Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1917-10-18

-lAulllS OL Il ffencn ma0uf0CtOry, typical
hich they retreat.
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 chught by surprise and decimated.
The entire ground over which the Brit
ssh 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.
| encd.
There are strong indications that
the allies are preparing for vigorous
| offensive movements i'm the near fu-
| lure i'm both Roumania and Macedonia.
| The positions of the central powers ON
| both those fronts have been subjected
| of late to heavy bOmbardments. 1t
was announced last week that the ar
| mics OF Greece We're about ready to
| take an active part in the warfare.
4 More of Bernstorff's Perfidy.
Secretary Lansing reached into the
| upper left-hand pigeon-hole of HE desk
| last week and nllll4aI a,,t .,,,atl,....
| little expose of German methods. This
one hit Won Bernstorff again, rounding
-olH the revelations of the counts per-
iidy 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 instructng
him to start Il big program OF sabotage
/ in American munitions factories and
j 10 finance plans for the destruction
i of the Canadian Pacific railway, and
the third from the then ambassador
10 the foreign Office at Berlin last
September stating tnat the American
embargo conference needed the fur
ilier support of the German govern
mcnt for the purpose of conducting O
campaign to win majority of con-
gress favorable to Germany in the ap-
proachlg congressional and presden-
tial elections.
The heavy hand of the federal gov
ernment fell on Daniel H. Wallace,
blatant organizer and head Of paci-
fist society, last Thursday when a
judge in Iowa sentenced him to 20
wears in prison for seditious speaking.
The committee named to Investigate
the charges of disloyalty against SEN
alto 7 E011 hn do.
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 Non
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 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
! 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 flour, baking
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price of the loaf.
, Secretary Baker issued a statement
praising highly the work Of the many
manufacturing plants that are making
} clothing and other supplies for the
/. cantonment 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, stee
( mills, navy yards and mines; and 1t Is
said that conscription of millions OF
workmen is being seriously considered
3 by the administration. Industrial ex
1 panSion and the withdrawal of abou,
$ 100000 men from their occupations
J. for the armed services are held re
4 sponsible for the conditions. In the
+ aircraft factories thousands of womer
9 are to be given employment.
g Owing to the present demand To-
: gasoline. the Standard Oil compan.
1 has decided to permit unrestricted us'
;, of its Burton process of refining, b!
4 which almost twice as much gas0lin'
Q is obtained from crude oil as by oths
J. processes.