Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1917-08-23

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Greek. battery. guarding the Acropolls
formulate his peace proposals.
lost no time in assuring Americans
that their country is firm in it's deter
mination to stand by its allies until
Germany is brought to it's knees. The
conference Of these commissioners
With the officials of the United States
in Washington is recognized as being
of the utmost Importance, both in re-
card 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
its deliberations and conclusions. In
the different countries the Socialists
themselves are split oyer the advisa-
bility of attending 1t, and the govern
lnents of the entente allies and Of the
United States, Recognizing that it is
pro-Gernan in its inception, have re-
fused passports to would-be delegates.
The English Labor party decided to
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
filled by George Nicoll 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 admiralty's week
Illy statement, while the number of YES
sells unsuccessfully attacked increased.
A story from Copenhagen says the big
commercial submarine Deutschland
has been converted into war o.
boat and may soon be operating in the
| Pacific against ships from San Fran
cisco. The same dispatch says the
| Germans have lost about 20 subma-
rines and now have nearly 300, these,
| 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 W
| the British people immensely. Declar
| ing that the high point of Germany's
strength had passed. he said the diff
culties of the allies from now on wouNt
grow less and their power increase
steadily, and that with patience, cour
age and endurance the foes Of tho
| great military despotism could not fui
| 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 175,
| 600 tons month. So far from being
reduced to starvation, he, said, Grea
Britain is now in better position so fal
as food is concerned than for year.
past. The premier admitted that tht
(! Russian collapse upset some of TIL,
plans Of the allies for this year, bu
called attention to the fact that Ger
Il many, even with one of her most pow
erful opponents paralyZed by internn
troubles, is failing to hold her own OF
the west front.
Tired of Spies and Traitors.
Throughout the country the demand
is becoming insistent that the author
ities put an end to the almost unham
pered activities of the pro-GcrmaI
| II; a. w
leaders and paci1ists and the cowardl.
draft-dodgers who are making the con
duct of the war as hard as possible
The demand was voiced by Elhl
Root in an address at the Uniol
League club in New York. The spie
and traitors, he said, should be sho
down without mercy, and he included
among them, as worthy of death, tn
editors of certain papers. In SOM
states the councils of defense are or
ganizing campaigns Of education 81
that the people may learn what tn
war means to us and why we are in /
and must win it; but this is no
enough-the snakes must be crushed
The Industrial Workers Of tn
{ World, it seems, are about to be mad
to realize that Uncle Sam is awake
They made several broad demands il
the West and Northwest and declares
that they would bring on a genera
strike if these were not granted. Sue
strike would seriously retard tn
harvesting of crops and the prodIctio
of the spruce lumber necessary in th
building of airplanes, and while the
w. w. leaders cannot be Prosecute
merely for strike activities, they ca
be dealt with swiftly and severely 70
interfering with the governments pros
;; ecution of the war. That, according t
j advices from Washington, is just wha
is going to happen to those .disreputa
y BILE and disloyal agitators.