The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-07-12

Many persons on the Atlantic seaboard
knew when the vessels sailed. and that
information presumably was sent the
Berlin by n German agent by wireless
in some roundabout way, but how the
route was discovered seems to be
mystery.
President Wilson has given orders
that the German spy system be wiped
out before any more troops sail, and
many Teuton Is likely to be intened
for the period Of the war. Until now
the government has been unexplaina-
bly, lenient In it's treatment of Ger
mans and their sympathizers, In the
country generally and in the city or
Washington. We are not Mt war, Off
cially, with Austria Hungary, Bulgaria
and Turkey. and the diplomatic repre-
sentatives ind agents Of these coun-
tries are stlll free to serve their ally
In any way they can. The German
press of America also Ia still unmo-
Tested and continues its sinister cam
paign against the successful conduct
of the war. In view of the ConBden-
tial information from their Washing
ton correspondents available TO the
German American editors. and despite
their protestatlons Of loyalty to Amer
lea, IL is not beyond the bounds of
reason that some of these editors
should be doing spy work for the
kaiser to whose cause they have
shown themselves devoted
German plotters aud their friends
also are credited by the government
with devising and In part executing a
plan to cripple shipping on the Grent
Lakes by sinking or disabling vessels.
The federal officials. aided by those of
Canada, are getting after these mis-
creants.
Having received their munitions,
General Pershing's troops were
promptly moved forward TO their in
te sIve training camps back OF the
fighting lines, where they cnn hear
the roar of the great guns. The Off
cial review of one battalion was the
chief feature Of the Fourth of July eel
ebratlon In Paris, and the people of
that city went wild with enthusiasm
over the American fighters.
British Again Advance.
Field Marshal Haig again swatted
the Germans on Thursday. beginning
resumption of the offensive In Bel
glum, where there had been compare
tive quiet for week The British
made a considerable advance south
west of Hollebeke.
The Germans made a tremendous AT
tack on the French lines east of Cerny
Tuesday. but We're repulSed by Petnin's
men with great slaughter. While
they were demorHiZed by this defeat
the French made clever countcr-at-
tack, capturing a stong salient.
Another slump In the number of o.
boat victims was shown in the weekly
report of the British admiralty. and
the naval officials of the allies are con
WINGED that the submarine warfare
hns failed The Germans are sending
their U-bonts far aheld, one of them
having shelled Ponta Delgada, city
In the Azores. An American trans
port helped drive the submarine away.
On Wednesday a dozen or more Ger
man air raiders appeared over Har-
wlch n seaport in EsseE and dropped
many bombs. killing II persons. They
were driven Off with eunfire and air
planes, and two of them were brought
down abiaze.
German Unrest increases
On the eve Of the meeting OF the
reichstag its committees were told by
spokesman for various groups that
further profIers of peace such as Ger
many Is willing, even anxious, TO grnnt
will be harmful and that all the EN-
pire can do Is to hold out and mean
time "democrntize" the country; that
II might have peace this summer II
It were willing to abandon all annexa-
lions and indemnlties and to drop the
idcn of II separate pence with Russia;
and That the peace formula Of the
RusslfN council of deputies was i'm
possible. The so-called democratlzlng
Of the empire, II appears, will take
the form Of reforming the franchise
so far as the relchstag is concerned.
which means mighty little so long as
the German senate, composed of ap-
pointed members, has full control over
the lower house, and there is no cabi-
net responsible to the parliament.
Meanwhile unrest is tnprno utny
throughout Germany displaying itself
In food riots In Stettin. Dusseldorf
and other cities. and in other forms
elsewhere Even some of the "intel-
iectuals,' like Professor Delbrueck.
Priyy Councillor Harnack and others.