Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-10-24

| ing the life out of the soviet govern
ment. Denikine kept up his advance
on Moscow. capturing Orel and other
important points. The army of the
northwest under Yudenitch took Luga
/ and pressed on toward PetrOgrad,
whose fall was imminent. This army,
it was said. was working in close I'M
! derstanding with Admiral KOlchak
whose Siberian troops We're pushing
the bolsheviki back to the European
| border. These three commanders have
/ rejected all Overtures from Germany,
maintaining their connection with the
allies.
| An official dispatch from Archangel
said the North Russian forces were
/ pursuing the bolsheviki in the direc
ton of Omega after occupying their
fortified positions along the railroad,
capturing guns and prisoners and de-
/ stroying an armored train. In fact,
| they seem to be doing very well with
| out the help of the British and Amer
| lean troops that were withdrawn.
| Meanwhile the British fleet in the
| Baltic was very busy. The supreme
! council having declared blockade OF
| all Russian bolshevik ports, number
| of German vessels were seized. Then
the British warships moved on Kron-
| stadt After a severe bombardment il
/ was evacuated by the bOlSheviki and
| the fleet entered the harbor. All neu-
| fr.o1 81,
! in the blockade of bolshevist Russia.
| Lieutenant D'Annunzio seems to
| have adopted more yielding attitude
| in regard to Fiume, which he still
| holds. He has sent to Premier Gle
| menceau an appeal to take the initia.
| tive in obtaining from the allied gov
! ernments declaration making Fiume
an open port. The present Italian pan
/ cOntemplates an independent buffer
| state at Fiume with the extension 0f
| italian control over the strip of coast
| from Fiume to Trieste so the new
! state shall abut on Italian territory
| on that side and not be surrounded
| by Jugo-Slavia influence The dam
| ger Of war over this problem is fad
| ing. D'AnnunZio sent word to Paris
! that he had drafted a manifesto urging
mutual national rights and to "main-
| tain the bonds of brotherhood which
have been sealed by blood"
Prices of food throughout the Uni.
| ted States have fallen almost % per
| cent. according to Attorney General
Palmer But housewives, also through
out the United States, are asking why,
| if this is true, they are forced to pay
as much as ever or more when they
visit the retail dealer
| The cost of leather and of footwear
has dropped 20 per cent since the mid
die of August, says the president OF
| the National Boot and Shoe Manufac-
| turers association. But the consumer
| is still paying exorbitant prices for
| his shoes, and the aforesaid president
| explains that the shoes now being man.
ufactured at reduced cost will not be
| marketed before next April.
The tremendous huliabaloo about
reducing the cost of living and punish
| ing the profiteer has dwindled until
| it can scarcely be heard with the aid
| of microphone. Just at present the
consumer is exercised about the sugar
| situation which promises TO develop
| into a famine with % cents a pound
| or more demanded for the small
| amounts of sugar to be had. The do
| nestle output is nowhere near enough,
! and it seems most of the Cuban crop is
| going to Europe. Dealers blame our
i government for this condition because
| it limited the wholesale price while
European dealers were willing TO pay
| anything.