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Show U-boat warfare. A significant event of the week was the launching at Newark of the Agawam, the first of the new standardized fabricated steel vessels built by the Emergency Fleet corporation. corpora-tion. The Britisli admiralty announced that the transport ship L'easowe Castle had been torpedoed in the Mediterranean with a loss of 101 persons. Pa The central committee of Finnish workmen has protested against the brutalities of the White guard, which, Tt asserts, has imprisoned 70,000 persons per-sons and slaughtered prisoners by wholesale, hundreds of the killed being women. In this delectable work the " White guard Is helped by the German soldiers. )sa Of great importance was the announcement an-nouncement by the administration last Wednesday that the United States now supports the nationalistic aspirations aspira-tions of the Czecho-Slovaks and the Jugo-Slavs. Until now the president had gone no further than to express sympathy with the idea of autonomy for the anti-German Austrian states, but he has changed his attitude and his new policy may do much to encourage encour-age the subject races of Emperor Charles to revolt. It will certainly encourage the brave Italians who are righting along the Piave, where before long American troops will be with them in the trenches. On the other hand the Austrian emperor em-peror has stated that in the future he n'lll rely on "the faithful and precious pre-cious collaboration of the Germans for the development of the interests of the state." te President Wilson appeared before congress unexpectedly on Monday and urged that body to begin work immediately imme-diately on tax legislation to provide the funds necessary to the carrying on of the war. The defeat of the cen-tral cen-tral powers, he said, is the consideration considera-tion that dominates every other. Senators, Sen-ators, representatives, supreme court justices, everybody present, rose and cheered lustily when the president added: add-ed: "We are not only in the midst of the war, we are at the very peak and crisis of it. Hundreds of thousands of our men, carrying our hearts with them NEWS REVIEW OF THE PAST WEEK Germans Start a New Drive on Paris, Striking Lines of the Allies in Champagne. ADVANCE, BUT LOSE HEAVILY Foch's Reserves Come Up and Huns Are Checked North of the Marne Americans Carry Out Offensive in Gallant Style Italians Win Two Victories. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. Last week witnessed a renewal of the kaiser's drive on the west front, but to the surprise of everyone not in the confidence of the German high command, the blow was directed, not against the allies in- Flanders, nor against their lines iu the Amiens region, re-gion, but in Champagne. His apparent appar-ent intention was to rush his forces swiftly on Paris, breaking through where thg allies were weakest. The location was well chosen and the pren-irations pren-irations made with wonderful secrecy, but up to the hour of writing the results re-sults were, as in the former drives, not comparable with the losses sustained. The apex of the drive had advanced some IS miles beyond the starting line, reaching Vezilly, six miles from the Marne and 44 miles from Paris. The famous Chemin des Dames had been taken, as had Craonne, Vailly, Fismes and other towns and villages, and finally, on the west side of the new salient, the allies retired from Sois-sons. Sois-sons. But by that time General Foch's reserves were arriving in large numbers num-bers and the desperate efforts of , the Germans to widen the salient were stubbornly resisted and virtually checked. In the suburbs of Solssons the French were holding onto the western west-ern outlets from that city, and northwest north-west of Reims, on the east side of the wedge, the Franco-British forces were repulsing every Hun assault. The commanders of the allies viewed the situation with calm confidence and seemed to have no doubt that they could stem the onrush of the Germans long before they reached the neighborhood of Paris. They were not yielding a foot of ground easily or. cheaply, but were pursuing their former policy of retiring in good order before vastly superior su-perior numbers, maintaining their line intact and sparing their reserves as much as possible. Pa- fresh troops arrived swiftly and without with-out confusion, largely by motortruck trains, and got into the fight immediately immedi-ately on reaching the front. Foch was compelled to keep in mind the fact that more than 3,000,000 German soldiers are facing him and that vast numbers are still threatening Amiens and Arras, Ar-ras, and consequently he could not make his line everywhere as thick as he would like to have it. But his plans for quick shifting of troops are admirable. ad-mirable. The German soldiers, it has been learned from various sources, were keyed up to the present effort by ' promises of the prompt capture of Paris and a consequent German peace. That these promises cannot be fulfilled ful-filled there need not be the least doubt. The morale and valor and determination determina-tion of the French and British were never greater than now, and the ever increasing numbers of the dashing American soldiers give them renewed confidence. Ha The Americans in Picardy undertook their first real offensive on Tuesda5T, and acquitted themselves gloriously. Attacking on a front of one and a quarter miles west of Montdidier, in less than an hour they had smashed the German lines, captured the village of Cantigny, taken several hundred prisoners and inflicted heavy losses in killed and wounded on the enemy. The entire attack, including the waves of barrage fire, was carried out with perfect per-fect smoothness. Twelve tanks led the way, and Pershing's men followed them with the cry "Go to it, Yanks." When they reached Cantigny they found the village mainly ruined houses, with the German garrison hidden in caves and dugouts. These refuges were speedily cleaned out with grenades, and all the Germans there were either killed or captured. A ridge beyond the village was the real military ob-jectlve.and ob-jectlve.and this our troops soon gained, and prepared to hold it, despite the fierce fire from the enemy. And hold it they did throughout the week, against repeated counter-attacks. This operation was not extensive, but as one British officer jubilantly remarked, re-marked, it was not the size that count-ed count-ed so much as the splendid way in which the Americans showed the Germans Ger-mans their mettle. In the Luneville sector the Huns made a heavy attack on the American line Wednesday, but were driven back with considerable loss. The American casualties were few and not a prisoner was taken by the enemy, though that was their main object. That night there was great artillery activity all along the front northwest of Toul, and on Thursday many aerial battles were fought there. tain ta-in Flanders the Germans made one big attack, early in the week, between Voormezeele and Locre, but after gaining gain-ing a small bit of ground they were driven back with severe losses. and our fortunes, are in the field, and ships are crowding faster and faster to the ports of France and England with regiment after regiment, thousand thou-sand after thousand, to join them until the enemy shall be beaten and brought to a reckoning with mankind." Despite the desire of many members to have an early adjournment, congress yielded at once to Mr. XVilson's plea and plans were made to formulate a revenue bill as speedily as may be. The president in his address confirmed the expectation that there would be another and larger issue of Liberty bonds in the fall, probably immediately immediate-ly after the election. to-On to-On Wednesday the president issued an appeal to all Americans to buy only those things which are essential to the individual health and efficiency, and to save their money and invest it systematically sys-tematically in war savings and Thrift stamps and other government securities. securi-ties. Pa-Director Pa-Director General McAdoo announced general pay increases for nearly 2,000.-000 2,000.-000 railway employees, carrying out most of the recommendations of the railroad wage commission, and he followed fol-lowed this with the announcement that both freight and passenger rates would be raised, the latter to 3 cents a inile. and the former by more than 25 per cent. This, it is estimated, will bring in about $000,000,000 more a year, which will be used to meet the increases in-creases in wages and the higher cost of supplies. )Fa Popular belief, based on the wheat crop estimates, that the restrictions on the use of wheat might soon be modified modi-fied was corrected by Mr. Hoover, who says every prospect of the wheat situation sit-uation intensifies the need for the greatest possible limitation in the consumption con-sumption of wheat and wheat products in America in order that there may not j be serious want among our allies. The consumption of the cereal at l;om-;, he says, should be only one-third of the normal. The German armies selected for this third drive were those of the crown prince, though they are commanded really not by that degenerate son of the kaiser, but by Generals X'on Boehm and X'on Below. About thirty divisions, with large droves of tanks and much artillery, were brought up to the Chemin Che-min des Dames' front in the nights and kept concealed In the daytime so that the allied aviators had no inkling that the long expected attack was to be made there. Facing the 30 divisions were nine French and four British divisions di-visions to stop the Germans when they began their attack on Monday between Coney and Reims, after a terrific bombardment bom-bardment with gas and high explosive shells. They forced their way down to the Aisne the first day, and even crossed that river at some points. Next day they made a further advance of some five miles, reaching the X'esle river and forcing a crossing at Fismes, hut already they were being slowed up, and on the flanks they were able to make little progress. XVednesday they directed great masses of troops at Sois-sons. Sois-sons. and the French and British there, after exacting a fearful price in lives, withdrew to the western environs. Meanwhile the German center was pushed forward to Fere-en-Tardenois and Vezilly. On Thursday the entire allied line was reported to he holding well, and thereafter the Huns made slow and difficult progress, or none at all. Pi Foch's arrangements for handling his reserves proved excellent, and the A characteristic bit of German brutality bru-tality was the deliberate bombing of American hospitals in a town many miles from the front. One nurse was killed and "a number of wounded were injured. The Hun aviators also made several attempts to raid Paris, but the air defenses of the French capital are now so admirable that the raiders were easily driven off. American aviators avia-tors are now helping to defend Tarls. Pa The Italians apparently grew tired of waiting for a renewal of the Austrian Aus-trian offensive and took matters into their own hands. In two dashing operations op-erations they captured important mountain positions in the Tonale region, re-gion, together with many prisoners and guns, and cut a big gap through the Austrian defenses on the lower Piave front at Capo Sile. The first of these battles was fought on ground 1,200 feet above the sea and amid glaciers gla-ciers and melting snows. Pa-Sweden, Pa-Sweden, it was announced, has signed a commercial and navigation agreement with Great Britain and her allies. A similar agreement between Denmark and America has so angered Germany that the Danes have been served with an ultimatum that it must be canceled. The swamping of the Hun submarine by American shipbuilders goes ahead merrily and no longer is there any doubt of the ultimate failure of the |