The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1917-10-18
ALLIES MAKE DRIVE
IN FLANOERS...CER.
MANY'S PERF|O|TY

Another sledge hammer blow at the
Germans In Belgium was struck on
Tuesday by the British and French
acting In conjunction. In the midst Of
furious rainstorn Halg's men ad-
vanced on wide front east and north
east Of Ypres, capturings Poelcapelle
and the Gravenstafel ridge and other
elevations that command the generally
fiat country and are invaluable as OBJ
servation ground. Crown Prince Rup-
precht counter-attacked In desperate
attempts to regain these dominating
heights, but only south of the Ypres-
Roulers road was he able to push back
the British for a slight distance. and
that at great cost
At the same time the French on the
left hank Of the British line made
most remarkable dash forward across
the flooded bog land south of the for
est of Houtholst, piercing the German
line to q depth Of one and one-quarter
miles and regaining land which the
foe had held for three years. While
the French guns set up a terrific bar
rage FIRE, the engineers rapidly spread
great islands OF cork over the water,
md erected miles Of trestle work and
'nnumerable bridges, and over these
he troops rushed with such irresist-
ible spirit that they swept everything
before them. So swift was the attack
that an entire German division which
was just relieving another at the front
was caught by surprise and decimated.
The entire ground over which the Brit
Z 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 and south, abandon
ing the submarines on the Belgian
| coast. This would mean the almost
utter collapse of the Uboat campaign,
which already has been greatly weak
ened.
There are strong indications that
the allies are preparing for vigorous
offensive movements in the near 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
was announced last week that the ar
mics of Greece were about ready to
take an active part In the warfare.
More Of eernstorffs Perfidy.
Secretary Lansing reached into the
upper left-hand pigeon-hole Of his desk
last week and pulled out another neat
little expose of German methods. This
one hit Won Bernstorff again, rounding
out the revelations Of the counts per-
fdy while this country and Germany
were still technically on friendly
terms. Three kilograms were made
public, two from the German foreign
office to Won Bernstorff instructing
him to start big program of sabotage
in American munitions factories and
to finance plans for the destruction
OF the Canadian Pacific railway, and
the third from the then ambassador
to the foreign office ut Berlin last
September stating that the American
embargo conference needed the fur.
: ther support Of the German govern.
ment for the purpose of conducting a
campaign to win a majority Of con-
gress favorable to Germany In the up
preaching congressional and presiden-
tial elections.
The heavy hand OF the federal gov
: ernment fell on Daniel ii. Wallace,
2 blatant organizer and head Of paci-
/ fist society, last Thursday when a
Judge In Iowa sentenced him to 70
/, years Ia prison for seditious speaking.
The committee named to investigate
. | h.. oh nf AtslnvaIfy onainSt Snu-
| 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 at the next session. II will not
: 70 beyond or outside of the senator's
speech In st. Paul before the Nom
5 Partisan league and there are pre-
1 dictions that the inquiry will be a
Y hxzle.
e Food Control Extended.
In order TO prevent the taking OF
h excessive profits and to stop boarding
l. the governments control Of foodstuffs
n will be extended on November 1 to
J. include about all the ESSENTIAL articles
v Of diet. BY order Of the president
Il 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 dealeri
and manufacturers will be exempt.
. The baking industry was left out OF
this arrangement, but Mr.. Hoover will
y be ready to regulate II as soon as ht
!. has standardized baking -four, baking
- ingredients and either the size or th'
price Of the loaf.
~ Secretary Baker issued statement
praising highly the work Of the MANI
Ie manufacturing plants that are making
20 clothing and other supplies for thu
~ cantonment camps. Since the con
" struction Of those camps began nearl.
thirteen million articles have hseI
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