Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1917-05-10


sss
{ the allied war commissions to Mount
nsSon the Hindenburg line. 3. NJ. Rod
e new government. 4. Capt. Charles
'fficers pointers on trench warfare aud
pubic One member of this body will
be John r. Stevens, who was chief
engineer of the Panama canal COM
mission before General Goethals.
There was no great change in the
fighting line In France during the week.
The French and British both made
some gains and consolidated the posi-
stions they had already won. and the
fierce artillery duels continued, day
and night But the Germans brought
up more and more of their reserves
and contested every inch of ground. 1t
seems probable that they will continue
to give way slowly in order to save
their men. and st. Quentin may be
evacuated before long. The bloodiest
fighting of the week took place at Ar
leux and Oppy, east of Arras, where
the British We're attacking.
The British began another drive on
+ Thursday, attacking on 12-mile front,
both north and south of the Scarpe
river. Despite desperate resistance
by the Germans they took number OF
important strategic positions, including
the town of Fresnoy. The Germans
are constructing q new emergency lins
of trenches from Qusant, north tC
nracuult, and trytngs to hold the Brit
ish back until 1t is completed.
In Mesopotamia the Turks were de-
feated by General Maude's troops Oh
both banks Of the Shaft el-Adham and
driven back into the Jebel Hamrin
hills. From ConstantinOple came the
surprising news that the city of Alush
In Turkish Armenia. had been evacu-
ated by the Russians and occupied by
the Turks. Petrograd has not CON
hrmed this announcement.
Recruiting Speeds UP.
Recruiting for the regular army was
satisfactory last week, and the navy de
partmelt announced on Tuesday that
the enlisted personnel was S7.OS2 or 81
more than the maximum strength Of
the navy under existing law. The pas
snge of the army bill with the selec
tive draft feature, the prospect that
American troops would soon be sent te
France and Colonel Roosevelt's rous
ing address in Chicago all contributed
to nelp the recruiting campaign.
A great strike of union bakers II
Chicago alarmed the big city by tn.
lake and incidentally attracted the at
| tention of the federal authorities he
cause most Of the strikers are Of Ger
| man birth or parentage. and might bt
| taken into custody as alien enemies
There were intimations also that tn,
| government might take over the opera
| tion of some of the large bakeries be
cause the naval training station Il
Great Lakes is dependent on the cit!
4 iOi Al'S piVuo oAPPlS. iOl
| all concerned, the strike WAS endec
Friday through the efforts of United
| States District Attorney Clyne.
In New York two Germans were ar
rested. with a picric acid bomb in thei
possession and confessed to plot t,
blow up "big Wall street institution
and commit other outrages to afrec
the stock market for speculative pur
poses.
Capt. Franz Won Rlntelen was pu
on trial in New York as the agen
4 through whom Germany ls alleged t,
have expended more than $5OO,OOO II
ali effort to abrogate foreign policie
of this nation and to corrupt American
labor.
Another German, Baron Alhard vol
dem Rusche- Muench, said to be cous
in of Count Won Bernstorff. was arrest
ed in San Francisco rs an enemy alien
The United States government O.
Thursday took two important steps i
the effort to reduce the high cost Q
foOdstuffs. The first was the al
| hOuhNCihShS tilC OaICu oldtCS dA
Canada had agreed to cooperate |
regulating the price of wheat In a
North America. This Is to be don
In such way that increased prOdut
ton will be stimulated and the pric
to the consumer steadied by the guaI
anteeing of u minimum price to th
producer and the prevention Of specl
lation by middlemen.
The second step was the introdu,
tion Of bill in the house giving tn
president the widest possible power
in dealing with foodstuffs, clothing
fuel and other necessities of life.
Guatemala has Joined the enemie
y of Germany by severing diplomatic r,
lations and the Chilean minister t
Germany has demanded his passports
Brazil's early entry into the. war
Z forecast by the resignation Of D
Lauro Mueller, the Brazilian foreie
minister, who has been attacked I
being unduly friendly to Germany.