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Show PROGRESS OF THE WAR. While the Anlo-French offensive was subsiding the Italians continued to press heavily against the Austrians from points north of Gorizia southward to the sea. Almost every day gains were re-eorddd, re-eorddd, but, on the whole, the Austrian resistance has been such as to make these gains seem of slight value. The Austrians reacted with increasing power and their counter-attacks, although al-though usually beaten off, were so fierce and so well sustained that the Latins were able to resist them only with the greatest difficulty. In the three weeks of the offensive the Italians have captured about 25,000 prisoners and many heavy guns. The Austrians, in the same period, have captured cap-tured 3,000 prisoners and some machine ma-chine guns. Whether General Cadorna will continue con-tinue to press forward or not is known only to the allied war council. The drive was begun in accordance with the council 's wish, and was designed to break the long rest of the Austrians and to use up their resources in men and materials. It was timed so as to begin with the subsidence of the Anglo-French offensives, and to keep the enemy occupied occu-pied while the English and French were preparing for another drive. General von Hindenburg has informed tho kaiser that the allied offensive has worn itself out and is at an end. It will not be forgotten that last fall similar simi-lar announcements were made in Berlin regarding the Somme offensive, which did not subside until cold weather and bad ground made fighting almost impossible im-possible for either side. It is safe to assume that the French and English are simply making ready for a renewal of their offensives or for drives in other sectors. Already there is a hint that the British may strike along the coast. The advantage of such, an offensive, if successful, could hardly be overestimated. overesti-mated. Success would mean the capture cap-ture of all the German submarine bases in Belgium, the principal one being Zee-brugge. Zee-brugge. How the British and Belgians would overcome the obstacles presented by the flooded districts of Flanders if a drive were attempted along the coast it is difficult to conjecture. But the drive need not be in the immediate vicinity of the coast. A plunge forward in the Ypres sector and northwestward thereof would accomplish the same purpose. pur-pose. Berlin is evidently puzzled to know just what the allies intend to do. It was reported from Berlin the other day that a Russian drive was anticipated, but the drive has not developed, although al-though there has been some fighting of a brisk character in Galicia, where, it is probable, General Brussiloff still is in command. The relative strength of the belligerent belliger-ent armies is again an absorbing topic. The allies estimate that the Germans are now able to muster, all told, not j more than 4,000,000 men for both fronts. ! Of this total about 1,000.000 are on the Russian front, 2,500,000 on the western front and 500,000 in reserve. The French still have an army of 2.700,000 men, counting the reserves, and the English have about 2,000,000 at the front in ! France, with an unknown number of reserves. re-serves. Their reserves are in France, England, Africa and Asia. The Belgians have about 150,000, with some reserves, while the Russians have in France perhaps per-haps two divisions. It is said there are also 40,000 Portuguese in France. It is interesting in this connection to hear that with the engineering and hospital hos-pital units which we are now sending to France, there will soon be 100,000 Americans Amer-icans with the English and French forces. Most of these arc with the British Brit-ish army, the French Foreign Legion, Le-gion, in the Lafayette escadrille and the hospital and ambulance services. It is ,nuite probable that in addition to engineers, Red Cross units and surgeons sur-geons we are sending other units to France to familiarize themselves with training and fighting. We are informed from Great Britain that the United States plans to train this year GOOD airmen and to construct con-struct 3500 air machines. This sounds bitr, and doubtless we shall lend valuable valu-able assistance in the air fighting, but bv comparison with the air services maintained by the British and French it is slight. Their combined forces comprise com-prise 200,000 men and about 18,000 machines. ma-chines. The allied aviation corps are st niggling nig-gling every day for mastery of the air. They give the enemy no rest, because they believe that some time in the near future they will be able to gain such an ascendancy as will enable them to bombard German bases and German snn-plv snn-plv trains at will. The British and French arc attempting in the air to make a suitable response to the Teuton submarines. They are trying to wreck t he principal submarine bases by bom-: bom-: bardments and to interfere with the j -nppUcs of the German army. If the allies could destroy thousands of freight cars they would be doing about what tho Germans are doing when their submarines sub-marines destroy hundreds of ships. That is why tho allied airmen continue to drop tons of explosives every day back of the German lines while their fighting airmen battle with the fighting airmen uf the enemy. The submarines have once more failed to show the efficiency attained in April. For a month their records have been about 40 or 50 per cent less successful than their high-water mark records in March and April. The latest British report states that only eighteen English ships of more than 1000 tons were sunk in a week. Adding the neutral tonnage to this, we may safely conjecture that the total for the week did not exceed loO.OOU tons, whereas the total for 'a month in March, and April was more than a million tons. If the Germans are capable of "coming "com-ing back" the reports of the next two weeks will tell the story. And that they will come back is certain unless it be true that the allies have discovered some scientific method of destroying the U-boats in large numbers. The Germans Ger-mans are increasing their facilities for making submarines. Whereas they have been able to turn out about four a week they will, it is said, build not less than six a week from this time forward. Close-in attacks on German bases by the combined squadrons of Great Britain, Brit-ain, France and the United States are counted on to lesseji the power of vthc U-boats, but it is rumored that Berlin now sends out ''mother" submarines, which are concealed' bases for the U-serpents. The supply ships sink to the bottom somewhere on the enemy coasts, and rise only at night to supply' the fighting submarines. In the Adriatic a French submarine scored a triumph by sinking an Austrian submarine of large size as it was emerging emerg-ing from Cattaro harbor, accompanied by a torpedo boat. Prisoners captured by the Italians tell of a great revolt against the Teutons and Bulgars in Serbia. Hundreds of Serbians were hanged and the Bulgars committed many atrocities of the most dreadful character, especially against women and children. The uprising is said to have caused the invaders considerable con-siderable loss. Presumably the Serbians directed their efforts against lines of communication, probably destroying munitions mu-nitions and supplies and tearing up railroads. rail-roads. Brazil has ordered the seizure of forty-eight German ships in Brazilian harbors. har-bors. " |