The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-11-01

n they retreat.
IDLE 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. IT
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 ofEhis 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-
tidy 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 at Berlin last
September stating that the American
embargo conference needed the fur
ther support of the German govern
ment for the purpose Of conducting
campaign to win majority of Goa
gress favorable to Germany in the APP
preaching congressional and presiden-
tial elections.
The heavy hand of the federal gov
eminent fell on Daniel HI. Wallace,
blatant organizer and head Of a paci-
fist society, last Thursday when a
Judge in Iowa sentenced him to 70
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 sem
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 a
fizzle.
Food Control Extended.
In order to prevent the taking OF
excessive profits and to stop boarding,
the governments control Of foodstuffa
will be extended on November 1 to-
include about all the essential articles
of diet. BY order Of the presidents
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 will
be ready to regulate it as soon as he
has standardized baking -four, 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
environment 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 in such war plants as
airplane and munition factories, steel
mills, navy yards and mines, and 1t is
said that CONSUMPTION of millions OF
workmen Is being seriously considered
by the administration. Industrial ex-
pansion and the withdrawal Of about
l. 100000 men from their occupations
for the armed services are held re-
sponsible for the conditions. In the
aircraft factories thousands Of women
are to be given employment.
Owing to the present demand for
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 other
processes.