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THE WAR
MONDAY.
Disaster seems to be written large
ia the mews of the Austrian defeat
along the Piave.
Unable to advance beyond the west
bank of the river, and with bridges
swept away by the flood, the enemy
began a precipitate retreat §npturday
night. He left behind many cannon.
His retreating columns are being
pressed by Ita in detachments thrown
to the easterly side of the stream.
Official reports to the Imlian em-
bassy, at Washington, say 45,000 Aus-
trians have been captured, and that
all bridges across the Piave except
ome have been destroyed.
Coincident with the victory on the
Piave comes news of the Italian units
en the Marne-Rheims sector in France
repuising a second heavy German at-
tack on the heights of Bligny, west of
Reims.
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TUESDAY.
Austria's armies again are beyond
the Pilave. The pursuing Italians have
oecupled strong bridgeheads on the
eastern bank. ’
Bvery hour brings reports of in-
creasing Austrian losses. One report
places the Austrian casualties at 200,-
000 men. The enemy also lost large
stores * of munitions, supplies and
many guns.
ia France the allied armies are
asvaiting another blow from the Ger-
mans. Premier Lloyd George has told
the British bouse of lords that another
gigantic enemy effort is expected in
a few days. British and French troops
Belgian Soldier Decorated For.
Capturing Car Load of Germans.
on the Flanders battlefield have car-
ried out locsl operations successfully
west of Solssons. Along the Aisne,
the French have improved their posi-
rying out of the war -depart-
220,000 Men Called.
As a further step to the car-
ITALIANS MAKE
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IMPORTANT GAIN
Capture Mountain Position After
Fierce Struggle.
REPULSE COUNTER ATTACKS
Take 800 Prisoners and Many Guns
On Asiago—French Advance Nearly
Half Mile and Take a Ridge.
~ Italian forces, supported by allied
troops, attacked Austro-Hungarian po-
sitions on the Italian mountain front
Saturday and car@ ired Monte Di Vale-
belle after a bitter struggle.
The Italian war office announces
that more than 800 Austro-Hungarians
were taken prisoner.
Strong enemy counter attacks
throughout the day and night were re-
pulsed by the fire of the Italian 'in-
fantry, artill gy and machine guns.
The text of the official Italian
statement reads:
“On the Aisago plateau, where our
heroic resistance on June 14 crushed
the impetus of preponderant enemy
forces and where in daily acts of
bravery Italian troops have become
united in action'and in glory with
the British and. French allies, fighting
began anew.
“At dawn our troops sustained by
an intense fire and supported by sor-
ties resolutely carried out by thelr &l-
lies, attacked Monte di Val Bella ard
succeeded, after a bitter struggle, in
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Former Czar of Russia Reported §
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OF PROFITEERS
Trade Commission Report Show
Enormous Profits.
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PACKERS WORST (OFFENDER
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The Country’s Five Leading Meat
Firms in Last Three Years Pocket-
ed $140,000,000.
Profiteering on a tremendous scale
in practically all the basic commodities
of life were reported to the senate by
the federal trade commission as the
result of an exhaustive investigation.
“Inordinate greed and barefaced
fraud,” as well as “war pressure for
heavy production,” the commission re-
ported as the causes. :
Reappraisements of properties were
made by great concerns when it be-
came evident that the government was
about to fix prices on a basis of re-
turn on investment, the report says,
and salaries, allowances and expenses
were in many instances padded to
show increased costs of conducting
business.”
DEBS UNDER ARREST
Sglalist is Seized After a Federal
Inquiry.
Eugene V. Debs,
ist candidate for the presidency
ofthe United States, was arrested | the investigation,” the report says, “the
tions and captured prisoners.
Americans have completed the cap-
tare of Belleau wood, north of Cha-
teau-Thierry by clearing the Germans
out of the northwestern portion. ‘ In
Alsace, several Americans are missing
as a result of enemy raids.
WEDNESDAY.
American troops again have taken
the offensive northwest of Chateau
Thierry. They have cleared Belleau
weod of the enemy, capturing more
than 200 prisoners and many machine
service and when added to school re-
quisitions of 23,436 men, brings the
total calls so far announced for July
to 243,436.
ment's plan to have 3,000,000 men un-
der arms August 1, Provost Marshal
General Crowder called on the gov-
ernors of all states for the mobiliza-
tion between July 22 and 25 of 220,000
white draft registrants qualified for
general military service.
This call is expected virtually to
exhaust the number of men now in the
class one available fg active military
guns. The action is described by the
Prench as “brilliant.”
Now that the Piave line is again
intact, the Italians have begun oper-
ations on the mountain front~ On the 250,000 or 300,000
northwestern slopes of Monte Grappa
To complete its program for the re-
mainder of the present year, the de-
partment vf have t§ dwend on the
400,000 class one registrants expected
from the June 5 enrollment and the
to be obtained
they have gained ground, taking more progress.
than 1400 prisoners. Monte Grappe
is the key position to the terrain be- | with 22,241 men: Iowa Is second, with
tween the Brenta and the Piave. Vi- 17849, and Ohio third, with 12,200. .
enna officially declares the Italians
dost In the recent fighting 150,000 men, | ments include the following:
ifnelnding 50,000 prisoners.
Local operations along the French | ge
and British fronts are officially report-
led. Prisoners and machine guns were | jang.
taken by the allies in these encount-
ers. .
’ THURSDAY.
A despatch from Kiev asserts that
‘the reported siaying of the former
czar by Bolsheviki troops at Ekater- | Maryland. :
tnburg is confirmed. This is supposed
to have happened some days ago, :
An "unofficial despatch from Copen-
hagen contains the rumor that the
former czarevitch, heir to the Russian
throne, is dead.
Along the western battle line, as
well as on the Piave and mountain
sectors of the Italian front, the allied
sirmies await further enemy efforts.
Between Ypres and Rheims the most
important action. of the last few days
has been that in which American
troops took from the Germans a com-
manding hill position near Belleau
wood, northwest of Chateau-Thierry
They took 311 prisoners.
FRIDAY.
Pespatches from Copenhagen carry
unconfirmed reports of the overthrow
of the Bolshevik government at Mos-
cow. The, reports, which are from
“German sources,” say Generals Kor-
niloff and Kaledines led the anti-So-
vet forces. They say Grand Duke
Nicholas, cousin of the former em-
peror, has been proclaimed emperor.
Despatches carry renewed asser-
tions that Nicholas Romanoff, the for-
mer czar, has been assassinated.
Reports of a revolutionary move-
ment in Austria are received. It is
said 2000 members of military forces
at Raab and Pech, Hungary, have been
condemned to death for mutiny.
Local actions are reported along the
British and French fronts in France.
Eleven persons were killed and four-
teen injured in an air raid over Paris.
SATURDAY. :
Germany is reported to be prepar-
ing to send troops into Russia to “re-
store order.” This Is regarded as a
possible move to aid the Bolsheviki
against the counter revoiution, of
which the Grand Duke Nicholas is
said to be the head.
Despatches from several sources
seem to confirm the reported aSSUSKi-
nation ef the former czar, although
sne rumo= says he is still alive,
" Taking advantage of the lull on the
western front, the French and Brit-
ish have improved their position: by
attacking in two widely separated
sectors. The Brit'sh, in Flanders, ad-
vanced « mile on a front of three and
one-half miles, taking 400 prisoners
in Flanders. The French advanced 3
similar distance on a front of four
and one-half miles, taking 1000 pris-
oners.
Jersey.
Virginia.
sult of the explosion which followed
through the reclassification now in
In the call, New York beads the lisi
The state quotas and camp assign-.
Delaware, 265—Camp Dix, New Jer-
Maryland, 2000—Camp Meade, Maty-
© New Jersey, 4418—Camp Dix, New
Pennsylvania, 11,700—Camp Lae,
Virginia, 3500—Camp Lee, Virginia.
West Virginia, 4865—Camp Meade,
Oil on Fire Costs Life and Home.
In her effort to hurry along
the fire in the kitchen stove, Mrs.
George V'nson, of Clearfield, Pa.
poured a .” antity of coal oil on what
seemed to be dead coals, and as a re-
she was so badly burned that her re-
covery is doubtful. Her four-year-
old girl was burned to death agd her
sister was seriously burned. The
house was destroyed.
General Barnett Loses Again.
The house rejected, by a vote
of 111 to sixty-nine, a gcompro-
mise on the naval appropriation
bill. It would have permitted the
president to promote Major General
Barnett, of the marine corps, to a
lieutenant general and his staff officers
to major generals.
Pays Fourteen Million Income Tax.
Some one made a federal income
tax payment of $14,000,000 in New
York, the last day for payment be-
fore the 5 per cent penalty is imposed.
William Edwards, the collector, an-
nounced the receipt of the sum but
declined to disclose the identity of the
sender.
Five Billion Bill Passed.
The $5,408,000,000 fortifications bill
was passed by the house without a
record vote after only five hours of
debate. It goes to the senate.
GENERAL MARKETS
PHILADELPHIA.— FLOUR—Firm.
Winter straight, $11@11.50. Spring
wheat, $10.75@11.
RYE FLOUR-—Quiet; per barrel,
10@11.50.
WHEAT—Firm; No. 2 red, $2.24.
CORN—Firm; No. 2 yellow, $1.75@
1.76
2 white 88@
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"OATS—Firm; No.
881sc.
BS ULTRY—Live, steady; hens, 32
@33c; old roosters 22g 2ee. Dressed,
steady ; choice fowls, 4c; old roost-
ers, 27c¢.
BUTTER-—Steady; fancy creamery,
44% ET 1b. /
EGGS — Firm; selected, 45@47c;
nearby, 39c; western, 39¢c.
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Livestock Quotations.
CHICAGO.—HOGS — Good hogs,
steady to 5c higher; others lower;
quality good. Buichers, $16.25@16.35 ;
packing, $15.65@16.15: light, $16.35@
ers strong to unevenly higher, includ-
ing yearlings; butchers steady; calves
The first American troops shipped
from the United States to Italy have
ianded in thet country.
lover,
SHEEP—Slow to unevenly lower,
mostly 25¢ to 50c lower; good spring
wresting it from the enemy. During
the day and night large enemy mass-
es werq launched to counter attack
and to slaughter, but were repulsed |
by our infantry and decimated by | 4
concentrations of artillery and ma- | 4
chine gun fire from airplanes. The
position carried was victoriously held |
by us. ; :
“Twenty-one enemy officers and 788
four different divisions, were made.
prisoner. Cannon, trench mortars and
numerous machine guns were eaptur-
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“Further east between the Frenzela
valley and the Brenta river, one of |
our parties took by assault a well-
fortified observation point
southern slopes of Sasso Rosso, cap- ri
turing two officers and thirty-one
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on , the tai
he arrest was
rant in
J convicted of violating the espion-
soldiers of other ranks, belonging tof a¢ act and virtually challenged the
ernment to arrest him.
e promised he
§imilar charge, and added:
The United States, under the rule
lautocracy, is the only country in
world that would send a woman
1 for ten years for exercising the
at of free speech.”
connection with Debs’
ch at the Socialist state conven-
in Canton, Ohio, June 16 last.
n, his speech on June 16 Debs de-
red himself to be as guilty as Mrs.
se Pastor Stokes, who was recemt-
ablish his innocence if arrested on
sifl Charles W. Lapp and Deputy | allied with them, and by the flour mil-
shal Charles Boehme as he was | lers, stand foremost, despite the fix-
made on a federal
would not try to
four times So- | competition.
men.
rassing bombardments. At Capo
patrol operations brought
prisoners. In the Lagarina and
men.”
The Paris war office
nounces that the Fr
“The French execu
raids during the ni
of Hangard and so
and took prisoners.
in the course of a Ic
a German raidingletachment.
were damaged.”
GERMAN BA/ FOR NEGROE
ised ifaizer Wins.
Charged witPlling a negro sold
would establijthem under an au
the war, M
trian, was Inted by a federal gra
espionage af
Freudenhy I8 also alleged to ha
said that
captured. » has been arrested.
Gerys Fear Americans.
The i prisoners are v
tually u
German? command. According
pose 1 on the allies before ne
wifake Million Can Openers.
l.an¢t, Pa., has been awarded
nig days.
optnned meats,
jambs, $18,350.
“On the remainder of our front our g1 an Investigation of reports made
artillery carried out effective and hg-
gana valleys enemy railway establish-
ments were bombarded by our @ir- |i ¢; tne attention of the federal gran
ed the German lines narhwest of :
Caateau Thierry on the Marne front | COAL GOES BACK TO MINE
and captured the crest the ridge —
miles. Pris- |B few tons stored away and then has
were taken,
The text of the statwent reads:
a number of
| notably west |
of Autreches |
a front of 1.8 me*“s The French took
265 prisoners, incleng three officers.
“In the Vosges t French repulsed
“On June 28-29ur chasing planes
ferought down fen. German ma-
chines and destrgd two captive bal-
loons. Nineteen @3r enemy airplanes
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Own Republic fInited States Prom.
fer
Germany lovesfhe colored race and
to-
nomous goverént in certain of the
United Stategrould the Teutons win
eudenheim, an Aus-
nd
jury in New Tk for violation of the
ve
>ermans would cut off
the ears ay ns and gouge out the
eyes of anjmerican colored fighters
ir-
ous In confirming the
tear of {Americans felt by the
to
the declions of officers this is the
principgason for the determination
of Ger to seek at all costs to im-
xt
wintewne prisoners make no secret
of thgonishment at the spirit and
versaf Of the American soldiers.
mrey Iron Casting company,
of Mt Joy and Wrightsville. near
cont Dy the government for 1,070,-
Bn Wenceler, living near Merchantville
5; hs, 15.25@15.50 ; »
Savi@ies as $15.25@15.50 pigs, oooiopeners. The whole contract | N. J, is in jail. He was arrest-
CATTLE—Good steers Stead): oth- | was 4.000.000 and it was split four | ed by United States Ijeputy Marshal
n
wa? that it could be completed in | Snowden and committed to the Mercer
A can-opener is placed |
n'y soldier's kit, so that he mmy |
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Inited States District Attorney
Vtz, of Cleveland, immediately be-
‘by - federal agents - wgarding Debs’
statements at the convention.
[“1f I find that Debs sald anything
that violated the espionage law,” said
District Attorney Wertz, “I will bring
Jury at once.” !
The arrest of Debs is the outcome
of the inquiry. ,
Cave-in Robs Householder of Fuel He
‘ Had Stored in Cellar.
It is hard enough in these days for
Dbersons to get coal, but when one has
the experience of seeing the earth sud-
denly open under it and allow it to
roll back into the mine it is time to
kick.
Richard McHale, of Scranton,
Pa, has just had an experience of
this kind. He had a ton and a half
of precious anthracite in his coal bin
‘when a cave occurred under it and the
coal had disappeared. The same set-
itling caused serious damage to the
‘walls of his home and virtually
wrecked the chimney.
b. S. WANTS ALL SLAVS FREE
Mr. Lansing Makes Statement Refut-
i ing German Propaganda.
Secretary of State Lansing made the
following statement:
. “Since the issuar-e by this govern-
ment, on May 29, of the statement re-
garding the nationalistic aspirations
for freedom of the Czecho-Slovaks and
Jugo-Slavs, German and Austrian offi-
cials and sympathizers have sought to
misinterpret and distort its manifest
interpretation.
“That there may be no misunder-
standing, the secretary of state fur-
ther announces the position of the
United States to be that all branches
of the Slav race should be completely
freed from German and Austrian
rule.”
SENATOR TILMAN ILL
Left Side Completely Paralyzed; Has
Cerebrae Hemorrhages.
Benjamiy, R. Tillman, the veteran
Democratic senator from South Caro-
lina and chairman of the naval affairs
committee, is seriously ill at his home
in Washington, and his recovery is
regarded by his physician as doubtful.
The senator's left side is completely
paralyzed and he has been suffering
from a severe recurrent cerebral hem-
orrhage since last Thursday.
Offered German Soldiers $100 Reward
For declaring he would send $100
to his brother in the kaiser’s army
as a reward for killing the son
of John Bell, a fellow-workman,
in the service overseas, Stephen
county jail in default of $500 ball ‘on
a charge of violating the espionage
The outstanding feature of its inves-
tigation, the commission reported, was
the evidence of a tendency to increase
and maintain prices against forces of
“Of all the big profits disclosed by
profits of the meat packers and those
ing of prices by the government.”
Manipulation of the market by the
five great meat packers—Armour,
Swift, Morris, Wilson and Cudahy—
the commission asserts, “embrace
every device that is useful to them
without regard to law.”
The report charges that the five
concerns have mongpolistic control of
the meat industry, and “are reaching
for like domination in other products.”
During 1915, 1916 and 1917, the re-
port says, these companies ‘“pocket-
ed” $140,000,000.
In the leather industry, the profits
of one concern jumped from $644,000
in 1914, to $3,576,000 in 1917. The
shoe business meanwhile showed large
profits and the report says, “it appears
that the rcgailer has profited more in
proportion than the wholesaler.”
To show the manner in which it is
charged big concerns reappraised
their assets when government price-
fixing appeared imminent, the com-
mission included in its report a copy
of a letter in which it was proposed
by Swift & Co. to reappraise six tan-
ning companies in which it owns 50
per cent.
“I approve if done quietly and
promptly,” was the memorandum Ed-
* ward F. Swift placed upon the recom-
mendation. 3
In the flour industry, the report
says the millers for 1917 will show a
profit of fifty-two cents a barrel, or
nearly 38 per cent on their investment.
One mill shows a profit of $2 a barrel.
Despite the fact that the food admin-
istration succeeded in reducing profits
they still were twice as high in 1917
as in previous years.
The report covers many principal
basic industries and makes much the
same charges as to exchange,
The senate directed the association
to make the Investigation and report
so it could consider legislation to
reach the practices disclosed.
Outstanding features of the report,
each supported by extensive data,
are:
The heavy profit made by the low
cost concern under a government fix-
ed price for the whole country. !
The heavy profits made by the meat
packers and allied industries, and by
the flour millers.
The trade tendency to increase and
maintain prices against the forces of
competition.
Price fixing by the government, the
report says, hastened to prevent the
market from running away, but at the
same time it strengthenes the stronger
factors In industry in their position
and enriches them by profits “which
are without precedent.”
Soldier Falls From Troop Train.
Private Harrison Sexton, Company
A, 54th Infantry, fell. from a troop
train at Trenton Junction en route
from Camp Wadsworth, South Caro-
lina, and was badly hurt about the
body and ene arm was fractured. He
is at Mercer hcgpital, Trenton, N. J.
Crowder’'s Draft Reward.
Following enthusiastic praise by
senators of the administration of the
army draft, the army bill to make
Provost Marshal General Enoch H.
Crowder a lieutenant general during
the war.
GERMANS SINK
HOSPITAL SHIP
Twelve Women Nurses and 80
Doctors Lose Lives in
Fiendish Hun Act
TORPEDOED 70 MILES AT SEA
First American Military _peration on
Western Front Is a Complete Suc-
cess—Austrians Admit Loss
of Strategic Points in Italy.
London. -—— A German submarine, 70
miles’ from the Irish coast, on the
night of June 27, torpedoed the 11,000-
ton hospital ship Llandovery Castle,
which had been chartered by the Can-
adian government and had been in the
service of carrying wounded and sick
from England to Canada for many
months past. The ship was then on
her way to England. She had aboard
258 persons, including 80 men of the
Canadian army medical corps and 14
women nurses.
Up to the latest reports only 24 of
those on board, including the captain,
have survived the treacherous attack,
which came without warning.
One of the boats of the steamer,
containing 12 nursing sisters, was seen
to capsize, according to latest informa-
tion. The sisters were drowned.
With the American Armies In
France. — The victorious termination
of the fighting south of Torcy has
marked the completion of the first
American military operation, under
American direction, on the western
front. It was a success and was an
offensive that was directed against a
vital spot in the line.
Vienna.—The Austrian war office ad-
mits the complete evacuation by the
Austrian forces of the two important
strategic positions of Col Del Rosso
and Monte di Val Bella, on the west-
ern end of the Italian front.
President Vetoes 8-Hour Provision.
Washington, D. C.—Congress elimin-
ated a legislative rider requiring gov-
ernment clerks to work eight hours a
day instead of sever from the legisla-
tive, executive and judicial appropria-
tion bill after President Wilson had
vetoed the measure because of the
provision. Salary increases for the
clerks of $120 a year tq, ‘meet the in-
creased cost of living were left un-
changed.
| 8ims O. K.'s Liberty Motor.
Washington. — A report from’ Vice
Admiral Sims to Secretary Danials
says a recent test in European waters
of a seaplane propelled by the Liberty
motor, demonstrated that the engine
has better climbing power and load-
carrying qualities than any of the Eu-
ropean types. :
. No Drinks to Army Men Anywhere.
Washington. — Furnishing of liquor
to officers and men of the army with-
in private homes is prohibited under
new regulations formulated by Presi
dent Wilson and Secretary Baker,
made. public by the commission on
training camp activities. Dry zones
around every camp where as many as
250 men are stationed for more than
80 days also are established.
President May Get Wire Control.
‘Washington. — President Wilson is
seeking authority for government con-
trol and operation of telegraphs and
telephones. * The President has en
his approval to a joint resolutioh for
government control and operation, of-
fered by Representative James B. As-
well of Louisiana, and indications are
that Congress will be requested to
| adopt the resolution without delay so
as to clothe the chief executive with
full authority to act if a strike cannot
be avoided.
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Assistant Attorney General ‘Quits. |
Washington. — Assistant Attorney
General William J. Fitz hag tendered
his resignation to Attorney General
Gregory to take effect as soon as he
is able to clean up pending work, prob
ably within a month. |
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interned Germans Transferred. :
Washington. — Custody of 2,200 in
terned German civillans at Hot
Springs, N. C., was transferred form-
ally to the war department by the
immigration division of the depart-
ment of labor.
Debs Furnishes $10,000 Bail.
Cleveland, O.—Eugene V. Debs, who
was arrested here charged with viola-
tions of the espionage act in a speech
at the Socialist state convention at
Canton, O., June 16, pleaded not guilty
to all 10 counts of the indictment
when arraigned before Federal Judge
D. C. Westenhaver. Judge Westen-
haver fixed bond at $10,000 and tenta-
tively set the date of trial for July 30.
Bond was furnished and Mr. Debs was
released.
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Pittsburgh, Pa.—In a decision hangd-
ed down in United States Circuit
Court Judge Charles P. Orr sustained
Charles A. Fagan’s demand that no
part of cash aggregating about $700,-
000 now in the hands of the receivers
of the Pittsburgh Railways Company
be paid out as fixed charges to subsi-
diary companies. Judge Orr's decision
paves the way to comply with Reeeiy-
er Fagan’s petition to the court that
this money be used for improving the
street railway service, and is regarded
as a victory for the patrons of the
traction company.
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