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Ftyeighth Year-No. 147. Price Five cents "pGDEISI CITY, UTTffisDAY EVENING, JUNE 20, 19187 CITY EDITION 3:30 P. M. 12 PAGES
ITALIAN FORCES REGAINING I
GROUND FROM THEAUSTRIANS I
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Austrian Drive i
In Italy Proves
Dismal Failure
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ITALIAN ARMY HEADQUARTERS. Wednesday. -June
19. The Italians have won complete control of the air ;
along the Piave line where the most determined fighting of I -the
present Austrian offensive is in progress. This afternoon j
H not a single Austrian machine was aloft on this front.
1 In general the situation of the Austrians along the Piave
appears far from satisfactory to them. Prisoners taken by the
Italians all declare the Austrian army has little food. Some of
I the prisoners have not eaten for 48 hours.
It is also reported that the Italians have regained all the
territory between Zenson and the Fossetta canal The Austro
Hungarians, it is declared, have been confined to the ground
between the Fossetta canal and the Sile canal, on the west
IK bank of the Piave river.
I ITALIAN' ARMY HEADQUARTERS.
Tuesday, June IS. (NIGHT) (By the
I . socialed Press) In a trip by the
I correspondent along the entire front,
I completed this evening there was
I found ample evidence that the Aus-
I tnan hunger offensive had failed.
I- Except for their crossings of the
K Piave, the Austrians got nothing for
f tneir attacks upon the Italians or the
B Anglo French forces aside from front
K line observation posts, which already
B have been retaken or seem in the wa
of being reclaimed.
& . The trip brought out the fact thar
li the Austrian artillery marksmanship
was extremely poor during the attack,
it The enemy's fire was frequently slack
la and often virtually useless because of
j the cutting of the Austrian telephone
fm communications by the Italian gunfire.
Bridges are Destroyed
W The river Piave. overflowing its
II banks, has destroyed several pontoon
(I bridges constructed by the Austrians
if at Intestadura and also at San Dona
di Piave.
This has increased the difficulty of
! the Austrians in their rear communi-
I cations affecting the transportation of
I artillery ammunition, food and fresh
S' troops.
W It is stated that the Austrians fight -
ft Ing south of the Piave river continue
K. lo implore help and also that two of
w i heir divisions have been greatly re-
M duced by losses.
a Y. M. C. A. ambulances and also the
Jm America Red Cross supplies are prov-
D ing useful to the Italians both for ref-
lft. ug un rain and :ilso for wounded
French Enter German Lines,
a PARIS, June 20. French troops en-
' tered the German lines between Bfont-
il dldier and ihe Oisc river last night and
m captured twenty prisoners, says the
II official statement issued today There
JB was nothing of importance on the rest
of the front.
H? The statement reads
. "French detachments penerated the
:b enemy lines between Montdidler and
fl the Oise in the region of the Chaume
If wood We brought back twenty pris-
tl oners. Quiet reigned on tho rest of
T the front."
British Raiders Busy.
if LONDON. June 20 British raiding
I parties were active in several sectors
1 along the front last night taking pris-
I oners and Inflicting; losses upon the
m Germans in numerous classes, the war
' olfieo announced today.
1? The statement reads:
H A number of raids were carried out
I by us last night in the neighborhood of
I 'I. , : (nji h . l s t of Arras, Lens and
Qlvenchy and in the Strazelle and
1 Ypres sectors (in Flanders.) Certain of
' I these enterprises led to sharp lighting
I in which the enemy suffered many
I W; casualties. Wo captured 18 prisoners
a and three machine guns."
I ftv "in the neighborhood of Morlancourt
I (northeast of Amiens) a hostile raid-
J . ing party was caught by our artillery
't ' I and rifle fire and dispersed.
"Hostile artillery activity foveloped
Juring the night north of Albert and in
the La Bassee canal sector "
Bloody Defeat at Rheims
, f PARIS. June 20. The sanguinary
defeat suffered by the Germans before
Rheims is pointed to by the morning,
' newspapers as an excellent augury for
The allies in the operations to com.- I
t fl 'Tho military experts, the Havas
iagency notes, are displaying particular
1 satisfaction over the outcome, regard -
B . Ing it as further proof of the exhaus-
tion of the crown prince's army which
is showing itself incapable of prolong-
ed efforts,
i i The commentators, however, do not
f seek to minimize the ability displayed
by the deft Ddi rl :nd point particular
I I ly to the remarkable arUHery barrage
fire, the notable resistance of the In
fantry and the irresistible counter-ut-1
lack of the bruve colonial troops under
j jl (ieueral Gouraud.
M I "Never did so important an attack
fail so completely," the Petit Journal
Ik remarks.
Morning Review of War Situation.
II Austrian pressure on the front from
Lake Garda to the Adriatic is grow
Ing weaker, although the fighting is I
still strenuous along the Piave front
from Montello to ihe 'sea
Since Sunday the enemy has been
held almost completely in check on
the Piave line and has made no gains
on ihe mountain front, while his loss
in prisoners alone has risen to nine
thousand Repeated efforts to debouch
from the west bank of the river be
twern Montello and San Dona di Piave
have been repulsed sanguinarily b
the Italians and only around Capo Sile
have the Austrians made any prog
ress.
From Capo Sile the Austrians have
advanced to the Fosseita canal, which
parallels the lowlands along the ra
coast to Mestre. a suburb of Venice
Vienna claims that the canal has been
crossed at some points southeast of
Meolo, but Rome reports that the . n
cmy advances have been repulsed
Heavy Fighting Continues.
Heavy fighting continues around the
Montello plateau. The Austrians have
not yet gained control of this domi
nating height nor have they appar
ently had any success lin attempting
to debouch on to the lower ground at
Sovilla, south of Nervesa.
The waters of the Piave have come
to the aid of the strongly resisting Kal
ians and the British official state
ments on the fighting says that the
river has risen suddenly. The rise hap
been sufficient to carry away many of
the bridges the Austrians had thrown
across the stream.
Emperor Charles at Front.
Emperor Charles, fearful that the
Austrians themselves will not be able
to emulate the Austro-German suc
cess of last fall on the Isonzo line,
personally is urging his troops for
ward. The emperor is said to be us
ing his greatest efforts before calling
on Germany for help.
Meanwhile internal conditions in
Austria, especially as regards food,
are causing trouble. The city coun
cil of Vienna has protested against re
duction of the bread ration and the la
bor organizations in the Austrian capl
tal call for the "speediest general
peace." The food supplies in Austria
are reported at the lowest ebb since
1914. (
The Rheims front again is quiet.
The French maintain their positions.
Elsewhere on the western front ! .
there has been only minor raiding ac- j
tlvity. ,
Americans Raid German Lines.
East of Chateau Thierry American '
patrols have crossed the Marne in ',
boats and bested enemy patrols in en-
counters. In addition to killing a large
number of Germans, the raiders
brought back prisoner
American bombing airplanes again
have bombarded Conflans. a railroad
Junction between Verdun and Melz. '
dropping 38 bombs.
German aggression in the Ukraine
is beginning lo reap the whirlwind,
according to reports from Moscow A
revolt on a large scale has broken out
in Kiev, the I kranian capital, and
there has been much street fighting
Forty thousand armed peasants have
risen and the revolt has spread lo the
provinces of Tohernigov and Poltava, i
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FLOOD DAMAGE AT
FORSYTH IS HEAVY
BILLINGS. Mont.. June 19. Flood i
damage al Forsyte Mont., where the
Yellowstone river is out of Its banks, j
may total a quarter of a million dol-1
lars, District Judge Jones of that!
town said here oday. He said many
houses were surrounded and there are
several inches of water in the. court
house. All women and children have i
been removed from the town.
Only two eating placi were not
flooded. Judge .iii. said, and there
is danger of a scarcity o. food. The
river there rote Bix Inches today and
i the water is ten feet deep in parts of
the residence district.
The river continued to fall here
today.
f NIGHT NEWS SUMMARY.,
CHICAGO. 130(1 members of
the National Credit Men's BSSO-
ciation pledce support to the pres-
ident in carrying out the war pro-
4- gram.
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WASHINGTON Senate pass-
ed ?220.fnii.tiiii pension bill.
CAMP LEWIS, T.Hom.i. Wash.
f Major-General EL A Greene
was relieved of hi command and 4
ordered to Washington
SPRIN"t.FlELI. a Lieutenant
4- Frank S Tatterson, Dayton. O..
and Lieut Leroy Swan of Nor-
wich. C onn, were killed in an av
4- iation accident. 4
4 ST. PAUL, Minn - American
4- Federation of Labor passed reso- 4
4 lutiops calling upon the president 4
4 and governor Ol California to oh- 4
4- tain a new trial for Thomas J.
4- Moonej
4
4 PENSACOLA. Fla. B E. Syl- 4
4- vester and A. B. Blair, naval re-
4- serve aviators, were killed when 4
4 their airplane fell. 4
4
4 ASHINGTON Gen. Pcrsh- 4
4- ing denied that gas masks fur- 4
4 nihed American soldiers have
4- proven defective. 4
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PURSUED
BY HUN
U-BOATS
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Steamers Report Escape j
by Superior Speed
and Wireless Calk
i AN ATLANTIC PORT. June 20 An
'American steamer arriving here today
from a Central American port report
ed that at 4 p. m. yesterday afternoon
1 180 to 200 miles south of Sandy Hook
she sighted a submarine and was pur
' sued by the U-boat.
This is the first report of the ap
i pea ranee of a German raider so far
.north since ships were sunkby subma
! nne attacks off the Jersey coast in the
i later part of May.
A GULF PORT. June 20 A coast -
wise passenger steamship which ar
'rived here lato yesterday reported en
countering a German submarine last
Saturdaj off the coast of South Caro
i lina. The steamer made good her es
1 cape because of superior speed and her
j wireless calls for help which apparent
ly led the submarine to give up the
' chase.
I Officers of the steamer sighted the
submarine as it came to the surface
! Jess than a mile away. The raider
started for the ship, at the same time
diving. As the steamer forged ahead
'and began working her wireless, tho
, submarine dropped astern and was not
I seen again.
New Example of Barbarity
LONDON, June 20. A new and flag
rant example of German submarine
barbarity is reported.
A U-boat first torpedoed without
warning and then .-helled a British
steamer. The officers and crew ol tlie
damaged essel were ordered aboard
the submarine the captain being taken
below as a prisoner. The British er w
'was then ordered to row one of the
boats back to the steamer with a Ger
man prize crew which rifled the steam
cr systematically and then sank her.
The British were then given some
provisions and cast adrift. Of 28 men
I on one boat only Ave survived. The
occupants of another boat were pick
ed up in a critical condition on the
lifth day by an American steamer.
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JEWEL THIEVES
UNDER ARREST
NEW YORK, June 19 Charged
with stealing $3,000 worth of Jewelr;
from Mrs Francii a Carolan here lasl
February. Felix E. Bedrian of New
York, a machinist, and Man Dippak of
Tin burg, a maid, were arrested here
tonight At the time of the robbery, the
police -aid, .i pearl necklace valued at
$200,000 Wat overlooked.
Mr. Carolan who was Miss Harriet
Pullman, and whose father according
to the police was head of ihe Pullman
rompauv, is now in San Francisco. She
as notified tonight of the arrests.
FURIOUS I
i pel
Italians Making Desper
ate Fight on the
Piave Line.
SPIRITJS HIGH
French Believe Aus
trians Cannot Avoid
Defeat.
ITALIAN ARMY HEADQUARTERS.
Wednesday. June 19. (By the Asso
ciated Press.)- Realization that the
Austrian offensive has failed is spur
ring the Italian troops to a desper.ve
resistance along the Piave. Heavy
fichtlng continued s.;oda.v around the
Montello plateau on the north anu
near San Don dl Piave on the .-omh.
On Montello, which is hilly and
wooded, the opposing forces fpquent
ly stumbled upon each other unexpect
edly, sharp encounters resulting.
The spirit of the Italian troops Is at
high pilch despite wounds, loss of
sleep and constant movement made
' necessary by the condition of the ter
' I rain at several points.
Ausinari6 uannot avoio uereai. j
PARIS, June 2". The splendid re
sistance of Ihe Italians and their I
'Franco-British allies leads Ihe French
1 press to conclude that the Austrians
cannot avoid defeat.
A Havas dispatch from Rome says
that Italy has achieved a great double
victory-, referring to the. recent naval
exploit in tho Adriatic and the present
checking of the Austrians.
Late in March, says the Echo de
Parih. Field Marshal von Hindenburg
demanded that Austrian divisions be
sent to the French front. Field Marshal
Conrad von Hoetzendorff. support' d by
Emperor Charles, assured the German
leader that an Austrian offensive
against Italy would have a great
chance of success and would be re.
ceived joyfully by the dual monarchy.
This point of view was finally accepted
by the German supreme command.
Victory of Allies Forecast.
GENEVA, Wednesday, June 19.
The Jugo-Slavs believe in the event
ual victory of the Entente allies, ac
cording to the Journal Novlne of Ag
ram, Hungary.
"General Foch has not yet disclos
ed his intentions," says the newspaper
"He Is carefully holding back his ro
se ires.
"Every month the allies grow
stronger in men and material Al
together it is to the interest of the
Central powers to conclude a peace
treaty quickly. The internal strife be
tween the nationalities of Austria -Hungary
has reached its height. Never
before in history has the people's spir
it for freedom and independence been
i so agitated as now. We have every
! faith in the alllei '
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AUSTRIANS HOPE
TO TAKE RICH
SPOILS IN ITALY
ITALIAN ARMY HEADQUARTERS, j
Wednesday, June 19 That Austria's j
drive against Italy i.- po.Mtiveh a ' nun
ger offensive" has been proved by new
orders and addresses found upon pris I
oners. These were signed by officers '
ranging from Field Marshal Conrad
von Hoetzendorff down to regimental
commanders.
One which was issued by the com
mander of the famous regiment bear
ing the name of Archduke Charles,
says:
"Soldiers, remember the spoils we
got last fall from the Italians: The
sheep, cows, steers, warehouses full
Of good clothes and gTOCerj ion s lull
of wines, canned good.-, flour and
sugar. Think of your family. Think
PERSHING CHOOSES
FIRST ARMY HEAD
Vjgp-
Brig. Gen. B. S. Foulots.
Brig. Gen Benjamin S Loulois,
formerly chief of the air service of
the American expeditionary forces,
has been detached from that post
and appointed by General Pershing
as head of the air service of the
"First Armv." He will now be in
active command of the aviators at
the front. Colonel Robert N. Pad
dock will have Foulois' former post.
of the white bread you may win for J ,
all." i
The correspondent has visited L
groups of hundreds of prisoners, all
r.f whom are thin and weak. They said
they had had little food for the past ,
month and spoke with horror of the
winter months they had passed. A ,
sample of their black bread showed
that it was made of rye straw and po
tatoes. Many of the prisoners have strong,
well spiked shoe.-, but these they claim 1
they made themselves or bought. Their
clothes, however, are falling apart,
having been patched frequently Most
of them have mere rags for shirts.
The majority of the prisoners hnv
money but it is either in paper bills
or iron coin The most of them wear
medas for valor, some of them having
two or three of them, but these decora
tiona aro of base metals and none are
Of gold or silver. One is stamped with
a likeness of Empress Zita and encir
cled with laurel wreaths and is made 1
of a zinc composition The prisoners
part readily with these medals, saying
they have no pride in them, for a 1 w
pennies of Italian money. Most of
the captured men are young and light
hearted and generally have bad
teeth.
Editorially the ARBEITER zei
TUNG points out that the Austrian
note circulation is 22.500.000.ti00
crowns, as compared with 2.500,000,000
before the war It makes a strong
plea for peace and condemns the ac
tion of the German s. ml -of fiacial or
gan, Ihe N(. iRDDEI'TSCHE ALLGE-I
MEINE ZEITCNG, in cutting off peace
discussions with a blank negative.
The newspaper laments that .aero is
no parliament in session during the
. nnnrnn i r l I s
The Berlin KREU8B ZBITUNG pub
lishes a Vienna dispatch from a "well
Inlormed source" saying that Austria
Hungary cannot independently propose
a concrete peace program or even the
outline of one for fear that the enemy
might use ii for propaganda purposes
all hough the dispatch adds that a
' properly authorized offer from the op
, ponents of the central powers to dls
CUBS peace possibilities would not be
rejected.
Italians' Humorous Stones
The Italian soldiers tell humorous
stories of captures affected by per
suading the Austrians that they will
be well fed. One Italian officer who
had been wounded and picked up by a
group of Austrians who intended to
make him prisoner explained how
foolish they were.
He said:
"Come with me and you will get
meat, wine and real bread."
Thereupon the whole party went
over to the Italian lines.
I It is said also that at the beginning
I of the offensive the Austrians In Ihe
front line each received three rations
of meat, one for each day of the el
tack until they reached the Italian
stores. They were so huncry, how
ever, that they ate all the first day.
BRITISH DESTROY
15 HUN MACHINES
LONDON. June 19. The official
statement an aerial operations tonlghi
says !
"In the air fighting Tuesday we de
stroyed fifteen German machines and
disabled five Eight of ours are mis
sing. "Nineteen tons of bombs were drop
ped in the course of the day. A hea-
rain at night prevented flying."
ITS IN I
Mob Breaks Into Baker
ies and Stones the
Palace.
TROOPS ARE RUSHED
Immense Excitement
in Dual Monarchy Over
Ration Reduction.
AMSTERDAM. June 20 Vlend;
dispatches to "erman newspapers sa:
that the reduction of the bread ratioi
in Austria-Hungary caused immensi
excitement throughout the dual inon
archy. All ..ustrian newspapaers with
out distinction of party protest azr.tns
the measure, demand its removal n
ask immediate help from German;
land Hungary.
J LONDON, June 20 Serious rioting
.broke out in Vienna yesterday, says,
jan Exchange Telegraph dispatch from
! Amsterdam The mob broke into a
number of bakeries, stoned the resi
dence of the premier and also one of
the wings of the Hofburg palace; says
I he m. - -.age.
Troops are being rushed to capital
i to restore order. It is possible, it
is stated, that martial law will be pro-
claimed.
Rioting was in protest against re
duction of itie bread ration.
AMSTERDAM Wednesday. June 19.
The Berlin Vorwaerts. the German
! Socialist organ, in announcing the In
crease in the price of bread to 5 pffe
nigs per pound says this price will
bring the landowners one billion marks
surplus profits and necessarily will be
followed by increases in the cost of
milk, butter and beef.
LONDON, June 20. Heavily censor
ed private messages received In Stock
holm indicate that peace demonstra
tions were held recently in Berlin.
1 Hamburg and Cologne and that sev
1 eral workmen were killed and many
; persons arrested, says a dispatch to
the Morning Post. The police and mil
itary dispersed crowds of demon
' strants.
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AMERICAN TROOPS
ARRIVING SAFELY
ON FRENCH SOIT
I PARIS, June 20 (Havas Agency.)
Talking to the parliamentary army
commission today on the military' sit
uation, Premier Clemenceau alluded to
the American military effort, which he
said was being constantly sustained
and which was resulting In the steady
I and safe arrival in France of large
numbers i American reinforcements.
ii- -poke also "i new decisions made
by the British government regarding
measures to be taken during the next
enemy offensive and upon ihe situa
tion in regard to the defense of Paris.
Leon Abrami. under secretary for ef
fectives of the war department. ga
details of the military strength of the
entente and bis revelations, together
wiih the statemens made by the pre
mier, had s moa reassuring effeci upon
the commissioners.
The members of the commission,
says L'Homme Libre, were particular'
ly impressed by ihe figures given of
'the numbers of American troops
which, it predicts, will shortly brine
about numerical eoualitj irlth the
I enemy.
POLES NOT TO CELEBRATE.
AMSTERDAM, June 19. Dr. Drews,
the Prussian minister of ibe interior,
announced In the Prussian lower house
that henceforth all publle celebrations
would be prohibited in Polish territory
during ihe war. The step was taken,
he said, ns a result of disturbances
which occurred V ,nr Kosciusko cele
brations, which must have deeply hurt
the Gorman population.
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DEFEATS I
EIEMT I
Italian Compels Aus- j I
trian Gun Crew to In I
Surrender. II I
THOUSANDS LOOK ON II I
: Airplane Forces Gun- II I
ners to Flee From J I
Deadly Fire. fl I
i ITALIAN ARMT HEADQUARTERS
jr Wednesday. June 19. (Bv the Aeso
3 ciated Press.) As thousands of Ital
e j ian and Austrian soldiers looked on
today an Italian airplane brought
" I about the surrender of the crew of an W
Austrian machine gun float after the
d Italian infantry and artillery had fai- v
y ed to subjugate jfl
The Austrians brought the float up
g'on the south bank of the Piave, occup
a led by the Italians, and from this van- j
n tage point poured a harassing fire into '
a the Italians. It was impossible to use
- light artillery to any great extent be
'f cause of the proximity of the float to j)
s the Italian lines Finally an Italian
airplane swooped down upon the rlvi c j
il and forced the occupants of the float j
it to swim to the right bank and surren-
der to the Italian soldiers.
The arrival of allied air fighters to
- assist the Italians has heartened the 4 i
Italian air force, which is much wear
ied after six days of heroic work. J
n Austrian General Fights to Death.
ITALIAN ARMY HEADQUARTERS,
Wednesday. June 19 (By the Assc
II ciated Press.) Deserted by his staff '
;s on the Montello plateau. Major-Gen-
'e eral von Kronstadt of the Austrian '
army fought single-handed against the
Italian ardit until he was wounded
seriously The general died later In a
'" hospital.
It seems that the general and hi!
l staff became lost in the woods of Mon-a-
tello and ran into a unit of arditi
' When the members of the staff saw
l' the Italian soldiers they ran away The l j
lo general was called upon to surrender
but refused and opened fire on the ar- V j
n" ditl. Ln the exchange of shots he re- p J
ceived his death wound. -
U-BOATS UNEQUAL . I
TO WARFARE OF I
' ENEMYNAVIES I
LONDON. June 20 German U-boats i
I are unequal to the warfare asvlnst I
thtm is the virtual admission of Cap- ,
tain I'ersius, the naval Ctitk of the
Berliner Tasjeblatt, says s Rotten! i
dispatch to the Daily Telegraph. 1 i
'aptam Persius write I S
'Every layman knows that U-boat f'il
losses arc unavoidable owing to tho fvsl
I continually increasing sharpness and 1 Ll
. ijvenefc of the defense measure V
of th. enemy wMeb perhaps will fur. I
thet increase as the war progresses. (
K is sca-cciy to be denied that .ur lifl
enemies are both carrying on the war
ind 1 ving and thr it will be ptwble I 1
I for ilein to offuri Jhomselvei tfain! InH
l.o'ron noeds -'m a Jnr.g tune, a' ;inv fflfl
! tat". From fl begamitg nf the 1 II)
t.it war it wa a Bilalnke. often com- Ifll
I iv.ftstu by us. i underedtimate tho IBI
t$iJTCef of oj enemies." IqI
DANISH PEOPLE I
RESENT FOOD RULES I I
COPENHAGEN. June 20 As a pro
I teal against the government food r -i
ulatlons, workmen and women
marched to the Danish parliament
building Wednesday earning stand
ards bearing inscriptions demanding
more bread and more butter. Ill fll
of those in the proce;-sion were worn- lul
en,