Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-10-22
WASHINGTON IS GIVEN
REPORT ON LATEST
UPRISINGS
40O0 DIE IN BLAST
MUNlTloN WORKERS ARE ORiv.
EN- AT POINT OF GUNS INTO
OTHER FACTORIES AFTER TER.
RIFlC EXPLOSION

Washington. Oct 22-uprisings be-
cause of shortage of food have taken
place among the civilian population
of many Austrian cities.
Official dispatches from Rome today
tell of rioting in Budapest, Vienna and
Prague. Many women and children
were killed in the fighting.
Recruits of the 1917 class fired on
women and children at an unnamed
city killing forty and wounding 15O.
Thousands Killed.
washington, Oct. 22-Four thousand
persons were killed and ten thousand
injured in the explosion of a powder
magazine on June 16. at Stifel
Austria, according to otncial dispatch
es from Rome today. After the ex
plosion women munition workers who
escaped injury were forced to return
to work in other factories by armed
Austrian guards. the dispatch said
Get Six Filters.
London. Oct. % Spectacular air
battles in which at least six German
machines were shot down, marked 4
British raid over German military
lerodromes in Belgium on Sunday.
The admiralty announced today that
the German air bases at Visseghem
and Houte Tave were both bombed by
British naval planes. ~94 ~s-@a-.
Sir kaiser's Hand in Politics.
Amsterdam, Oct 22-The hand OF
the kaiser will be seen in the political
and peace developments in Germany
this week, According to word from
Berlin the kaiser has arrived there
IRON Constantinople and will hold a
number OF conferences during the next
few days with members of the cabin.
ct ana the leaders of the various fac
tions in the Reichstag
This Is the fifty.ninth anniversary
OF the birth OF the German Empress
and it is likely that the kaiser timed
MS return to Berlin 50 that he might
take part In the birthday celebration.
Active On All Fronts.
London, Oct. 22-Another fare.up of
hghtlng activities on practically all
OF me lighting fronts by the reported
IN Allies from various sources TODAY
A telegram from Rome stated that
the Anstro.Ilungarians are evidently
anther drive against tho
Italians on the Isonozo river front. It
sald that German troops are being
moved INTO the Julian Alps aud that
there are indications that an Austro.
ierman drive may be launched in the
Bainslzza Plateau sector in an effort
70 dlSlodge the Italians from tho sum.
nit Of Monte San Gabrielle.
Gcrmahy sea operations against
Russia on the Baltic have now given
.bcm possession Of five of the six IL.
andS commanding the entrance to the
iult of Riga. Works island Is the
'hly one remaining in the hands of
nave extended their domination of the
he russians But while the Germans
archipelago, they have evidently fail.
vi to trap the Russian feet for 1t Is
'eported from Petrograd that the fleet
urned northward. instead of into the
iult OF Riga as the Germans had eyi.
iently hoped, and reached the Baltic
hrough the narrow strait between
Worms island and The main land
Intense artillery aud aerial actiyi.
y marked the operations of the past
a hours along the western front.
Berlin reports increasing artillery
irlng on the Macedonian front while
he British war oifite tells of a sue
'esstuI attack against the Turks on
he NeSOpotamian front.