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S. E. loted BREE R ASE L, SRS ¥R R 9 S 5 %e R S e BRI e 7 R 8 SR sSLBss AR YR S e%BRR e<R I A T Y NARAAR AR R N ee e RIIRR 2" e, ¢ o PR SR R RARBNL NB4 R"TR e A SRR RPN R 4 S o ;,';:'?-’:;:' Destruction of Shipping by Submarines Now Threatens England With Food Shortage Great Britain Gets Money From Uncle Sam. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. America’s first shot in the war with Germany was fired on April 19, It scored a direct hit and destroyed a German submarine. The shot was fired by the gun crew on the American liner Mongolia when a U-boat attempted to attack that vessel in the Irish sea. The first shell smashed the periscope and after other shells were sent there was an explosion and the submarine did not rise again. Capt. Emery Rice of the Mongolia told of the incident on arrival in an English port. It is interesting to note that the gun that got the U-boat had been named Theodore Roosevelt by the gunners. The destructive work of the submarines is causing increasing anxiety in Great Britain. The latest weekly report of the admiralty shows a much larger number of ships sunk than did any previous report, and on Wednesday Lord Davenport, the British food controller, solemnly warned the British public that severe privations menaced the nation before the next harvest was reached. This aroused the London press to gloomy comment, the burden of which was that the submarine blockade was the most serious feature of the war now and that if Great Britain was to be saved from starvation and possible defeat, something must be done mighty soon to counteract it. This something, obviously, is the turning out from the shipyards of a vast and continuous stream of tonnage, but though many ships are being built, the shortage of skilled labor renders it impossible to construct anywhere near the number required. The great British navy is powerless to relieve the situation. No one over there seems able to suggest any solution of the problem except to be careful of the food supply and prepare for the worst. The food question is serious elsewhere. It was responsible in large part for the strikes in Germany and is the chief cause of demonstrations that are alarming the Swedish government. In France, meatless dinners — except Sundays and holidays — began Wednesday, and already in the United States the hotels and clubs are cutting down their menus. Plans for larger crops and more farm labor in America were carried to completion during the past week. One notable incident was the departure of 500 students of the agricultural college of the University of Illinois to help raise Canada’s wheat crop. They are to be well paid, and the Dominion government will give to each of them a homestead of 160 acres. On a moment’s thought such a movement as this must win approval, for a bumper crop in Canada will do the civilized world as much good as one in the United States, and the Dominion has been depleted of labor. Great Britain Gets First Loan. Speedy work is being done in the way of supplying the immediate needs of the allies of the United States. In the first conferences with the commissioners from England and France, the government was told that the most urgent of these needs were money, ships, and food. It was agreed that the first allotment of the $3,000,000,000 loan would go to Great Britain, and on Wednesday Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo handed to the British ambassador a treasury warrant for $200,000,000. Arrangements for disposing of the immense bond issue are practically completed and France and Italy and Russia will get their share soon. Most of the money, it is understood, will be expended in the United States. The commissioners agreed that, next to supplying money, America could give the best help by continuing to furnish food and by finding the vessels for its transport to Europe, and they were pleased with the plans for building a great fleet of wooden ships. General Joffre, however, expressed the hope that in the near future a large contingent of American troops would be on the fighting line under the Stars and Stripes, holding that the moral effect of that would be tremendous. All of the commissioners concurred in the statement that they were here not to attempt to dictate to our government, but to advise and assist it to the best of their ability and with their wealth of experience. President Wilson, in a conference with Mr. Balfour, voluntarily gave assurances that the United States will fight until it achieves victory, and thereupon the head of the British mission declared that the entente allies would seek no treaty of alliance, no signature of the entente pledge not to make a separate peace with Germany. Germans Resist Desperately. "This is the last and deciding push, for we soon shall be able to hold out no longer" reads the diary of a German officer who was captured last Monday, and that seems to be the opinion of the German commander in chief, judging by the desperate opposition he is putting up against the drive of the allies in northern France. Resuming their part of the offensive at the beginning of the week, the British have made considerable progress, especially along the roads from Arras and Bapaume to Cambrai. In the semi-open fighting their heavy howitzers were of little use, but their field guns and machine guns were handled with wonderful skill and rapidity and the Germans suffered enormously. Von Hindenburg threw his reserves into the battle with a prodigality that astonished his adversaries, and the Teutons gave ground slowly and made repeated and fierce counter-attacks, which, however, were of little avail and left the ground covered with their slain. The German line, thanks to the astounding numbers of men Von Hindenburg has been able to bring up, is still unbroken, but it is badly battered and is being pushed back further and further toward the frontier. The superiority of the British in the air was demonstrated on Monday in the most spectacular manner. The men of the Royal Flying Corps met the air squadrons of the Germans at an altitude of 15,000 feet and put them to rout, destroying 40 of their airplanes, with the loss of but two of their own machines. The young British pilots then carried out a series of daring bombing raids. The French devoted much of the week to destructive artillery fire in preparation for their next part in the "gee-saw" that is being carried on with such skillful cooperation by Haig and Nivelle, and by Thursday their infantry was again in action. On the Italian, Macedonian and Romanian fronts little of moment has taken place. In Mesopotamia the British are still advancing, but the expedition from Egypt that is moving up through Palestine has found the reinforced Turkish forces holding a strongly intrenched position extending from Gaza toward Beersheba. Portugal, having decided to take a more active part in the conflict in Europe, has sent a large contingent of troops to northern France. There has been some stirring activity recently in the neighborhood of the Straits of Dover. Two British destroyers encountered a flotilla of six German destroyers and after a furious combat put the foe to rout. The German boats were rammed and torpedoed and raked by gunfire and at least two of them were sunk. The British vessels suffered severely but were able to return to port. Wednesday morning a German destroyer flotilla bombarded Dunkirk but was driven off by the coast batteries and the allied patrol boats. One French torpedo boat was sunk. Russian Situation Dangerous. The course of events in Russia's being watched with renewed anxiety. EAGLE RIVER REVIEW, EAGLE RIVER, WIS. The German and Austrian Socialist peace propagandists have taken from one of President Wilson’s addresses the phrase of “a peace without victory” and are using it with some effect. The duma and the delegates representing the various classes in the councils are as firm as ever against concluding a separate peace, but they do not find the masses of uniformed people easy to control. Germany is reported to have started the expected movement to cut off Petrograd from the army, a large naval and military expedition having left Libau, presumably for Pernau or Reval, and at such an inopportune time a great many Russian soldiers are deserting. These deserters are peasant soldiers who are hastening to their homes in fear that there will be a distribution of lands of which, in their absence, they will not get their share. The old agrarian trouble is coming to a head and despite the assurances of the authorities that it cannot be settled until the constituent assembly acts, the peasants are in many localities taking the matter into their own hands. As for the threatened German offensive, the leaders of the new Russian government assert that it will be a good thing for Russia even if the enemy should occupy Petrograd, for it will unite the nation in determination to fight the war to the finish and nullify the efforts of the Teutons Socialists. The Russian Baltic fleet and army sent a wireless message to the allied fleets saying they were in complete control of Petrograd. Complete readiness to defend free Russia. President Wilson has selected the members of a commission that will visit Russia to pay this nation’s respects to the new government, and Elihu Root has consented to be its chairman. The other members will be Edward T. Hurley, Daniel Willard, and Oscar S. Straus. Spain Warns the Kaiser. On Tuesday Spain sent to Germany a note concerning submarine warfare, with the warning that Spanish patience was nearly exhausted. The imperial government consented to a parley for the “mitigation of the difficulties which have arisen in Spain.” King Alfonso has tried diligently to preserve neutrality, but it seems as if his efforts were doomed to failure. Turkey having severed diplomatic relations with the United States, the representatives of the two nations started for home. Reports that came from Europe during the week told of a revival of the attempts to oust Bethmann-Hollweg from power because of his support of the plans of the Socialist Scheidemann for a peace without annexation and indemnities. The pan-Germans, conservatives, and liberals all are opposing the chancellor in this. But Germany’s foes should not count too much on such demonstrations, any more than on the strikes there, for there is no reason to believe any of them prevent the overthrow of Prussian autocracy—the one thing, probably, that can bring the war to an early conclusion. Mayor Thompson of Chicago succeeded on Thursday in attracting some attention to himself. He issued a printed statement on the food shortage in which he attacked conscription, arguing. The text for a ban on food exports and assailing the war policies of the administration. The same day he evinced a disinclination to extend to Marshal Joffre and the French mission an influence. Invitation to visit Chicago, saying he thought some of the people “might not be wildly enthusiastic about it.” Mayor Thompson is overly careful about the stability of his Teutonic political fences, for Chicago is decidedly enthusiastic over the proposed visit by the French commissioners and will give them a splendid welcome. Plans for the event are being made, the mayor being ignored. The Wisconsin senate gave a lesson to disloyal citizens by expelling from membership Senator Frank Raguse of Milwaukee, a Socialist, for refusal to retract alleged disloyal statements made by him on the floor of the senate. At the hour of writing it appears certain that the government selective conscription bill will be passed by both houses of congress. Agreements were secured in both senate and house that assured a vote not later than midnight Saturday. A TRAIN RECRUITS TWENTY OR MORE BIG CAMPS WILL BE ESTABLISHED IN UNITED STATES. LARGE AREAS ARE NECESSARY Members  twenty camps would mean about 25,000 soldiers to a camp. It will be seen that the ordinary army post will not be large enough in the area of its drill grounds to accommodate such a multitude. Therefore, it is possible that some of the existing posts which are well situated will receive a comparatively small number of troops for instruction, and that at some great open spaces in the land the training of the greater numbers, equivalent in some cases to army divisions, will take place. Army men who have made a study of conditions throughout the country believe that less than one-quarter of the young men gathered together for instruction will have had any preliminary instruction. There will be in the ranks, of course, many men who have attended private military schools, and others who have received some first soldier lessons in the state universities or in the high schools of the cities, but the great mass of the recruits will be green, and will need complete lessons in everything from the position of a soldier to maneuvers in extended order. Instructing the Officers. In these dispatches prior to this time the need of officers for the great army which is to be raised has been discussed. It is understood to be the intention to establish officers’ schools. Already men who have taken or who are to take examinations for the officers’ reserve corps are under instruction at some of the posts of the country. At the engineer barracks in Washington, something over a hundred young men from the departments who are skilled in certain lines of work necessary for the supply of an army in the field are taking lessons in the duties of junior officers. It is expected that in the ranks of the new army will be found enough men who have been given military instruction at good schools, to enable the officers in charge to select material for the noncommissioned ranks. The army of 500,000 men, whether raised by the volunteer method or by conscription, ought to contain some fairly well-seasoned material. The thing that must be done, however, even to those who have had some years of military drill at private institutions, is to teach them the spirit of the regular army discipline, the self-reliance and the knowledge of how to enforce orders without arousing the resentment of men unaccustomed to receiving orders. The camps which are to be established will present at the first a rather motley appearance. Presumably men will be sent direct from the recruiting stations or the conscript stations, whichever they are to be called, to the encampment grounds. What a difference there will be between the condition of John Smith, American, who reports for military duty, and Hans Schmidt, German, who reported for military duty in Germany three years ago! John Smith will report in civilian's clothes and probably will continue to wear them for a long time while he is learning to square his shoulders, depress his toes, make an about face, and do the setting-up drill. Hans Schmidt, although he may have been out of service for years, reported direct to a military depot, where he found a uniform from shoes to cap which had been made for him personally, bearing his name and ready to put on. In addition, Hans Schmidt found his military equipment in place and in order and intended for him personally. Hans, with his previous military training, was ready within a week to take his place in the fighting line. That was Germany’s preparation so far as its man power was concerned. Uncle Sam’s preparation is about to begin. Recruits Can't Be Sent Yet. Some of the opposition which developed in congress to the plan to raise an army by conscription in order that the hand poor, high and low, might share alike the duty of service, was based on the feeling expressed by members that American youth would volunteer instantly if it was certain that they were to be sent quickly to the front. fichsing line. In other words, that Americans want to fight and fight “off the reel.” Army officers in Washington are trying their best to convince civilians, and particularly civilian legislators, that no Americans can be sent to the fighting line instantly unless it be the regulars, of whom there is only a comparatively small force, a force which army men say cannot be spared, because of the need of the regulars to instruct new men in the greater army. It is the wish of American army officers that American youth be impressed with the fact that their efficiency as soldiers, the very safety of their lives and the safety of their country depend on their willingness not only to fight but to undergo a long preparation in order that they may know how to fight. The army that will be called into the field in this country must be taught everything, army officers say, from the position of a soldier to the ultimate higher things which the soldier must learn. This takes time, patience, ready submission to discipline and a willing, enduring spirit. Army men point out that the chances of a successful outcome and of a minimum loss of life depend upon the willingness of the men to learn in advance what they must do and how. Experience of England. Great Britain sent into France at the beginning of the war about 125,000 men as an expeditionary force. It was composed of soldiers who correspond to our regular army. They were trained to the minute. They made a splendid fight all the way on the enforced but strategic retreat from Belgium to the valleys of the Marne and the Grand Morin. Then this little body of regulars, or what there was left of it, turned to the attack and aided the French in driving the German troops back. There was little left of the British expeditionary force, and it was this fact that made it doubly hard for England to prepare its volunteer force and later its conscripted troops quickly for the field. The officers and the noncommissioned officers of the regulars who knew how to train green troops and to give them the spirit of the established soldiery largely were killed off or disabled in the awful fighting from the Belgian line to the line running east from Paris, and in the later advance to the line which the Germans had prepared for what they hoped to be a permanent place of resistance. It will be seen, army officers say, readily enough from the experience of Great Britain that this country must needs conserve a large part of its regular force to act as instructors of its new troops in the field. This fact, it is said, probably will prevent the dispatch of a force of regulars to the European battlefield, or at least prevent the immediate sending of a force greater in strength than a division. Many Generals Will Be Needed. When the National army is raised and the regular and National Guard services are expanded to their full war limit, there will be the need of between 80 and 40 major generals and about four times that number of brigadier generals. If the lieutenant general rank shall be revived by congress, as seems likely to be the case because of the size of the armies which we are to raise, there will be heart-burnings in the matter, unless the ranking major general of the United States army, Leonard Wood, is given preference. The president of the United States can name any man that he chooses as lieutenant general of the army. He can take a man from civil life if he wants to. Of course, he will not, but inasmuch as it is in his power to pick his man it may be that pressure will induce him to name some junior major general to the high command. The major generals of the line in the United States army today are Leonard Wood, J. Franklin Bell, Thomas H. Barry, Hugh L. Scott, Tasker Bliss, John J. Pershing, Hunter Liggett, and a few others. In addition, there are men in the staff departments holding the rank of major general. Many who will be promoted. Within a few months, Clarence R. Edwards, James Parker, Charles J. Bailey, George Bell, Jr., Frederick S. Strong, Harry F. Hodges, John F. Morrison, William L. Sibert, and Francis J. Kernan, all brigadier generals, will be advanced to the grade of major general and be given command of troops in the field. In addition to the major generals and the brigadier generals who will be gade, major generals, there are some scores of colonels and lieutenant colonels who will be advanced and given the right to wear the star. The Army Register gives only the briefest outline of the services of the officers under the colors. After a name here and there appear in black type, the letters “M. H.” There is no officer in the United States army who would not give at least one step of his promotion if he had the legal authority to write “M. H.” after his name. It means Medal of Honor and it corresponds in glory to the Victoria Cross of Great Britain, to the Cross of the Legion of Honor of France, and to the cross or medal which is given in the German army for the highest possible service. Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood has a medal of honor and so has his immediate junior in rank, Gen. J. Franklin Bell. 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