Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-03-01
EVENING EDITION.

~ ;nteryiew with the men who later
;,,,,rnrafed the ruthless submarine
rarfare. Won Tirpttz, he said, was
Intensely Interested in the v0yage of
the American battle fleet
world. and he told the FORMER presi-
oI do II successful lly. adding that
The Britis, naval and foreign officers
had felt the same way. He said he
nsnccted Japan would aattacks@ the
fleet while it was on its way round
Not Expected.
IT told him. he wrote, mat ! had
not expected such an attack. snut2ttiat
7 had thought it possible; Y. other
words, that I thought q han
chance for it. Ny point of view at
he fine the fleet sailed. was that II
the attacked 1t, It was q
certain sign THAI they ere&tntendtng
to attack us at the first favorable OPP
p~ortunity.
polite to the japanese p e final
ly become, uncomfortablY conscious
Of q very, very slight unaertone OF
cations in nconnection with things
thaf happened on the Pacific slope;
and | finally made up my mind that
thew thought l was afarted OF them.
every particle OF trouble with the
,%Japanese press stopped like magic as
soon as they found h a our fleet had
actually sailed, and was obviously In
good trim. AS | told vohr Tirpitz. I
thought it a good thing that the Jap
sn ~ should know there were fleets
IF the white races which were totally
different from the fleet of poor Ro-
iestvensky." Won Tirpitz and Will
liam. he said, told him that they re-
rarded the VOYAGE of the fleet a
having done more for peace In the
Orient than anything else that could
possibly have happened"
other portions of the colonel'sNlet-
ter to Sir George TEEN with anec-
dotes and reference to his ~associa-
ton with European royalties, The
simple, unaffected, democratic Sim
nlicity of the rulers Of Norway i'm
pressed him deeply. A Christiana,''
hew rote, I'VE were taken at once to
the palace where we stayed; and i
could hardly speak too strongly OF
King Haakon. Queen Maud and lit
tie Olaf. They were deaFs;LLwe were
genuinely sorry when we-feft them,
to think that we would never see
them again; il ever Norway decides
to turn republic we should love to
have them come to live near Saga
more Hill.
4 Peculiar Nation.
NORWAY is as funny a. kingdom,
as was ever imagined outside Of
opera bouffe-although it isn't opera
bouffe at all, for the Norwegians are
a fine, serious. powerful lot Of men
t and ONE But they have the most
. genuinely democratic society to be
: found in EUROPE not excepting
Switzerland; there are only two or
three states in the American union
I which are as real democracies. They
. have no mobiles, hardly even gentry:
they are peasants and small towns
4 ACCOMPLISHMENTS. sailors. fisher folk.
r mechanics and small traders. On this
e community a royal family is suddenly
pumped. 1t is much as if Vermont
should offhand try the experiment, OF
having a king. Yet it certainly
seemed as if the experiment were en-
: tirely successful"
I An 1rishman was leaning against a
a post when a funeral procession
passed.
y Who's dead?" some one asked.
a II don't know" answered the
J. Irishman, but 1 presume it's the
person in the front carriage"
j. Just as the orator of the day was
about to begin his address at a ban
d quet a tray in the kitchen upset and
a tho clAtter OF dishes could be heard
for two blocks.
n The >toastmaster, however, was
equal to the occasion;
6 Calling on, one of the walters, me
ordered: asa IA
SAY, please tell the jazz orchestra
Is to stop playing until the speaking is
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