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Show must sell it to Germany. Already Holland lias been put on tea and coffee rations. Switzerland is in better case for the allies seem willing that she shall continue her trade with the central cen-tral powers in order to obtain coal and iron. For Sweden and Denmark and even for Norway there is no great sympathy in the allied countries. Their neutrality has been mostly a sham. Mutiny on German Fleet. The revolt on the German high seas fleet at Wilhelmshaven took place several sev-eral weeks ago, but tlie facts have just come out. At least four battleships were involved and the crew of one threw their captain overboard, drowning drown-ing him. The mutineers landed, but were forced to surrender to soldiers. The crew of the Nurnberg seized the vessel and started for Norway, but were taken by destroyers. The kaiser went to Wilhelmshaven himself, and ordered one out of every seven mutineers muti-neers shot, but the chancellor protested pro-tested and only three were executed. Minister of Marine von Capelle, informing in-forming the reichstag of the occurrence, occur-rence, accused three independent s " cialist deputies of foreknowledge anc' approval of the plot of the rebe''s an said the plan of the latter wis to re" fuse to obey orders, paral" ae ne Aeet and force peace upon "" country. The accused deput' dS denied any guilt, but Von Capel)'c said ne nacI documentary proof. rpilr: fact that Von Capelle did not ask the reichstag to authorize the prosecution of the deputies he named i.eads to the suspicion that he was trying try-ing to use the incident to weaken the political power of the independent socialists, so-cialists, but the affair had the opposite oppo-site effect and some of the majority socialists joined the independents. The mutiny on the fleet explains the delay in the long expected naval movement against Petrograd. In the allied countries the story of the revolt was hailed as one of the most encouraging signs of the year and it was held that if such dissatisfaction dissatis-faction exists in the German naval i forces, which have not been subjected S to very severe hammering, the morale of tlie army must be breaking down. HEWS REVIEW OF THE PAST WEEK German Peace Offered by the Kaiser Slowly Losing Its German Features. MICHAELIS PROVES A FAILURE Lloyd George Says England Will Fight Until France Regains Alsace-Lorraine Allies Make Another Successful Suc-cessful Drive in Flanders More' of Bernstorff's Perfidy Is Revealed Re-vealed by Lansing. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. Kaiser Wilhelin reminds one of the old-fashioned peddler of notions who would keep adding packages of needles, watches, and even silver coins, to his little bundles of bargains until a sale was effected. With northern France aud no indemnities already in his bargain offering, the emperor has added Belgium with conditions and now it is reported he and Emperor Charles of Austria-Hungary are prepared pre-pared to throw in Alsace, the price being peace and the return of Germany's Ger-many's colonies. In a word, the German Ger-man peace for which the kaiser shows so consuming a desire is becoming less German every day, ami if the allies' just say nothing and saw wood "s they probably will it may finally ta e -on-an appearance that will wai rant their consideration. J To be sure, Chancellor Mic?eli says that peace is impossible so fPn& as Germany's enemies demand itny German soil or try to drive a weupe between the German emperor and hflp people, but the chancellor is hard pressed to save his political fortunes. He and Vice Chancellor Helfferich are I being bitterly attacked because of the policy of fostering pan-Germanism in ible spirit that they swept everythlng before them. So swift was i the attack that an entire German division which y as just relieving another at the front was caught by surprise unm decimated. The entire ground over vjVhich the British Brit-ish and French advanced was thickly littered with dead Germans and heaps of equipment. ' A few more such drives in Flanders and the Germans will be compelled to retire to the east and south, abandoning abandon-ing the submarines on the Belgian coast. This wot!ld mean the almost utter collapse olf. the U-boat campaign, which already (lias been greatly weakened. weak-ened. There are strong indications that the allies are preparing for vigorous offensive movements in the near future fu-ture in bof1'1 Roumania and Macedonia. The posit' ions of the central powers on both thojse fronts have been subjected of late to heavy bombardments. It wasunnouced last week that the ar-mies ar-mies of Greece were about ready to t.iuke 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. This one hit Von Bernstorff again, rounding out the revelations of the count's perfidy per-fidy while this country and Germany were still technically on friendly terms. Three telegrams' were made public, Uwo from the German foreign office to Von Bernstorff instructing him to start a 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 latit September stating that the American embargo conference needed the further fur-ther support of the German government govern-ment for the purpose of conducting a campaign to win a majority of congress con-gress favorable to Germany in the approaching ap-proaching congressional and presidential presiden-tial elections. The heavy hand of the federal government gov-ernment fell on Daniel H. Wallace, blatant organizer and head of a pacifist paci-fist society, last Thursday when a New Government For Russia. Premier Kerensky, h'aving virtually dtfied the democratic congress, appointed ap-pointed a ' new coalition cabinet plejjged to restore order in the republic repub-lic tut"1 suPPress anarchy and to renew re-new flae fighting power of the army. KerenAky and several of his colleagues went totlle front to '"J' their plans before be-fore theV sol(liers' ancI seemed hopeful of gainifrl8 their suPPort despite the opposition01 the council of soldiws and worknien- The ral1 workers went on strike bV1' Promised not to tie up the opera'tionV the military railroads, and later wer Partly aPPeaed by an offer of increase waSes- The new g0vi;rnment is determined to work hard fV a universal peace, but shows no lotion of abandoning abandon-ing its alliances wKh the foes of Ger" manv. It issued a declaration to that effect on Wednesdaft sayin8 U "wiU extend its whole strSnSth in support of the common cause Vf tne allies- t0 defend the country, t PPose every attempt at the conquest Vof terrltory of other nations and ever?' attempt to Impose the will of other ou Russla-Allies' Russla-Allies' New Drive In '""ders. Another sledge hammer ;blow at the Germans in Belgium was struck on Tuesday by the British a,nd French acting in conjunction. In th? midst f a furious rainstorm Haig'smeQ ad" vanced on a wide front east au north-east north-east of Ypres, capturing p0eVcaplle and the Gravenstafel ridge amT , " elevations that command the geuv" Hat country and are invaluable a OD" servation ground. Crown Prince IiV" precht counter-attacked in desperasf attempts to regain these dominating heights, but only south of the Ypres- ; Koulers road was he able to push back j the British for a slight distance, and ' that at great cost. At the same time the French on the left flank of the British line made a most remarkable dash forward across the Hooded bog land south of the forest for-est of Houtholst, piercing thellerman line to a depth of one and one-quarter miles and regaining land which the foe had held for three years. While the French guns set up a terrific barrage bar-rage fire, the engineers rapidly spread great islands of cork over the water, and erected miles of trestle work and innumerable bridges, and over these the troops rushed with such irresisl- the country and the army and at the same time making promises of mildness mild-ness in return for peace. Michaelis was compelled to tell the reichstag that he did not stand for the extreme demands of the pan-Gernianists, and for the time being his opponents were satisfied ; but his failure as chancellor is pronounced. Foreign Secretary von Kuehlmann is more yielding than the chancellor, for he told the reichstag that there now exists "no impediment to peace, no questions that could not be settled by negotiations, except for the French demand for Alsace-Lorraine." He added that Germany could make no concessions with regard to those provinces. prov-inces. Premier Lloyd George was quick to take up this challenge of Von Kuehl-mann's. Kuehl-mann's. "I do not think that any statement is more calculated to prolong pro-long the war," he said. "However long the war may last, England intends in-tends to stand by France until she has redeemed her oppressed children from their foreign yoke." Reasons Many and Plain. The reasons for the kaiser's increasing in-creasing moderation in demands are not far to seek. They are found in the daily dispatches recording the repeated re-peated successful thrusts of the allies in Flanders ; the advances of the British Brit-ish in Mesopotamia aud Africa ; the shortage of German shells ; the growing grow-ing unrest in the armed forces of Germany, Ger-many, reaching the stage of mutiny in the fleet ; the scarcity of food in the central nations, and, perhaps most potent of all, the steady, irresistible progress of the United States toward full preparation for war to a victorious victori-ous conclusion. Then, too, the kaiser sees added to the list of his enemies more of the fast dwindling number of those not hitherto on that roll of honor. Though President Irigoyen managed to stave off warlike action by Argentina, Peru and Uruguay last week broke off diplomatic dip-lomatic relations with Germany and sent away its ministers. The European nations that remain neutral are suffering more and more. Holland pleads with America for feed especially, with the' open threat that if it is not sent, she will have to slaughter slaugh-ter at least half her cattle and, having hav-ing no means of preserving the meat. judge in Iowa sentenced him to 20 years in prison for seditious speaking. The committee named to investigate the charges of disloyalty against Senator Sen-ator La Follette and pass on the demands de-mands for his expulsion from the senate sen-ate had no time to perform its duties before congress adjourned and so will report at the next session. It will not go beyond or outside of the senator's speech in St. Paul before the Non-Partisan Non-Partisan league and there are predictions pre-dictions that the Inquiry will be a fizzle. Food Control Extended. In order to prevent the taking of excessive profits and to stop hoarding, the government's control of foodstuffs will be extended on November 1 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 be licensed by the food administration. Farmers, gardeners garden-ers and many of the smaller dealers and manufacturers will be exempt. The baking industry was left out of this arrangement, but Mr. Hoover will be ready to regulate it as soon as he has standardized baking flour, baking ingredients and either the size or the price of the loaf. Secretary Baker issued a statement praising highly the work of the many manufacturing plants that are making clothing and other supplies for the cantonment camps. Since the construction 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 shortage short-age of workers in such war plants as airplane and munition factories, steel mills, navy yards and mines, and it is said that conscription of millions of 'workmen is being seriously considered .by the administration. Industrial expansion ex-pansion and the withdrawal of about (1,500.000 men from their occupations Ifor the armed services are held responsible re-sponsible for the conditions. In the Aircraft factories thousands of women Ire to be given employment, j Owing to the present demand for gasoline, the Standard Oil company l;ias decided to permit unrestricted use (lf its Burton process of refilling, by 1 1 1 i c 1 1 almost twice as much gasoline js obtained from crude oil as by other ;tvrncs. |