Der Sonntagsbote und der Seebote. (Milwaukee, Wis.) 1912-1922, 1917-10-21
BERLIN CLAIMS BRITISH At
TAcKS FRUITLESS.

say that the allied attacks we're all
beaten of except on a small part
Of the front between Draibank and
GheYulet This report tallies with
the official reports from Paris aud
London in so far as neither the
French nor the British lay claim
TO extensive gains in territory al
though their official reports indicate
that the little territory gained in
Tuesdays battle was of great
stTategical importance, as 1t includes
part of the high land near Brood
seinde. According to the same re-
port from Berlin new battles have
started in the centre of the battle
front, along the railroad leading from
Ypres TO Menin. Official reports
from London do not mention the
battle at this point of the front. but
General Haig reports that British
advanced posts on a front of about
2,000 yards were pushed back by
powerful German counterattacks
south OF the Ypres-Staden railway
German attacks near Broodseinde
were easily repulsed. The French
were more successful They gained
few hundred yards of territory
Initiated their offensive on the
previous day. Paris announces
officially that the French took the
Poegoet farm, near Draibank. The
weather continues to be very un-
favorable and has turned the battle
field in a broad swamp. In the
evening London reported the COM
plete conquest of the village Of
Poelcapelle, two miles east of Lange-
marck, which the British took eight
weeks ago.
Paris and Berlin both report artil-
lery actions from the Aisne and the
Verdun front. No important fighting
is reported from the other fronts
GERMAN SAILORS REPORTED TO
BE RESTLESS.
Unofficial reports from Amsterdam
state that a mutiny has broken out
on German battleships in Wilhelms-
haven. One of these battleships is
the "Westfalen" reported sunk in
the seabattle near the Skaggerak in
June 1916, and the Nuremberg, sunk
by the British in the battle with
Admiral Won Specs squadron near
the Falkland Island. The mutiny on
hoard the Nuremberg is said to
have occurred while the ship was at
sea. The men are reported to have
seized the officers but the ship was
overtaken by destroyers.
Speaking of the affair before the
Reichstag Admiral Won Capelle ex-
planned that the mutiny had been
suppressed at once and that the men
involved had been severely punished.
He and the chancellor openly ac-
cused the radical socialists with
being responsible for the plot and
named deputies. Haase and Vogtherr.
The deputies, he said. had called
the plotter's attention to the danger
GUS nature of the plot and had
advised the greatest caution. but
had agreed TO furnish propaganda
material. Socialist deputies inter
rupted the chancellors speech with
loud cries of protest and demanded
the government produce proof and
tina. the Reichstag enould suspend
Judgement in the meantime.
The disclosure. in connection with
the Radical Socialists, If they are
true, came most opportunely to help
the government out of it's embar-
rassment over the Interpolation re-
garding pan-German propaganda. Ad-
miral Won Capelle hammered home
his statement with a declaration of
the necessity for a proper "enlighten-
ment" of the military forces.
DR.. MICHAELIs SPEAKS ON
PEACE.
Answering the peace Interpolation
Of the majority the chancellor de-
clared, that as long as Germanys
enemies demanded any German soil
as long as they tried to drive
wedge between the German people
and their emperor, peace was impos-
sible. :. .... :.
"As long as our enemies confront
us with demands which appear un-
acceptable to every single German"
said DR.. Michaelis, as long as our
opponents wish 10 interfere with our
frontier posts, as long as they de
mand that we shall yield a piece of
German soil, as long as they pursue
the idea of driving a wedge between
the German people and its emperor,
so long shall we with folded arms
refuse the hand Of peace.
I'VE can wait. Time is working
for US. Until our enemies perceive
that they must reduce their claims,
so long must the cannon speak and
the U-boats do their work Our
peace will yet come"
In addressing the Reichstag, For
eign Secretary Won Kuehlmann said,
according to a Berlin dispatch, that
as far as he was aple to view the
world situation there was no impedi-
rnent to peace, no question which
could not be solved by negotiations,
except for the French demand for
Alsace-Lorraine.
Coincident with the American de.
nand for Argentine dry hides to
meet military orders. and renewed
British buying as a result of the
Hitting of the leather embargo, the
Germans in Buenos Aires are buying
heavily, and their competition in the
market is helping 10 increase prices,
German brokers sa. they are buy
ing on German Government orders.
They express confidence that the
war viii end in January or February.
Prices OF hides have risen 12 per
cent. within the last ten la ..
The Daily Telegraph says it learns
Hussein Kemal, khediye Of Egypt,
died on Tuesday.
Hussein Kemal was chosen by
Great Britain in 1914 TO succeed his !
uncle. Abbas. Hilmi, as ruler of /
Egypt. simultaneously with the pro
clamation Of British prOtectorate.
His father was khediye from 1865
10 1879. His uncle. the former |
khedive. is in Vienna, seeking Ger
man aid 70 re-instate him.