MEDFOTTD MATL TRTBUNE, MEDFORD, OftKfiOX. MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 10, 1917
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GERMANAGENTS
TRAILED ROOT
American Mission Followed By Spies
Who Tried to Wreck Their Train
Identical Arguments of German
Spies in Russia and Pacifists in
.; America Same Quibble Raised.
(This is another of the scries by
Cluirles Eilwiird liussell, who has just
returned from Russia, where ho spent
three months as a member of the of-
i'ioiuj United States commission to
' llie now Russian government.)
(By Clinrlcs Edward nussell.)
wupmifiu ivn oy me newspaper ton
- terprlso Association.)
Thoni);ht before we landed nt
Yladiyostoek a crowd of German
agents intuit city, most of them re
cent arrivals from America, held a
meeting to denounce the commission,
its aims jand its membership.
We were, epniirip;, they said, as the
ndvanco afjentn. of American capital
ists to seize Russin,' enslave its peo
ple and overturn the? Revolution. If
tho Hussiitn l'rccnTeii: Wished to save
Russian and thn precious revolution
they must arise and never let that
commission leave VludiviiskBck.
Germans on Tralf; v;
The soldiers of .Vladivostpk:iienrd
of this amiable (fathering audviook a
little hand in it. They seat , down
word that they would bo on tire apot
tho next day and would shoof tjie:
daylights out of anybody that misfit,
any attempt, even the slightest, to in?j
terfere with the commission. i
So we got thru in peace, the com
mittea which had governed Vladivos
tok giving us a most cordial welcome,
lint the German agents wero on our
trail, nevertheless.
They followed on the next train all
the way to Petrograd, ulighting at
every station 'platform to tell the peo
plo we were a band of financial ad
venturers come to grab the country
and make its people slaves and urg
ing them to prevent our return.
, , As the people responded only with
cheers for Americn, these heralds of
kultur were obliged to 'take the job
in their own hands, resulting in the
burning of the bridge at Vintea, and
' the attempt to burn tho train, of
which the world knows the whole
story.
Spies Know Their Job.
You see, therefore, that wo had
. hardly set loot on Russian soil bc-
fore we began to learn what'Vmu'
;' of a devilish machinery Gemiuny had
(set up and 1tw it works subtly and
', ol'ectively in every country in the
I World. . ;
It is run by men that know their
job and have no end of money for it.
They know how to appeal to the
altruistic dreams of th6 Russians
and the good nature of. the Ameri
can and get away with both.
They know that the greatest thing
in the world, if you want to influence
public opinion and get results from
it, is to have millions of people re
pealing the same thing nt the same
time.
They have therefore organized a
system by which at a signal German
ngents everywhere begin to parrot
the same catchwords.
It is like a huge fist that holds
ten thousand strings. Tho fist gives
a pull and ten thousand men at the
other end hop up in Washington, New
York, Milwaukee, Petrograd, Buenos
Aires, Pekin and the rest, shouting
together, "Let us have peace by nego
tiation!"' or "Compel the allies to
stale their terms!"
Spies r'.vcj'j'wlicro.
The whole thing was as plain as
lny before us.
Right after the revolution in Rus
siij, when the country was warm
wilh the hope of universal democracy
nnd n feeling of good will to nil
Ilia world, a thousand German ngents
ran about the Meld of Mars, the
trenches and everv center and every
thought in Russia, crying:
"Why, should we fight our broth
ers f The German people are like
nil the other peoples of the world,
brothers of our. Let us cease to
kill our brothers!''
, This didn't Inst very long for a
very good reason. Knrly in the
'rarecr it was met by Russian sol
diers that had escaped from Ger
many's hell hides of war prisons
nnd they had only to show their scars
and tell their stories to put the ki
linli on the brotherly love business.
Itld World of Curse.
You enn't make much of a hit with
your praise of German civilization
nhen a broken-down wreck of n sol
dier Rets up nfter vim and tells how
lie was benten, kicked, burned, im
paled, mutilated nnd sinned by these
penile npnatlrrt of M'iiee aud'fratenial
good will.
It also became plain that every
THRU
RUSSA
day more Russian people saw the
only poKsiblo road to the world's
peace was by ridding the world of
the curse and blight of German mili
tarism, which makes war inevitable.
Even the men that at the beginning of
the revolution had been fired most
wilh dreams begun to see this most
absolute truth.
So tho next cry was "No annexa
tions, no contributions," which was
in full swing when we arrived.
Nobody knew exactly what it
meant, but the sound of it was grand
and magnanimous, which was enough
for half-baked intellects in Russia
and the United States.
Therefore, at first it had a great
run. V
Peace lHiiKonibo.
After n time, men in whom the
thinking faculty was more than rudi
mentary saw the whole thing must be
a device of desperate Germany to
save her colonics, and then that too
began to fizzle one.
It was followed by "No imperial
ism! Itewnre of the imperialistic, aims
of Great Britain, Krunce and Ameri
ca! Great Britain is fighting merely
to , get Alsace and iAirrninc. The
United States is fighting merely to
grab more islands! Down with im
perialism !"
This went quite well for two weeks
and deceived many persons, reaching
cveH to the national council, where
folks usually have more sense. The
signal had been given; tho agents
in the trenches nnd in all the Russian
cities were repeuling it at tho same
moment that it was urged by a hun
dred speakers of (he Field of Mars.
Notorious German agents from Amer
ica spouted it coupled with the infor
mation that being Americans they
knew well the real aims of the United
Slutes. It died out before some stern
inquiries ns to how Franco was fight
ing for Alsace and Lorraine when
she was ruthlessly invaded, and ex
actly where, lay those islands for
tho sake of which the United States
ejit in to the war.
V Gall for Terms of Pmico.
JtskDefre we left, the same agents
wertecto be seen running about l'otro
grad Routing, "Let the allies slalc
their tortus1 of pence! What are we
fightinfp'rt Compel all the allies
to state' tjlelr aims!"
And nt tiiQ'sttino identical moment
the same ' demand, you will remem
ber, was raised in conspicuous places
in the United States and was included
in the 2activitics.o(f (thCj o-ealled
peace societies ' lliaF ' pro-Germans,
for their own purpojfei, are. main
taining here. ' -Vv ; , 1
While, I was, in Petrogfafl rtlio able
financial department .of he proyjs
ional government conducted' nn im
quiry into tho amount of corruptio
money uennany Had jiont.nMir Rus
sia since the revolution ntid thro ,onc
channel alone r'iinnr'upon- trnccof
fifty millioti'rublcs. .
Does Germany send her corruption)
millions to the United States? : J
Docs she have tot ( -:.r '
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PARRSHORO, N. S., Sept. 30.
News has been received here of the
destruction by a German submarine,
of tho Nova Scotia schooner, Min
asquccn, with the loss of all but one
of her crew.
And bacon, Kow tempting it is, broiled
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KOLB AND BILL THEMSELVES
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Surrounded by a supporting eom-
pnny of unusual excellence, "Kolb and
Bill, California's favorite dialoct co
medians, have Just completed a San
Francisco run that has mndo history
in that city. With the hilariously
funny "High Cost of Loving" as their I
vehicle, the Dutch dialecticians have
played olio hundred and thirty con
secutive performances in the mctrop
oplls before heading In this direction,
a record that rivals their inlitial run
on the coast in "Kiddle De Dee." In
fifteen years, no show has. scored as
heavily on tho "Broadway" of tho
Pacific coast as have Kolb and Dill
in their present offering.
That the tall and the short fun
makers were exceedingly fortunate in
their choice of "Tho High Cost of
Loving" for their stopping stone to
STEEL HOLD UP ILL
NEW YORK, Sept. JO. Unfilled
orders of the United Slates Steel
corporation on August ill were 10,
407,04!) tons, according to the .cirpo-'
ration's monthly fdntcment issued to
day,.! his, .is a decrease .-of -43 1, 11a
tons compared wttk. the borders'' on
July 'il.y '.'. ':.
fJALLAS, Tex., Sept. 1 0.. Dallas
covorters today were balloting for
tho first time in 14 years on tho
question of whether tho entire coun
ty should ibocomo "dry.y All precincts
outside the city of Dallas have been
"dry" 25 years, and tho last local
option election was held in 1 0 0 it .
by
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COMING TO THE PAGE, SEPT. 19
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the spoken stage after two years be
fore tho movie, camera is unanimous
ly agreed upon by critics of the
drama. Tho play, with Its delight
fully pleasing musical trimmings?
abounds In so many humorous sltua-
Hons and entanglements that laughs
follow each other with lightning like
rapidity.
Tho musical numbers offered by
the singing girls nro bright, spark
ling and right up-to-the-minute. A
"surprise" orchestra Is one of tho
most attractive featuros of tho show,
tuni'Oitlng Kolk and 1)111 nro such
well known performers as' Julia
Blanc, May Cloy, llonora Hamilton
Henry Simmer, A. C. Van Dyke, Leo
Hennlug and Lucille Chalfant.
At tho Page, Wednesday evening,
Sept. 19th.
RUSSIA AMBULANCES
l( WASHINGTON, SepL.10--A gift
of 12G lnoU)rjjimbnlnrc and auto
mobiles td-Rrissto Is announced by the
American Hod Cross; uThe shipment
will1 so '.. forward Imemdlately, con
signed to the Red Cross mission sent
to Russia two months ago undor Dr.
Frank Billings. Already nearly hnlf
a million dollars' worth of medical
and surgical supplies have been scut.
HORSEPACES FIVE
QUEHECI, Sept. 10.. A new world's
harness record for a flvo-mllo raco
was established hero on Saturday at
the closing of tho Quebec exhibition
harness meeting, when Marconi paced
ten rounds of the half-mllo track in
12:01).
or( a camp . tire.
It's toasted that's what
brings out the very delicious
flavor. Youwouldn't like itraw.
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They have delicious flavor, be
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I0NAL ARMY
WASHINGTON, Sopt. 10. Negro
troops of tho national army will be
organized in separate units, as Is done
In the regular army, and so far as
possiblo will b trained in the states
where thoy are raised. The call for
drafted negroes to mobilize at their
camps will be postponed to allow of
ficers at the camp to arrange for the
organization of those soparate units.
Doth whlto and negro men of tho
seloctivo forces will be given an op
portunity to volunteer to battalions
for service on tho lino of communica
tion, their work being military but
not combatant. There also will bo,
howover, fighting regiments of the
national army, as there nro of tho reg
ulars and tho national guard.
Of tho CS7.000 men called for as
the first increment of the national
army, it is estimated that approxi
mately 70,000 will bo negroes.
In all, the army In France will need,
it has boen estimated, more than 100,-
000 men behind the lines tor uso
along the roads and railways or on
other special work.' A groat many
battalions of both whlto and nogro
troops will bo nocossary for those
purposes and tho war department
foels certain that many of tho negroes
of the selective draft forces will vol
unteer for this duty, in ordor to be
sont quickly to Franco.
COPENHAGEN, Sept. 9. The Na
chrichten of Hamburg, In discussing
the question of peace, says that both
the Austrian and Gormnn Pan-Gcr-mans
declare that Austria would bo
false to herself and to Germany If alio
advocated a speedy peace based on a
renunciation of annexations and in
demnities by Germany-
The Nichrachtens' Vienna corre
spondent assails the Vienna Kouc
Frleie Presso, tho Zelt and tho Sun
day and Monday Gazette, all of which
have printed articles intimating that
Germany is the great obstacle to the
conclusion of peace, and calling upon
Chancellor Michaelis to put forth a
plain, unconditional , statement ac
cepting the basis of no annexations or
Indemnities and to take real steps to
introduce a democratic government
In Germany.
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DUSTIN FARNUM TO
BE SEEN AT THE RIALT0
' From an outlaw with a price on his
head to a 100 per cent citizen is the
character portrayed by Dustln Kar
niim, famous star of stage and screen
In the latest William l'oif photoplay,
"Durand of tho Hud Lands.' to be
shown at Tho Itlalto theatre for two
days, beginning Sept. 1 0.
In this screen drama. Air. Fnrnum
shows all tho virllo enorgy for which
(no
ho Is bo well known. His portrayal
of the bad side of Dick Durund's
character is tho best he has done and
he shows the mnn'B softer, nobler In
stincts with that 'care-free, rollock
ing, laughing disposition that has
made him a favorite wherever he has
appeared.
He saves throe kids from Indians
who massacre everyone else In the
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