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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 27, 1917)
THE SEMUWEEKLY TRIBUNE, NORTH PLATTE. NEBRASKA, RUSSIAN CAPITAL WOMEN AND MEN COMPELLEL TO DISROBE IN STREETS. OF TERROR SAILOR MEMBER OF Thero Isn't a sailor In the entire shipping board, but thero nro more men who know about ships than any other one organization has. There is an admiral Admiral Capps who Is a member of the board, but the others are nil civilians, lawyers and business men. Yet the shipping hoard Is the one war machine which Is the worst enemy of Germany's greatest war inu chine the submarine. Tho shipping board has built up n machine of students. Men who make a subject of study nnd then know how to use the knowledge they acquire. For Instance, there Is one man In the traffic department of the shipping board who has made the names and capacity and routes of American ships his study. Whenever nnyone In the traffic department wants Information of a certain ship they send for the In formation expert, who can tell them off-hand the name of the vessel, her home port, her capacity and where she was last In port. A collection of Just euch specialized men makes up tho machinery of the shipping board. Thero isn't a thing nautical about the shipping board. In the old Interstate com merce commission building, in fact, in the very room where railroad problems were formerly settled, the shipping board now sits nnd plans the greatest marine program that the world has ever known. The operation of the shipping board Is a huge task. It Is Just another of the mushroom Industries that tho war has brought to Washington. Five hundred persons are employed in tho executive work which attends the build ing of tho greatest merchant licet America and tho world have ever known APPRECIATIVE BELGIAN STATESMAN and justice. I came away from America feeling that I had witnessed tho welding of a great nation. I was still under the spell of the conversations I had had with your great president one of the greatest statesmen of modern and all times. As I listened to the expression of his views on tho futuru destinies of the world I was proud that Belgium could havo inspired such a sentiment In the bosom of tho flrst citizen of tho greatest country of modern times, and to him and to tho people of the United States I wish to suy: Thank you." WOULD TRAIN YOUTH FOR WAR Col. Theodore Roosevelt has writ ten to H. H. Sheets, secretary of tho National Association for Universal Military Training, giving briefly hla reasons why tho United States should adopt universal training. Colonel Roosevelt says: My Dear Mr. Sheets : I most heart ily agree with you in your proposal that tho United States government shall, as a permanent policy, at onco register nil tho young men from nine teeji years up for the purpose of mili tary training. This is the right way to shorten the present war, and more over it indicates what we should adopt as our permanent military policy. As Cardinal Gibbons has well said, such training will benefit our young men in calculably, not only physically but mor ally, nnd will oot only fit them for war, but It will fit them for their work In peace time. "I wish to take this opportunity to express th gratitude that all Americans should feel for Lieut. Gen. S. B, M. Young for hLx leadership in this cause. If our people had followed his advice when it was first given this war would have been over now, und the nations banded for liberty would have achieved a compelling nnd overwhelming victory." COMMANDS ENGINEER FORCES years was president of the War collego division of the general staff corps. Ho was recently superintendent of the Military academy nt West Point and was relieved from that detail and plnced In command of the Sixth regiment of engineers Just prior to his elevation to a brigadier generalship. 3 SHIPPING BOARD Baron Moncheur, head of the Bel gian mission to the United States nnd former Belgian minister at Washing ton, has requested the Associated Press to express his thanks to the American people for the hospitality extended to the mission. "I thought I knew the United Slates well," said the baron. "I was minister at Washington for eight years, and learned and admired the business like methods and efficiency of Ameri cans. But it was a revelation to see a grent free, proud, wealthy nation bending its energies toward the single goal of crushing Prussian militarism. Forgetful of party rivalries) the people of the United States as one man en tered tho fray, resolved to make the world 'safe for democracy. It is no small comfort to realize that the plight of Belgium was more than Incidental in bringing tho greatest nation of tho New World to the side of tho allies Brig. Gen. John Blddle, engineer officer, was born In Michigan, Febru ary 2, 1850, and appointed to tho Mili tary academy from that state in 1877. In 1881 he was commissioned a second lieutenant of engineers. During the Spanish-American war, while a first lieutenant in the regulnr establishment, he was commissioned lieutenant colo nel of volunteers. General Blddle was the only engi neer promoted to be a general officer In the recent number advanced to do service In the European war. lie has been plnced in command of tho engi neer forces now in France, who will prepare for the American forces to bo dispatched to, the front as rapidly as possible nnd will also aid in the re building of devastated French territory as fast as the German army is forced to retreat from it. General Blddle is considered nn excellent officer and for a number of U.S. ENVOY TELLS OF BUTCHER Asks for Train to Move American Colony from Petrograd. Italians Hold Austro-Germans Along the Plave River. Stockholm, Nov. 20. Dispatches re ceived hero from Petrograd by friends of Americans there, through olllclul United States legation sources, indi cate n reign of terror lias begun In tho Russian capital. Women and men wearing furs are forced to un dress in the streets, a returning American says. When Lenlno drew a cheek for 100,000,000 rubles the bnnks of the capital closed. Reports say that Petrograd and Moscow are still In the hands of Bol shovlkl and that Sobnstopol, the big naval base and arsenal in the Black Sea, has gone over to tho workmen's and soldiers' delegates, the sailors, of tho licet having sworn allegiance to them. German newspapers declare that Premier Kerensky and Nikolai Lenlnc, leader of tho Bolshevlkl revolution In Petrograd, have effected a compro mise essentially fnvorable to Lenlnc. It Is reported thnt a new army composed of various clement from the front Is moving on Petrograd. The American embassy at Petrograd has requested that n train be provid ed to convey 200 members of the American colony In Petrograd to Harbin. Women Killed by Reds. Wnshlngton, D. C, Nov. 20. Be lated dispatches from Ambassador Francis renchlng the stnto depart ment told of tho fighting In the streets of Petrograd, in which -tu-dents of the military academy and battalions of women participated. Tho ambassador said cadets and wo men were slaughtered by the Bolshe vlkl troops. Italian Line Holding. Home, Nov. 20. All along the Plave river the Italians are holding tho German and Austro-IIungnrlan armies In check. Nowhere have the Invaders been able to cross the stream, and at several places whero they had gained nccess to the west ern bank they havo been brilliantly counter attacked and forced to with draw to the river's edge. The Ital ians have have captured considerably more than 2,000 prisoners and taken twenty-seven machine guns. In tho Fngare zone the enemy has been com pletely vanquished nnd forced to glvo up his position. High Itnllan cun mnnders liken the Itnllan stand to that made by Franco nt the Mame. On the northern front from Lake Garda to the .region south of Feltre violent Austro-German nttacks have been repelled, according to. the Rome war office. Wilson Favors Joint Staff. London, Nov. 20. Colonel Kdwnrd M. House, head of the American mis sion, has received a cablegram from "President Wilson stating emphati cally that the United States govern ment considers that unity of plan and control between all the allies and the United States Is essential In order to achieve a Just and permanent peace. President Wilson emphasizes that this unity must bo accomplished If the great resources of the United States nro to be used to the best ad vantage. He requests Colonel House to con fer with the heads of the allied gov ernments with a view to achieving tlio closest possible co-operation. German Ships Run to Cover. London, Nov. 20. German light cruisers, which fled through Helgo land Bight Saturday before British warships of similar type, were pur sued to within thirty miles of Helgo land, where they came under the pro tection of the German battle fleet and mine fields, the ndmlrnlty announced. Quo of the Gorman light cruiser was observed to be In flames nnd the mnchlnery of another seemed to be damaged. 19 Americans on Rochester Last. Washington, D. C., Nov. 20.-Nineteen men, Including six members of the naval armed guard, who left In the second officers' boat when the American steamer Rochester was tor pedoed In the wi:- zone, November 2. have been given up for lost by the navy department. Carranza Regime In Danger. HI Paso, Tex., Nov, 20. Five thou sand government troops, sent Into Morclos. Mexico, to attack Zapata and Felix Diaz forces, hnve been trap ped In a mountain pass and practical ly annihilated with machine guns, ac cording to messages from American mining companies' agents. Carrnnza Is in Imminent danger of being over thrown by n coalition of the vnrlous revolutionary factions, who hnve -10. 000 uk-ii under arms, the reports say e 1 French troops demonstrating, gas and flame attack. 2 Canadians o iSnii-mniuDg industry in the United SCENES HEAD OF AMERICA'S Col. 12. M. limine Ih chalriiiiin of the American war commission that has been sent over to attend the conference of the nlllei In Purls. He will act as the spokesman of President Wilson on questions pertaining to the general policies of the conduct of the war. Phosphorus Light. To make a night light with phospno ms, place a piece of phosphorus about the size of a pea In a long glass bottle. Fill the bottle about oue-thlril full or olive oil. heated to the boiling point, nnd cork tightly, When light Is need ed, take out the cork and allow the air to enter then recock the bottle. The empty space In the bottle will be come luminous. When the light be i (ini' dim. uncork the bottle for a few second' for thu benefit of American soldiers In on the west front using an old Germnn States revived by tlu renewed use of ON THE BATTLEFIELDS WAR COMMISSION Raises Alligators. There Is money In raising alligators. One man near Los Angeles Is said to havo grown rich from tho enterprise. It Is a lucrative and practically un crowded fleM for tho man who has sufficient business Initiative combined with physical courage to enter. Any way, the matter Is well ,worth looking Into by the man who .has decided that he would like to raise something and has concluded that chickens are the only possibility.- Kxenange. France, the method of advancing for nt ammunition pile ns an observation post.! sailing vessels. OF FRANCE At tho left Is n group of French solt dlers ready to flro on tho retreating, Germans with a machine gun cap tured from tho Bodies. The pho tograph wns tnken on tho summit of Dead Man hill, tho scene of many n bloody conflict before the French final ly wrested It from tho possession of tho enemy. Below arc Germnn prison ers of wur scrnplng from their clothing the mud of the' trenches and shell! holes. The one at tho right la wear ing a suit of tho lntcst body nrmor do-i vised by tho Germnn wnr office. It protects tho wenror from bullets toj onie extent, but slows him up grentlyj In a chnrgo. PICKING DATES FOR SAMMY A large number of California dates, picked and packed by Coachclla val ley girls who volunteered, linvo been sent to tho American soldiers in Franco as a Christmas gift from Cali fornia. Here Is ono of tho pretty date pickers nt work. Women to Run Farms. Farms for women, without any men In control, may soon ho organized In England. Tho food production depart ment In n recent report stnted that tho prejudices against female farm labor had been entirely overcome, and thnt for really skilled workers the applica tions are In excess of the supply. "En-, counwed by their success ns single workers or in gangs on different! farms," continues the report, "tho ag ricultural women nro asking to bo al lowed to try their hand In a corporato capacity, and to have plnced nt their disposal a number of farms In various counties, to he run entirely by women under the supervision of tho County Agricultural Kxecutlvo committees, It Is possible that at nn enrly dnto farm may he organized and farmed purely by wniiirii labor."