W E A T ÎT E R

)r t0.d»> «nd »f-morro». »ith »low!«

riíinf tcmpíraturc. jterillf SrSBSl

lo «oulhwfat wind».

»Mil R'port on l'ag«* 7 ^Om^m*^ Fit-Ci f f\ 1.1Sirit-ime CIRCULATION

Over 100,000 Daily

Net Paid, Non-Returnabie

First to Last. the Truth: News . Editorials . Advertisements

Vor laWVll No. 25,852 '< op« right 1017Tht» I r Inma At«'n] \|<>\I)AY. AUGUST 27, 1917

a a ¥ one cent van»

When They Shall Have Learned to Think and to Say Restoration, Then Peace by Negotiation Will Be Morally Paxtble

"Blood and Iron" forFoes Within Russia,Kerensky Tells Council

Conference to Decide Fate

of Country Is Openedat Moscow

Allies' RejectionOf Peace Is Cheered

Meeting of Finland's Diet

To Be Stopped by Force,

Says Premier

MOSCOW. Aug. 26- The Stats Coun-

c:", which promise« important resultr.

;a'thi satioaal life of Russia, openedit 3 o'clock this afternoon, in the

Grind Optra Haass, Wta thai «olem-

Btty ar.d old Pussian pcrmp especiallytkirif.fr:«tic sf Moscow. The the*>.-

as rii'T'rt ivm crowded with sigh'-,aar». »nd latsi Pmtmmi among the mem

taa Council wer, tfl bs soer

tharaeten *-'.'¦* Russian typ« S 'ncludingTartar« la peaked cap«, white robed

Muüih« .'rom the Volga. Georgian-,robed * cloth of trold eassacks, sad

of the Graak Orthodoxrho had atriTsd for the Ecu¬

menic»! Chares I safrssa, which beginsTuesday.Despite the one-day strike proclaim!d

by the \ ¦ protest against¦ counter revolutionär'

ths city Is <;¦ A few in-

-'-.. ittempt» by street eerasf ora¬

tor» is organisa dasasastratlsaa were

r r*M by the crowd«.haeantieni were taken against dis

?niir« of all description«, and thethreaten! to show a rigor in

înknown ever, in ante-revtv

days. The building in whichIl meeting la surrounded

l¡r i c'.oia chair, of soldiers, with offi¬cers every few ; the soldiers be-

eked men from regiments of thept, or cade'« training for

¦fleers. The chambers under the. soldier« with

Menben a- ! invited guoati beforeted have thoir tickotS ex-

aainid ïerent militai'?; postsIraallafl in Ks-Caar'a Box

Prem.fr Kerensky and the other¦» of the Provisional Covern-

ritr.t occupied thl .-..age, and were'«red by Generals Alexis«! and Brusi-taf, ferner commander! in chief of the

irttaies. and other high mili-the former Kmperor'stoi There .vas much comment be-

iie c/ tne «¡bser.ee of General Korni-'.Î, the present eoaraaadsr in chief.

a*, he will attend-¦ cil to-morrow.

la* proceed.n;s negar, with a *-p**ech, last.ng an hour

»a» a half, pronounced in a nervous,a, which aroused tre-

¦wébí applause, mainly from 'hatr»*l »Í the theatre occupied by the^aana'.ic organization* and members« *ie Cabinet, but the Duma members.a»1 the Moscow industrial depute«

¦' I participated Kerensky'* N y, emphasizing the role

*» had recant events, and¦ iatern .nation to guide events in

'.re.Thi Pram er wai greeted with wild

' »then, early In his speech,S«ak:r¡: of the iiáir.gers from the Ex-rod: "All attempts1*-h »rmed force against the people's

"**" » II be crushed with blood and-**s.':

I on*pirator« Are Warned«or« af/plaaas greatad him when.*.".? »' » counter revoluti si ory

'*" he exclaimed:**t them h« warned who think the

*' '. '."',ng on theMatt, the) can overthrow our revo-I M"h* n,di»r.ca rose and cheered this

i for t.ve m.r.utes.. taa moment has

^a* la arerthrow itioaarylbayo i eta are making a mis-

2'" '» d V. Kerer.sky. "Let them¦*'. SSI*» -ity l« sup-.,'"''' i |i nca of

. ar.d by million« of*'*xre ¿ah «gainât the G«i**» .

men) eoiS have come

'"' * pt your¦J to»»' that rasa*'".... ri,-.

.','*'' to our friends,7 '

- i*.« who aree among

| '- 'he momentrr«y ,»¦ able to ra:>a thair

e upon the frao Rui

(«»»ernment lo Hide Nothing./! '»y again tl¡7* I* ' i tagatasr

*¦-» 'peak to \ | |bearable,

v which we* ***'

. «II the blow« we.

. Bata!! "Hrioi f,f mort»! danger I do not^7 Bari '.,, ,, rsUnd Vou

. ,or ear . , ar.erenre» ,t

.^' *¦ '¦ all know thej,

" "

l, for thi rtrug.r»'r»t. , powerful, .mplacable am)

'«.»' '* * f'' dSBsaadi gre«i. »ten

.Z*-'"' »nil de«| love of '. jr roun2. *'"¦ "* forgetting of domestic

1,7''''*" ¦' »'. rot all who are- able^ £'¦** "> '.t*r k 11 t a 'he altar».**.' "....ry, named by war, and

JJ**1 «Our.tr/ rnore «»r oui eve,y day^»»i>l''r ''' ''r*' U1' ,hl* !'"."'** "frJtT¿~t' '*' ''¦ i» worse, even eauaingCrJ* Mtienaliti«! living in

a¡u¡** tkmir Miration nol. .>th thi mother country, hot in

Korniloff to StayAt Head of Army

PETROGRAD, Aue M. Tk« an-

nouncement that H. SavinkorT, actingMinister ol War, had resigned s« iresult of differences with PrSBlierKerensky was premature. Whetherhe «grill retire has not been decided.

There is no foundation for rumors

nf the resignation of i.cneral Korni¬loff, th« ommnnder in chief, ;«ndLieutenant Lebedoeff, Minister ofMarias, ths «emi-oAeial new« agency¦tatea,General Korniloff left for Moscow

last evening after a telephone con¬

versation with Fremier Kcren3ky.According to the newspapers, GeneralKorniloff at frrst hesitated lo attendthe Moscow conference, as he consid-ered the government's attitude wi'h«»Card to the organization of thearmy too indefinite.

M. Kerensky, however, succeededrn dispelling his doubts and the com-

mander started for Moscow.

separatist asp,rations. On top of allthis came the sham« ful events at thefront when Russian troops, forgetting

duty to their country, pave waywithout resistance to pressure of the< i.emy and thus forged for their peoplefresh chains of despot.sm. We fell so

lo« because IT« could not free ourselvc-from the fatal inheritance of the oldregime which we ha'ed. hut obeyed be¬cause we fearcii Therefore now,when power tests o.i liberty, not on

bayonets, we are transported with de-l.ght. although there is some heredi-fury distru-t of «tilla net« power.

I o Be Implacable ,I

"Tho6e who once trembled before thegovernment of autocrats now boldlymarch against the government witharms ia hand. But lei them rememberthat our patience has its limits andthat those who go beyond them willhave to settle witn e government whichwill make them remember the'time of'Czar'sm. We shall be implacable, be-CasSS we are convinced that supremepower alone can assure the .«alvat.on,01 the country. That is why i shall op-

nergotically all attempts to takeadvantage of Russia's national mis¬

fortune-, an«l whatever ultimatum ispresented i shall subject it to the su-

preme power and to myself, its head."let Prsasisr «toslartd u«ut the dc-;

struct.v«. j.cr.o«! of the revolution hadpassed and that the t.mtr had come tocoriSO,,uar.' th« co:.quests of the revo¬lution."For this reason," he continued, "we

ask you, cit.zens. whether you feelwithin your hearts the indispensable-acred tire for the attainment o: thrsobject, whether you represent, here in

Moscow, the national strength whichis neces-ary to assure the prosperity

| country. Or will vou give theworld and B« another picture of dc-icadence ?"A littl« time ago we indignantly

replied to a proposal to conclude a

-(.parate peace. A few days ago we

witness«-«' another attempt, equallyraie, directed against our allie«. 1h»at'.er rejected it with equal indigna«

' an, and in the name of the greatRussian people 1 say to our allies that11 was the only reply we expected ofthem.'"

Delegates ( heer Allies' KnvoysAt this point the delepat« arose

and cheered loudly the diplomatic rep-resrntatives of the Allied puw«rs.The Premier then paid a tribute to I

the Rumanian-, saving that if they!were forced temporarily to abandon'heir country they would find hospi-

;. Russia.Notwithstanding the rone too friendly

.'ie toward the mother country ofcertain nationalities of the Ru.««.an»tste, M. Kerensky continued, the Rus¬sian democracy would give them all:t promised through the ProvisionalGovernment ar.«l all that the Constit-

\«.«embly might yet d«;cide t«>

grant, but when the limit of toler¬ance WSI pa--e<l or where there WS«a desii" to take advantage of the na-

difficulties ti order to violatethe free will of Russia, thev wouldi-rv "Hand« off! "

Ths Premier said the povernment.vould prevent by force reopenirp of

i -.ni I«i««t in Finland, an«1 'hathe hoped the country would approvethis SSCitiOB. His statement was

cherreri."The government will endeavor," 'he

Premier WOSl on. '*<-> pro'eet the armyagainst the subversive influe-n-e--

deprived soldiers of all sense

litan duty, and will strr:?glogsticafljr against thi> Maxima' -'«.

«z- -' sll attsflspts by them to cor¬

rupt discipline."Promi«r "»S''1 hls colleaguesr]e«cr be the widespread di«or-

ganisation n the country, *d«lmg: "In',rd»r to remedy this we must makeall iseriAcsa, abandoning our per'^na!and party interest«."

Wilson's AnswerTo Pope's Peace

Plea Ready to Go«VASHDfOTON, Aug II President'

Wilson's reply to Pope Benedict's peace

proposals has been completed and isready to go forward to the Vatican.Although the Prcndent I« known to

BBSS SSBBSltsd several of his closestadvisers SB the subjei-t, n0 hinl of thew tusl SSStSStS of ths reply has beenduclosed It II declared. ho«,, as,that the docum«.-nt is a virile one, »ridthat It will be intereating reading forthe American people when made pur.hi¬

lt wa* »»id to-night «. |,. very probabl» that the note will be pre«. «¦,

ii, the Vuti'-sri by a representative ofIHtish Fsfsigfl Office. If thi« iilan

...r.j«ed It Will be rereived by the.Pop« throiigh the xame rh^rmel« which<r'- «VatiMn '«""l m trannrniMirig th«p»»--« propo»«!» to ajeshimutee.

AND THEN COMES THE THRESHING

Ishii PledgesJapan to CauseOf Democracy

"Claims Entrance to HolyCircle" at Washington's

Tomb

Washington, Keg. zt, viscountIshii, the special ambassador fromJapan, placing a wreath of roses andcrysanthemums on the tomb of Georg«Washington at Mount Vernon to-day.claimc'î th« ripht for Japan to honorWashington's memory, and reaffirm«idher devotion to the Allies' cause andthe principles for which they wagebattle.The members of the Japanese mis¬

sion, with Secretary and Mrs. Daniel«os hosts, sailed down the Potomac on

the President's yacht Mayflower. A«

compar.ymp them were AmbassadorSate, Secretaries Lansinp, Redtield andBaker, Postmaster General Hurlesun.Speaker «lark, members of the Senateand House, high officers of the arm;ntvy and Marine Corps, members 0Íthe missions of other European coun-

and many prominent person« ifldiplomatic and official life.

Viscount Ishii said:"In the name of my pracious so-.-

ereign, the Emperor of Japan, and rep¬resenting all the liberty-loving BSOplwho own his sway, itand '"-«lay in

lacrad prtsanee-, not to eulogizethe name of Washington.for that0 presumption but to offer thesimple tribute of a people's reverence

and love."Washington was SB American, but

America, great as she is, powerful afshe is. certain as s'r.e is of her -pi«"did destiny can lay no exclusive claimto this immortal name Washington i«. o-v a eitisss of the world; to-day hebelongs to all mankind. And so m«fleoai« here from the ends of the earthto honor his memory and to reit« rat'-their fiith in the principles to whichhis great life was devoted."Japan claim«- entrance to this holy

eircle. She yields to none in rsSSrOBPland respect nor is there any gulf be-twoen the ancient East and the BSWhorn West too deep and wide for thehearts and th» understandings of hrrpeople to cross.

"It is fitting then that men who loveliberty and justice better than the,inve life that m -*n who know whathonor »hould seek this shrine, andhere. In the presence of these «acre.ia-hes, redadieat« thamsslvsi te the «er

1 .re .«f human,ty...|t || a Atting plsce, at this time,

when all th« world is filled with tur¬moil and suffering, for comrades in .*»

hol, cause to gather and here renew

the'r fealty to a rightOOU« purposeIn «he determination that the

itruggl« IBSSl go on until the world is

ftee 'ron: menace and aggression"Japan is Bound tS place heiself be

siile her noble allies m this high re¬

solve and here, m the presence ofthese deathless ashes, "he reaffirms her.Je« otion to th« cause and the principlesfor which the> wag'' battle, fully ,|etermine«! to do her whole part in se^curing for the world the blessings ofliberty, justice and lasting peace.

"Ai- th« r>*prs«sBtathr« af my psspla,then I place this wreath upon th» tombof Washington with icv.'i.-nt han.Is,and |B so doing It is mv proud Privi¬leg,, to again pledge niy countrv '.,

th" princtpl..' righi andWhich have given mi«,or« allty .¦.

name of Washington."

MacMillan Back Safely;Crocker Land Is a Mirage

Explorer, in the Arctic Four Year», Telia of Hardships, but

Party Is in Good Health When Relief ShipReaches Sydney

S> IiNKV. hi, S.. Aug. M, IionaldMacMillan'i Arctic exploration e.vpe,tion arrived here to-night on the i

lief steamer Neptune, ttfter four yeapeni in the polar region«.MacMillan, who araa oaa of Rear A

mirai Peary*! Ilsatsaaata on his »u

eaaafal da-h for th" North Pole, co

firmed previous dispatches from hithat there wai no Crocker Land, su<

as had been reported by Peaty. Pearymi-take v. as due to a mlrsg)that the MacMillan party had bee

deceived by it for four days, he saiThe Aral objective of the Macnilla

litioa, which «a? orgsaiaod und«tha auspices of the American IIOf Natural History and th- Amo: ¡at

Geographical Society, with the et

opei ition of tiie Uaiveraity of Illinoi

WBa to prove or dispri listSBCPi arj '- rocker Land, which ha

bee;- a prolific lOUTCC of dispute amon

geogi sphi ai i icienl I'l he next parpoaa of the espeditio

«as to conduct a rarvey of tha Green

ice cap. While MacMillan did tio

deny that he had made some discoveríes, ha waa reticent concerning them

lay] kinder orders to repor

to the MvaeaM Of Natural History, n

*.. n i/orh He plans to leave Tue»

day for bis hen.- n, Prssport, Me., atu

thence to New Voi...

lAplorers' Health Giiod

The health of th" asplorOIS »ai

gooo. as had been reported previouslj

"We had good luck." MacM.llan said

"PrOViaiOB Wars plentiful a*id thvr«

«., plenty of game and aggi to be se-

toted, but 1 am glad Hartlett (in coni-

of the relief expedition came

along. Ufa WSW getting pretty low andn'ight nol have lasted another winter.1

reaching i»i Ci «ekei L«and, MacMilIan saidi "Psary v.a- decsivad by a

mirage, doe to layan of air at di*fer-enl denaitiea luipended clos,- to thei--e Pear» sighted thi »opposed ¡andfrom a c'uff MM feel high Wenaoontad tha aaass cliff, sad for 'our

¦, ad Piaally, when theBBS ihifted, it »»< no longer there. ItWS» bu* a Mings, hal M clear thatyou CWald MS green hill-, coveredwith vegetation, rising high above thewater. It was aappoeed to ha 124milei «SOrthwost from '"ape ThomasHobbard, haï wa -ailed ||] mile«northwest, pas«ing over the supposedlocker Land"It was h wonderful image. It de¬

ceived the whole party, and SmallJonathan C. Small, medíame and gen-

eral aid insisted for a long time thatCrocker Land was somewhere near, butfinally we had to admit that Peary wai

mistaken, pon't think, however, thatPeary was faking. It would deceiveany man, no matter who he w.i

Not a life Last in ArcticThe expedition was earned through

Withool tha lass of a man and despitedisaster at thi very -»tart The ex

t 1 rtl Sydney in Jalj. 1913 Ion th- steamer Diaua, but were wrecked

Carnegie ScientistsLost in a Jungle

San Francisco, Aug. 'Jt5. BradleyJones and DsBisI M. Wise, scientistsand explorers for the Carnegie Insti¬tute, who left this country last yearfur South America, were BWSitlSffdeath in the heart of a jungle rear

the hea«l of the Amazon Ruer on

«Toa« 'l'.i, according to a letter whichreached here to-day.

The message, mailed at Lima, Pert,«/ave no indication of the fate thatBISt the two men.

on Borges Poin*. on the l.sbrsdor coast.Nothing (iaunteii, the explorers re¬turned to St. Jonn's, X. V.. and were

transferred to th» itsssitr Eric, whichlanded tfie party at tfcsfl base, Etah,on August 20."We hail some hard«hips, of course,

due to the cold, but we had no sick¬ness whatever," said Macmillan. "Theonly thing that saved us from scurvyira« SSI fresh meat supply. The men

alwajr« got ftroah meat untii near thelast, when Small and I lived on dogb cuit« and «luck eggs. I tell you,Bartletl was welcomed by us. WhenBob arrived Small and I were the onlytwo members of the expedition at Etah.We were living with Esauimaus andhad planned to stay all winter withthem, but a taste of real bread was

certainly welcome after eating dog bis¬cuits for two or three month:-."E-Tiimuus had brought us word that

the war was on, but we knew practical-';. nothing about it until Bartlett ar¬rived with papers and put an end tothe arguments Small and 1 had been

..-. Bg on whether the Germans hadleached Pari»."

Enhances Bartlett'» ReputationThe relief of MacMillsn and Small

>,. Csstsifl Robert Bartlett, in the.-, sealing steamer Neptune, en¬

hances the reputation Bartlett hasearned a.« one of the foremost ArcticnavigatorsHe left St. John's N. F.. four days

after Dr. Edmund <>. Hovey, of theAmerican Mu.-eum of Natural History,had started in the steamer Danmarkfrom Disco Island, off the southerlycoast of Greenland, on an unsuccessfula'tempt to relieve the MacMillsn ex¬

pedition f«/r which considerable anxietyhad been felt The Danmark stuck faitin the ice, however."People said it would meet the fate

of the Danmark." Captain Bartlettstated to night, "but I had too muchreliance on the Neptune, the queen ofthe sealing fleet, to believe them. Atthe same time, in all my trips withPeary, I have never seen such heavyice. 1 did not spare the ship, how¬ever. We smashed through the heavyice of Melville Bay snd passed theDanmarK. stuck fast in an ice field inNorth Star Bay. At Disco we made athree-hour stop and effected some re¬pair- Finally we reached Etah, aftera hard pas«age, got MacMillan and hi«party. an<!, after «taying four day«.

Continued on Last Page

Italians' Victory Growing;Drive Austrians 10 Miles;British and FrenchAdvance

British Launch New Suc¬cessful Attack at

St. Quentin

Assault on VerdunShifted by Petain

Entente Forces Begin ManyUnexpected Actions

in West

LONDON. Aug 2(5. The region northof St. Quentin and west of (ambraisuddenly emerged as the battlegroundof a new offensive movement to-daywhen British troops struck along a

mile of front oast of Hargicourt andstormed strongly fortified German po¬sitions at the Cologne and Malakofffarms to a depth of half a mile. Thiiis the sector devastated «luring the

H'.i|denburg retreat of las', spring, andit has seen little active lighting sincethe Herman« finally settled into theline which they decided to hold. Re¬

cently, however, there have been Strenggus'« of artillery tire around St. Quen¬tin, principally from the French bat¬

teries, which presaged approaching Al¬lied pressure along the whole strip of

country. The British took 136 prison¬ers.

At the same Mme General Pétainshiíte«! t'ie pressure of his army a*

Verdun from the artst to the east bankof the Ms«M RWar to-day, an.i

launched a blow which carried theFr«nch troops to the southern outskn'of the village of Beaumont. On a trontof over three miles from MormontI-'arm to the Chaume Woods, the poilumoved forward to a depth of two-third*of a mile, and carried all their objec-tiveg, including the Mois de Fosse.« andthe Bois «le Beaumont, woo«le«l patche"-which formed tern nests for the Ger-man nachina guanara,A violent enemy counter attack, «!e-

livered alrnest immediately from th«Wavrille \V'oo«l, was ca'ight in thoeffective French barrage, ami, accord-ing to Paris, netted nothing for theI'rown Prince except heavy losses. Ber¬lin to-night declare« that the Frenchtroops, after gaining initial adVBBl .;¦<..weie thrown back to their old positionsby a counter thrust. During the nighta French attack north of Hill 344. beyond the Tslou Ridge, is said to havefailed.

Germans Attack Near YpresTrier«? was n'.s«« heavy righting in the

Ypres salient. I'niier cover of a «trongbombardment th« GsrBSSB« early *hismorning attacke«! near the Vnres-Mennroad, and b\ »he ni of flame thrower«<lr"\e the British out of the highground in the northwest corner of In-verness Copee. Ha.g's men counter at¬tacked at anca, however, and won backall their losSBS.Apparently the predicted new phase

of the fighting along the West frontis being inssfursted with iwift andunexpected Entent, assaults at a largenumber of differ«'nt points in the line.After the British established the fullweight of their pressure la Flanders»he lighting flared out powerfsllf atPer'«, and ln»er the :i-:\ French drivefrom Verdun was started Now come

attacks in the St. Qnentm-i ambra:section, ar.rl there is every indicationthat the fire of destruction which thehrench are carrying out in the Cham-pagne region is to be follsarsd by heavyinfantry engagements.

At the least the Allied High Com-mand hopes by these widely separatedstrokes to put an added strain uponthe dwindling German reserve« and to

gain additional territory at ompara-tiveiy small cost. At most, the Ententeleaders hope by this feelmg-o'i» preces«on a great scale to f.nd a weak placein the enemy line into which a deep'.« erige can be driven.

Battle at Hill 304

In the Verdun Area, on the west bankof the river, there are signs that theGermans mean to reconquer Hill 304if they can. The hostile artillery trre

there is Intense, bat nevertheless th«French managed to advance a little las»night r.nd now hold their line along thesouthern edge of Bethincourt and thesouth bank of the Forges Brook. Cor¬respondents at this front quote a Ger-man order signed by (¡encrai von Diet¬rich and delivered to the garrison de¬fending Dead Man Hill, to the east of304. It read:"An nttack may be expecte«1. momen¬

tarily. The division must rely on itsown .itrcrgth. I hope it will suffice to

defeat the enemy."Another leateaee ¡A the same oide»-

A-hich was found on a German pris¬oner referred to Hill ,'!04 as "the keyto the whole Western front." How¬ever, there i« little indication at this«'age of the fighting that Petain mean«

to push his front beyond the line fromwhich the Crown Prince began hisgreat offensive m 1P16.

Early this morning the British at¬tacked and occupied the trench north¬west of Gillemont Farm, near Epehy.which the Germans had wrested fromthem the day before, reestablishingtheir former positions and foiling an

attempted counter attack. A Germanthrust was also repulsed near I.aventieby Port'igue««« troops, who are hoi ! Rgthat par* of the British line aroundI.a Ba'see.

Germanamericanismsi from the OUWÂ '-Leitung )

Th» «am» former diplomat «Orardi pre-<tiet«wl in a Chirago «peech that when the

first liât of eaaualtie« b»e««m*s known here

the mother« and wiv«a of the killed will hethe ftr»t to burn down the office» of the pro.

«ierman newipaper« alludins thus to thepro-Herman pre«« and 'he f,-w Kn^lu-hpaper« that won't he intimidated by these«narchiat« in broadcloth ta thia. Sir StJimn, to be meant for a concealed appealto th* mob? I'pon thi« man an order ofthe Bath could rerlainl> nit f«,n.'er nobili'y.true nobility.

CADORNAS SWEEPI ^V ^¿fOLMIMOl

The shaded portion of the mapshowj approximately the ground gainedhy Italy's armies north of Gorizia.

Berlin DepressedBy U. S. Embargo-

Cannot Hold Out UntilSpring, Say Passengers

on Neutral Liner

AN ATLANTIC PORT, Aug. 26..

Many paaaengera who arrived here yes¬

terday from a neutral Luropean porton a neutral steamship expressed the

opinion that Germany is hard hit eco-

nomically, that her food is low andthat discontent prevails throughout theempire, except in Prussia, where the

military set and ;t¿ constituents are

Dg th« trying times the least.American trade restrictions upon the

north countrie.-, they declared, nud ere.

ated much depression in Germany, s,nce

ti..- Genuas had counted on gettingwinter suplies of foodstuff* from the

.Scandinavian countries. On boardwere persoaa wno had recently beenin Germany and they had talked freelyof Germany during the fOJAmong the returning paaaoBgan was

Williasn Bartholomew, of Philadelphia,who had been the Hamburg represer.ta-tive of the Pure Oh Company of Hol¬land since 1«97. Two months ago hedecided to leave for America.For -ix w,',-k- prior to hi.» departure

he said he was held in seclusion, andduring that '.me, through lack ofproper food r.nd air, his health becameso poor that he lost fifty poundi inweight.

Being denied the freedom of thecity, he said it was dificolt to obtainBBy definite idea of ju-t how bad con¬

ditions were in (n-rmany up to thetime of his departure from Hamburg.For the last five months, he said, itwas impossible to get a .satisfying mealin Hamburg.According to other passengers on

the steamship, several members of theparty travelling with Mr. Bartholomeweenftded to «hem that conditions inGermany were unbearable, and that shecould hardly hold out until Spring.All food end clothing, they said, were

being used exclusively for the mili-tary forcea and the civilian popula¬tion was suffering incredible hardships-«

Berlin Calls CripplesEven Men in Hospitals Are

Forced Back Into ArmyCOPENHAGEN, Aug. M, The diffi-

salty which Germany is experiencing ir.

obtaining men to till the rank» isshown by an interpellation prese-ited inthe Reichstag by lleputv Davidaohn.calling attention to tne prac'ice of themilitary authorities in recalling to tha

| service pensioners who have been dis¬charged for disabilities.The interpellation says men receiv-

ing pensions for 50 per cent and more

of total disability, and even cripplesto whom supplementary pensions havebeen granted, are being constantlyforced into the army again, and thatin some cases mi n are taken from hos¬pital» before their treatment is com-

pleted.

Cadorna Advances Northof Gorizia on Twelve-

Mile Front

Captures Are HeaviestMade So Far in War

Italians Taking Foe Prison¬er at Rate of 3,000

a Day

LONDON, Aug 26. North of Gorizia.on more than a twelve-mile front be¬yond the newly captured crest of MonteSanto, the Italian armies have »weptforward, and in places have driven th»Austrian» over ten mile» east of theIsonzo River. As thus delineated in

the official statement from Korne to-

day the victory is rapidly becomingthe greatest won by (ieneral ('adornain the war, and has added anotherlarge part o' the Austrian crownlandof Götz and Gradi'cu to the Italiangains.The captures thu- far announced ar»

the heaviest, both in men and material,the Italians have ever made, and thereis no indication that the limit has beenreached. More than 4>00 Austrian offi¬cers and 23,000 men have been passedto the rear, seventy-rive cannon havebeen counted, an undamaged airplanehas fallen to the victors and a largenumber of machine guns and trenchmortars have been recovered, whilea huge quantity of other booty, includ-ing several thousand horses and sev¬

eral motor tractors. loaded with muni¬

tions, is being listed. Semi-official dis-

patches from Rome estimate the en-

emy losses thu» far as lOO.uno of allraattlui.' «riall« t*«W km*t+im* war corre¬

spondents place the attacking force at

?;.")0,000.The official bulletin from Vienna to-

day, the tirst received tn several day«,admits a retreat on the Bain»izzaplateau, where a new line of defenceansa established "on account of th»situation created by the combats in

this place." It says the Italians strong¬ly shelled the evacuated positions andthen advanced into "the empty places."The loss of Monte Santo i» not men¬

tioned, but Italian attack, south ofthat peak, near San Gabriele, are saidto have been repulsed, the assaultingPalermo Brigada leaving "countlessdead and wounded" on the field. VI«entia reports that British and Frenchfliers are as«"=tmg the Italians, but.

deapite thil superiority, twelve Alliedmachines have been brought downApparently the Austrian account of

the battle only carries the righting upto August S3. At that time 250 Italianofficers and over 8,000 men had been

captured in counter attacks. The s.tu-

ation on the Caras is reported to b»comparatively calm.

3,000 Prisoner« a DaySince the first rush Cadorna's men

have been taking about 3,000 prisoner«a day. The results of the battle are

beginning to approach those achievedby (ieneral Korniloff in his Galicianoffensive, though there ¡s little dangerthat the Italians will be driven bac«;by a counter offensive as they are

gradually forcing the Austrian» off s

h.gh table-land into a river valley.Trieste is in no immediate dur.get, butthe first of the two steps n»c»-* ,ry 'o

take it has be»n achieved. If Cadorna'sforces can outflank Mount Hermada,I R the Carso Plateau, a» they did MonteSanto, above Gorizia, the great Au»-tr.an seaport will fall.The Rome communique to-day makes

is possible to trace the campaign in thenorth or, as the Italian War Office put«it, "the battle is beginning to reveal it¬self in all its vastness. It appearsthat on the night of August 18-19 thesecond Italian army, under the com¬mand of General (.'apello, threw four¬teen pontoon bridges acrosi the IionzoRiver in the neighborhood of Anhovo.On the east bank of the stream theyattacked the Austrian defences withferocity both from the front and on

the flank.Finally, after advances which had

not proved decisive, the Austrian linebetween Vrh and V'olnik was brokenand the Italian troops are now neanr.gthe eastern edge of the BaiasissaPlateau and Lie valley of the RiverIdriia, which flows into the Isonzo fromthe southwest. The ground l» brokenand difficult and the enemy i» puttingup a stiff resistance vith machine gunsand light artillery to cover his retreat,but the Italian troops have maintainedceasele.i contact with the defeatedarmy and are f.teadiiy pu«hing it east¬ward.

AuRtrlan Retreat Tot OffThe great dint thu» created, in the

Austrian line automatically carried theItalian divisions past Monte Santo andcut off the re'reat of the enemy de¬tachments defending it. A positionwhich could probably never have beenstormed by a frontal attack was out¬flanked and rendered untenable.The sector of the advance was com-

pletely devastated by the oppoiin»; ar¬tilleries and left practically withoutcommunication». But the difficulty ofaapplyiag the victorious Italian troopswat partly overcome by the use of theabandoned Auttrian supply depot«.On the Carso, Rome admit» that the

battle has temporarily come to a »tandstill, but the new Italian line ha» beenrectified in place», and all Austrian attempt» at a counter offensive have beencru «hod by the storm of fire from Ca-dorna'» guns. I robably the Austrianline in the south will feel tho effect o'the reverse in the north, and new attempts to norm or flank Hermada, and