The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-06

net of a knight or even the crown Of
 king. In many lonely Irish cabin, | where the pungent peat mingles It's | smoke with the hopeless dreams of | the Sein Feiner, the name of Easement | will be revered forever, and the tale of his trial and death will be second
 only to the melancholy story of Robert | Emmett. Among American-Irishmen | who no longer approve the leadership | of Piedmont, the name of Easement will
 act as a torch to kindle a fresh bon ! fire of hatred for England and in the | bonfire there will be the cracking threat of future vengeance.
 | In the theatre of war there has been another weak of continuous fighting. The Russians in Armenia are following up their victories of last week. and | have now advanced a considerable dis trance west of Erzinfian.n Their op- | jectives in this region are the import ant towns Sivas and Kharput. With | these in their hands they will be prac- tically knocking at the back door or Constantinople. The capture of Brody, an important frontier town in Galicia.
 has opened the way for an advance on
 Lemberg, while the victories on the Stockhold to the north have laid bare
 Kovel and Vladimir-Volynisky, towns of great strategic value. With Kovel the hands of the Slavs, the recap ture of Warsaw would be almost in sight. It is already reported that Kovel has been evacuated and that the roads are black with retreating troops. Berlin, however, does not admit all the gains claimed by Petrograd.
 In the western theatre the steady , blows of the Franco British hammer
 continue. The progress is slow but con- tinuous. Villages, farmhouses and wooded hillsides in this siege-like war fare become extremely important. Brit Sh y1nI nffi nio al tC -I, ground gained at many points during the week, while severe counter attacks have been everywhere repulsed. The allies are holding tn positions they have captured and are driving ahead for further gains. The Germans are contesting with great valor every foot of territroy, and Berlin seems very re- luctant to admit even a semblance of defeat.
 The second anniversary of the begin ming of the war has been the occa sion of a proclamation by the Kaiser to the Teutonic troops. The tone of this doc- ument Is one of confidence In final vic- tory, but the neutral world seems to be of an entirely different opinion. The general summing up of American senti- ment shows the conviction that the central powers are doomed to sure de- feat. Germany and her allies enter the third year of the war with their forces l III every theatre or dCIlOn on the de- fensive, and with the lines of defense gradually weakening before the terrific onslaughts of the allies. No one seems willing to predict with any degree Of confidence how soon the war will end |; but there is a general feeling that I 1t will take at least one more year be- fore there will be much prospect of peace.
 The shooting by the Germans of Cap l tain F'ryatt, the British sea captain who tried to ram a submarine over year ago. and was captured last June, | has brought storm of criticism upon Germany. This man was captain of passenger ship and when attacked by a submarine he tried to ram it. The Ger mans claim that his act was one of piracy and therefore worthy of death. He was tried and executed last week. | It is understood that the crew of the German submarine which sank the Lusitania are now held as prisoners of war in England, and many neutrals | have remarked that if the Germans shoot prisoner who has attempted to ram a submarine, the submarine which l sinks a passenger. ship without warn I ing, causing the death of over 1900 | noncomb batants, is guilty of a far 1 greater crime
 The final event of the week was the l sailing of the submarine merchantmen l Deutschland from Baltimore for Ger many. It is reported that she safely escaped the cordon of allied warships which were on guard off the Virginia l capes. Should she reach home she will | have accomplished far more difficult
 1 feat than the voyage to America. Her l sister ship, the Bremen, has not ar
 rived and 1t is thought she may have
 1 been captured If this Is the case the
 British will scarcely annouce when or
 1 how she was taken, so IS not to give 1 any information which would aid oth-
 CT submarines to avoid the traps laid l for them.