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A USTRIANS MEET DEFEA T ON
MONTELLO PLA TEA U FRONT
Italians Stop
Enemy Effort
to Extend Lines
Stout Italian resistance has again stopped the Austrians in their
efforts to extend their front on the Montello plateau, the keystone of
j the Italian defense on the Piave river.
Official announcement is made at Rome that the Austrians were
defeated in a drive yesterday on the northeastern section of the pla
j teau and that only on the south were they able to make any prog
ress whatever. The enemy was able to cross the Montebelluna-Suse-gana
railway at several points near Nervisa station but even at this
point was promptly stopped.
..
Nervesa is a village on the west
bank of the Piave on the extreme
southeastern point of the Montello
plateau. On the north and west the
plateau slopes up steeply to wooded
heights while on the south are low
lands similar to those further down
where the Austrians have been check
ed by the Italian defense.
American aviators are now actively
engaged on the Piave front. They
have featured their arrival by partici
pating in a bombing expedition against
the bridges the Austrians have flung
across the river, in which work they
were successful.
Raiding operations are reported on
the British front while the French
have improved their positions on the
front to the southwest of Soissons.
Grave Events Impending.
PARIS. June 21 (Havas Agency.)
Grave events are impending on the
British front, according to military ex
perts who see In the intensity of the
German cannonade at various points
I the preliminary steps of a new Ger
l. man attack. It i? pointed out that the j
fourth army group under Crown Prince
Rupprecht of Bavaria has had leisure
for re-organization during the three
weeks since it was engaged in battle !
and now is ready for a new effort 1
alone the front.
It has been established that units of
I Crown Prince Rupprecbt's army were
engaged in the abortive attack on I
Rheims Tuesday night. This is con
sidered proof by the L'Hommc Libre 1
that the German crown prince's army :
is tired and exhausted
ROME. Thursday, June 20 The ef
forts of the Austrians to widen the!
northeastern salient on the Montello!
plateau the keystone of the Piave
, ! front, toward the west have failed,
Premier Orlanda informed parliament I
tonight
Toward the south, the premier stat- :
-ed, the enemy again succeeded Jn '
crossing the Monte Delluna-Sussegana
railway at several points near the I
Niversa station but was promptly stop-1
pod
On the lower Piave the Italians
gained more ground.
The enemy losses during the day
were enormous, the premier added.
The Italians took 1200 prisoners.
rrcngn irnpiuvmg Lines.
PARIS, June 21. French troops last
night carried out operations on the
front southwest of Soissons which re
sulted in the improvement of their po
sitions in the neighborhood of Fav-
erolles. A similar improvement was af-1
fected further south on this front near
Hautvesncs. The war office made these j
announcements today.
The statement reads:
"The French have improved their
positions north of Faverolles and in j
the region south of Hautvesnes. A
fccore of prisoners remained in the
"hands of the French."
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British Extensive Raiding
LONDON, June 21. Further exten
sive raiding and patrol operations
1 1 were carried out by British troops last
night in the Arras region and on the
front to the south towards Albert. At
tempts by the Germans to regain
E ground won yesterday by the British
nev Merrls on the Flanders' front 1
were repulsed, today's war office an - j
nouncement states.
The statement reads:
"During the night we captured a few i
prisoners and machine guns and in -
it flicted many casualties upon the
enemy In raids and patrol encounters
in Aveluy wood. In the neighborhood
of Hebuterne and Boyles and on both
banks of the Scarpe.
"Several hostile attempts to recap
ture the ground gained by us yester
day morning northwest of Merriu were
repulsed with loss to the enemy."
MORNING REVIEW OF WAR
SITUATION.
Austria's offensive against Italy ap
parently has resolved itself into a de
fensive movement both in the moun-'
talus and along the Piave. While '.(.
Ing allied counter -attacks on the fight
ing front the Austrian government is
being harassed in Vienna and else
where by popular outbreaks caused by
food conditions.
Italians Keeping Up Fight
Spurred on by their successful re
sistance, Italian troops are making re
peated attacks against the enemy po
hiUaiiB west' of the Piave and have
gained ground. In the mountains
around Asiago Franco-Italian troops
' have re-occupied important positions.
Wednesday the bag of Austrian pris-
oners aggregated nearly 2000, bringing
I the total captures to 11,000.
Vienna Admits Troops on Defensive.
Vienna in its official statement ad-
j mils that its troops are on the defen
sive and is content to report that all
Italian attacks, especially along the
i Piave, have been repulsed. The fight
ing is now in its seventh day and the
1 Austrians west of the Piave probably
I are in a morp precarious position than
at any time since last Saturday
Around Montello on the northern
; end of the Piave line the Austrians
j have been driven back slightly. Their
efforts to advance near Zenson, near
J the center of the line, have been
checked ith severe losses. At San
Dona di Piave and on the Fosetta ca
nal the Italians have driven the enemy
! from ground gained earlier in the
week. Heavy rains are reported In the
mountains and thFP may ndd Lb tfle
torrent in the Piave which already has
washed away many bridges.
l With the flooded river behind the
enemy the Italian counter-attacks are
gaining in strength in an effort to
wipe out or capture the troops which
have crossed the Piave and have been
unable to advance imo the Venetian
plain.
Vienna Situation Beyond.
Riots are reported Ln suburbs of Vi
enna and among 100,000 workmen In
important war manufaeturies there
The situation apparently is growing
beyond control of the civilian authori
ties and martial law in the Austrian
capital is not unlikely. The worknren
continue to demand more bread and
the agitation is spreading. Advices re
ceived in neutral countries are to the j
effect that the present trouble is the j
most serious the Austrian government
has faced and is causing crave appre
hension throughout the country'. Ger
many appears unable to help because
it is faced with a serious food situa-1
tion itself.
Premier von Seydler is accused by
the Socialist Arbeiter Zemins of Vi
enna of producing a diststrous situa
tion by favoring the agrarians and
traders. It says the situation could j
certainlv have been prevented The I
paper rails against Germany and Hun
gary and tells the authorities they
raut. immi-diut'-Iy draw the attention
of those countries to the fact that food
conditions in Austria are Intolerabli
and demand necessary assistance.
Austrians Demand Food.
It adds:
"The Austrian population cannot
starve while Germany and Hungary
have tolerably adequate rations The
Austrian government must be placed
under tutelage even in matters relat
ing to the food supply, It has de
served to be subjected to guardian
ship but the population must not be
punished with starvation for the fail
ure ot the government."
American Troops Busy.
Sub-normal fighting activity con
tinues generally on the front in France
and Belgium. The American troops ap
pear to be the only ones who are husb
and the actions which have occupied
them have not been extensive.
West of Montdldier American troop?
ln a short and desperate engagement
have cleaned out German trenches and
machine gun nests at Cantlgny. Mos-t
of the Germans who remained to fight
the Americans were killed while a
number were made prisoner.
Berlin Report False.
Berlin officially claims that German
troops have penetrated the American
trenches at Seicheprey. The falsity of
this report is shown by a dispatch
from the American front which says
that the "penetration" was only an at
tempted raid by sixty Germans.
Announcement is made of the tor
pedoing in the Mediterranean of th
French transport Sant'Anna with the
loss of 638 lives. The vessel was sunk
on May 10th and 1512 of the soldiers
and native workmen were saved.
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ENGRAVED SOLDIER MEMORIAL.
WASHINGTON, June 20. An en
graved memorial signed by the adjul -ant
general attesting the fact that he
died in the service of his country will
he sent by the war department to the
next of kin of every soldier who falls
in action in France-
THEY LEAD OUR BOYS
Brig. Gen. James G. Harbord. at left, "commander of the American
marines in France, and General Pershing, coniniander-in-chlef of the
American army In France, photographed recently after a conference
at Pershing's headquarters Harbord's men have electrified America
and her allies by the manner in which they plunged into the German
Mne on the Marne, making a three-mile gain and capturing several
villacea.
GEORGE I. CROW
COMMITS SUICIDE
Salt Lake Draft Registrant and
a Woman Found Shot in
a Room.
LOS ANGELES. Cal.. June 20. The
bodies of George I. Crow of Salt Lake,
registered for the draft in Utah in
class A-l, and of a woman said by the
police to be Mrs. B. E. Simons, were
found tonight in a room which had
been occupied by Crow and a room
mate named Wesley Phlpps.
Phipps had tried to enter the room
but was told by Crow to "wait a min
ute." Almost immediately afterward
four shots were fired in the room. The
police broke In and found both bodies.
The officers said the woman, who was
young, evidently had tried to prevent
the shooting.
In Crows pocket was found a Salt
Lake newspaper in which, under the
head "This Utah boy died for you."
was an account of the death in Franco
of Crow's brother. Raymond Franklin
Crow Phipps said Crow had been de
spondent Mnce reading the newspaper.
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FOUR BERLIN MEN
TRY TO ESCAPE
FROMJERMM
COPENHAGEN. June 21 Four res
idents of Berlin attempted to escape
from Germany Thursday in two air
planes. One Mireeeded in landing in
Denmark but the other was brought
down in the Baltic sea by German
guard ships. The machine which land
ed in Denmark had two occupants, one
of whom, a reserve officer, is a profes
sor in the University of Berlin. Thr
say they fled from Berlin because of
the conditions there.
SMALL FOOD RATION
FOR THE AUSTRIANS
LONDON. June 21 The weekly
food ration in Austria, the Daily Mail
correspondent at the Hague quotes the
Arbeiter Zeltung of Vienna as report
ing, is as follows:
Twenty-two ounces of bread; one
pound of potatoes of which half can
not be eaten; one ounce of black bran
mash; one ounce of another mill pro
duct; an ounce and a half of Tat; six
and a half ounces of sugar, one egg;
seven ounces of meat and a little Jam
and coffee substitute.
The Vienna newspaper says that the
meat allowance is obtained "if the ap
plicant walls all night for it."
BRITISH LOSSES OF WEEK
LONDON, June 21. British casual
ties reported durinr tut- week ended
today aggregated 36.620.
U. S. AVIATORS
m IN ITALY
Go Out on First Bombing Ex
pedition and Blow Up
Austrian Bridge.
ITALIAN ABM Y HEADQUARTERS, '
Thursday, June 20 The first Ameri
can aviators to fly on the Italian front
went todav on a bombing expedition
and succeeded in blowing two holes in
a new Austrian bridge across the,
Piave river.
The commander of the Italian avia
tion camp expressed satisfaction with
the work of the Americans. The avia
tlon forces on this front arc displainT
I the most Intense activity.
ENEMY PATROLS
S UFFERJf E A VI L Y
Pershing Reports Americans
Punish German Detachments
by Machine Gun Fire.
WASHINGTON, June 21. Enemy
I patrols suffered considerable IdWK
northwest of Chale.iu Thierry and In
'the Woevre region. General Pershing
reported today in his communique for
yesterday, in the Chateau Thierry ami
i Woevre regions and In Lorraine artil- j
lery fighting continues.
The communique follows:
"Section A Patrolling has again
been especially active. Northwest of1
'Chateau Thierry and in the Woevre
hostile patrols suffered considerable
losses in patrol encounters and from
our machine gun fire. Artllh ry fighting
continues ln these regions and in Lor-
raine.
"Section B There Is nothing to re
port on this section. '
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BOXING TOURAMENT
FOR JRED CROSS
NEW YORK, Juno 20 A boxing'
tournament held at Madison Square
garden tonight under the auspices of!
the war hospital entertainment asso-
elation netted $18,000 for the benefit i
of wounded American soldiers. Se
eral prominent boxers took part in the
tournament
Fred Fulton of Rochester. Minn.,
toyed with Oscar Anderson for three
rounds and then boxed an exhibition
three rounds with Joe Bond of the
United States naw
Jack Brltton outboxed Tet Lr w i-.
welterweight champion In a six-round
bout.
Frankie Bums of Jersey City, out
boxed Jack Sharkey of New York City
in six rounds.
Harry Greb of Pittsburg, middle
weight outfought the Zulu Kid of
Brooklyn, in six rounds.
Joe Leonard of Brooklyn and John- '
ny Rosner, American fly weight chain- j I
pion, boxed a six-round draw at catch
weights. Ji
TALI
OUTLOOK
SERIOUS
Second Phase of Aus
trian Offensive Ex
pected to Open.
PIAVE DRIVE FAILS
Enemy Losses Extremely
Heavy and Fighting
Outclassed.
ITALIAN ARMY HEADQUARTERS,
Thursday. June 20. (By the Associat
ed Press ) The second phase of the
Austrian offensive, featured by attacks
to the right and left of Valstagna.
along the BrenU river and in the
mountains should logically begin soou,
now that the effort on the Pave has
failed.
it is felt that f the Austrians do not
renew their efforts to penetrate to the
plains through the Brenta region and
taking Monte Grappa, it would bo an
acknowledgment of defeat and their
inability to carry out the ambitious
plan launched a week ago.
The situation, however. Is still re
garded as serious and all preparations
have been made to meet any new of
fensive. Along the Piave the Italian position?
are virtually unchanged. The Aus
trians are lighting well, according to
the Italians, but the latter are out
classing them. It is believed that th
Italians would have driven the Aus
trians back across the river before this
but for the nature of the open fightinc.
which an American on this front said
reminded him of the Indian comba's
in the olden days.
Night fights and bushwhacking
methods are necessary although they
are not favored by the military au
thorities because of the confusion and
danger of firing upon their own men.
Another difficulty has beenthe sim
ilarity in color between the Italian and
Austrian uniforms.
Austrian Losses Extremely Heavy.
The Austrian losses have been ex
tremely heavy. Although there is
much .sharp fighting there arc many
lulls during which the only distraction
of the armies is w.itching the bombing
operations of the rival aviators.
I'he fmhting on the Montello plateau
continues to be severe since it is felt
by the Italians lhat the loss of this po
sition would be more important thnn
the withdrawal from a few kilometer
of ground along the Piae. The condi
tions there are also bad.
Hills Strewn With Dead.
Owing to the wooded hills which are
crossed b seventy two ravines, each
one of which constitutes a seperate
line of defense. Many ofthem are still
Str wn with dead and indication of the
intensity of the Austrian resistance as
the enemy was slowly pressed back
from points he had won in the first
rush.
The Austrians early in the offensive
they have only about one-third.
No fear is felt in Venice that the
had almost half the plateau but now
Austrians will get there. Tho corre
spondent, on visiting the city, found an
absence of excitement ,md there wa;
no intention to leave on the part of
the inhabitants.
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NEGRO MINISTER
OBSTRUCTS DRAFT
JACKSON, Miss.. June 20 Charles
Mason, a negro pastor of the Church
Of Christ in America at Lexington.
Miss., was arrested today by federal
agents charged with obstructing tho
selective drift and making false state
ments for the purpose of promoting
the cause of Germany It is claimed
that be distributed a large amount of
disloyal literature of religious saor
emanating from Los Angel! -
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FORTUNATE MAN
Weary Sov. mister, would youse ,
mind stakin' a pore man wot ain't got !
no home C a few pennies ?
Mr Jar Got no home? Say, old fel
low, nu are plaing in great luck.
Why, you can stay out all night any
IU time you want to.
FOOD CONDITIONS
CAUOtOUBLE
Returned Dutchman Claims
Growing Discontent But
German Fear to Grumble.
LONDON, June 21. Food conditions
in Germany are becoming worse and
there is great discontent there owing
to reduction in the bread ration, ac
cording to a Dutchman interviewed b
the correspondent of the Times at The
Hague. The Dutchman had just re
turned from working in the Krupp
plant at Essen which he left because
he could not tand the food conditions
The German people, he added, feared
to grumble openl lest they be sent to
the front.
The correspondent said that the tes
timony corroborates what he has
heard from many other witnesses and
adds :
One popular saying is that the peo
ple will pay 100 marks for a sick doc
to eat
"The war is becoming very unpopu- !
j lar among the worker? but the feel
ing ebbs and flows with the tide of
Germany's successes and the English
are generally cursed."
I PRISONERS TO BE EXCHANGED
PARIS. June 21. (Havas Agency)
French prisoners who have been in
Germany since August 1914 - ill be ex
ehanged on June 24, according to the
Petit Journal.
Newspapers Assail Kaiser
GENEVA. June 21 Several German
newspapers openly attack the speech
made by Emperor William at German
great headquarters on the occasion of
his anniversary.
The Post of Munich says that the
feast could have been celebrated by a
measure of clemency and humanity in
stead of with a speech of warlike ten
or against England without contain
ing words of thanks to his own peo
ple. The paper concludes that the
Anglo-Saxon races are powerful en
ough to accept the Emperor's chal
lenge. nn
PRUSSIA FACING
CRIITCRIOD
Terrible Condition of Public
Morality Numerous Thefts
and Alarming Juvenile
Criminality.
AMSTERDAM, June 20 (By the
Associated Press) A picture of social
conditions in Prussia was given dur
ing a debate June 18 on the budget of
the ministry of the Interior in the
house of deputies at a session of the
reichstag.
"We are face to face with a terrible
condition of public morality." said
Deputy Braun u Socialist. "We hean
of numberless cases of thefts on rail - 1
roads and alarming juvenile criminal-j
ity. According to official statistics
between October. 1016. and November.1
1917. there were 487.726 convictions
for infractions of the food regulations
and these were only a small percent
age of the actual transgressions com
mitted. "As for that we are all sinners
Profiteering exceeds all bounds; usury
Lb rampant among all classes. Fraud-j
ulent profiteerinc, like that of the
Daimler works, is in no wise excep
tional. Even official bodies attempt to
extort illegal proflt.v Poor people can
only buy clothes at tho official CiOth
ing department by bribing salesmen
wna tips or 100a.
"The increase of criminality dem
onstrates the demorilization through
the war which is described by fools
as a rejuvenating bath. Self-sacri-fice
and patriotism perhaps are still
found in the trenches but in the in
vaded regions profiteering begins to
rear its head, culminating in the most
repulsive profit snatching at home.
Everybody Steals and Grabs
"Everybody ceats. steals, grabs,
from jail bird to court chamberlain,
who cheats the needy home worker
out of his scanty earnings, and pock - j
ets millions. And the loncer the war
lasts the worse it becomes.
"Added to this, is the fatherland j
party's wUd war baiting propaganda
and refusal to equal suffrage What
wonder that popular exasperation
burst forth in a big strike in January!'"
Herr Braun further pilloried the ac
tivities of police and informers, and
tho hateful hypocritical censorship.
The prohibition of the acknowledge
ment of gifts by soldiers to the Social
istic funds, he said, was ordered for
the purpose of withholding from pub
he knowledge the magnitude of the
demand in the army for peace and
equal suffrage.
Merciless Indictment of Fatherland
Party
He further mercilessly indicted the
systematic discrimination against the
Socialistic press, while the fatherland
party and annexationists with impun
Itj raised the accusation of bribery
with Anglo-American money against
li OSS favoring peace by negotiation.
Th minister of the interior, Dr.
liliillMil iH
PLANES
TO CROSS
OCEAN
Big Airplanes and Sea- I!
planes to Fly to I
Front. I
FORTY-HOUR TRIP
British Machine to Make
Initial Right This j
Fall.
SHINGTON. June 21 Big Am
erican airplanes and seaplanes should
be flying across the Atlantic to reach
the front by next summer, Major Gen
eral W B. Brancker of the British
army said here today in a formal
statement to the press. He is in
Washington to co-operate with Amer
ican officials and believes that a pio
neer trans-Atlantic flight should be
attempted without delay.
"An enterprise which must be car
ried out as soon as possible," General
Brancker said, "is the flight of the
Atlantic. There is really no reason
why a considerable number of big air
planes and seaplanes should not cross
the Atlantic during next summer."
It is expected the initial flight will
be made this autumn in a machine of
British make, probably a seaboat
starting from New Foundland and
touching at the Azores and Portugal
I before arriving in Ireland It has
been estimated the trip can be made
in forty hours of flying
Planes under consideration call for
crews of four men. composed of an
engineer, a relief of pilots and a navi
gating officer.
General Brancker disclosed the fact
that the British air council had defi
nitely decided upon trans-Atlantic
aircraft flights in order to find a
route for the movement of American
made aircraft to the front. His mis
sion in this city has to do with ar
rar.coments for the pioneer flight in
which it is hoped the United States
government will co-operate.
X-RAY SPECIALIST
j DIES IN N. Y.
NEW YORK. June 20 Major Eu
gene Wilson Caldwell of the medical
reserve corps, an X-ray specialist who.
under the direction of Surgeon Gen
eral Gorgas. recently perfected an ap
pliance for stereoscopic fluoroscopy
especially adapted to war needs, died
at a hospital here today as the result
of his experimental work for man?
ears with Roentgen rays. He waj
born in Savannah, Mo., forty-eig'ol
years ago.
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MEN CALLED FOR I
SPECIAL TRAINING
WASHINGTON, June 21. Provost
Marshal General Crowder called foi
8976 draft registrants qualified for
general military service to bo sent cv,
July 15 to various schools for special
training. The call is to be held open
for volunteers until July 1
Drews, answered vaguely that he was
not responsible for the censorship or
the other matters complained of which
were under the jurisdiction of the mil
itary authorities.
The Socialist newspaper, Vorwaerts.
devotes a long editorial to the fore
going in which it says:
"Dr. Drews' unsatisfactory answer
is tantamount to a confession of the
impotence of the civil government. In
fact there is no responsible civil gov
ernment in Prussia today, it dem
onstrates the necessity of the abolition
of the state of siege in the country for
which there is no legal justification
whatever. The necessity of a respon
sible government is shown especially
by the fate of suffrage reform, which
has been dragged from reading to
reading without the government Inter
vening with the Immediate dissolution
of the housa.'