Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1917-05-12

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he new government. +. Capt. Charles
officers pointers on trench warfare and
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public. One member of this body viii
be John +. Stevens, who was chief
engineer of the Panama canal com
mission before General Cocktails.
| There was no great change in the
/ fighting line in France during the week.
/ The French and British both made
some gains and consolidated the posi-
/ tions they had already Won, and the
fierce artillery duels continued. day
and night. But the Germans brought
up more and more of their reserves
and contested every inch Of ground II
seems probable that they VIII continue
/ TO give way slowly in order To save
their men, and st. Quentin may be
evacuated before long The bloodiest
/ fighting of the week took place at Ar
leuX and Oppy. east of Arras whore
the British were attacking
The British began another drive on
! Thursday, attacking on a l2-mile front,
both north and south Of the Scarpe
river. Despite desperate resistance
! by the Germans they took a number of
/ important strategic positions, including
the town of Fresnoy. The Germans
are constructing new emergency line
Of trenches from Queant, north to
DrocOurt, and trying TO hold the Brit.
/ ish back until it is completed.
/ In MesOpotamia the Turks We're de-
feated by General Maude's troops on
| both banks of the Shatt-el-Adham and
driven back into the Jebel Hamrin
hills. From Constantinople came the
surprising news that the city Of Mush,
in Turkish Armenia, had been evacu-
ated by the Russians and occupied by
the Turks. petrograd has not con-
! firmed this announcement
Recruiting Speeds Up.
Recruiting for the regular army was
satisfactory last week, and the navy de-
partment announced on Tuesday that
| the enlisted personnel was S7,0S2 or 50
more than the maximum strength Of
| the navy under existing law. The pas
sage of the army bin with the selec-
! tive draft feature. the prospect that
| American troops would soon be sent to
| France and Colonel Roosevelts rous-
| ing address in Chicago all contributed
to help the recruiting campaign.
| A great strike of union bakers in
| Chicago alarmed the big city by the
| lake and incidentally attracted the at
| tentiOn of the federal authorities be-
| cause most of the strikers are Of Ger
man birth or parentage, and might be
! taken into custody as alien enemies.
There were intimatlons also that the
| government might take over the opera
| ton of some of the large bakeries be-
/ cause the naval training station at
| Great Lakes is dependent on the city
for its bread supply. Fortunately for
all concerned. the strike was ended
Friday through the efforts If United
States District Attorney Clyne
In New York two Germans We're ar
| rested with a pieric acid bomb in their
possession and confessed to plot to
blow up big Wall street institution"
and commit other outrages to affect
the stock market for speculative pus-
poses.
Capt. Franz Won Rintelen was put
on trial in New York as the agent
through whom Germany is alleged to
have expended more than 100000 in
an effort to abrogate foreign policies
of this nation and TO corrupt American
labor.
Another German, Baron Alhard Won
dem Busche- Muench, said to be a cous-
in Of Count Won Bernstorff. was arrest
ed in San Francisco as an enemy alien.
The United States government on
Thursday took two important steps in
the effort TO reduce the high cost Of
foodstuifs. The first was the an
n0uncement that the United States and
Canada had agreed to cooperate in
/ regulating the price of wheat in all
North America. This is 10 he done
in such a way that increased produc-
ton viii be stimulated and the price
to the consumer steadied by the guar.
anteeing of a minimum price TO the
producer and the prevention Of specu-
lation by middlemen.
The second step was the introduce
ton of a bin in the house giving the
president the widest possible powers
In dealing with foodstuffs. clothing,
fuel and other necessities Of life.
Guatemala has joined the enemies
of Germany by severing diplomatic re-
lations and tee Chilean minister 10
Germany has demanded his passports.
BrazilS early entry into the war is
forecast by the resignation OF Or.
Lauro Mueller, the Brazilian foreign
minister, who has been attacked as
being unduly friendly TO Germany.