The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-10-18


ich they retreat.
4 ible spirit that they swept everything
/ before them. So swift was the attack
/ that an entire German division which
I was just relieving another M 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.
few more such drives In Flanders
and the Germans will he 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
! turc in both Roumania and Macedonia.
! The positions of the central powers on
both those fronts have been subjected
of late to heavy bombardments. II
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 Perrdy
Secretary Lansing reached into the
upper left-hand pige0n-hole of his desk
last week and pulled ont another neat
! little expose Of German methods. This
/ one hit Won Bernst0rff again, rounding
| out the revelations of the counts per-
| fidy while this country and Germany
We're still technically on friendly
terms. Three kilograms were made
| public, two from the German foreign
office 10 Won BernstOrf1 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
Ia the foreign Office at Berlin last
September stating that the American
embargo conference needed the fur
| Their support of the German govern
ment for the purpose of conducting IA
campaign to win 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 III. Wallace,
blatant organizer and head of "A paci-
! hst society. last Thursday when a
! Judge I'm Iowa sentenced him 10 20
years In prison for scdltious 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 It's 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 II
hZzle.
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 | 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 he 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, hut Mr.. Hoover will
be ready to regulate II as soon as he
has standardized baking flour, baking
ingredients aud either the size or the
price of the loaf,
Secretary Baker issued q statement
pralSing highly the work of the many
manufacturing plants that are making
clothing aud other supplies for the
cantoumcnt 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
nlrplane and munitlon factories. steel
mills. navy yards and mines, and II Is
said that CONSUMPTION OF millions of
worllmen Is being seriously considered
by the administration. Industrial eX-
pansion and the withdrawal of about
800, 600 men from their occupations
for the armed services are held re-
Sponsihle for the conditions. In the
aircraft factories thousands Of women
are to be given employment
Owing to the present demand for
gasoline. the Standard OH company
has decided to permit unrestricted use
Of lis burton process of refining by
which almost twice ms much gasoline
Is obtained from crude oil as by other
processes.
days of great destructiveness.
IL eaihcr the guns range from the