Show E ha wn I 1 french cavalrymen escorting german prisoners to the rea rafter a fight on the somme 2 review of the thirty sixth division national army from crimp camp bowie in fort worth tex tes 3 canadians repairing one of the big observation balloons that are of so much help in directing the fire of the artillery 1 I REVIEW OF fsr THE PAT PAST WEEK i ill moa preparations made by for renewal of drives in france and italy HUN NAVY IS concentrated wilhelm and charles renew austro german treaty russia writhing under kaisers keisers Kai sers oppression president names hughes to investigate aircraft production charges by EDWARD W PICKARD operations of last week in the war zones led to the prediction that the central powers were preparing to strike hard kinrd and soon on two fronts in france and italy with some prospects of a great naval battle in the north sea it was admitted by the germans that their tremendous losses were largely responsible for the delay in resuming their drive on the west front they were very busy reorganizing their forces and bringing up fresh troops who have not yet been engaged in the fighting there rain and raud mud ably seconded by the allied aviators made difficult the moving of supplies by the huns but they kept at the task doggedly meanwhile their artillery ceaselessly pounded away at various important salientes held by the allies in return the latter gave more than they received there were many infantry operations that must be classed as small because of the magnitude of the warfare but which resulted in the ery of valuable positions by the allies in one or two instances the germans also gained footholds in the lines but counter attacks always drove them out promptly and they invariably suffered heavy casualties the L bisers kaisers kai sers armies bo however wever showed no especial signs of weakening and no competent observer doubts that they are arc still capable of tremendous efforts and will make them general foch and indeed all the allied commanders awalt await the renewal of the offensive with confidence that their men can withstand it on bi the same confidence prevails on the italian front where also general foch Is in supreme command the aus rolans have been concentrating great forces there including much artillery they have hae had on the french front and they were expected to deliver their blow between the stelvio pass and monte grappa just east cast of the brenta in the hope of breaking through to brescia and milan the Au positions in that sector are admittedly bettor better than those of the italians to repel the expected drive the italians have the assistance of british french and americans in number at least equal to the italian forces sent to prance france and flanders E karly arly tuesday italian naval units succeeded in sterling stealing into pola harbor rind and torpedoing an austrian dread naught of tile the class at tile the same time italian seaplanes sea planes engaged and routed the austrian battle planes over pola 63 the prediction of a naval battle in the north sea was based on the fact that the entire german baltic neet fleet excepting a few light cruisers was recalled to klel kiel and great activity at that base was reported the german navy probably feels a bit humiliated over tile second british Bri laid on 0 1 in which the old cruiser vindictive laden with concrete was vas sunk bunk at the entrance of the clial channel blocking it to all large vessels te participation in the fighting on the nest front by the americans irl brigaded with the british and french Is increasing dally and it is now made known that whenever american troops predominate dom hutte in tile the brigade divisions these will be b put under command of general pershing this it Is bell believed eved will bring larger numbers of our hoys boys to the battle liny line rapidly and contribute greatly to the spirit of unity aud and concerted effort the war depart denart I 1 A w ment meat explains that the brigading plan in operation Is temporary adopted to meet the emergency in which it Is desirable to send over as many americans as possible without waiting for their arms and ammunition later they will return to the american army and will be using american equipment it Is gratifying to note that general pershing now issues dally daily official muni ques on the doings of the american forces following follow lag the system of the other allies sa ft the continuous battle for supremacy y in the air raged with increasing intensity all through the week and official reports led to the belief that the flyers of the allied armies generally had the best of st it american aviators won several notable victories general pershing reported the commissioning of nearly 1000 student aviators the french have delivered to his army battle planes and training planes and the haviland Hav lland battle planes made iu in america are be beginning inning to arrive tsa to on sunday emperor charles Cli arles visited the kaiser at great headquarters and made plans for a renewal of the aus tro gernian german alliance to last twenty years the news of this of course was received with rejoicing by the pan germans of austria hungary but equally of course the treaty is bitterly opposed by the slavs and other anti german elements in charles realm the people there as a whole are more and more desirous of peace and there Is fear that the agreement will their army and compel even greater efforts in the war by some the preparations for an offensive in italy are looked on as a direct result of the conference according to copenhagen pen hagen reports the two emperors selected kings king for lithuania courland esthonia Esth onla and poland but the men chosen were not named the meeting of the rulers was attended by the kings of bavaria dagarin and saxony who though not invited sought to maintain the importance of their kingdoms as parts of the german empire and not leave prussia tile the sole nr arbiter litter of german destinies that sounds big but the fact remains that prussia Is as much the boss of the german empire as ever oa the kaiser Is treating russia just as a thoroughly defeated enemy might expect to be treated by him despite the pence peace treaty of brest his dis demands are arc exorbitant and enforced by arms and in an address to the town council of aix le chapelle tie he announces that sebastopol sevastopol Seba has been captured with a big richly laden fleet there more than that lie he is preparing to call on the baltic provinces pro inces that were a part of russia to supply men for the german armies no other construction st can be placed on his proclamation recognizing the independence of lithuania in which he be says we assume that lithuania will participate in 11 the war burdens of germany which secured tier her liberation As lithuania has neither money nor munitions to contribute the kaiser must mean men and the lithuanian national council says the country will not consent to have its citizens dragooned into the ranks of the kaiser alser in the caucasus the germans undertook to gain control of the grain coal oil and iron districts by the capture of on don but thuy they held the city only one day when the russians Russ lins recaptured captin ed it there are arc several powerful groups of russians operating in the don region and others all through gh south russia and germany lias has proclaimed war at I 1 odessa and and mined the entrance into I 1 tie sea of adov in the ukraine the anti and german movement increases dally daily tile the people being very bitter in european russia says a dispatch from samara less than thai helf the arable laud land usually 1 cultivated will nil be tilled this year owing to the shortage of seed borses an and implements wid and the unsettled condition brought about by the land division well posted britons nic urging that the allies allica continue to help in the work of reconstruction in order to balk the efforts of germany it is recognized by all that ger banys pence peace hopes now jle ie wholly in the east and that if she Is permitted to realize them slie elie wll will I 1 have won on the war regardless of the conditions imposed ao cd on her in tho the west lenine professes to see signs sl ns of a counterrevolution counter revolution in RU russia SIU and on monday he issued a call for help to prevent it the family of the late czar has been removed to kiev rind and is in the hands of the germans near the mongolian siberian border general Serne continues to wage successful war on the bolshevik forces isa ft the finnish white guard seems to have gained almost complete control of the country celebrating the capture of Tammer fors by massacring russians and great britain has offered to recognize the finnish republic on certain conditions the trouble there may not be over however for late reports say a great number of russians are massed on the border of finland and a big battle is imminent te ft president wilson and the senate military affairs committee conflicted again last week when chairman chamberlain proposed a resolution that would permit the committee to inquire into the conduct of the war though the initial purpose was merely to investigate vesti gate the aircraft production collapse and consequent charges of dishonesty mr air wilson declared unequivocally qui vocally that lie he would consider the adoption of the resolution as a declaration la of want of confidence in thi the administration and a restrictive amendment by senator thompson of kansas did not remove his objections to it on wednesday the president announced the appointment of charles 13 hughes anglies to act with the attorney general in the aircraft investigation and the choice was received with general approval the former justice 0 of the supreme court made a great record in the new york insurance investigation and it is believed the criminal charges in the aircraft production matter will be thoroughly gone into by him without fear or favor ft as under the able leadership of mr schwab the shipbuilding forces of the united states are going ahead with their work at a great rate the big concrete steamer faith built at san francisco underwent trial runs that were altogether satisfactory and the steel vessel tuckahoe was declared ready to sall sail from philadelphia just 37 days after the keel was laid the shipping board decided thursday to build 14 concrete tank steamers with a total capacity of tons and four concrete cargo vessels the board also prepared to let contracts for more wooden ships of 1700 tons each in addition to recently authorized in order to keep the ways occupied until antil the end of the war thus the shipping problem Is gradually being solved and while Arn america eilea and great britain are building vessels their navies are slaking sinking the german submarines in increasing numbers there were reports last week that germany was as about to put into commission some U borts boats larger than any yet seen but the allied naval commanders said they were ready for those too to faither restrict the activities of the undersea craft the british have laid a great mine field in the north sea covering about square miles the marl mari ners are growing more and more skillful in evading the submarines as is shown by the fact that in the first four months of this year british vessels vessel s were sere attacked by them and escaped uninjured e the overman ordination coordination co bill finally was passed by the house by a vote of to 2 representatives representative sterling of illinois and gillett of massachusetts casting the only negative votes all attempts to amend it were voted do doun n the house passed the conference report on the bill requiring the registering of youths who have readied reached the age of twenty one years since juno june 5 lust their names nrc are to go ut lit the bottom of the lists with the appointment of felix frankfurter as administrator of war var lubor labor activities the government put into operation its plan for controlling and directing tho the labor supply his duties being administrative as cont contrasted ith the judicial and legislative functions of the war labor board headed by mr tart ft appealing to the people of small sinal means the government last weel week launched a war savings stamp campaign that brought excellent results all over the country elaborate plans wert wen alo allo completed for the campaign to raise the second red cross war vaud of |