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Show NEWS REVIEW OF THE PAST WEEK Events in Austria-Hungary Are Indicative of a Break With Germany. KAISER'S MAN, TISZA, IS OUT France's Reply to Russia's Peace Policy Pol-icy Italians Make Another Big Advance Ad-vance Toward Trieste House of Representatives Passes Greatest Great-est of War Tax Bills. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. Austria-Hungary stepped into the Unelight last week, and the- developments develop-ments in the dual monarchy were not calculated to please Kaiser Wllhelm. In the first place, Count Tisza, premier pre-mier of Hungary, the "iron man" who for years has been the leader of the pro-Germans of Austria-Hungary, was finally forced out of office, together with his entire cabinet. Then came the story, from a Swiss Catholic paper, that Empress Zita had publicly stated that Austria would soon be at peace, a consummation for which both she and the emperor had been striving. This statement of the empress was borne out by the peace discussions in the Vienna papers. They printed Austria's Aus-tria's repudiation of annexation and indemnity claims with reference to Russia, and then went to the astonishing astonish-ing length of announcing that Austria was ready to abandon all claims to additional ad-ditional territory on its' southern frontier, fron-tier, meaning in the Balkans, and even might consider Italy's claims to Trieste and the Trentino. If all this is true, Austria-IIuugary is indeed tired of the war and may be speedily approaching the breaking point with Germany. Trying to Hold Russia Steady. The socalled passing of the crisis in Russia has not relieved to any great extent the anxieties of the other allies as to the future conduct of that nation. na-tion. Its armies still rest passive along the eastern fronts, the soldiers fraternizing with the common enemy, despite the appeals of Wnl- Minister Kerensky nnd others of the government. govern-ment. Admiral Goltchak, commander of the Russian Black sea fleet, after a visit to the front, said : "The army may be said to have practically concluded con-cluded peace wilh Germany at a moment mo-ment when a Russian offensive might have played a decisive part in the European Eu-ropean campaign." Albert Thomas, French minister of munitions, told the workmen's and soldiers' delegates in Moscow that thousands of French and British soldiers were perishing while awaiting Russia's co-operation, on which they had a right to count. Government Gov-ernment olliclals and delegates all admit ad-mit these facts, but they seem to have small effect on the Individual soldiers. Addressing a convention of Russian army and navy commanders, commander command-er in chief Alexlefl pleaded with them to bring the soldiers back to their duty, and to stand firm for the prosecution prose-cution of the war, and this they promised prom-ised with great enthusiasm. The council of peasants' deputies-on deputies-on Thursday passed a resolution supporting sup-porting the present government and ministry. Ribot Tells France's Alms. The ruling powers In Russia, If they can be called such, cling to the Idea that the other entente allies can be brought to adopt the policy of a peace without annexations or indemnities, and desire a conference for the purpose pur-pose of modifying the demands to be made on the central powers. Premier Kibot's reply to this Is that restoration of "lost provinces" is not to be considered consid-ered annexation, and that Indemnity for ravages In Invaded lands is a contribution con-tribution which is inllieted as a fine for wrong done, a requirement which both law and equity demand. France, he said, could not oppress any nationality, nation-ality, even that of Its enemies, and it keeks, not vengeance, but Justice. When reports of this speech reached Wa-shington the state department let it be known officially that it "sympathized" "sympa-thized" with Ribot's position, and there were intimations that the government would soon make a formal statement of its attitude toward the "no annexation, annex-ation, no Indemnities" slogan of the Russians. ' Lansing Against Stockholm Meet. What America thinks, officially, of the coming peace conference of socialists soci-alists at .Stockholm was made clear last week when Secretary of State Lansing announced that passports would be denied de-nied any Americans desiring to go to the meeting and that any Americans participating therein would be liable to prosecution under the Logan act forbidding for-bidding individual meddling in foreign relations. Evidently the government believes, as does most of the rest of the world, that the conferences Is but . one of the kaiser's schemes to disrupt the entente. Russia and all neutral nations were notified of this action. About the same time rumors came to Washington that Russia already had concluded an armistice with Berlin or Vienna, or both. That all the fangs were not drawn from the jaws of the old Russian regime was evidenced Tuesday when an unsuccessful attempt was made to assassinate Minister of War Kerensky. To add to the perplexities of the provisional pro-visional , government of Russia, the Swedish political party, representing most of the wealthy and influential classes in Finland, met in congress and declared for a complete separation of the grand duchy of Finland from Russia Rus-sia and its establishment as a sovereign sover-eign state. Over in China the kaiser lost another anoth-er point when President Li Yuan Hung dismissed from office Premier Tuan Chi Jui, who had effectually blocked the efforts of the rest of the cabinet and a large part of the parliament to have China declare war on Germany. Dr. Wu Ting-fang, former ambassador to the United States, was made acting premier and authorized to form a new cabinet. Declaration of war by Brazil against Germany was brought nearer by the request of President Braz that congress con-gress revoke the decree of neutrality and that Brazil take a stand alongside along-side of the United States. On Battlefields of France. Such progress as was made during the week in pushing back the Germans in France was mainly by the French in their campaigns south and southeast south-east of Laon and east of Reims. In both sectors they gained important ground, seizing the dominating heights above the Allette valley and in the vicinity vi-cinity of Moronvilliers. General Petaln thus put his troops in position to threaten the Reims salient held by the Germans, and to attack the Laon fortress from the rear and compel the retirement of the Teutons in this entire en-tire sector. The British were busy consolidating the positions they had won along the Ilindenburg line from Arras to Bulle-court Bulle-court and repelling the repeated and vigorous counter-attacks of the Germans. Ger-mans. Von Hindenburg was prodigal In the use of the fresh troops brought from the Russian front, but in every Important Instance his attempts to regain re-gain lost ground was fruitless, and the slaughter was terrible. In reply to the Italian push toward Trieste the Austrians began a violent counter-offensive In the Trentino, temporarily tem-porarily gaining some ground from which they were driven later. The advance ad-vance on Trieste slackened somewhat during the first part of the week, but this was only to gather force, for on Thursday General Cadorna's troops smashed their way through the Austrian Aus-trian lines on a wide front from Cas-tagnavizza Cas-tagnavizza to the Gulf of Trieste. This front had been strongly fotlfied by the Austrians and was considered by them almost Impregnable. The Italians took the town of Jamiano, and captured 9,000 prisouers. including ;iOO officers. Ten batteries of British artillery ar-tillery took an important part In the great battle. U. S. Helps in War on U-Boats. j The British admiralty in its weekly j report showed big increases in the ar- I rivals and sailimrs and decrease in the I number of vessels sunk by sulenarines. ! ,-im! gave ample credit to the American destroyers for this gratifying showing. Following closely on tiie admiralty report came the announcement that German submarines had sunk the British transport Transylvania and French steamer Sontay, in the Mediterranean Medi-terranean with the loss of 458 lives. Another vessel torpedoed was an unnamed un-named American steamer of .8,000 tons carrying a cargo for Switzerland. The British admit they are combating the U-boats only with "hard work and infinite in-finite pains," but American inventors are still busy. Hudson Maxim said he had perfected a device that would make ships immune from the submarine subma-rine peril, and Lewis llerzog, an artist, was said to have devised a method for painting vessels that greatly reduces their visibility at sea. William Marconi, Mar-coni, who came over with the Italian war mission, says the Italians are now using a device with which 13 submarines subma-rines were destroyed in the first three weeks of its operation. The first detachment of United States army engineers reached London on Wednesday on its way to France. Two units of the American hdspital corps also arrived in England. Dcings in Congress. The house of representatives on Wednesday passed the greatest war tax bill in the history of any nation. It carries u total of about $1,870,000,- 000 in all kinds of taxes. The vote on the measure was 029 to 7G. There was bitter opposition to many features of the bill, and many of those who finally voted for it said they did so as a matter mat-ter of patriotism. The senate finance committee at once began paring down the measure with the intention of reducing the total to-tal yield of taxes to about $1,000,000,-000, $1,000,000,-000, planning to raise the additional $800,000,OtX) by issues of bonds. 1 The second administration measure dealing with the control of food and other necessaries was introduced in the house by Congressman Lever of South Carolina. Herbert C. Hoover, selected select-ed by the president to be food administrator, adminis-trator, said the bill should make it possible to eliminate hoarding, speculation specula-tion and waste in distribution. The chief provisions of the bill are: 1. Prohibits the hoarding or cornering corner-ing of the necessaries of life. 2. Prohibits injurious speculation in the necessaries of life and gives the president power to regulate or prohibit pro-hibit the operation of stock or grain exchanges. 3. Gives the president power to fix maximum and minimum prices on necessaries nec-essaries of life In certain Instances. 4. Gives the president power to prevent pre-vent use of grain or food in the manufacture manu-facture of liquor at his discretion. 5. Gives the president power to control con-trol all distribution agencies by meaus of licensing. G. Gives the president power to fix food and grain standards. 7. Gives the president power to purchase, pur-chase, store and dispose wf necessaries of life In order to break1 "corners" and otherwise regulate supply and prices. 8. Provides for taking over by the government of factories, mines, or plants the owners of which do not comply com-ply with the president's orders. 9. Gives the president power to permit per-mit the mixing of corn and wheat Hour and to establish percentage of Hour To be obtained from wheat. 10. Provides that the president may delegate any or all of the powers conferred con-ferred on him by the bill to any person per-son he may designate. Liberty Bonds Selling Fast. Public officials, the press anil financial finan-cial Institutions are everywhere combining com-bining to push the Liberty loan bonds, and the demand for those securities was great throughout the country, and increased every day. It was predicted predict-ed that the bonds would sell at a premium pre-mium as soon as the war is over, and they are already popular with the small investor. The treasury department announced that the .Joo.Odti.OoO of short-term treasury certificates recently issued hail been oversubscribed by at least oO per cent. This despite the opinion of .1. P. Morgan that they would not be readily absorbed. John 1. Rockefeller added .25,iiik),. to the endowment of the Rockefeller Rocke-feller foundation and 'the trustees decide.' de-cide.' that Jlo.lMO.iKto of it should be ns. d for u:.r purposes. On the same day a rise of 2 cents a gaiion in the price of gasoline was uuiwuuceO. |