The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-10-11
British Again Smash Germans
East of Ypres and Capture
important Positions.
ENEMY'S MORALE is BREAKING
Austria's Warning to the AIIies-Re-
peated Air Raids on London Final
Iy Determine England on Re-
prisaIs Americas War
Tax Bill Now Law.
Bv EDWARD w. PIckARD.

Field Marshal Haig began his week
ly forward movement as usual on
Thursday, the advance being again in
the district east of Ypres on line
that seriously threatens Prince Rup-
recht's communications with Ostend
and Zeebrugge. This salient of the
British front has been giving the Ger
mans much anxiety, and all the first
part of the week they directed at it
furious though futile attacks that
proved very costly.
By Saturday the British offensive
had developed into one of the most
pretentiOus yet undertaken and prom
ised to result in a victory uncQualled
since the battle of the Marine. On Il
nine-mile front Haig's troops rushed
forward for about Il mile and half,
and gained possession of many Ger
man strongholds, including the ridge
between Passchendaele and Zonne-
helSe Great numbers of Germans
surrendered.
The allies doubtless hope to cut in
between the submarine bases and the
main German army, but according to
the belief of well-infOrmed army men,
It is not their intention to force the
Germans back over any very Wlue
area, because the territory they would
be forced to abandon would first be de-
vastated. Rather do the allies plan to
denoralize the enemy with the contin-
uous bombardment by guns of all cali
bers to which they have been sub
! iecting them of late, and most OF
! Haig's advances are made for the pur-
pose Of gaining possession of COM
handing. positions, from which this
terrific gunfire may be directed. That
! the morale of the German soldiers al
ready is beginning to break down is
evidenced by their readiness to surren-
der and the complaints of some divi-
sions when ordered back to the front
after a rest.
Germans Short Of Shells.
Reports from the front during the
artillery duel that preceded the Thurs
day advance were that the British fired
twenty or more shells for every one
that came from the Germans. The al
lies supply of munitions is now unlim
tied, and there is good reason to be-
| n0V0 tndC the Germans are TuHuluS
short of shells and guns, owing part
~ to reduced productivity caused by
the poor food of the WOrkmen, anC
partly to shortage of certain metals
The denial of General Schuech, the
kaiser's new minister of munitions
that there is any such shortage, is no
convincing. Copenhagen dispatche:
say the leaders of German Labor
quarters a few days ago, not to cele
brate Won Hindenburg's birthday, a:
was intimated. but to discuss plans TO
speeding up the production of mum
lions. Probably it was necessary, also
to take steps to appease the wOrkmel
of Essen and their wives, who held
riotous meeting recently, demandin;
peace and better food.
In Frankfort, too, an immense peac
meeting was held on Sunday, but tina
was engineered by political groups
and therefore may not have been s.
indicative of the sentiment of the pee
pie.
Czernin Warns the Allies.
) In the way of peace movements, tn
most important event Of the week wa
the speech nf Count Czernin, Austrc
Hungarian minister of foreign affairs
in which he threatened that unless tn
allies speedily consented to a peac