Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-07-15
Rumor That ReichStag Has
Gone on Strike Also Lacks
Confirmation; News From
Berlin Fragmentary,
MINISTER OF WAR HAS
RESIGNED, BERNIE HEARS
General Won Stein, Whose Re-
tirement Is Reported, Is Sup
porter of Pan-Germansi
Aroused Socialists.
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The political situation in Germany
is still far from a solution, judging
from the fragmentary news permitted
to pass the censor. Rumors of the
abdication of Emperor william and a
strike of the reichstag have received
no confirmation. A wireless dispatch
given out by the British admiralty late
Saturday evening, however, said DR..
Won Bethmann-H Hollweg, the German
imperial chancellor, had resigned.
London dispatches say DR.. George
Michaelis, Prussian under secretary
of finance and food commissioner.
has been appointed to succeed Won
Bethmann- Hollweg.
A Berne dispatch says an official
telegram has been received there from
Berlin announcing the resignation of
General Won Stein, the Prussian min
lister of war. The importance of this
retirement lies in the fact that the
Prussian war ministry is in reality the
war minister for the German empire
and that General Won Stein Is a
! staunch supporter of the pan-Ger-
mans, who are the bitterest oppon-
ents of peace without annexations or
indemnities. General Won Stein re-
Gently aroused the ire of the socialists
by taking part in the distribution Of
pan-German propaganda against
peace efforts.
Russians Still Advancing.
1hlistia's victorious troops have
made a further advance in eastern
Galicia where the Austro-German
lines were shattered by General Korn j.
iloff's drive Petrograd announces the
capture of the village of Novica,
southwest of Kalusz. The Germans
evidently have brought up troops In
an effort to stay the disorganized re-
treat of the Teutonic forces in this
region, as the Petrograd war office
reports two counter-attacks in an at
tempt to dislOdge the Russians from
Kalusz. The efforts met with no sue
cess
Elsewhere on the Russo -Galician
front the situation is unchanged, and
apparently the Russians have paused
to gather their forces for a further
drive. The German war office again
reports considerable activity on the
northern end of the line near Dvinsk
and Smorgon, but the Russian state
ment contains nothing to indicate
that an offensive in that section is ip
progress.
Fren,h and British Idle.
The French and British armies on
the western front are still idle, except
for local operations. Stiff fighting oc-
Cured on Friday night in Belgium
near Lombaertzeyde and Berlin an
nounces that British attacks were
broken down with heavy loss. The
British report, however, says the Ger
mans made a fruitless attack in that
sector Heavy artillery fighting is in
progress near st. Quentin and between
Craonne and Courcey, with indication
of a renewal of the bitter struggle for
vintage points on the Aisne front.
The British transport Armadale
was sunk by a submarine in the At
lantic on June 81, London reports.
There was only small number of
troops on board the Armadale, a yes.
sci of 1853 tons gross. Six soldiers,
one passenger and four of the crew
are missing and are believed to have
been drowned.