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Show NEWS REVIEW OF THE PAST WEEK Two New Pro-Ally Republics Are Established in. Northern Part of Russia. PROBLEM OF AID UNSOLVED Vcn Hintze, Pan-German, to Succeed Von Kuehlmann Italians and French Conducting Successful Offensive Offen-sive Against the Austrians in Southern South-ern Albania. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. ."What shall we do to help Russia?" was still the leading question for the governments of the allied nations last week. Developments, though they were In the main favorable to the allied al-lied cause, had not greatly clarified the situation. It seems apparent that Germany, Ger-many, too, is in doubt us to what course to pursue In the near East. Her policy of terrorism and grab-all has notvbeen working out well and has caused bitter complaint even in the reichstag. The people of the Mjurman coast, between Finland and the White sea, where there are large allied military stores under guard of British and American forces, have created the White sea republic, and in the rest of Arctic Ilussia, from the White sea to Siberia, the republic of Wologda-czhe Wologda-czhe has been established. Both of these new states are anti-German and j pro-ally and their people promise to j form active forces against the Teutons Teu-tons If given aid. In western Siberia . the bolshevik! have been defeated ; again and are reported to have evac- j uated Irkutsk, and a provisional gov-eminent gov-eminent for Siberia has been set up ! in Novonicolacvsk. This government j has laid out a program that includes the liberation of Siberia frojn the bol- j shevlkl ; the avoidance. If possible, of foreign Intervention ; universal suffrage, suf-frage, distribution of the land among the landless and other economic reforms. re-forms. It Intends to summon a constituent con-stituent assembly and to restore, law and order. All this Is being done 'under 'un-der the protection of the2 army of Czecho-Slovaks that has continued Its victorious campaign against the bolshevik! bol-shevik! and the German and Austrian war prisoners who are aiding them. Thus there appears to be forming the established authority that has been considered requisite for the extending ex-tending of aid to the Russians, at least in Siberia. But President Wilson would no consent to the dispatch of tin armed force that would mean the weakening of the western front In Europe, Eu-rope, and doubtless the other allied leaders agreed with hlra. Furthermore, Further-more, Mr. Wilson especially is averse to departing from the policy of noninterference non-interference in the iuternal affairs of a friendly nation. This does not mean j that the allies will abandon the plan I to send to Siberia supplies from America Amer-ica and a commission to extend help of an industrial and economic nature. Moreover, the Czecho-Slovaks there are doing so valuable a work that the ! entente powers Intend to give them j such moral and material support as they may need, provided they stand by their pledge to refrain from assuming assum-ing permanent control over the conn- try through which they are passing. If u military force is sent into Siberia Si-beria it probably will be largely made up of Japanese and Chinese. fUi Through German soirees comes the assertion that the soviet government of Russia has declared it will ally itself with Germany if an Anglo-Japanese expedition Intervenes In Siberia. No doubt Lenine would commit himself him-self to such a course, but it is a question ques-tion whether he would be sustained by t.ny great numbers of Russians. Germany's penetration of western Russin and Finland has been accompanied accom-panied by such brutalities that the minority socialists in the reichstag have been attacking the government's policy strongly. Their leader. Hugo Uaase. asserts that since the Germans entered Finland 73,000 workmen have been arrested and many of" them, including in-cluding 50 socialist members of parliament, parlia-ment, executed. Because of the numerous num-erous executions there, he said, the town of Sveaborg has been renamed Golgotha. Finland is on the point of starvation, despite Its German friends, nnd General Mannerheim, commander of tbe Finnish army, asked Mr. Morris, Mor-ris, American minister to Sweden, what chance there was for Finland to get food from the United Slates. Mr. Morris told him plainly It was very slim so long as Germany held the country unfier her. control. Ostensibly as a measure to save food, the Finnish government has ordered the expulsion of all Jews. (at When the news came of the assassination assas-sination of Count von Mirbach, German Ger-man ambassador to Russia, in Moscow, Mos-cow, at the Instigation of a group of social revolutionists, there were many predictions that the kaiser would get revenge by sending a great army to occupy the chief -Russian cities, and indeed ft was seml-offlclal-ly stated in Berlin that such would be his course. But after breaking off diplomatic relations the chief Hun apparently ap-parently thought better of it and n mild statement was Issued hoping "that the Russian government and people peo-ple will succeed In nipping the present pres-ent revolutionary agitation in the bud." It Is not easy to see how Germany Ger-many -vi-Mild gain much by further grabbing in distracted and starving Russia. Ra The pan-German party triumphed over its opponents and forced the resignation of Foreign Minister von Knehlmann because of his "peace Impossible Im-possible by force", speech, and then proceeded to pick Admiral von Hintze, the trickiest and most disreputable of Teuton diplomats, us his successor. Great excitement In the reichstag resulted re-sulted and the socialists agreed not to vote the war credit, which could not be passed without their aid, until the new minister had announced his policies. pol-icies. Von Hintze Is a swashbuckling militarist and the creature of Admiral von Tirpltz. As minister to China he disgraced himself, and as minister to Mexico he deliberately stirred up a row between Huerta and Carranza in order to embroil the United States. The French press accepts the selection selec-tion of Von Hintze us evidence that the militarists In Germany are stronger strong-er than the diplomats and are determined deter-mined upon a war to the finish. They believe he will do the pan-Germans much more harm than good. a Military operations of prime Importance Impor-tance last week were confined to Albania, Al-bania, a field of which little has been heard for a long time. There the Italians and French got very busy and, with the aid of British naval forces in the Adriatic, started an offensive that met with considerable success and Is still progressing as this Is written. writ-ten. Within a few days the nllied forces had advanced more than -twenty-five miles on a battle front sixty miles long, bad captured Fieri, an Important Im-portant town eight miles from the Adriatic, and had practically surrounded sur-rounded Berat, the chief city of southern south-ern Albania. They also had occupied mountain positions of great strategic value. Before the week closed th? Austrians had evacuated Berat. This Albanian offensive was counted on to have great political effect, especially es-pecially In Austria-Hungary and among the small nations of the Balkans, Bal-kans, Already it had caused evident uneasiness among the forces of the central powers that face the allies from the Adriatic to Saloniki. In Macedonia they made several costly and vain attacks on the' allies. The apparent objective of the allies in Albania Al-bania Is the Shkumbl valley and the old Roman road, the Via Egnatla, leading to the Vardar valley and opening open-ing the way to a movement toward the east that would outflank the enemy north of Monastir. If the Austrians are decisively defeated de-feated in this region the kaiser may force them to accept Von Below ns their generalissimo, despite their protests. pro-tests. The efforts to Germanize the Austrian general headquarters have stirred up tne already angry people of the dual kingdom. Another row there hns been caused by more or less open assertions that Empress Zita mined the offensive on Italy by preventing pre-venting the use of gas and otherwise hampering the commanders. A big scandal resulted, Hnd extremists in Vienna are asserting that both the emperor and the empress should be literally sequestered nnd made to take orders from Berlin. Hungary, too, Is furious at Austria because tbe Hungarian Hun-garian regiments were forced to bear the brunt of the attack In Italy and In some cases were practically wiped out. J Pa-There Pa-There were no major operations on the Italian front last week, but the Italians unceasingly harassed the enemy by raids and sorties nnd In the mountain region improved their own positions considerably.' The American aviators on that front kept up their excellent work. On the western front there was an ominous silence on the part of the Huns. The usual 40 days needed by them to organize a new drive had nearly expired, but still they did not start. However, abnormal activity was observed behind their lines, especially In the regions where the Americans are stationed. On Teusday the French undertook the first considerable Infantry In-fantry operation In many days and, with the aid of tanks, advanced more than a mile on a front of two and a hnlf miles northwest of Complegne. Prisoners and gun? were captured and positionsoccupied that serve to protect pro-tect the Important railway Junction at Estrees-St. Denis. General Petain also took important ground east of the Retz forest on the Marne front. There were many raids by all the allied forces during the week, and some artillery ar-tillery activity beyond the ordinary In the British sectors. Such Splendid work Is being done by the air forces of the allies on the west front that military observers now assert as-sert the superiority In the air now unquestionably un-questionably rests with them. The British flyers huv& engaged in a number num-ber of extraordinary exploits, and the French and Americans are keeping up , their end of It most satisfactorily. On Wednesday a squadron of American scout' planes flew back of the German lines In the Chateau Thierry region for 50 miles, obtaining valuable information in-formation and all returning safely. Colonel Roosevelt was elated by the news that his youngest son, Lieut. Quentin Roosevelt, had downed his first Hun plane. Bombing raids on German cities by the allied airmen are Increasing In frequency and effectiveness. effective-ness. In preparation lor the next big drive Von Hlndenburg called for a million more men, to be taken from the factories, fac-tories, their places being filled by prisoners pris-oners and foreigners, and, contrary to agreements, by exchanged prisoners of war. Recruits of sixteen, seventeen and eighteen years are being called, and everything Indicates that the supreme su-preme command is straining every nerve to end the war this year. To encourage the troops there has been a systematic campaign to mislead them as to America's participation in the war.' The people now refuse to believe we! are taking an active part In the conflict or that there are more than a few thousands of our men In Fiance. ' rSa There have been many stories of the declining morale of the German troops, due partly to the prevalence of Spanish' influenza, but it would be foolish to grow optimistic over these reports. The enemy Is still strong and -can produce nn amazing number of men, nnd confidence in our victory must be based on our growing strength rather than on his growing weakness. The stream of Americans auross the Athinllc continues, although It may b( they are not being sent so rapidly just now us in recent months. The war department recently decided that all men of the new dmfts should be given six ironths' training on this side. )sa The senate gave a big boost to the plan for a bone-dry America by voting In favor of the prohibitioi rider to the agricultural extension bill. It went on record first by reversing re-versing the ruling of the chair, that the amendment is general le. station and therefore barred from an appropriation appro-priation measure. The wets admitted their defeat s!ce the move for war prohibition originated in the lower house, and relied on the president to veto the bill on the ground that the workers in vital war industries should n be deprived of alcoholic beverages. ' |