ALLIED SEA OFFENSIVE.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14552, 2 November 1917, Page 2

ALLIED SEA OFFENSIVE.

MAY BE UNDERTAKEN.

■ A Washington message dated October 2nd states: — The Allies, with America's aid, aro likejy next year to. take- the offensive on the seas. The deduction is drawn in expert quarters here to-day as the result of recent Allied military operations. With England striking at tho rail arteries leading to Germany's Ostond and Zeebruggo bases, such an offensive, it is felt, could be used in telling fashion later. Much will depend, however, jiyon the successes England meets in her Mcnin . road operations. While she has warded off counter-attacks so far, it is a question in many military minds whether she will be able to accomplish be- . fore winter the cutting of the rail ar- [ teries. Even if she does cut these lines, Germany istill can feed the nests | from which her submarines emanate. [ But if England can accomplish a fierce blow at the communication lines. | she has done much toward crippling th<: r effectiveness of Germany's U-boai . game. Then, with the backing oi ' powerful ships, she may move in on a " strangling process and stamp out tilt [ home of the ocean pests, though she 1 must still maintain a mighty land lore*: to back the sea operations. Advocates of a stronger naval policj are still active in tlieir nrpings anc .; they feel that the way things shape uj , on the northern end of the Wosterr front now is argument for their pro * posals. Under date of Sunday, October lUh. r & cable message to the Australia! l papers says:—"Yesterday is describee 3 as the most . dimwit day of the war - Weok-end .stoppers in London founc that tea, sugar, rice, butter and mar- , garine were practically unobtainable.^

THE "PULL TOGETHER" SPIRIT. ,■ ■• .-.., —-—-—a». ';•;. ■■ _ -■ 1 Atlantic Cit,N.J M Sept. 27. ■ "Warning vehemently against tho "dream of a--'sj>eedj'- peace/ Lord N.orthcliffe made a burning1' appeal to the American Bankers' Association in convention here this afternoon, for ;v "pull together." spirit. j "That is our motto," he said, "every niaifj every woman putting their very souls into the Avar. The Hun must bi? crushed. The evil thing he has reared ■/must he driven out of their lives, ami the way to do it is with steel in tho battlefield, and with silver bullets in the world's marts. Let us get the peo- | pie to understand this vital act and victory is assured. "We find a remarkable unanimity of thought and purpose between the iiiu«er, the junkers and the mass of the people. Wo' find the food situation in. Germany and Austria distinctly better than it was a year ago. The capture of supplies in liumania, no less than I the extension of thousands of acres | throughout the Central I'owers, has i<;-< lieved the tension in cereals and garden products. "At the front, defence being easier and less costly than attack, the Hun;* task is easier. They have lost tlie ; initiative, but they are also husbanding their resources. Digging in xc : quires less effort than digging "out, ami that is what our men have to do now. Financially Germany lives m a circle, and she can go on for a long time vet spending her own money among her. i own people." I "It is money that makes the wheels go round." he added. "In this matter .we row riie same boat and should pull together with your most capable secretary of the treasury acting as stroke.. > I have complete and unbounded faith ' in the American people. 1 am suro» that if. they realise that "any sign of c unwillingness to bear the ' monetary - burden of the war will bo regarded 1 quite as serious as the loss of a bi"-----3 battle in France, they will give of their - resources freely and "un-stuitingly." 3 Discussing the business -which ho 1 said lie knew the best—the newspaper business—Northclifre declared that "at ? least one-thiru of the paper used in i America daily is wasted," and pleaded - for greater thrift. He pointed to cur--1 tailments in newspapers in England - and held up a<s "a pathetic but splendid - example of Fiance's patriotism," tbo - fact that newspapers in Paris were now 3 reduced to a single- sheet. s i £ For short distances the salmon i*. t the swiftest swimmer of any fish. It i can trjvvol sit tho rate of 2o miles an. a hour. B ft Tlh> Gisborno "Herald" states that 0 a. fine shearing record< was put-up by six Natives on the machines {at Mr E. M. Hutclihison's Rua- * kituri station, the- men cutting out £ 1400 .sheep in ten hours, an average of n over 233. j "Lick the plate and lick the Kai:ser!" Already adopted'-as the official ! "yell" of tho food conservation work- , ers. this slogan is spreading among th<* a ranks of Chicago conservators, says A tl:e San Francisco "Bulletin." It was \ invented by Buddy Coulson, a scliool--3 .boy, after repeated admonitions from - ,his mother against the waste of food.