privileges. Only those
dcsiring TO travel on urgent business
or to return TO their homes will be
allowed to pass within the American
occupied territory.
,...,... DESERT TO BOLsHEVIKI Il,
London. Mar. IA German! wireless
dispatch here states that in addltlon
to the voluntary marines, a portion; OF;
the. guards artillery regiment and the,
guards fnSilier, regiment has gone over
to tile Bolsheviki. ~,
German troops on the Baltic! coast
have defeated the Bolsheviki and nave
rec.,pturedI Riga '.> " 90 y II 's-- y
ARTISTS MUST GO TO WORK
Stockholm, Mar. THE Bolshevlkt
government of Russia is preparing
war decreeing that all professionals
and artists must work for the govern
ment.
USE DOG TEAMS s.
Copenhage gen. Mar. dog teams and
reiudeers are used to take Wounded
mon from the Marmal front to Murusk.
where they are distributed to MEDICAL
Dosts scattered over the country, 10
farm houses and tqlts. Before start
ing the wounded men are placed III
bags of furS so designed that the
wounded may be treated without eA-
pOsure to cold.
All soldiers wear clothing deslsHeA
bv Sir Ernest Shackleford.
AMERICANS IMPROVE THINGS
Archangel. Mar. 7.-Beginning ac
Archansel and extending to the fur
tber noint south. where the Russian eA-
neditionary forces are operating
ayainst the BolSheviki or TN Doio
os the soldiers call him up here, the
work of the American engineer Is evil
dent. They have gone into lmpassaple
svamns and built roads. blockhOuSes
and hospitals in the dead or "lltet'
with the temperature far below zero.
Hritish officers in charge OF the eNpe
d;tion have never ceased to praise the
sneed with which these American engl-
neers 90 into forest and transform
soma of IT'S trees into habitable block
houses within two days. Little hussiah
cars have been made into colhIortapie
habitations. double walled, with k1tcn-
ems Offices. hospitals and near'! every
kind of commissary store and ca1lteeli'
all built from box cars.
BREAK NEGOTIATIONS
London, March 7.-Negotlat tions pe'
tween the German and allied peace
| delegates at Spa have been broken
off. The allies demanded that all the
| remaining merchant ships be handed
over unoonditionally. The German
| delegates received instructions from
their government that 1.-The questlol
Of handing over the merchant flee'
can only arise if adequate food sup
plies, say 2,5Oo,O00 tons, are assured
| Germany until the next harvest. Ins
allies would not agree 10 this. AS
result a French delegate moved taa
| negotiations be brohen off and there
mon the German delegates let spa.
EIGHT KILLED,
Berlin, March Police head9uaT
ters in Berlin were cut off from 81
communications with other govern
| ment offices at the capitol lat
i Thursday when the Spartacans ate
| two days seige cut the wires. Eign