Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-07-14

Many persons on the Atlantic seaboard
knew when the vessels sailed, and that
information presumably was sent the
Berlin by a German agent by wireless
in some roundabout way, but how the
route was discovered seems to be
mystery.
President Wilson has given orders
that the German spy system be wiped
out before any more troops sail, ana
many Teuton is likely to be interned
for the period Of the war. Until now
the government has been unexplaina-
bly, lenient in it's treatment Of Ger
mans and their sympathizers, in the
country generally and in the city OF
Washington. We are not at war, Off
cially, with Austria Hungary, Bulgaria
and Turkey, and the diplomatic repre-
sentatives and agents of these coun-
tries are still free to serve their ally
In any way they can. The German
Tested and continues its sinister cam
paign against the successful conduct
of the war. In view Of the conflden-
tial information from their Washing
ton correspondents available to the
German-American editors, and despite
their protestations of loyalty to Amer
lea, it is not beyond the bounds OF
reason that some of these editors
should be doing spy work for the
kaiser, to whose cause they have
shown themselves devoted.
German plotters and their friends
also are credited by the government
with devising and in part executing
plan to cripple shipping on the Great
Lakes by sinking or disabling vessels.
The federal officials, aided by those OF
Canada, are getting after these mis-
creants.
Having received their munitions,
General Pershing's troops were
promptly moved forward to their in
te-.sive training camps back Of the
fighting lines, where they can hear
the roar of the great guns. The Off
cial review Of one battalion was the
chief feature of the Fourth Of July Gel
ebration in Paris, and the people of
that city went wild with enthusiasm
over the American fighters.
British Again Advance.
Field Marshal Haig again swatted
the Germans on Thursday, beginning
resumption of the offensive in Bel
GUM, where there had been compare
tive quiet for a week. The British
made q considerable advance south
west of Hollebeke.
The Germans made a tremendous at
tack on the French lines east of Cerny
Tuesday, but were repulsed by Petain's
men with great slaughter. While
they were demoralized by this defeat
the French made clever cOunter-at-
tack. capturing stong salient.
Another slump In the number of o.
boat victims was shown in the weekly
report of the British admiralty, and
the naval officials of the allies are con-
vinced that the submarine warfare
has failed. The Germans are sending
their U-bOats far afield, one Of them
having shelled Ponta Delgada, a city
in the Azores. An American trans
port helped drive the submarine away.
On Wednesday dozen or more Ger
man air raiders appeared over Har-
wich, a seaport in Essex, and dropped
many bombs, killing IL persons. They
were driven off with gunfire and air.
planes, and two Of them were brought
| down ablaze.
German Unrest Increases.
On the eve of the meeting of the
reichstag its committees were told by
spokesman for various groups that
| further proffers Of peace such as Ger
many is willing, even anxious, to grant
will be harmful and that all the en-
pire can do is to hold out and mean
| time "demOcratiZe" the country; that
| it might have peace this summer If
it were willing to abandon oil annexa-
tons and indemnities and to drop the
idea of separate peace with Russia !;
| and that the peace formula of the
Russian council Of deputies was i'm
possible. The so-called democratizing
of the empire, 1t appears, will take
the form Of reforming the franchise
| so far as the reichstag is concerned,
which means mighty little so long as
the German senate, composed of ap-
pointed members, has full control over
the lower house, and there is no cabi-
net responsible to the parliament.
Meanwhile unrest is increas inp
throughout Germany, displaying itself
in food riots in Stettin, Dusseldorf
and other cities, and in other forms
elsewhere. Even some of the "intel-
lectuals," like Professor Delbrueck.
Privy Councillor Harnack and others,