INVENTOR HERE WITH ITALY'S WAR MISSION Photo by American Frew Association. WILLIAM MARCONI. A GENERAL SURVEY OF IHE WAR Sir Douglas Haig, commander of the British forces in France, refuses to accept Hindenburg's verdict that the entente's spring drive is over and has failed. As if in reply to the message from the kaiser to the empress, the British drove home a powerful punch to the southwest of Lens, the big French coal city. "Good progress already has been made on the front attack and a num ber of prisoners have been captured," was all the official report said. The past has taught the office to take no chances in reporting "good prog ress." Good news is, therefore, looked for. Unofficially it is figured that 713 airplanes were shot down on the west em front in May, of which 442 were German and 271 British and French. British headquarters admitted t£e loss of eighty-six machines, but as the French do not announce any war losses it is impossible to verify the inference that they lost 186. The esti mate of 271 is compiled from German official reports. Total! air losses for April were estimated at 709. Arrangements have been completed with the German government for the withdrawal of all British war prison ers from the firing line, according to an official announcement. The pris oners will be kept a minimum distance of miles from the actual front, both in the eastern and western zones According to Rome reports Austrian losses between May 14 and 29 are estimated at 85,000 dead, wounded and missing, including five generals and forty high officers. One hundred can non have been taken or destroyed. The Giomale di Italia says that Em peror Charles soon will proclaim Trieste autonomous whereby it will become a free city, like Hamburg and Bremen. The announcement, the papei says, will be accompanied by numer ous amnesties. Heavy gun firing reaching a stage of great intensity in the region of the dumes on the Belgian coast and in the Ypres ben<f, particularly in the Wytschaete sector, says the official statement issued by the German army headquarters staff. Reports from both Berlin and Lon don indicate the probability that an important military movement by the allies is under way on the Belgian front —possibly an attempt in force to hit the German flank on the coast a crushing blow. A pitch of notable intensity such a.* usually precedes an attack has been reached by the artillery fire near the coast and to the south in the Ypres district. The German war office an nounces this extremely heavy bom bardment. Between April 15 and May 24 the number of German prisoners falling into French hands reached a total of 31,829, of whom 28,045 were unwounded. This period covers three phases of the general attack, now temporarily abated, which the French undoubtedly will continue when the proper moment arrives. Upon an almost forgotten theater of war signs flared up of a new menace to Austria-Hungary at a moment when it needs all available man-power on the Isonzo. The Rome war office issued a brief bulletin announcing the capture of four villages in Albania, northwest of the Adriatic seaport of Avlona. No details were given, but the advance is taken as the beginning of a new offen sive against the dual monarchy whose troops occuny roost of Albania. The Italian forces there virtually form the extreme left wing of General Sarrail's Balkan army. MORE TORNADO DEATHS Fifty-two Persons Killed and More Than 300 Injured In Missouri. Reports from southeast Missouri said fifty-two persons were killed and more than 300 injured in the tornado which swept about thirty towns in that section Wednesday and Thurs day. T A report from Cape Girardeau said seventeen persons were dead and fif teen injured at Zalma. A GENERAL SURVEY OF THEWAR British might asserted itself on a gigantic scale and, after one of the most tremendous blows which has yet been launched against the German hordes, the fruits of the great offen sive have not been fully calculated, so vast was the onslaught. Today the town of Messines and a score of other important points are in British hands. The Germans made prisoner already run into four figures, with the totals increasing as further reports are received. More than 1,000,000 pounds of high explosives was blown up under the Teutons' forward positions —the most gigantic mining operation in the his tory of war —spreading panic among the Raiser's troops. The Germans were taken complete ly by surprise, as proved by the fact that the Twenty-third Bavarian regi ment was being relieved at the mo ment the attack opened. The German forces holding Mes sines ridge and the salient surround ing it seemed to have been utterly demoralized by the force of the Brit ish attack. They attempted three counter attacks, but there was no power behind any of them. The heav iest was absolutely broken up by the British artillery barrage before reach ing the infantry lines. The two other counter attacks were attempted by disorganized German infantry without artillery preparation or any support whatever. Very heavy losses were in flicted on the Germans in conse quence. Few who went into these at tacks came out unscathed. A British light cruiser and destroyer flotilla sunk one German destroyer, the S-20, and damaged another in an engagement with six enemy destroy ers at long range, the admiralty re ported, in telling of a sea and air raid on Ostend. Ostend was bombarded with "good results," the admiralty declared. Shore batteries returned the British fire, but there were no casualties on the Brit ish ships and no damage doae to the attacking vessels. For the first time since the start of the war France's official peace terms have been made public. The cham ber of deputies, by a vote of 453 to 55, adopted a resolution setting forth the republic's war aims, which are said to represent those of the entente al lies. These peace conditions include liberation of all territories occupied by Germany, the return of Alsace- Lorraine to France and ,4ust repara tion for damage done to invaded re gions. The resolution, which was ac cepted by the government, also favors creation of a league of na.ions for maintenance of peace. LABOR WANTS FOOD LAW "Drive on Congress" Planned to Avoid Serious Unrest. Following a conference with Her bert C. Hoover, selected to head the new food administration, an or ganization was affected by represent atives of the American Federation of Labor, the four railroad brotherhoods, the National Federation of Postal em ployees and the "labor group',' in con gress for a concerted drive upon con gress to demand immediate adoption of food legislation. The labor representatives expressed concern over the situation which might face the country if prices kept soaring and something was not done to conserve this year's harvest, for which it was understood representa tives of the neutral countries were bidding. Reasants Urge Army to Action. The congress of peasants in Petro grad adopted a resolution calling upon the army to submit itself to discipline and defend revolutionary Russia. The congress affirms the duty of those it represents to defend the country energetically and make every sacri fice to sustain the fighting strength of the army. Best stores advertise in The Patriot. FRANKLYN FARNUM'S SMILE Franklyn Farnura has won by a smile. Screen smiles seem to be the _ fashion. All the 1 one-time matinee dgfllT-"* ■ heroes who have deserted what "Movies," are sit ting up nights try- * n S to cultivate a winning and ex jmm pressive expan muscles you your J ia{r unti | J t Franklyn Farnum. c ur^s Mary Pickford's you may even induce a soulful look to lin ger in your eye—but—unless your smile is really one of those magnetic affairs in every day life,' you won't succeed in cultivating it for the screen. Screen smiles —the magnetic kind — are born, not made. How much more to be desired than fine gold, then, is the inborn mag netic arnile, and how fortunate the possessor of one! Such a bit of prop erty is the main asset of Franklyn Farnum, the youngest brother of the celebrated Farnum family, who has become a screen favorite in the course of a few short months. All the broth ers have that indefinable quality which we call "personality," for want of a better name; but Franklyn has the picture actor's most envied attribute —the magnetic smile—as well. And he has always had it. When he was in the "legitimate," there was not a more popular chap on the whole Amer ican stage. Every stage-hand, call boy, door-keeper on the entire route over which he traveled, felt the better for seeing him, and catching the re flection of his winning smile. When he was "in stock" in St. Louis, he could attract a crowd by Just stand ing on the corner of a busy street His latest picture is "The Clock" which was booked for a first run at the Rial to theater, on Broadway, New York. Jack Mulhall has the role of a light weight champion who goes to Paris to seek his fortune in the ring, in the Red Feather, called "Mr. Dolan of New York." Lucky. "Come up to dinner with me some night, old man. We'vt got the moet wonderful cook you ever saw." •'Where did you get her?" "My wife won her at a bridge party." —New York World. Subscribe for The Patriot, $1.50 a year in advance. Funstsn's Nickname. General Frederick Funaton was * member of the Phi Delta Theta frater nity at the University of Kasoas. The general's fraternity brothers at Kanaas knew him as "Timmy." This nickname came about through the poor writing of the fraternity member who sent in the names of the pledges the year Funaton became a Phi Delt The name was printed "Timston" in the Phi Delta Theta magazine, and in the form of "Timmy" stuck to the stocky, cocky collegian throughout his college career. —Kansas City Star. An Odd Court Incident. Sensational incidents are not uncom mon in the closing stages of famous criminal triala One of the most re markable occurred in Melbourne on the last day of the trial of Ned Kelly, known as the "ironclad bushranger of Australia." A knife dropped from a gallery overhead and fell at the feet of the desperado in the dock. He had every temptation to grasp it and put an end to his existence, for there was not the slightest chance of his escap ing the gallows. But it was promptly picked up by a bailiff, and its owner was arrested and brought before the Judge. He pleaded that the occurrence was purely accidental, and the explana tion was accepted by the court Garden designers should forget styles and design for comfort and pleasure only. They would then avoid many very serious errors that are now quite common. (Continued from Page 1) sacrifices are all in vain. New York '' Tribune''—Presi dent Wilson is beginning to shift the emphasis in explaining why we are at war. There has been too much transcendentalism in previous explanations. Mr. Wilson has insisted too exclusively on the altruistic aspect of the war. In the "Tribune's" opinion the fight ing spirit of the country can be more successfully aroused by an insistence on the concrete griev ances which we have against Ger many than by treating the war as a wholly unselfish enterprise, con ducted with more or les abstract aims. The war is now an Ameri can war as much as it is a Euro pean war. Americans should be gin to think of it as such. German arrogance strikes at us as well as at France, Great Britain and Rus suia. When we strike back we are fighting for ourselves. | TeatroNF.WSTRANI) | I; PROGRAMMA PER L'ENTRANTE SETTIMANA ) LOCALE IGIENICO, COMODO, ARIOSO jl \\ E PULITO, "CON OTTIMA MUSICA { a a John F. Stevinfi S. C. 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