WIWIS'' ' EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA; MONDAY,. JUE 1W 'W& ' ' A ' gXH&vl J WINOUS SPIRIT FLAMES IN AUSTRIA SPECIAL CABLE DISPATCHES FROM ACTIVE WAR FRONTS , St st m "'SSI 'i !M Eki IAN TROOP OPEN REVOLT i .l 8 h e v i k Propaganda long Returned Prison Wtt Blamed for Mutinies c; St LITICAL CRISIS NEAR fetivernment Under Scvdlcr w.JPIanning Policy of Rcprcs- F Wi6ion to Crush Rebellion 'Wl JtJW YiJpecfoZ Cn6e fo Etrnlne Public Ledger M'Cmiiriaht. toit. to Sew Ymk Thnes (a. L''tyA5? -r...ll. Tuna IT "''So' ".". -- - .WMgOnce again the Austrian frontier has wtlMen closed and news of the Internal 'i -nWitB of affairs In that empire arrives j"VHlv hv rminrinl.nltt wnvs. ft ' "jjTwo Munich papers simultaneously f, AfTlnt telegrams from their lenna cor- .QiJWBPondents which suggest ono highly ?Ukk.l.l. ............ ... aV.A tiielrl'in fin..- 1L Jtnment, disinclination to let the whole "Stlruth appear. According to the siuncn .fiM Vonpstp Vnchrlchten. nolshelK 6 toJ-WODaganda among the Austrian prlson- K ? now returned to their own country P"STihB been successful to tho extent of 5. i f!Vvnifnilnv .. l,lf.l,1t mttHnnii fonWrttT ttwhlch U not confined to any portion of I Jfc&the dual monarchy The Munchncr .-V A ii.L ... .......I nliinr on. .a I tint I L.M'AUEDUC1B UITIIU fliuilf, piijd w... . ijj$ mutinies are actually occurring, cspecl- SW " among Slav unlt3 commanded ny 'jBCerman officers. !&". A battalion of the Seenth Infantry : ,i75.-RBlment, consisting of Slovenes, went strike at OudenbuiK. shot their g'ftJjBotficers and committed excesses In the c iw'town. The mutiny was only suppressed wUUr several days or systematic trench tivL-t warfare. t&5"J. Bolohevlkl I'ropnganila Illnmed if2tfhls was followed by a munlty at 1 'AJrnnhnrp' Vnr l1? KnMipre rovnllpd rjff4.d fought a pitched battle before being 1 ilr crushed. Some escaped Into Saxony and '.cohere surrendered. Sjt j Lastly a regiment of Hungarian Serbs VlJ fciunltled at Kunfklrchen. but details arb WftOt known All these cases are ascribed 5 rift, BolsheUk propaganda, and the que- '..IjM.to,h of refusing to continue jj5shnge of pilsoncrs Is being considered fteSIn all three cases German olllcers were ( i"jr,fne flrst and principal victims. V?"SThe political crisis In AustrU Is rap- BL Tffca ay oeveiopinff un June v anu iw, me 'tePoUflh representatixes in the Ueirhstrath K;-,'J,.to ack the Government for certain guar- r luticca, uftiiiu iiiudi mil tie put iiuuiicu, !" ga,1' the Polish districts annexed from : VlRuMla must be placed under Polish pro f '-xAMctlon and not German Further, as m 'j.Vn Seydler, the Premier, Is unfavorable E. T4M BllAt. MAnn.,KHn til. KBlntlnn l.'nc. f uw wi.ii uicaDuiCD, ma I trai&imtiuii ixa W ;4';.emandol and the Reichsrath must be 'feaummoned forthwith. fiAt'Tht laSt two points contain the sum W 4k. .1....,!.. mi . ,t.n ,i.. wi ma oiiuuiiuiii i ne.v iitfrtit tiictk ilia Polish deputies now definitely pass Into , itha opposition, together with the other jftSIav parties already aligning with the Socialist opposition In the Vienna parlla- ?., ent, . 1 tA majority of the deputlea are now IM , ,-awnnitely against the Government, but Jke -Government can hardly call a gen- ai election just now, as u wouia no tlng disaster, nor can the Govcrn- Kat accede to the Polish demands, as gj- '.sqpparenUy a sccrot clause In the treaty ic Austria-Hungary vith the Ukraine . 'laJs the latte Subsequently the master 4r,tastern Gallcla, fix JaH Mailed Flt CJorerntnent 'Although yet unratified, the treaty has 'JWrtady been signed Austria cannot , Iff01 Poland against Germany. The ''tttr BolUt on nf tho dtmntilt.. In 5.,-H. v'i&. rnn T: ".'. .Tui. y wi'iinn, to buvtiiiiiiciu wiLiiuuk filament and with the mailed fist " oear in minu me iact tnat Aus- f. la and Hungary are having a little rfel apart on the question ' where ! ,T" 'f. ,, rr! - Hungary come In on tho Austro- empire iiernn ii .i-...., - - ah arrangement. It will be realized that the contracting parties of the old the position of the Austrian Gov- TWnent la very uncertain nvervthlne jplntn to the beginning of a new period - Hf,rpression and repression has a habit SalfdttrBlng the government which prac naes'it down a steep place to a sudden irfp HKMAN PRESS RAILS '1 m miiTMnci k TUfPnifi a w ii:. 4kJ:-.i- tt c xtr trrr .- i - GHRlJ C.. n.. TT All . ' . "ax!;"' -t&W a tay at Ho m e ''jmfiieiel Cable to Evening Public Ledger f at fwhWoAt, isti. by .Vftu l'or: Ttmtt Co. The Hague, June IT. h German press la at present organ- ., a series of attacks on any and thins American. Doubtless the an- ctment that there are already such re number of troops on the west t'has come somewhat as a surprise ' German people, who have been aatlcally led to believe for the laBt that there was Insufficient tonnage RKieMransporiauon anu mat Amend M and could do nothing. Iterations that a few Germans have lynched In the United States and tarred and feathered continue to Y considerable space in the na of the press, and the same are cited continually in order to I any number of things to America's alt and are. brought into every 'about America, annexationist Weser "Zcltung 'of "Amerikanlsche Kulturtaten" 'm deeds of culture, pointing out 1 America has now been at war over r.-'put that there is yet no proof kacta of heroism. The only heroic t'taays the paper, Is her big talk nzures, out her help has been oplc The paper points out that C00 airplanes promised only ten on the west front, and of the I.M0 army which was to destroy any only a few hundred are helping :th Entente ranks. As for con- r.atilps, few have been delivered, and i nas not yet even oeen aDie to .her troppa with provisions, so war entnusia&m is a colossal IT 'paper says American troops who contact witn tne uennan swora l Unit time near Selcheprey do not fto have saved the honor of the then, are the American htfow seriously; p tlHLYe BliljCU Ull UtO VIUCI Biuo eean and are using up their war- on unarmed Germans." per here again cites the case of abert JTager, wno uecause or nan sentiment, was hung on a an. 'American moo anu woo una i the subject or an imerpeua itRlchtag." tolBJache titling talks of the talk. now current n America, involves, ana says it says md;ltlf AMERICANS AS SHOCK TROOPS Allies: Revise Opinion and No Longer Wish Thcnt Brigaded Hy CHARLES IL GRASTY Special Cable to Evening Public Ledger Corvrioht IHlt. bu .Veto York Times Co. rnrl, Juno i7 Rlnco the American soldiers hae shown how well they could take care of themselves, Kuropean senti ment about our troops ha undergone a marked change. Heretofore they were considered very fine "raw material," but now our Perhlng-tralncd divisions are classed with shock troops No cleaner cut Job has been done In thin war than that hy the Americans around Chateau Thierry All our tialned troops nre preparing to participate In tho fighting on the most active sectors, (iencrnl Pershing Is In dliect lommiind. Hit advice Is much sought and listened to, and he is In close daliy touch with the Generalis simo. Whereat? a month ago the belief wa-s general that the new American ma terial should bo absorbed Into the British and French armies, the sentiment has veered around and now favors retain ing the American Individuality to the utmost practicable limit LEAGUE IN ARMS STRIKES A ROCK German Press Bitter at Austria Over Polish Question BURIAN GOES HOME Special Cable tn Ihening Public Ledger Convrloltt. tOl" ' Vrie 1'orl Ttiites r'o, The Hiikup, June 17. Foreign Minister Burlan has al ready returned to Vienna after only a two days' stay nt tho German cap ital, and although the Frendenblatt hastens to inform the people that an important question such as Poland's ' ftitttro rnuld not be decided on tn 'such a short space of time thnt great progress has been made and that the , jnoTOtlntlons nre to be resumed In, Vienna, there Is surprise and eusap i polntment In tho German piess. ' Many things point to a hitch In the Centrnl League in Arms. No further progress has been made since Kaiser Kail went to headquarters and the so lution of the Polish question has been only superficially touched on. says the i Frankfurter Zeltunjr. The paper adds that there Is no reason to believe that Italian is less a disciple of the Austro-I r-ollsh solution now than when he first took up his office at tho Ballpatz. This question is the bone of bitter I contention and Is now openly treated t as Eiidi in the pi ess. It is evident, that Biir'an has made a promise which t he Is not sure of keeping, as there is no longer doubt as to the solution de sired by Berlin. Austria is afraid .that; an Independent Poland would be an rnornv tn thn Central Powers and mean the balking of Central Kurope and the separation of Galicia from Cnimoies Po'and. Ati-trlan Mlnltters KeslRn Meantime the news from Austria Is anything but reassuring for the Cen tral Empires Four more ministers have tendered their resignations in connection with". the resignation of the Minister for Home Affairs and there aro rumors of risings nnd unrest. Vienna correspondents consider the situation serious. The Tageblatts Vipnna conespondent points out that tMu la npitiier a covernment nui na Hlamentary crisis, but a State "'" .""'.' . ... .1.- -1.1 A. .crisis, anu neciarea iiw "'"'""" trU. with her Constitution oi isoi. is llnlbhcd. "Thp ouestlon Is undoubtedly of great Importance for the "'?"? a"f.a" alliance exist no longer. .tu """"" power on earin. noi ctcn wc ..., .- port, will bring them to life again. The Tageblatt points out that many people see in the formation of this league an action against tho letter of Prince Slxtus do Bourbon, and adds that the military side of the league will have a far-reaching agreement in the technical ities f.f defense and armaments as well as the training of both armies The Liberal press of Germany appears willing at least to discuss the possibili ties of tho Austro-Pollsh solution, but the conservative press openly denounces it. expressing tatlsfactlon at the open stand now taken by the Government. The annexationist WeBer Zeltuner says. "Burlan will be somewhat surprised at the deflnlteness of the German stand point, and will recollect with sorrow the August days of 191 s, -when he and Beth mann prematurely and without due re flection gave the flrst push to the Polish policy, which fault they must iow re pair." Vrgen Plotter Alliance. The paper reminds Its readers that Hlndenburg unfortunately had not full command over political Issues at that epoch, anfl points out that Burlan must see that the closer the Dual Monarchy Is allied to Germany the better It will be for Austria's complex' and distracted In terior situation The paper sees no possibility of set tling the question until the matters are cleared un in Vienna. It bays "nprmnn-a world nnlitlrtil Interest In ,. ipaEUp nith the Dual Monarchy is t..sori nn the fact that this is one way of runir, a bridge to the Orient. Who knows whether In the triangular state of Austria, Poland and Hungary the eco nomic Interest would not so develop northward that the Balkan policy will be neglected? Quite apart from the fact that such a state would naturally de mand a North Sea port." Drclalve Step Is Ileal Need The Frankfurter Zeltung points out ihat parliamentary debates on the eco nomlo question touching the, league In arms may be useful, but that only a decisive step of the three Powers con cerned can be of any real value. "What do we know of their inten tions?" says the paper, and It speaks of Von Payer's speech, which, unfortu nately, left all "details" to thn future and did not pronounce on the form of the Polish settlement, although this question Is a preliminary condition to all other decisions. The paper points out that Burlan s Msit to Berlin had pri marily and, as a matter of fact (the writer here uses the English words "matter of fact," which can be inter preted as a sign of the peace offensive of the times), no other aim than an agree ment on Poland. "Without this, no league In arms, no Central Kurope." The paper regrets that Crernin Is not handling the situation, pointing out that any agreement with the Dual Monarchy In future will have to copa with a more pronounced national egoism among North Oerman people than ever before and that TIsia's recent speech clearly showed that Central Europe must finan cially support Hungary and grant her trW-sam tr4l and s;rartan opportUt 9 Vr V i .: (M fflrwa Lan r . in K.sMiimmmmKmm jma til? - &IRIM j. j wm '9J9KmISm JK.! ltov.il liiplilanilcr? of l.aiijtiii, me BRITISH REPULSE ENEMY AT ASIAGO Austrian Offensive Leaves Line Unchanged in That Sector FOCUS OF ONE ATTACK English Successfully Defend Extreme Right and Cap ture 350 Prisoners By WARD PRICE Special Cable to Evening Public Ledger Copurioht. lOlt. bu .Vttf l'orlv 7.mr fn. On the Italian l'rant. June 17 The British sector formed the extreme right of the enemy's attacking front Between British troops and the Brenta, which Is the focus of one of the twci main enemy efforts, there nre sectors of a Kjench and of ,in Italian artny. It is on the front of the latter that the strongest concentiatlon of Austrian troops has gathered, but It seemed as If the enemy felt compelled to bring both the French and the British troops within the bcope of his attack, so as to preclude any diversion that might otherwise bo started In aid of the Italians. The result of his offensive on the British position, however, can hardly seem satisfactory to him. At the end of the first day's fighting the line remains virtually Identical with what it was in the morning, while the British have taken more than 350 prisoners. As elsewhere, the enemy bombardment opened at 3 a. in. He fired gas shells Into the hollows of the pine woods be hind tho British line, and did his best to hinder traffic by bombarding the roads that feed the sector. Then at 7:30 the Auitrlans launched their In fantry attack. It was an attack on depth and well organized. The first waves reached the British line at what was found out later on from prisoners to be exactly on time. - The enemy came on In full view over the open ground that lies between the ruined village of Aslago and the foot of the black pine tree covered hills where the British flrst lines nre. On the right they were stopped completely with, rifle and machine-gun flre and had heavy losses. At the few points where the Austrian Infantrymen reached the trenches they were at once thrust hack On the front of the British left-hand division, where the Austrian objective was Monte Lemerle, they had an advan tage In their advance under cover oil the valley down which the railway from Aslago runs, and coming thus under comparative cover they managed to enter the front line of a breadth of about a mile. The defense fell back on to twor switch lines, enclosing the Austrlans In a tri angular pocket and enfilading them The enemy's possession even of this fraction of line, however, was brief. A counter attack delivered by the British divisions of the left established the line as It had' been before, taking most of the ground mentioned above During their brief occupation the Austrlans had Ipad tem porary possession of four guns, which had been pushed far forward, but these guns were retaken by a counter-attack at the end of the afternoon. The result of the whole day for the Austrlans, as regards the British front, has been that they dug themselves In somewhat further forward In what used to be No Man's Land, but their flrst day's objective, which was the line of heights consisting of Monte Pau and ' Clma dl Fonte, commanding the plain. Is as far on as it was wnen the atlacw began. WAR CAPTIVES GOING HOME France and German Begin Exchange of 160,000 Prisoners Derne, SwItierUnU, June 17. Ger many and Frcnce havfc begun the ex change of 160 000 prisoners of war, in accordance with the recent Berne agree ment. Special trains carrying from 800 to 1000 prisoners are moving In each direction. London, June 17. The Prussian War Minister has announced all German pris oners of. war repatriated f ron ;Hwl Will wl' f 1,,lvJ' "HAIL TO THE KING' 'r,rc;&sim?mmrs3 MPV. m inner mips or mc mark Watrh, rltccrlnp liis Majesty on Empire Day MRS. BUSCH IS COMING HOME TO PROVE HER LOYALTY TO U. S. Widow of St. Louis Brewer Reaches Havana From Germany. Will Tell State Department of Conditions , in Enemy Country Special Cable to Evening Public Ledger Copirlotl. mtS. !u Xew York Times Co. llutann, Juno 17. MBS. ADOI.PHUS BUSCH, widow of the St. Louis brewer, has reached Havana on board the Spanish steamship Alfonso XIII, on her way to the United States, which she has been ttrlvlng to reach for several months. Sho was seen soon after arriving by our correspond ent, but she declined to make any suite-" nicnt nnd referred all would-be Inter viewers to Harry I) Hawes, of St Louis, her nttorne.v. who was with her Mr Hawes was little more communica tive than Mis. Busrh. Imt explained that he had been asked by lepresentatlvcs of the American Slate Department to make no statement regarding Oerman conditions unll! he had leported to the proper authorities nt Washington. "At all legations along the line, Switzerland, Franco and Spain," said Mr. Hnwes. "we were requested to save all our Information for tho Stale De nartment nt Washington, and, of course, as a good American, Mrs Busch could not do otherwise, nnd u cm safely say that she has not and will not make any statement of any nature whatsoever If wo can get accommodations on a steamship sailing for a certain Ameri can port on Monday we shall, do so. Then Mrs. Busch will continue to her permanent resldnce in St Louis, while I shall go to Washington to report in full to the State Department. Tubllahed Iteports Denied "While it is Impossible for me to dis cuss pondltlons ruling In Germany, I can say, however, that a lot of rot which has no foundation has iteen puniisnea about Mrs. Busch In certain news papers, especially one in New York. For instance, the paper to which I refer lepresented that Mrs Busch was promi nent In German court circles and had been visited at her castle on the Rhine by the Kaiser and the Crown Prince. In the first place, sho has no place on the Ithlne, and, in the second place, her house has never ben 'visited by the Kaiser or the Crown Prince. "It Is also untrue that she contributed a million dollars or any large sum to the German hospital service. She was In Germany when tho Kuropean war began visiting her two daughters, ono of whom Is married to a captain In the German army nnd the other to a Ger man business man. But while she has two children in Germany, she has four more in the United States and eighteen grandchildren, nil of whom are Ameri cans. She may have helped In allaying suffering In the German hospitals be fore the United States entered the war, but since the latter event she has con cerned herself regarding how she could return to the land of her birth. "Our trip has been a trying one for a woman of her aBC she Is seventy four but she stood the hardships well. The American State Department cabled the Spanish ambassador at Berlin, who Is representing American interests in Germany, last November to arrange for Mrs. Busch to meet me in Switzerland and I left the United States at once to assist her in returning. I expected to be gone six weeks, and you see it will soon be nine months. "We hoped to leave In March, but we encountered difficulties all the way, railroad strikes flrst and submarines last. Not the least exciting of our ex nerlences was a German air raid during four passage through Paris. We saw no submarines on our way over, however, as we went as far out of their path as possible, coming by the Canary Islands, which, though out of our way, wa con sidered as well worth while. Swim Tired of Herman Pple "Switzerland is suffering greatly from the effects of the war, more so than any other country through which we passed You have to have cards for almost everything there in .tha way of some thing to eat. The whole country Is a nest of spies and the Swiss are getting very tired and are considering means of getting rid of them, -as they are making a great hole In the Swiss larder, Spain Is the best fed of the neutral nations. The Spaniards. seeny to wag.torjlsMleln VJt ' v ffnyii,t vmi 'V' t .-. - -ft VWivv...-5 J . . 3 ; ..- 1: use such low-grade coal that it was Im possible to make much speed." .Speaking again of publications Inti mating that Mrs. Busch's heart was not with the United States, Mr. Hawes em phasized that there was no division of her loyalty, she being all American. He cited as some evidence the fact that her family contributed $100,000 to tho American Bed .Urdss. $1,000,000 to the first Liberty Loan, '$1,000,000 to the sec ond Liberty Lo.-i'ri and $150,000 to the Y M. C. A., ,';. ; ' , Bene Velarde, a Cuban newspaper man, representing an American news agency, boarded the Alfonso XIII and got into the cabli) of Mrs. Busch before the Secret Service men were able to do so. He was nrrested and held for sev eral hours and then released. AMERICANS TRIUMPH IN CONFLICT OF GASES Repay Germans in Own Coin for Gas Shelling Near Thierry By EDWIN L. JAMES Special Cable to Evening Public Ledger Copurlaht. Wig, bu Xew York Times Co. Willi the American Army on the Marne, June 17. AftPr fOftV-Plpht linlira tf nnnfl... ous gassing of the American troops northwest of Chateau-Thlerrv the Ger mans called off the attack. Thev called it off because tho Amei leans had lepaid them in their own coin. On Flldnv tllp nprmnnc c.nlMJ heavy sns shelling of our entlio sec- lor ana iney Kept it up all day Satur day. But Saturday the American nr- tlltrtt. llrflM 4 r o , m.. 1. ....v... ... au,, .., v.,,jr uut ulu con templated retaliation. One thousand gas shells vveio put down on the Ger man lines, running from Busslares to Bellotu, during the afternoon. Dur ing the night 6000 gaa shells from 75' caliber guns were hurled nt the Ger man positions in front of Bouresches and toward Chateau-Thierry and Sun day morning 1000 heavy caliber lethal gas shells were put down on German reserve units in the viclnitv of v.r,a. Bezo. Snnn nftpr tVilu tha r..M.. shelling stopped and there has been none since un tn thn tlmo v,i written. This experience shown thnt one way to meet gas attacks is with more gas. AVe have pvldenrA thnf tha rnK--.. believed the Americans were nni equipped to fire gas shells, and there- '"i" uuuuie tu retaiuaie in Kind, They received a lesson thev will not forget. , Our gas caught his reserves in a valley, which is an excellent place fAH bIiaIIIvipi .J ...IJ ( . . "" oiicums, auu eviuence is not lack Inc that we Inflicted vprv v.n,... altles, especially upon the Knlspr'o favorite division, the well known Twenty-eighth. When America gets to producing gas shells in the quantity the army hopes she will our soldiers intend to give he enemy a largo dose of his own grim war weapon. While the Germans Vim... ilm. - always hod the start lp the sas war fare Americans hope for the day when uiiiiKs win ue me oiner way, Should a German clamor for mercy arise the American gunners will remember some of their comrades who were gassed nortnvyesi pi unaieau-Thlerry. . WANT POLISH EXEMPT . Scranlon Alien Women Protest Regis tration, Asserting Loyalty Brranion, fa., June 17. -Allen women, members of St. Stanislaus Polish Na tional Church, through Bishop Francis Hodur. have wire. Attorney General Gregory at.Washlngton asklu-, thM the i ""-a ".?:, r k jtcj UAiiiH oinnaaM ;jir,rn natis.B KA-ikai FRENCH DRIVE FOE FROM 2 VILLAGES Re-establish Lines Between Aisnc and Marne by ' Local Actions OTHER SECTIONS QUIET IJy G. H. TERMS Special Cable to Evening Public Ledger Covvrtaht, Ml h .We York Times Co. Willi tho French Armies, Juno 17. looking from the hfgh ground south of the Aronde Valley toward the long ridge that closes tho hbrlzon on tho north under the rather chill suhshlne of Saturday it was strange, nlmost shocking, to remark the quiet beauty of the scene so filled with horror dur ing the last week. Green wheat fields slope gently down and away, broken bv patches of olive woodland, nnd rise ngnln more sMarply to tho purple line of the Mery nnd Rollov hills. Many French observa tion balloons floated overhead, nnd like a series of Gorman "sausages." helped to mark the irregular course of the front. As usual, not a man of the hosts watching each other with murderous eyes was visible nt n little dlstaifce, but the boom of guns nnd the crash of heavy shells, followed by snouts nnd hanging clouds of smoko'and dust nbout Courcclles. Mery, St. Matir nnd tho hamlets of the Jwatz Valley, shouted the ugly truth against nil the bright camouflage of summer time. This countryside, like wo many others, has been deserted hy most of Its inhabitants. A few remain, how ever, and there nre men nnd women bent at field work within the range of the enemy's guns as though they could not tear themselves away from the land that Is all to them, or could not believe that the tide of invasion would reach further! Perhaps they are too poor, too old or too helpless to be able to face tho search for new homes. Rattle Made Many Changes Tile battlo is lost nnd won: the pressuie on ninbulance enrs nnd hos pital trains in relaxed; 'he proces sions of rerugees nave pnscd nvvay to tho south. In this interval, movlnir nbout behind the French lines. It comes home to me once moie what a world of suffering an Invasion makes apart from tho direct wnundw of bat tle. In the three weeks since this phase of tho orrcnslvo began several large towns, especially Compelgno and Solssons, have been destroyed: others, like Chateau-Thierry and VlllersCot terets. greatejy damaged, and In wide stretches of the country the few folk who did not get nvvny nre now under the enemy, subject to real servitude. Kiom long living In some of thesa places and constantly passing across It from one part of the front to an other, the whole region is very famil iar to me. A thousand strange expe riences in these four heavy years have etched upon my mind the picture of Its desolnto streets nnd fields, its once lovely old churches nnd farm houses, now shattered; tho majestic sweep of its landscapes nnd the dignity and en ergy of laborious population. It Is an gone, it will never be the same ngaln and many years must pass be fore life renews Itself in foims nt which wo can hardly guess. It Is so long since war has ravaged British homes that Britons may sometimes forget the bitter Injury of Frnnce, wh.lch they do not share ns they sharo hev more evident dally sacrifices. Fortitude and t'nnfldrnre As to the army. Its spirit, even more distinctly as one approaches the firing line. Is ono of cheerful fortitude, sup ported by confidence, confirmed on many a stricken field, that Its quality Is, worthy of Its cause. There I3 no touch o'f boast fulness or flamboyance nbout It Lads with whom I was yesterday were la mentably unable to give me the htory of what they had been through Kvery separate detail hnd tn bo wrung nut of them, and they had the air of wondering why nn emissary of a distant paper Bhould trouble to rout them out of their rest holes and fuss about what was all In the day's work. The only sectors of the French front that have been troubled In the last two days are those lying between the Aisne 'and the Marne on either side of the Ourcq. and In both It had heen In our Initiative and to our advantage. In the north the villages of the Couvre and Vauy were yesterday cleared of the enemy and the ravine boundary was re etrtabllshed. On tho south. In the Cllg non aVlley French and American troops continue by small operations to keep up the piersure that the German command must find as annoying aa it was unex pected. Itesctlnn Inspired' Germans When on June 2 Von Boehm's advance guards pushed south and west across the Cllgnon, occupying the village of the valley, they actually reached the point of their .front nearest to Paris, nnd doubtless thought the load to the capital would poon open before them. Belleau wood, which Is a mile and a half wide and half a mile deep, became a sub. stantlal base for further progress, and was occupied by a large garrison nnd well defended by machine-gun posts The Franco-American reaction which began June S was a great surprise. On J4P0NIC.4 &1RDEN 1 " . C XT-' '"tlyVv" No one can even guest how hot it U on the streets when the cool breezes blow 21 stories in the air. Pleasant to take one's case then to dine well In good company, and hear fine music I I"! -ssrf.. ! 2 ,f-a w--. i l ow .r-4 t - n. .v i- iiaiiaiiaw a r . laTslaWi z.a the 7th the Allied forces had got ncrora the valleys, but Belleau wood had yet to, be tackled In n difficult opera tion which occupied the next four days, French batteries Isolated the defenders of the wood and prevented supplies nnd relenforcements from nrrlvlng, while American battalions reduced rone by one the machine-gun posts nnd redoubts. By night last Tuesday It was all over and tho French nnd Americans had taken all that remained of the garrison four officers and 360 men, with four mine throwers, twenty machine guns, nnd a good deni of materia Their resistless energy had compelled General von Boehm to relieve the two original divisions nnd to engage two stronger divisions, one of the Prussslah guard, which, In their turn, have suffered very heavy losses. It Is a feather In the cap of the American army, to have , brought up against It, a crack unit like a division of the guard, which expects only to be used in major operations. PRUSSIANS AT FRONT URGE BALLOT REFORM Editor Harden Contradicts Count von Spec's Asser tions in Diet SPOKE ONLY FOR STAFF Special Cable to'Evcning Public Ledger Covurloht. Wit, bu h'ew York Tbnrs Co. The Hague, June 17. Maximilian Harden In Die Zukunft, w rites .that he has been delighted to re ceive a letter from a wounded officer, saying: "Tou have said too little about the Prussian fight for ballot reform, which our best men at the front follow with such watchfulness." Harden lemlnds his readers of Count von Spee's assertions In the Diet that he came from the front and musts peak and that the people-at the front did not want the reform or approve the "damn able July 19 resolution." "He did not come from the front," says Harden, "but from tho staff, where necessary and useful work Is done behind the lines, but where the contemporaries of the lieutenant who cried, Ve shall win the war terribly' sit." Harden ha.vs that thoso people behind the front who are well fed, well paid and know nothing of the dangers of the front, tnlk about the people nt the front as "front pigs" because they come from the trenches and the firing line. He asks what can a man like Spec know of these men's opinions, as they are not likely to open their hearts to him. Harden con tinues: "An order of the All Highest has no more weight than a speech from tho throne, nnd only the minister who Is responsible call bo held to account, Let's leave kings out of the question. Tho ministry which In July, 1917, took the responsibility of tho rojel message was forced to resign Immediately, nnd Its successors were obliged not only to redeem the pawn, but to pay for It, Why (ilve More TIihii Asked? "As tho military situation appears more favorable than a year ago, and. It Is hoped, will bo more favorable next year, onco again the viewpoint is that of a master who In days of servant scarcity decided to give a servant COO marks yearly, Instead of 300, but when more means were at hand he decided to glvo 400. Why give more than the modesty of the people demands?" Sneaking of the Conservatives' atti tude In the recent fight. Harden says that their grudge was never more per captlble than when tho Conservatives fiom a safo port demanded guarantees that the rejection of the bill would not be followed by a new election. He says the bill was not Intended for tho pivot of a htrenuous battle and deplores the fact that there Is no woman suffrage In Germany and that the women nro silent, not demanding It. "Never was .tho opportunity so Savor able," he writes. "Today they can de mand nnd get anything serious." Harden then quotes Lloyd George on the subject of woman Euffrage. Be turnlnp to the subject of the Prussian suffrage, he says If only tho men at tha front could decide everything It would be different In spite of Count Speo and every chango would be a democratic sign. Now. he ndds, they will bmear cold cream, which can do no harm, on the wound, nnd If It Itches they will prescribe something else. In the upper house'. William C. Potter on Aircraft Board Washington, June 17. The President today nominated William C. Potter, of New York, to be a member of the air craft board. Selling 500 of the Finest . Suits We Have Seen This Season $25 For Each One Worth $40, $38 o $35 THESE values . are genuine from every standpoint of tailoring, trimming and fineness of fabric. . But the best part of the story is that .men can select (almost without restriction) suits from worsteds, flannels, Canadian crashes, imported Irish home spuns, serges and fine summer cloths of every good kind. . William H, Wanamaker GERMAN ENTHUSIASM ON THE WANE AGAIN? Vorwacrts Takes a Pessimistioil View of the Outlook in General By JULtUS WIEST Special Cable to Evening Public Lcdgcf hi SVimivstlt tat a f..i -v... vA). Tiff..-- y "' wut iiiin jt-it ' miv t vi r i tints u, Xtirlrh, Juno 17. The Vorwarcals is finely pessimistic ngaln on the situation In general. "The German nennlp n. cplved with gladness tho news of neaci sl with Hti'sla, but what has happened to "I tnat peace7 A Dread pence with th Ukraine has been sealed by the reduc tion of the bread ration, and our vic torious soldiers, Instcnd of returning to their homes, remain In Bussla or hays ncen tranbferred to other fronts, anat havo learned that universal suffrace in Prussia has been 1 elected Wo e-reped Germany's entry Into the war against 4 Czarlsm ns tho preludo to the liberation l of Hurope. Today Skoropadsky reigns In the Ukraine nnd liejdcbrand In Prus sia, while candidates for tho crowns of a merles of so-called 'liberated states arc being reviewed This peace has only J arotired discontent within Germany." ! The Vorwaerlsiof course, is habitually anti-government; but Just now Its de- presslon is no deeper than thnt of th more orthodox papers. The Frankfurter Zeltung, for cxnmple. now proclaims . that Germany Is now merely aiming at lf the reducing of the quantltty of the An glo-French effectives Hven a consld- it erable thrust forward Is not contem plated until such time as the wearied Allies can no longer resist the great of fensive Abovo nil, Germany Is guard ing her own men. Amsterdam, June 17. 1 Strikes are being organized In Ger many ns a result of the decreased bread ration, according to Information lecelved here today. A demonstration was plan- Vl ncd for today nt Xurnburg PRINCE FUSIIINI RELIEVED Press Sees Significance in His Going ', to Admiral s Council Tolfio, June 17. Significance is at tached by tho Toklo press to tho fact that Prince Hlgnshl-Fushlni has been relieved of tho command of tho sec ond squadron nnd made a member of the Admirals Council. Tho Prince was similarly relieved of an active com mand previous to the start of tho campaign at Tslng Tau. M. Bryllnskl, French naval at tache, soon will leave for Washington for a consultation with tho French embassy there. Powder for 4: Million -. At the average rate the people composing the Ynil I1011 Delineator families con sume 770 cans of talcum powder every waking hour; 12,328 a day; 4,500,000 cans' a year. But Delineator" families buy much more than the average of all neces; sitics and comforts. Do you make anything to tell our people about? TV 1 ThC Delineator The Maqazne In ' One! Million iomes 5r I f'l 1 ;'l i i n ' n i 'i nil ,vl ii l i t 3 i M M 4 m fi , .i -m n .4 m vim ir,.WPmmf' " - 3sjsrj . tvftv "ui um
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