, 1917-10-18


ible spirit that they swept everything
before them. So swift was the attack
that an entire German division which
vas just relieving another at the front
was caught by surprise n decimated.
The entire ground v e which the Brit
ish and French advanced was thickly
Uttered with dead Germans and heaps
of equipment.
A few more such drives in Flanders
and the Germans will be compelled to
retire to the east n south, abandon
ing the submarines on the Belgian
coast. This would mean the almost
utter collapse of the U-boat campaign,
which already has been greatly weak
ened.
There are strong indications that
the allies are preparing for vigorous
offensive movements in the neal fu-
ture in both Roumania and Macedonia.
The positions of the central powers on
both those fronts have been subjected
of late to heavy bombardments. 1t
vas announced last week that the ar
mics of Greece were about ready to
take an active part in the warfare.
More of Bernstorff's Perfidy.
Secretary Lansing reached into the
upper left-hand pigeon-hole of his desk
last wee and pulled out another neat
little expose of German methods. This
n hit VOn Bernstorff again, rounding
out the revelations of the counts per-
fidy while this country and Germany
were still technically on friendly
terms. Three kilograms were made
-,,lIfo %-,o f,nn, .lo ra,nu fnrogr-
office to Won Bernstorff ~lnstructing
hin to start a big program of sabotage
in American munitions factories and
to finance plans for h destruction
of the Canadian Pacific railway, and
the third from the then ambassador
to the foreign office at Berlin last
September stating that the American
embargo conference needed the fur
Their support of the German govern
ment for the purpose of conducting n
campaign to win n majority of con-
gress favorable to Germany in the ap
preaching congressional and presiden-
tial elections.
The heavy hand of the federal gov
crnment fell on Daniel H.. Wallace,
blatant organizer and head of "A paci-
uSl SoClttys lhSt lhu sunny Wht u
Judge in Iowa sentenced him to 20
years in prison for seditiOus speaking.
The committee named to investigate
he charges of disloyalty against SEN
ator La Toilette and pass on the de-
mands for his expulsion from the SEN
ate had no time to perform its duties
before congress adjourned and so will
report Mt the next session. 1t will not
go beyond or outside of the senator's
speech in st. Paul before the Non
Partisan league and there are pre-
dictions that the inquiry will be a
fizzle. p,
Food Control Extended.
In order to prevent the taking of
excessive profits and to stop boarding.
the governments control of foodstuffs
will be extended on November l to
include about all the essential articles
of diet. By order of the president,
the manufacture, Importation, storage
and distribution of some twenty prime
commodities will be licensed by the
food administration. Farmers, garden
ers and many of the smaller dealers
and manufacturers will be exempt.
The baking industry was left out of
this arrangement, but Mr.. Hoover will
be ready to regulate it as soon as he
has standardized baking flour, baking
ingredients and either the size or the
price of the loaf.
Secretary Baker issued a statement
praising highly the work of the many
manufacturing plants that are making
clothing and other supplies for the
cantonment camps. Since the con
struction of those camps began nearly
thirteen million articles have been
shipped to them. In other quarters
there Is much talk of the great short
g of workers in such war plants as
airplane and munitiou factories, steel
mills. navy yards and mines, and II is
said that CONSUMPTION of millions of
workmen is being seriously considered
by the administration. Industrial eX-
pansion and the Withdrawal of about
100000 men from their occupations
for the armed services are held re-
sponsible for the conditions. In the
aircraft factories thousands of women
are to be given employment.
Owing to the present demand for
gasoline, the Standard Oil company
has decided to permit unrestricted use
Of Its Burton process of refining, by
which almost twice as much gasoline
Is obtained from crude oil as by other
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