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that several seamen already have been
shot for refusing to perform U-boat
duty.
The mobilization of superfuous
troops attached to the Russian army
is reported from Petrograd to have be-
gun. The men are being sent to their
home villages in special trains, COM
mittees at the various towns on the
way assisting in their return.
Washington.
The reQuisition by the American
merchant marine will include cargo
ships of more than $500 tons dead
weight capacity and passenger YES
sells of more than $500 gross tons reg
ister The limit will probably be low
cred to include craft of more than ], 800
TONS
Representative Kahn of California,
the Republican who led President Will
sons forces in the house when the
army draft law passed, says a new
draft act will have to be passed at
the next session of congress. 1t is
contemplated to have every man be-
tween the ages of an and Fl.
Secretary Lansing has made public
more of Ambassador Bernstorff's
treachery. This time it is shown that
he was engaged in plots to blow up
Canadian railroads and to use Irish
Americans in the United States for
carrying on sabotage on their own
countrymen
Government control of foOdstuffs has
been extended to take in virtually all
the essential articles of diet by a
proclamation of the president.
After November 1 the manufacture
age, storage, importation and distribu-
ton of some twenty odd prime COM
modities will be licensed. However,
many small dealers will be exempt.
An agreement between the war in
dustries board and steel manufacture
ers fixing maximum prices for steel
products, about third under existing
market prices, has been approved by
the president.
The embargo on coal shipments to
Canada has been lifted by order of the
president.
England will renew loans on Ameri-
can farms. The letter from the Brit
ish government instructing British
companies to call one hundred million
in mortgages has been rescinded. The
honey was to have been used by the
British authorities for war purposes.
The credit the United States govern
ment has extended Britain more than
offsets any money British capital has
invested in the United States.
With the swearing in of nine new
cabinet members the members of the
Liberal party who see in compulsory
military service the only solution for
bringing forth the full strength of the
Dominion of Canada in the prosecu-
ton of the war have Joined hands with
Sir Robert Borden, says an Ottawa,
Ont, dispatch.
Admiral Mayo, commander-in-chiet
of the Atlantic fleet, and his staff have
returned from England, where they
participated in naval conference
with the allies. This announcement
is authorized, by the navy department.
No details of the conference have
been made public.
Europe's colossal struggle, Pleasant
A. Stovall, of Savannah, Ca, United
States minister to Switzerland, de-
clared on his arrival ''at an Atlantic
port that the economic situation in
Germany is most acute and that he
believes the backbone of German re-
sistance has been broken.
Food pledge week set for October
81 to 81 has been postponed to the
week of October % to November 4 by
Food Administrator Hoover, at the re-
quest Of the president, so that it will
not conflict with the final week of the
second Liberty Loan drive.
The Ecuadorean secretary of for
eign affairs sent cablegram to the
Ecuadorean legation at Liman an
nouncing that Doctor Perl, the German
minister to Peru and Ecuador, resi-
dent at Lima, will not be officially
received by the Ecuadorean govern
ment in case he attempts to go to &c
uador. This action is no surprise to
official Washington.
Virtually all the staple foods con-
sumed by the American people will be
put under government control by No.
vember 1.
The food administration announces
that President Wilson will issue an
executive order requiring that manu-
facturers and distributors of some 20
fundamental foods operate under Ii
cense restrictions designed to prevent
unreasonable profits and to stop specu-
lation and boarding.
Car shortage leads labor troubles as
factor in reducing the country's coal
supply.
The food administration has held no
less than two hundred conferences,
and it is pointed out that if talk win
reduce the high cost of living, the
country has a mononolY on talk festa