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Show ITALY 111 SURPRISE VICTORY OVER AUSJIANS Lull on Nearly Eery War Front Reported Aeros' Work Lauded. '" By United Press. LONDON, June I. A lull on every front In the world war, except that - where the Italians achieved a surprise sur-prise victory against the Austrians, was apparent from official reports tonight. to-night. All Field Marshal Hal reported was repulse of a "party of the enemy" ' which attacked a British post south of Oppy, and mutual artlllery-Ing. artlllery-Ing. "At different points," he con- tlnued, "our aeroplanes accomplished valuable work yeeterday. One German Ger-man machine was brought down and six others forced to descend, out of control. Three of our machines were missing." Except for the 408-yard adranre obtained by the Italians eouth of Ces-tagnaxlisa, Ces-tagnaxlisa, already -mentioned, there was a lull In this theatre of ths war. For two days the Italians have been beep bringing up -their -supplies -and consolidating their positions, while repelling re-pelling Austiisn counter attacks. Their offensive was naturally held In sheyanrs until this necesssry preparation prep-aration was completed. On the western front the British and French offensive bss been held ' tn abatement for ten days. The French have repelled tremendoua German Ger-man attacks during this period and achieved small local gains, but there have been none of the fierce combats of masses which were In progress at the height of General Nlvelle's ' drive. . . On the British front the fighting for two Weeks has been of patrols, of raids and of artillery, almost Incessant, Inces-sant, but never Involving any great forces on either side. No report hss come during recent weeks from either the Mesopotamtan or Palestine British expeditionary forces. On the Russian front desultory fighting has been reported, bat only of small companies. American Delegation At Stockholm Urged By Arthur E. Mann By United Preea. STOCKHOLM. June 1. Delegates from organised Isbor In America might perform signal service for the allied cause If they eeuld be here to tell worklnsisjea deteeratlons from bel- Spanlah flag If this explanation should not be d earned sufficient. Spain threatened to suspend diplomatic diplo-matic relations with Germany as a result of the Incident. - Stockholm of any. Soclallsta According Accord-ing to Vnlted Frees dispatches from London today, ths British lehoritea I Socialists) will probably stop ever In Stockholm en route to Petrograd, hut merely for ae pa rate conferences with the Dutch-Scandinavian groups. Ihcerent Battens that America la determines) de-termines) te rseulre a peace eetkrfae-, eetkrfae-, tory to the allies. In the belief of eertala allied nfnclala . They pointed out tonight such a delegation rents America would also strengthen the determination of allied workmen against Germany. Secretary rluyamane of the International Inter-national Socialist bureau likewise expressed ex-pressed the hope that the denial of passports te American delegates to the peace conference would be revoked. "I obnttld like to have American comrades com-rades attend," he eaid. "Whether they meat In a general' conference would depend upon the attitude of the Amur. Irajt racialist" party but wa desire to give them a a pa rate bearing, aa we are granting separate hearings to other delegations. A representation nf two and a half million, such ss an Amerl can delegation would represent, la too powerful to be Ignored." Telegraphers Ready To Aid U. S. ' ' By International News Serviee. CHICAOOi June I. Ai regiment of expert telegraphsrs from the leased wire service of Chicago la planned since the ready response of recruits for the two battalions now being organised or-ganised under ths signal- corps for servtoe in Krnnoe, Plsns for Ihs regiment regi-ment were discussed st a meeting this afternoon In the rooms of ths Fraternity Frater-nity of Leased Wire Telegraphers in ths Provident building. The fraternity has turned over Its rooms for recruiting purposes and applications ap-plications mar be registered there any time of the day. . , frparate- Conferences to -Precede Peace Conclave By United Press. ' STOCKHOLM. June - 1. Separate confer noes between the Dutch-Hcan-dlnavian groups of Soclallsta and the Tench and British Sorlallat delegates will precede any general meeting. Secretary Huysmana of the International Interna-tional bureau announced today. He eah.ed the Buealaa workmen and sumiera" council euggesling Its delegates dele-gates arrive between June 10 and It for such a meeting, adding by that t'me he expected Ihe British snd rresM-h delegates to hsve arrived. Huysmaas evidently was not aware today of the action of the Frenrh gov-e-" JJBBBJjrfJtrjajinotat o Germany Will Apologize for Sinking By lirtornatlenel News Service. . PARIS. June I Oermsny, in a nets to Spain, will apologise for -the attack by a Oerataa submarine on the Spanish t earner Patricio. The note declarea the steamer waa not torpedoed and the submarine had no Intention of sinking her, bat simply wanted to atop her. Germany expreeaea regret over Ihe incident in-cident and offers to psy aa Indemnity to the family of the engineer -of the vessel who was killed. Germany alee offers to ealute the |