Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-08-24

-GreeK sDaEIeFy guarding the AcIQpOlAS
formulate his peace proposals.
lost no time in assuring Americans
that their country is firm in. its deter
! mination to stanu by it's allies uuth
Germany is brought to its knees. The
I conference of these commissioners
with the officials of the United States
in Washington is recognized as being
| of the utmost Importance, both in re-
| gard to the war and in regard to the
| relations between America and Japan.
That Stockholm Conference.
The Socialist conference at Stock
holm is causing trouble out Of pro-
| portion to the probable Importance OF
| it's deliberations and conclusions. I'm
| the different countries the Socialists
themselves are split over the advisa~
bility of attending it, and the govern
ments of the entente allies and Of the
United States, recognizing that it is
| pro-German in it's inception, have re-
fused passports to would-be delegates
The English Labor party decided f@
send representatives, whereupOn Ar
| thur Henderson, Labor member of the
| war cabinet, was accused by Premier
Lloyd-George of double dealing and
resigned His place was promptly
filed by George Nieoll Barnes, minis
| ter of pensions, and the crisis was
passed, at least for the time, although
a general election may be called if the
| Laborites insist on sending delegates
to Stockholm.
Marked reduction In the number OF
vessels sunk by German submarines is
shown in the British admiraltys week
/ ly statement, while the number of ve&-
| sells unSuccessfully attacked increased.
A story from Copenhagen says the big
commercial submarine Deutschland
has been converted into a war u
boat and may soon be operating in ths
Pacific against ships from San Fran
cisco. The same dispatch says th@
/ Germans have lost about 20 subma-
| rines and now have nearly 300, theSes
however, including many small ones
built for passage through the Belgian
canal. The newest and largest carry
six-inch guns.
Premier Lloyd George made two
speeches last week that heartened up
the British people immensely. ~DeciaE-
ing that the high point of Germanyss
| strength had passed, he said the diff
culties Of the allies from now on wouNt
i grow less and their power Increase
steadily, and that with patience, coux--
/ I11,o th0 nf -
great military despotism could not VAN
to win. He called attention to the
waning efficiency of the submarine
campaign, that though the U-boat loss
es in April were 100000 tons, in July
and August the average was only l75s-
600 tons month. So far from being
| reduced to starvation, he said, Great
Britain is now in better position so far
as food is concerned than for years
past. The premier admitted that the
Russian collapse upset some OF the
plans Of the allies for this year, but
called attention to the fact that Ger
many, even with one of her most pow
erful opponents paralyzed by Internal
troubles, is failing to hold her own on
the west front.
Tired of Spies and Traitors. ;
Throughout the country the demand
is becoming insistent that the author
tiles put an end to the almost unham-
pered activities of the o-Germam
propagandists, the traitorous |. w. W.
leaders and pacifists and the cowardIy
draft-dodgers who are making the con-
duct of the war as hard as possible
The demand was voiced by Elfhu
Root in an address at the Union
League club in New York. The spies
and traitors, he said, should be shot
down without mercy, and he included
among them, as worthy of death, the
| editors of certain papers. In some
/ states the councils of defense are or
ganizing campaigns of education SD
that the people may learn what tha
war means to us and why we are in LG
and must win it; but this is noe
enough-the snakes must be crushed
The Industrial Workers of the
World, it seems, are about to be MAIDS
to realize that Uncle Sam is awake.
They made several broad demands tua
the West and Northwest and declared
that they would bring on a general
strike if these were not granted. Such.
a strike would seriously retard thE
harvesting of crops and the productioa
Of the spruce lumber necessary in the
| building of airplanes, and while the /.
w. w. leaders cannot be prosecutea
merely for strike activities, they can
be dealt with swiftly and severely for
interfering with the governments prog
ecution of the war. That, according to
advices from Washington, is just what
is going to happen to those disreputa4
| BILE and disloyal agitatnrs-