The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-10-19

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
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 U-bOat campaign,
which already has been greatly weak
ened.
There are strong indications that
the allies are preparing for vigorous
offensive movements in the near flu
ture In both ROumania and Macedonia.
The positions of the central powers on
both those fronts have been subjected
of late to heavy commandments. 1t
was announced last week that the ar
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
out the revelations of the counts per-
x,sl;J Il, A
were still technically on friendly
terms. Three kilograms were made
public, two from the German foreign
Office to Won Bernstorff instructlng
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
Their 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 APP
preaching congressional and presiden-
tial elections.
The heavy hand of the federal gov
eminent fell on Daniel ii. Wallace
blatant organizer and head of paci-
fist society, last Thursday when a
judge In Iowa sentenced him to 20
years in prison for seditious speaking
The committee named to investigate
the charges of dislOyalty against SEN
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. 1t will not
go 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 boarding,
the governments control Of foodstuffs |
will be extended on November l 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 out of |
this arrangement, but Mr.. Hoover VIII |
be ready to regulate 1t as soon as he |
has standardized baking flour, baking |
and either the size or the |
price of the loaf.
Secretary Baker issued statement
highly the work Of the many
plants that are making |
and other supplies for the
camps. Since the con-
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 I'm such war plants as
airplane and munition factories, steel
mills. navy yards and mines, and Ii is
said that conscription Of millions OF
workmen Is being seriously considered
by the administration. Industrial ex-
pansion and the withdrawal Of about
] 100000 men from their occupations
for the armed services are held re-
sponsble for the conditions. In the
aircraft factories thousands Of women
IRE to be given employment.
Owing to the present demand fee
gasoline, the Standard Oil company
has decided to permit unrestricted use
Of its Burton process of refining, by
which almost twice as much gasoline
is obtained from crude oil as by othe