Debacle of Germany's Outlying Allies Going On
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PUBLISHED DAILr under order of THE PRESIDENT of THE UNITED STATES by COMMITTEE on PUBLIC ZNFORM.ATION GEORGE CkEEL, Chairman * * * COMPLETE Record of U. X. GOVERNMENT Activities NOL. 2 WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1918. No. 453 GERMAN-OWNED PROPERTY OUTPUTOF NEW LOCOMOTIVES DEBACLE OF GERMANY'S VALUED AT $100,000,000 DOUBLED INTHREE MONTHS SOON TO BE ALL AMERICAN OUTLYING ALLIES GOING Remarkable Achievements of ON TOFINISH, GEN. MARCH AUCTION SALES BY U. S. CUSTODIAN United States Plants Sup- plying Them for the SAYS INPRESS INTERVIEW Great Textile, Chemical, and Other Government. Plants to Be Sold Only to Pur- B. M. Baruch, chairman of the War SURRENDER OF TURKEY chasers of Known Loyal Citizen- Industries Board, authorizes the follow- ing: Austrian Armies Between ship-List of Larger Concerns. The standard gauge steam locomotive industry of the United States, operating the Brenta and the Adri- The Alien Property Custodian's office under the direction of the War Industries atic Routed and Line of Issues the following: Board, has increased its rate of produc- German-owned woolen mills and other tion approximately 100 per cent in the Withdrawal Cut-Ameri- textile concerns, chemical and color com- past three months. Last week the out- -panies, a magneto company, and other put of the three standard gauge com- can First Army Making manufacturing plants, valued at more panies was 144 locomotives. Since 1910 than $100,000,000, will be placed on the and up to last August, the highest num- Good Progress in a New auction block within the next 00 days and her ever turned out in a single year was Drive - Few Casualties sold to 100 per cent Americans. This is 3,776, which would represent an average the answer of A. Mitchell Palmer, Alien weekly output of 72.6 locomotives. Due to Influenza on Property Custodian, to the recent note The achievement is particularly note- from the German Government protesting worthy from the fact that, in bringing Transports. against the Americanization of German- about this tremendous jump in produc- owned concerns in this country. tion, it has been unnecessary to expend a Press interview by Gen. March, Novem- Some of the Big Concerns. dollar to increase plant facilities or en- ber 2, 1918: large the existing works-items of con- Since last Saturday the complete Included in the list of corporations siderable expense in the development of which Mr. Palmer will dispose of are most of the other war industries of the dcbacle of the outlying . allies of Ger- the big woolen mills at Passaic, N. J., country. Redistribution of orders and many has been going on to a finish. The which were taken over by him about six concentration by each of the plants on months ago. These mills alone have an separation of Turkey from direct com- particular types of locomotives has made munication with Germany, as I pointed estimated value of $50,000,000. The possible an Intensity of effort unprece- chemical companies to be Americanized dented in the industry. out at the time of the Bulgarian col- include the Bayer Co., one of the largest, lapse. has necessitated her complete sur- if not the largest, manufacturers of phar- The " Pershing " Type. render. The situation is rapidly con- maceutical products in the United States, The " Pershing " locomotive, built on and the Heyden Chemical Co., the busi- centrating the enemy's resistance in one standardized plans designed by the United nation-Germany. ness of which is second only to that of States Military Railways, has not only the Bayer Co. During the week the general progress been made the sole type of steam locomo- along on the western front has been slight Joseph F. Guffey, Director of Sales, tive In use behind the American lines in will supervise the selling of these great as compared with what they had been France, but, at the instance of the War doing before. The greatest advance has German-owned industries. These sales Industries Board, has been adopted by vill take place In most instances at the been in the Italian region. the British and French Governments as More in detail, during the first part plants of the corporations. In a few in- the standard type for their armies on the starices the sales will be made at the of the week there was little change in western front. the situation on the western front. The offices of the companies in New York Last August the Government, face to City. enemy continued to retire slightly from face with an immediate and urgent de- the salient north of Laon and in the Committee to Pass on B-ayers. mand for steam locomotives for use in -Champagne, under pressure from the Before these sales are finally consum- (Continued on page 2.) French. Thursday and Friday the allied mated, they will be passed upon by the forces in Flanders, including Americans, advisory committee of the Alien Prop- pushed forward several miles on a 12- erty Custodian's office, of which Otto T. mile front between the Lys and the Bannard, of New York, is chairman. Scheldt to positions on the Scheldt, south This committee must be satisfied as to Official U. S. Bulletin Index of Ghent. the Americanism of the purchaser, in ad- The British attacked again south of dition to deciding whether or not the An index for the Official Valenciennes on Friday, crossing the Rho- price paid is a fair one. U. S. Bulletin for the first nelle and gaining ground. The following concerns will be among six months of 1918 may the first to be sold by the Alien Prop- New Franco-American Drive. be- had on application to erty Custodian: A drive on both sides of the Argonne, Botany Worsted Mills, Passaic, N. J., this office at 5 cents per by the French on the west side and the December 2. copy. An index for each American First Army on the east, began Gera Mills, Passaic, N. J., Dedember 10. month is printed in an yesterday and is making good progress. Passaic Worsted Spinning Mills,, Pas- early issue of the Bulle- This advance has developed a pocket in saic, N. J., December 10. the enemy's line in the Argonne which New Jersey Worst'd Spinning Co., Pas- tin after the close of that threatens to make him fall back. The saic, N. J., December 10. month. enemy opposite the American resisted (Continued on page 5.) stubbornly, throwing in all available di- 2 THE OFFICIAL U. S. BULLETIN: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1918. visions. Thirty-six hundred prisoners are reported captured. OUTPUT OF NEW LOCOMOTIVES DRAFT CALLS ISSUED FOR 1,100 - On the Italian front, the local attacks which we mentioned last week on the DOUBLED IN THREE MONTHS MEN FOR THE NAVAL SERVICE Asingo platioon, on the Grappa sector, and on the PLiave River, gave place to a (Continued from page 1.) Draft callf for 1,100 men of general military service well-ornized delve. The Austrian ar- this country and France, was seriously qualifications, 400 of Adri- whom will be colored and 700 of whom mies betwxeen the Brenta and the considering the establishment of Govern- atic coast bove I een routed. On Sunday will be white, for the Naval Service, morning Britis'i and Italian troops ment plants to meet the emergency. It were announced from the office of the crossed the I'ave at Grave di Papadapoli was proposed that approximately $23.000,- Provost Marshal General yesterday. in jpite of strong enemy resistance, ad- 000 should be spent for this ptrpose. At Carpenters, boiler makers, coppersmiths, stewards, and cooks are included in the vancing 2 nlei. across the plains on a the suggestion of the War Industries front of 5 miles. A crossing was also call. The men will entrain at various effected by the Italial forces 20 miles up- Board the expenditure was held up in points on November 9, but provision for stream from the other, near where the favor of the present plan. voluntary enrollment is made until No- Piave comes out among the foothills of Under the arrangeient adopted, the vember 5. - the Alps. construction of all the locomotives of The States' quotas, points of entrain- On Monday, both bridgeheads were ex- standaird gauge for use in France was ment, and specifications as to labor classi- tended and the enemy was forced back assigned to the Baldwin Locomotive fication are: from the river in loth sectors, on either Works, whereas all orders for the United General military service.-Entrain- side of the Montello hills. Oil the Vene- States Railroad Administration were di- ment November 9; voluntary until No- tian plains the allies broke through the vided between the American Locomotive vember 5. Austrian lines on a 2-mile front and Co. and the Lima Locomotive Works. Connecticut.-Carpenters (20), Boston, reached St. Lucia and Vezzola-5 miles These three companies comprise the en- Mass.; boiler makers (20), Boston, Mass. beyond the Pia e. Thbpgeneral, strategic tire standard gauge steam locomotive in- Delaware.-Carpenters (5), Philadel- idea of the allied advance has been to cut dustry of the country. By this method phia, Pa.; boiler makers (5), Philadel- the line of withdrawal, which has been of distributing the work, each of the phia, Pa. District of Columbia.-Carpenters successfully aceomplished, resulting in plants has been able to develop extraor- (5), forcing the enemy in the Adige-Piave sec- dinary speed. Last week's output, it Washington, D. C.; stewards (5), Wash- tor, if lie withdraws at all, to go back must be remembered, represented work ington.