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Show HEWS REVIEW OF THE PAST WEEK Kerensky Leads Russia's Army in Renewed Offensive on Galician Front. CHEERING NEWS FOR ALLIES Work of German Spies in America Resulted Re-sulted in Futile Submarine Attack on Pershing's Transports Attempt At-tempt to Restore Manchu Empire in China. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. Second in importance only to the arrival ar-rival of the American army in France, in the eyes of the allies, is the successful suc-cessful resumption of the offensive by the troops of the Russian republic. Led by the lion-hearted Kerensky himself, the Muscovite soldiers on Sunday began be-gan a fierce attack on the Austro-Ger-man lines in eastern Galicia near Brzezany. In the first two days the Russians drove the enemy out of a triple line of trenches and captured the town of Koniuchy and 18,300 men, this great number of prisoners indicating indi-cating a breakdown of the morale of the Teutonic troops. The fighting continued con-tinued all week and the losses on both sides were very heavy. The wonderfully wonder-fully efficient work of the Russian artillery ar-tillery In the preparatory bombardment bombard-ment shows this arm of the service Is better equipped than ever before. Lemberg is the immediate objective of this Russian advance, and at the same time an attack is in progress further north which threatens Kovel. While vast Importance attaches to the result of this battle, it is the renewed re-newed willingness and even desire of the Russian troops to fight the Teutons that Is most cheering to the allies. The army at least on that front now is well in band and Is better supplied with munitions than at any previous tjnie. All the regiments that took part In the fighting of Sunday and Monday have been ollicially designated "18th of June regiments," that being the old style date. Kerensky's presence inspired the men to almost unanimous action, ac-tion, the few laggards being punished by being removed from the ranks and sent home. (Sonernl Scott, American chief of staff, was fortunate enough to be at the front and to witness the Russian attack from a vantage point. A by-product of the successful Russian Rus-sian offensive was the grantliig'by Emperor Em-peror Charles of Austria of amnesty to all civilians convicted of high treason trea-son and other offensives. This attempt of the emperor to win all parties to the support of the government, it is predicted, will not succeed for the Czechs especially are still obdurate, and the opposition Is becoming stronger strong-er dally. Vork of German Spies in America. With the safe arrival In France last week of the last transports of the American expeditionary force, carrying the horses and ammunition, the government gov-ernment let it be known that 1 he previous previ-ous sections, carrying the troops, were twice attacked by German submarines. The U-boats were driven off before they could do any damage, and at least one of them was sunk by gunfire. gun-fire. The successful combating of these attacks enhances the feat of the navy in transporting the expedition without loss, but the fact that t he submarines waylaid the transports far outside the war zone has aroused the authorities at Washington to the truth that German Ger-man spies in this country must have told Berlin when the expedition was to sail and by what route. Secretary Daniels and Admiral Benson were the only persons, supposedly, who knew-the knew-the route selected. Admiral Cleaves sailing with sealed orders which he did not open until lie was out several days. When the expedition was well on Its way a wireless was sent to Admiral Ad-miral Sims, in command in European waters, to pick up the transports at a specified rendezvous out side the war zone. This message was in the navy's most secret and recently revised code. ' Many persons on the Atlantic seaboard knew when the vessels sailed, and that information presumably was sent the Berlin by a German agent by wireless in some roundabout way, but how the route was discovered seems to be a mystery. President Wilson has given orders that the German spy system be wiped out before any more troops sail, and many a Teuton is likely to be interned for the period of the war. Until now the government has been unexplaina-bly unexplaina-bly lenient In Its treatment of Germans Ger-mans and their sympathizers, in the country generally and in the city of Washington. We are not at war, officially, offi-cially, with Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey, and the diplomatic representatives repre-sentatives and agents of these countries coun-tries are still free to serve their ally in any way they can. The German press of America also is still unmolested unmo-lested and continues its sinister campaign cam-paign against the successful conduct of the war. In view of the confidential confiden-tial information from their Washington Washing-ton correspondents available to the German-American editors, and despite their protestations of loyalty to America, Amer-ica, it is not beyond the bounds of reason that some of these editors should be doing spy work for the kaiser, . to whose cause they have shown themselves devoted. German plotters and their friends also are credited by the government with devising and in part executing a plan to cripple shipping on the Great Lakes by sinking or disabling vessels. The federal officials, aided by those of Canada, are getting after these miscreants. mis-creants. Having received their munitions, General Pershing's troops were promptly moved forward to their In-te.-sive training camps back of the fighting lines, where they can hear the roar of the great guns. The official offi-cial review of one battalion wis the chief feature of the Fourth of July celebration cel-ebration in Paris, and the people of that city went wild with enthusiasm over the American fighters. British Again Advance. Field Marshal- Hnig again swatted the Germans on Thursday, beginning a resumption of the offensive in Belgium, Bel-gium, where there had been comparative compara-tive fpiiet for a week. The British made a considerable advance southwest south-west of Hollebeke. The Germans made a tremendous nt-tack nt-tack on the French lines east of Cerny Tuesday, but were repulsed by Petain's men with great slaughter. While they were demoralized by this defeat the French made a clever counter-attack, capturing a stong salient. Another slump In the number of U-boat U-boat victims was shown in the weekly report of the British admiralty, and the naval officials of the allies are convinced con-vinced (hat the submarine warfare has failed. The Germans are sending their U-boats far afield, one of them having shelled Ponta Delgada, a city in the Azores. An American transport trans-port helped drive the submarine away. On Wednesday n'dozen or more German Ger-man air raiders appeared over Harwich., Har-wich., a seaport in Essex, and dropped many bombs, killing 11 persons. They were driven off with gunfire and airplanes, air-planes, and two of them were brought down ablaze. German Unrest Increases. On .the eve of the meeting of the reichstag its committees were told by spokesmen for various groups that further proffers of peace such as Germany Ger-many is willing, even anxious, to grant will lie harmful and that all the empire em-pire can do is to hold out and meantime mean-time "democratize" the country ; that it might have peace this summer if it were willing to abandon all annexations annexa-tions and indemnities and to drop the idea of a separate peace with Russia; and that the peace formula of the Russian council of deputies was impossible. im-possible. The so-called democratizing of the empire, it appears, will take the form of reforming the franchise so far as the reichstag is concerned, which means mighty little so long as the German senate, composed of appointed ap-pointed members, has full control over the lower house, and there is no cabinet cabi-net responsible to the parliament. Meanwhile unrest is Increasing throughout Germany, displaying itself in food riots in Stettin, fmsseldorff and other cities, and in other forms elsewhere. Even some of the "Intellectuals," "Intel-lectuals," like Professor Delhrueck, Privy Councilor llnj-uucU and others, have Issued a call for governmental reform in Prussia. The pan-Germans, . save for a few of Ihe most rabid, are-singing are-singing smaller clay by day. Serious riots occurred In Amsterdam Amster-dam last week in which armed women raided the market places. These disturbances dis-turbances were due to the exportation of potatoes to England, to which the government is committed under agreements agree-ments to preserve its trade relations ' with both Germany and the entente nations. Preparations for speedy participation participa-tion In the war occupied Venizelos and his government In Greece last week. The premier has declared that the treaty with Serbia, disregarded by Con-stantine, Con-stantine, shall be faithfuMy executed. Senate Discusses Taxes and Food. The revised war tax bill was reported report-ed to the senate on Tuesday. As it stands, it will raise a revenue of $1,-670,000,000 $1,-670,000,000 a reduction of $130,000,-' 000 from the house bill. The tax ou war profits was Increased so as to raise $523,000,000. The discussion of the food control bill continued in the senate, the prohibition forces refusing to accept the plan of eliminating the provision for the commandeering of the existing supply of whisky for the manufacture of ammunition. The Southern senators, characteristically, rushed to the defense of cotton, to prevent pre-vent its Inclusion among the articles to be controlled. The combat between the council of national defense and certain senators and representatives who have not distinguished dis-tinguished themselves by broad-mindedness and patriotism, is deplored by those who desire to see the war needs of the country supplied In the quickest and best way. Accusations or bints of profiteering against members of the council, unsupported by facts, are footless foot-less and gain little sympathy from persons per-sons of intelligence. It is a pity that so many of our national representatives representa-tives are too petty to be able to grasp a great occasion. China Going Backward? While most of the civilized world Is battling for the security of democracy, the republic of China, which never was a real republic, is about to relapse into its old state of monarchy. Out of the tangle of circumstances in the Orient Ori-ent has come a new revolution which aims to restore the young Manchu emperor, em-peror, Hsuan Tung, to the throne he abdicated. With the guidance and support of Gen. Chang Hsun, the youth has established himself in the palace at Peking and is in a fair way to gain control of north China. President Li Yuan Hung took refuge in the Japanese Japan-ese embassy and ordered the vice president to assume the presidency and establish the government temporarily tempo-rarily at Nanking. This was done, Baron Feng Kwo Chang being named president. Both sides have assembled large forces, and the latest advices indicate in-dicate war will break out at any moment. mo-ment. The general opinion Is that Gen. Chang Ksun is endeavoring to set up a dictatorship, using the young emperor em-peror as a catspaw. So far Japan seems Inclined not to Interfere In this Chinese embroglio. Shocking Riots In East St. Louis. East St. Louis. III., wrote itself on the roll of disgrace and dishonor last iveek with race riots in which nion, than 100 negroes wove butchered and the negro quarter of the city was burned. Several white men met death In the rioting. The National Guard was called to suppress the grave disorder, disor-der, but met with little success, and the brutal murders continued day after af-ter day. Thousands of negroes have (led from the city. Superficially, the cause of the riots was the Importation from the South of great numbers of negroes to work In Ibe packing pli,ts and other industrial concerns, but the real cause lies deeper, in the disgracefully disgrace-fully corrupt political mismanagement of the city for many years. The decent citizens of East S(. Lns have banded together to redeem the place, and already have forced the mayor to dismiss the chief of police he 3re marshal and other officials ' Death took two prominent men' last week. Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree the eminent British actor, died in I o,i' don, and William H. Moody, former attorney general ami former' assncl Justin, of the Supreme court of lu. United Slates, pass,., llWily ,u . . home in MassaeUuseUs. i |