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Show opinion of mankind." In less formal language, the Huns must be whipped to a frazzle, for, until they are their rulers will not accept such a peace as the allies will gram, and the people of Germany and Austria, with too few exceptions, ex-ceptions, are like sheep. lain la-in the absence of ahy great military operations on the French and Italian fronts last week attention was largely directed toward Russia. What shall be done to aid that distracted country is a problem still unsolved, and It Is made more difficult by the lack of reliable re-liable Information as to what Is going on there. The reports of the downfall of the bolshevtkl and the re-establlah-ment of the monarchy with Grand Duke Nicholas as czar, which came through the always unreliable German sources of, news, were given little credit, but it appears to be the truth that Grand Duke Michael Is co-operating with the Czecho-SJovak forces In Siberia and that they are establishing their rule in that country. The Ukrainian Ukrain-ian telegraph bureau at Kiev says Michael Mi-chael has been proclaimed czar and is marching toward Moscow. , -ta- Washlngton received official reports confirming the news that the Czecho-SJovaki Czecho-SJovaki had whipped the bolshevikl Hi a bloody battle at Vladivostok and taken over the administration of that port. It may be they will form the nucleus for the gathering of the elements ele-ments that have revolted against the bolshevikl and before long be recognized recog-nized by the allies as a stable government govern-ment and given aid. It Is now admitted. admit-ted. In Germany that the German and Austro-IIunznrinn war prisoners In Russia are fighting on the side of the bolshevikl. Up In the province of Archangel, which extends across northerly Russia In Europe, there is new trouble brewing. brew-ing. At Kola and along the railroad southward from that port are great stores of var supplies now guarded by American and allied marines and bluejackets, blue-jackets, and moving toward that replon Is a large force of Germans and Finns. Submarines already are reported to be in the White sea. It may be the allies will find it necessary to senu troops up there. Delegates from the Murrann and White sea coasts nlready have asked them for protection. The Swedish press says the kaiser has ordered the Finnish diet to Introduce Intro-duce monarchial rule without delay, threatening that If it does not comply Germany will set up a military dictatorship. dic-tatorship. N Having discovered extensive movements move-ments of troops and materials behind the German lines In the Chateau Thierry Thier-ry region, Indicating a coming attack, the Americans stationed there took the initiative and. In the most important' operation they had thus far. underf taken by themselves, they captured the Tillage of Vaux and the Bols de I Roche, advancing their lines on a front of several kilometers and occupying strong strategic positions. Previous to Che attack the American artillery utterly demolished Vaux, and the assault as-sault which followed was equally efficient ef-ficient and complete. The enemy lost, heavily In killed and wounded and several sev-eral hundred prisoners and considerable consider-able material were taken. .All next day the new American positions were subjected to heavy bombardment and then the Huns made a fierce counterattack, counter-attack, but did not regain a foot of the ground they had lost The American machine guns and artillery mowed down the enemy In heaps,' and our losses were comparatively slight' A complete American army corps of 220,-000 220,-000 men under command of Gen. Hunter Hunt-er Liggett now holds the Chateau Thierry sector. . . The French started oft the week with an Important advance between Sols-sons Sols-sons and Chateau Thierry, capturing a commanding ridge and other points that the Germans had organized as the Jumping oft place for their next attack. The British moved their line forward northwest of Albert, but after several counter-attacks they were compelled to withdraw to their former positions. On Independence day the Australians, Austral-ians, assisted by some Americans, took the town of Hamel and neighboring woods, and the French cut through the enemy lines near Autreches. H Observers at the front believed the Germans were about ready to launch another great blow, perhaps the greatest great-est of all, despite their terrific losses since the beginning of the offensive on March 21, estimated at 800,000. The opposing forces there are how nearly or quite equalized by those losses and the arrival of more Americans, and the allied commanders and troops have not the least doubt of the solidity of their lines of defense. -la The Italians continued their brilliant bril-liant work last week, and the Austrl-ans Austrl-ans suffered accordingly. The latter were gathering their fores for new attnrks in the mountain region, but General DInz struck there first, and In a fierce battle won the formidable heights of Mmte del Rosso. Monte dl Val Bella and the Col dl Chelo. These mountains on the northern edge of the Aslnyo plateau and Just west of the Brenta river, are of great strategic importance. im-portance. Their capture put the Italians Ital-ians In the strongest possible position to meet the expected, offensive, in which German troops were expected to take part. The Italians also kept tip a continuous series of nttacks on the enemy along the Plave, and on Wednesday they forced their way forward for-ward across the partly flooded ground nenr the mouth of the river.-! river.-! - - JEWS REVIEW OF THE PAST WEEK Most Glorious Independence Day in History of the United States Celebrated. HUNDRED VESSELS LAUNCHED President Wilson Declares There Can Be No Compromise With the Foe-Secretary Foe-Secretary Baker's Heartening . Statement Confusing State of Affairs In Russia. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. With mere than a million Americans in France fighting for the freedom of the world ; with more than another million Americans In training for the same great contest; with the submarine subma-rine menace finally overcome, the "bridge across the Atlantic" completed and Its maintenance assured by the tremendous amount of shipbuilding accomplished ac-complished and underway; with quantity quan-tity and quality production of airplanes and artillery announced; with huge crops In prospect, and finally with the nation solidly behind the government In Its plans for the prosecution of the war to a victorious finish, the people of fhe United States very properly made the celebration of the Fourth of July the greatest celebration in the history of the country. No task so great and glorious ever before con-frontea con-frontea them, no more lofty Idealism ever Inspired them to perform the task, never was their confidence in their power so absolute. With reason, too, was the national holday celebrated by the allies of America, an? especially gratifying was the fact that tne day was made a national na-tional holiday by many of the Latln-Amerlcan Latln-Amerlcan republics for that indicates that the unreasonable Jealousy and fear of the United States some of them have entertained is passing away. Though last Thursday was not so noisy as the old-time Fourths, there was one most glorious noise that, figuratively fig-uratively 'speaking,-must have been distinctly heard In Berlin and Vienna. That was the "grand splash" when about one hundred vessels were launched at the various shipyards of the country. Between sunrise and unset approximately half a million tons of dead weight shipping was added add-ed to the fleets that are defeating the submarine pirates, carrying our armies to France and transporting the food and munitions for them and ' our allies. al-lies. This greatest ship launching In all history watf the most significant feature of the day's celebrations. In the fiscal year Just ended 1,622 Dew ships were numbered by the bureau bu-reau of navigation, their gross tonnage ton-nage being 1,430,793. This was a record rec-ord ootpot and one-half of It was completed com-pleted in the last four months. In the new fiscal year this record will be eclipsed, for many new shipyards are Just getting started. The loyalty and devotion of the shipyard workers were Justly reemgniaed by the government officials from the president down, and by the peoples, and the praise for their efforts is shared by (he railroad workers, work-ers, without whose devoted co-operation the achievements of the vessel builders wonkf not have been possible. Beautifully dovetailing in with all this was the announcement by Senator Sena-tor Swan son, chairman of the naval affairs committee, that with the co-operation of the American destroyers the allied naval forces have destroyed 65 per cent of the submarines sent out by Germany, and that they are now destroying de-stroying the U-boats faster than they can be replaced. I Secretary of War Baker's detailed statement to the honse committee on military affairs was made Just In time to gjve added test to the celebration of the Fourth. He said the American army now consisted of 160.400 officers and 2.010,000 enlisted men and that on July 1 practically a million of them were in France; that the death rate for disease among all troops in file United States was only 8.16 per thousand; thou-sand; that the number of combat pianos delivered to June 8 was 286, the production for the week ending on tnat day being 80; that W15 training pi a nee had been delivered to June 8, more than 2,000 Liberty engines, and 87,f00 machine guus for' use on airplanes. air-planes. Between the declaration of war and June 1 more than 1,300,000 rifles were produced and delivered and enough are now being received to equip a division every three days. Mr. P.aker told many other encouraging facts, and enlarged on the wonderful work of the. American engineers who enlarged port facilities and built railroads rail-roads in France for the landing and movement of 'American troops. If the central powers would know the unwavering determination of the people of the allied nations, they have but to read I'resldent Wilson's Independence Inde-pendence dny address at the tomb of Washington, In which It was voiced most eloquently. "There can be but one Issue," declared the president. "The settlement must be final. There can be no compromise. No halfway decision would be tolerable. No halfway half-way decision Is conceivable." He thus put our great objects In a single sentence: sen-tence: "What we seek Is the reign of law, bused upon the consent of the gov- |