Middletown transcript., 1917-10-20

Inns OF Frencn iuduuluCloAy, IJpA~0'
h they retreat.
ible spirit that they swept everything
before them. So swift was the attack
that an entire German division which
was lust 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.
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 Belglan
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 fu-
ture in 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 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- of his desk
last week and pulled out another neat
little expose of German methods. Thls
one hit Won Bernstorff again, rounding
out the revelations of the counts per-
fidy 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 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
TO the foreign office at Berlin las1
September stating that the American
| embargo conference needed the fur
ther support of the German govern
ment for the purpose of conducting d
campaign to win a majority OF coh'
gress favorable to Germany in the ap,
proaching congressional and preslden'
tial elections.
The heavy hand of the federal gov
crnment fell on Daniel Fl. Wallace
blatant organizer and head of a pacl
fist society, last Thursday when 8
iudge in Iowa sentenced him to x
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 sen
ate had no time to perform its dut1e:
before congress adjourned and so VII
report at the next session. 1t Will no
90 beyond or outside of the senator
speech in st. Paul before the Non
Partisan league and there are pre-
dictions that the inquiry will be
, fizzle.
Food Control Extended.
In order to prevent the taking o
excessive profits and to stop hoardine
the governments control of foodstun
will be extended on November I
: include about all the essential article
of diet. BY order of the preslden
t the manufacture, importation, storag
| and distribution of some twenty prlm
t commodities will be licensed by tn
} food administration. Farmers, gardeI
Y ers and many of the smaller dealel
and manufacturers will be exempt.
D The baking industry was left out G
- this arrangement, but Mr.. Hoover WI
he ready to regulate it as soon as
e has standardized baking -four, bakin
n ingredients and either the size or III
h price of the loaf.
f Secretary Baker issued stateme1
l. praising highly the work of the man
l. manufacturing plants that are maxim
e clothing and other supplies for tn
r cantonment camps. Since the col
v struction of those camps began near
J. thirteen million articles have bee
J. shipped to them. In other quarter
e there is much talk of the great shor
9 age of workers in such war plants
s. airplane and munition factories, ste
k mills, navy yards and mines, and IL
ID said that conscription of millions
workmen is being seriously considers
le by the administration. Industrial e
a panson and the withdrawal OF aDO
IS 100000 men from their Occupation
r. for the armed services are held |
IN sponsble for the conditions. In u
er aircraft factories thousands of wom'
le are to be given employment.
lie Owing to the present demand I
r. gasoline, the Standard Oil compa
I'd has decided to permit unrestricted u
n, of it's Burton process Of refining,
Id which almost twice as much gasoll
Sc is obtained from crude oil as by 9th
st. processes.