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Show been arrested and many of them, Including In-cluding 50 aoclallst members of parliament, parlia-ment, executed. Because of the numerous num-erous executions there, he snld, the town of Sveaborg has been renamed Golgotha. Finland Is on the point of starvation, despite Its German friends, and General Mannerhelm, commander of the Finnish army, asked Mr. Morris, Mor-ris, American minister to Sweden, what chance there wus for Finland to get food from the United States. Mr. Morris told him plainly It was very slim so long as Germany held the country under her control. Ostensibly ns a measure to save food, the Finnish government hus ordered the expulsion of all Jews. ' When the news einne of the assassination assas-sination of Count von Mlrhach, German Ger-man ambassador to Russia, in Mos-j 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 it was senil-olllclul-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 a mild statement was issued hoping "thut 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 would gain much by further grabbing in distracted and starving Russia. The pnn-German pnrfy triumphed over Its opponents and forced the resignation pf Foreign Minister von Kuehlmann because of his "peuce impossible im-possible by force" speech, and then proceeded to pick Admiral von Hintze, the trickiest and most disreputable of Teuton diplomats, as his successor. Great excitement In the relchstag resulted re-sulted and the socialists agreed not to vote the war credit, which could not be passed without their aid, until fhe 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 np a row between Uiiertu and Carrnnza In order to embroil the United States. The French press uccepts the selection selec-tion of Von Hintze as 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 od. - Military oierutUms of prime Importance Impor-tance last week were confined to Albania, Al-bania, a field1 of which little ha 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 allied forces had advanced more than twenty-five miles on a battle front sixty miles long, had raptured Fieri, an important im-portant town eight miles from the Adriatic, and had practically sur- scandal resulted, and extremists In Vienna are asserting that both the emperor and the empress should be literally sequestered and made to take orders from Berlin. Hungary, too, is furious at Austria because the Hungarian Hun-garian regiments were forced to bear the brunt of the attack in Italy and in some cases were practically wiped out. fa-There fa-There were no major operations on the Italian front last week, but the Italians unceasingly harassed the enemy by raids and sorties and In the mountain region improved their own positions considerably. The American avlntors on that front kept up their excellent work. -;o i. On the western front there was an ominous silence oh the port 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 half mites northwest of Complegne. Prisoners and gunf were captured and positions occupied that serve to protect pro-tect the Important railway Junction at Estrees-St. Denis. General Petaln 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. Itt 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 have 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 Hues 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. Quentln Roosevelt, had downed his first Hun plane. Bombing ndds on German cities by the allied airmen are liKTeaslug In frequency and effectiveness. effective-ness. In preparation for the next big drive Von Ulndenburg 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 then as to America's participation la 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 France. NEWS REVIEW OF I THE PAST WEEK i s .. .- Two New Pro-Ally Republics Are ; Established in Northern Part of Russia. PROBLEM OF AID UNSOLVED Von Hintze, Pan-German, to Succeed Von Kuehlmann Italians and French Conducting Successful Often-slve Often-slve Against the Austrlans 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 as to- wjiut course to pursue In the nearlCast lier policy of terrorism and grab-all has v not been working out well and has caused bitter complaint even In the ' relchstag. ' The people of the Murman coast, Between Finland and the White sea, where there are large allied military stores under guard of Brlflsh and American forces, have created the White sea republic, and in the rest of Arctic Russia, from the White sea to Siberia, the republic of Wologda-rzhe Wologda-rzhe has been established. Both of these new states are anti-German uud pro-ally and their people promise to 'i! active forces against the Teutons Teu-tons If given aid. In western Siberia the bolshevlkl have been defeated again, and. ore reported to have evacuated evac-uated Irkutsk, and a provisional government gov-ernment for Siberia has been sxt up in Novonlcolocvsk. This government has laid out a progruin that Includes the liberation of Siberia from the bol-' bol-' alievlkl; the avoidance. If possible, of foreign Intervention universal suf-' suf-' fruge, distribution of the laud amoug the landless and other economic re-1 re-1 forms. It intends to Nuniuiou a constituent con-stituent assembly and to restore law and order. AIL this is being done under un-der the protection of the2 army of Czecho-Slovaks that has continued its victorious campaign against the bolshevlkl bol-shevlkl and the German and Austrian war prisoners who are aiding them, j Thus there apitears to be forming the"stalrislied ITuthorTty that has been considered requisite for the ex-feuding ex-feuding of aid to the Russians, at least to Siberia. But President Wilson would not consent to the dispatch of an armed force that would mean the weakening of the western front In Eu-tote, Eu-tote, an3 doubtless the other allied leaders agreed with hlra. Furthermore, Further-more, Mr. Wilson especially Is averse 't departing from the policy of noninterference non-interference in the Internal affairs of friendly notion. This does not mean that the allies will abandon the plan 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 'such moral and material support as they may need, provided they stand by their pledge to refrain from assuming assum-ing pmnuueut control over the country coun-try through which they are passing. If a military force Is sent Into Siberia Si-beria It proUbly will be lurgely uiude up of Japuuese and Chinese. ' Through German sources comes the assertion that the soviet government jof Russia has declared it will ally Itself with Germany if on Anglo-Jnp-anese expedition Intervenes In Siberia. f,o doubt Lenine would commit himself him-self to such a course, but It Is a question ques-tion whether he would be sustained by any great numbers of IUissluns. M ! Germany's penetration of western Russia and Finland has been accompanied accom-panied by such brutalities that the m'mirlty socialists In the relchstag ici'v,. been attacking the government's ' ''.licy atrongly. Their leader, Hugo asserts that since tj.e German atWd nuluud 73.WO workmen bJF rounded Berat, the chief city of south-era south-era Albnnln. They also had occupied mountain positions f great strategic value. Before the week closed the Austrlans had evacuated Berat This Albaolun offensive was counted on to have great ixdltlcnl effect, especially es-pecially In Auntrla-Hnngary 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 Satonlkl. In Macedonia they made several costly and vnln attucks on the allies. The apparent objective of the allies in Albania Al-bania Is the Shkuiiibi valley and the old Roman road, the Via Egnatla, leading to the Vardar valley and opening open-ing the way to a niovemeut toward the east that would outflank the enemy north of Monustlr. If the Austrlans are decisively defeated de-feated In this region the kaiser may force them to accept Von Below as 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 tfcere has been caused by more or less opeo assertions that Empress Zltn nil tied the offensive on Italy by :re-wt1n- the use of gas and otherwise tampering the comuuanders. A bis There have been many stories of the declining morale of the German trooi. due partly to the prevalence of Siwnlsh Influenza, but It would be foolish to grow optimistic over these report. The enemy Is still strong and can produce an amazing number of men, and confidence in our victory must be based on our growing strength rntlwr than on his growing weakness. The stream of Americans across the Atlantic continues, although it may be f they are not being sent so rupldly Just now as in recent months. The war department recently decided that all men of the new drafts should be given six months' training on this side. The aviinte gave a big Insist to the plan for a bone-dry America by voting In favor of the prohibition rider to the agricultural extension bill. It went on record first by reversing re-versing the ruling of the chair, thnt the amendment Is general legislation and therefore barred from an appropriation appro-priation measure. The wets admitted their defeat since the move for war prohibition originated In the lower house, and relied on the president to veto the bill on the ground tlmt the workers In vital war Industries should not be deprived of ulcoholio beverages. |