Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-10-19

oh they retreat.
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ible spirit that they swept everything
before them. So swift was the attack
that an entire German division whick
was just relieving another at the frORE
was caught by surprise and decimate&-
The entire ground over which the Brit
ish and French advanced was thickiy
Uttered with dead Germans and heaps
of equipment.
A few more such drives in Flanders
Wand the Germans will be compelled t@
retire to the east and south, abandQa~
ing the submarines on the Belgia@
coast. This would mean the alnl0ss
/ utter collapse of the, U-boat campaig10
which already has been greatly. weak
ened.
There are strong indications that
the allies are preparing for vigorous
offensive movements in the near f@-
ture in both ROumania and Macedonia.
The positions of the central powers Om
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 Bernstorff's 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
Lot of hn
fdy while this country and Germany
were still technically on friendly
terms. Three kilograms were made
public, two from the German forefga
office to Won BernstOrf instrucfimK
him to start a 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 ambassadors
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
campaign to win a majority of cOn-
gress favorable to Germany in the aps
preaching congressional and presider-
tial elections.
The heavy hand of the federal gOv-N
eminent fell on Daniel HI. Wallace,
blatant organizer and head of paci-
fist society, last Thursday when .
Judge in Iowa sentenced him to 70
years in prison for seditious speaking
The committee named to INVESTIGATES
the charges of disloyalty against Sem
ator La Toilette and pass on the de-
mands for his expulsion from the sem
ate had no time to perform It's duties
before congress adjourned and so villa
report at the next session, 1t will not.
90 beyond or outside Of the senator's
speech in st. Paul before the Nom
Partisan league and there are pre-
| dictions that the inquiry will be =
fizzle.
Food Control Extended. >
In order to prevent the taking OF
excessive profits and to stop hoardiag,
the governments control of foodstuffS
will be extended on November 1 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 QUIT OF
| this arrangement, but Mr.. Hoover VIII
be ready to regulate it as soon as ne
! has standardized baking flour, baking
ingredients and either the size or the
price Of the loaf.
Secretary Baker issued statement
praising highly the work of the many
manufacturing plants that are making
clothing and other supplies for the
cantonment camps Since the cor
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
age of workers in such war plants az
airplane and munition factories. stees
mills, navy yards and mines, and it is
said that CONSUMPTION of millions OF
workmen is being seriously considered
by the administration. Industrial cN
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 woE1eR
are to be given employment.
Owing to the present demand for
gasoline, the Standard Oil company
has decided to permit unrestricted use
of it's Burton process of refining, by
which almost twice as much gasoIine
is obtained from crude oil as by other
processes.