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Show 7- Mmmmnmwmnmwammmmmm M.m fffr " , asii'raaryj 1 Major General Brancker of the British air force, who is in America to arrange for transatlantic airplane flights. 2 Two corps of Czecho-SIovak troops arriving in Vladivostok on their way to France to help the allies. 8 Italian and French officers at Lake Garda looking over the region whore It was believed the Austrians might resume their attack. NEWS REVIEW OF THE PAST WEEK . Italians Convert the Austrian , Drive Into a Defeat and a ; I Disastrous Rout. ' ENEMY LOSSES ARE 250,003 Germans Are Ready to Resume Offensive Offen-sive on West Front, but Allies Confl-; Confl-; dent Von Kuehlmann's Peace Talk a Fizzle Baker Asks Postponement cf Draft Limit Change. ' I By EDWARD W. PICKARD. The grund offensive of the Austrians s In Italy, a failure almost from the start, developed Into a defeat,' and then suddenly into a disastrous rout lust week. The hungry armies of Km-peror Km-peror Charles, unable . to advance against the gallant llulinns and their allies, took advantage of the sudden ' ' ' ' subsidence of the flood in the 1'hive ' . to retreat tinder cover of darkness, but flie dawn of Sunday revealed their movements and General Ifhiz struck swiftly. From the Montello to the sea the Itallun artillery poured a murderous murder-ous Are into the throngs of Austrians who," abandoning their guns, were trying try-ing to get across the river. Then the Infantry, and even the cuvalry men, were called into action and Kpecdlly j completed the rout. The Have was aUiuost choked with the enemy's dead. Within two days the Austrians had Xhtt only lost nil the ground they Kalned In their first rush, but hud been driven entirely geross the river i to nnd In some cases beyond their for mer lines. Their losses were conservatively con-servatively estimated at "(l.txiO In killed, wounded and prisoners. In addition ad-dition the Italian captured great numbers num-bers of guns ami quantities of munitions muni-tions and equipment. The Austrian rear guards fought . ;- most stubbornly at the Montello and , at the Zeiison bend, those ut the latter ;.v,.,e ;.Ytv rtii.tf 'iii.' two remaining .permanent bridges between there and The inoulh l the river. The enemy (fluttered severely from the work of ;the allied air forces nnd In this the new American avlutors were conspicuous. con-spicuous. : All Italy celebrated the great victory vic-tory and the overenthuslastlc, there as elsewhere, expected the Italian !army to follow It up by driving the Austrians out of the country. Put General IMua Is too wise to firil Into a rtrap similar to the one that caught ;t!ie enemy. The Austrians have ben there long enough to have organized a rvery utrong defensive line, and more-iover, more-iover, the Germans were rushing troope jto their support all last week. Dlas jdld not fnil to follow up hJs advantage advan-tage la the mountain region, however, r It li there that the next attack U expected. Ills troop Improved their positions ery cotudderuWy, especially especial-ly at Monte Grappa the height that Is the key to the passage down to the 'plains between the Brent a and the JPiave. troops necessary to suppress any uprisings. up-risings. Putting Austria out of the war is not yet the way to a general peace. N German military leaders were reported re-ported very much disgusted with the failure of their Austrian allies, nnd It la believed they will now try their hand again on the west' front in France or Flanders. Their arrangements arrange-ments for a resumption of the offen- slve were said Inst week to be about completed, and a great increase in the activity In the air heralded n new j drive. Put the comparative cajm of j several weeks had enabled the allies also to prepare, and their commanders command-ers expressed the utmost confidence In their ability to stoii the Huns again, wherever they might elect to attack. Early In the week the American gov- j eminent let It be known that, there j were then In France 1X10,000 Ainerl- I cans, of whom C.")O,0(K were combat- j nnts, and that by July 1 the number would be l.(KMl.(K)0. These men are j being put Into the front lines with ex- trnordinary rapidity, and are now holding sectors of varying length in at leust six places. j . The , Americans in the Chateau Thierry region were the heroes of the ' main operation on the west front last week. Finding the Germans had established es-tablished muehlne-'im nests in a corner cor-ner of r.elleau wood, they rudied them out completely In n swift nnd brilliant night action, and then went on to elenn up an enemy stronghold south of the village of Torcy. This' required re-quired seven hours of fierce (llitlng. but ut the end of that time the Americans Amer-icans were in undisputed possession of 1he objective, a wooded hill which commands the German positions la either direction. They had killed some 7CO Huns and captured several hundred hun-dred more, iin lud'iig a dozen officers. The work of -,he uitlllery in this op-M'tttiun op-M'tttiun was reiiuil Ui'.ble. The losses of tlic'Ainei ieanH were not out of pro-orlioi) pro-orlioi) to the importance of the rc- MiltS. fl As usual after a big offensive, Germany Ger-many put fonh another peace feeler, tin,;! without waiting for the full niet;si!iv of Austria's failure to develop. de-velop. This time Ii Von Kuehituanii, ti eretary of foreign affairs, wus the mouthpiece. His address in the relchs- tug not only was received with scorn 'by the allies, but served to arouse the anger of most of his own countrymeu, for two reasons. First, he udmitted that the central powers no longer had a chance to Vin victory by force alone; second, he declared tluit Russia ws chiefly to blame for the war, and that France and Kngland were next In order of culpability. So far as war alias and peace offers were concerned he said nothing uew. The reichstag beard his address in, gloomy silence and then the iwrty leaders attacked It bitterly. It was reported Thursday, that Dr. Von Kuehlmann was about to resign. He might be given a Job as court Jester In view of his statement that 'a prelim! uory condition of the exchange ot peace vlewe "most be a certain degree of mutual confidence In each iher' honesty and chivalry." The honesty and chivalry of Germany lie at th bottom of the ocean with the Lusltanla, in the ruins of ravished Belgium and In the wreckage of bombed Red Cross hospital. aid Kussla and rid her -of her Teuton conquerors. President Wilson declared de-clared himself for peaceful, not forceful force-ful Intervention, and it is probable a commission of distinguished men, perhaps per-haps Including representatives of all the allied nations, will be sent with offers of assistance and powers to arrange ar-range a plan of co-operation. Keren-sky, Keren-sky, who appeared unexpectedly in London on his way to America, is confident con-fident Russia will soon rejoin In the fight against the central powers. He and other Russian leaders, however, agree that the country will not toier-ute toier-ute foreign intervention In its Internal affairs. It Is economical and llnimcial aid that Russlu ueeds, and .needs at once. The Germans In southern Russia are making their 'way toward Smolensk, Smol-ensk, probably en route to Moscow, despite the protests of the bolshevik foreign minister. They also liave landed a strong force at Potl, ou lite eastern coast of the Pluck sea. . ' In eastern Siberia General Semenoff and lils anti-liolshevik army, after having been driven across the Miin-churlan Miin-churlan border, are again advancing because the forces opposing them 'Were ordered to the protection of 'Irkutsk. Germany Is now receiving some food supplies from Ukraine, but these are .mostly front the German army coin-ini.Nsi'.iiiit coin-ini.Nsi'.iiiit which buys litem from the 'peasants at exorbitant prices. PU , Secretary of War Raker seemingly changed his mind suddenly about extending ex-tending the draft age limits, for last week he anil General March, chief of staff, appeared before the senate committee com-mittee and agreed in urging that legislation leg-islation to that end be postponed until the fall. At that time, they said, the war dcparttmtit would be able to submit sub-mit a vast pivp'nm for army enlargement, enlarge-ment, iid would know how, many soldiers sol-diers could be transported overseas and how far It would be necessary to extend the draft to obtain the number num-ber of men ri (iiii'eii. Provost Marshal General (Yowcier said he still believed immediate action necessary, but being be-ing only a subordinate, he Itcwed to the decision of his superiors. The Senate committee, which bad agreed on twenty to forty years as the uew draft limits, voted to defer action. This provoked a storm of protest In congress, chiefly from Republican leaders who declared the delay was another evidence of the administration's administra-tion's procrastination and devotion to unpreparedin'ss. The Democrats promised prom-ised action in September and said there were enough men in class 1 to meet all requirements until then. To show that there Is no need for linuie dinte action Senator Hitchcock said: "The Information given to the committee com-mittee Is, In substance, this: That when we have vxbausted all available men in claa 1 of the present draft we will have an army of 3,300.000 men in August. In addition, there will be about 140,000 Canadians that we will brine Into the army 88 the result of I the Treaty Just ratlfled, so that we will then have ao army of 3,4.r0,000 men. Now, the -highest estimate of the number num-ber of men we can have In France at that time is L4S0.0O0, so that u mill have In this country when this con-' grew reconvenes after Its proposed recess re-cess In September over 2K,000 men." PH On Thursday the drtwrtng of numbers num-bers to determine the order In which youlhs of the ckiss of 1918, about 744,-POO 744,-POO In number, shall be called to the colors was conducted In the senate office of-fice building, with much of the ceremony cere-mony that marked the first drawing ft year ago. Secretary Baker, bllndfold-er, bllndfold-er, drew out the first capsule, with the ntimber 2H5 Inclosed. It was necessary neces-sary to draw only 1,200 numbers. The new registrants will be placed at' the foot of the lists In the clusses to which they are assigned by their boards, 4 The senate agricultural committee, disregarding the advice of many prominent prom-inent persons, adopted the amendment to the $ 11,0M),ix)0 emergency agricultural agricul-tural bill providing for national prohibition pro-hibition after June 30, 1019. and during dur-ing the continuance of the war. - On Monday the house passed the $.BO0,OOO,Oi fortiflcntinns bill, and the senate passed the $3.300,(MK,(tO sundry civil bill containing about S2.-000,000,000 S2.-000,000,000 more for the shipping program. i The crushing defeat of the Austrians Aus-trians had an enormous moral effect In all the belligerent countries. The news caused a profound depression In . Y'UK'rta i""1 Germany that was contrasted by the Jubilation In the allied al-lied nations. Italy said thut all it now asks Is the presence of American Ameri-can troops on its front, and these, presumably, are on the way If not . already there. In the dual monarchy the disaster on the Piave only accentuated the serious Internal conditions, further encouraging the rebellious Czechs and Slovaks and Slavs, and Increasing the general demand for food and peace. The government has neither the one nor the other to offer, for both are under the control of Germany. The spirit of revolution Is rife In Austrla-llungary, Austrla-llungary, but a note of warning Is sounded by French statesmen, who declare de-clare that the allies must not count on the success of a rebellion there. The disaffected peoples are separate and without competent leadership and Austria's ollies could easily lend the Russia came to the front again last week In a sensational way. First was the news, first denied and then confirmed, con-firmed, that Nicholas, the former czar, had been killed by the bolshevikl at Ekaterinburg. One story Bald he was assassinated by soviet troops during their retreat to that city. Another report re-port was that the bolshevik authorities there had convicted him after a short trial, condemned him to death and shut hi in. Then word came from Moscow that Grand Iuke Michael Alexandrovlteh, a younger brother of the deposed ruler, had put himself at the head of he new Siberian government and l-cied l-cied n manifesto to the Russian people. peo-ple. The Czecho-SIovak army In Sl-:."ila Sl-:."ila was reported to hnve taken Irkutsk and to be fighting la Kknterln-'urg, Kknterln-'urg, and, what Is more remarkable, it I Si said to be commanded by General Alexleff, former Russian commander chief. Meanwhile, the allies have been try-'."2 try-'."2 to determine what they can do to |