The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1917-05-29
LATEST WAR NEWS


On the front in France there has
been a recrudescence of infantry ac-
tivity, but not on a large scale. The
northwest of st. Quentin and near
ine-Les-Croisiiles, on southern
end of the Arras battlefield, and re-
pulsed German attack east of Loos,
north of Arras. On the Aisne ard
Champagne fronts both the Germans
and French have been active. Around
Teton, in Champagne, the German
Crown Prince made three attacks and
succeeded in penetrating the Ere rch
line. A counter attack by Gen. Pc
tain's troops, however, forced the
Ger,nans to retire again t. their own
lines.
Smashing the Austrian lines on
the Carso plateau and in the noun
famous country north of Gorilla, the
Italians have made additional and
important gains. Gen. Cadorna's
troops also captured more than 200
prisoners and eleven guns. In an as
sault between Jamiano and the coast
the Italian troops crossed the rail-
road between Dunno and Monfalcone,
northeast of San Giovanni, and car
ried strongly fortified hill south
west of Medeazza.
Each day finds the Italians closer
to Triest. The right flank, resting on
the ocean, now has passed the mouth
of the Timavo River. The center has
pushed beyond Jamiano, and the left
wing has taken additional trenches
around CastagnavizZa. The Italians
have taken 22,419 prisoners since
May Ia.
Members of the Senate Finance
Committee will endeavor this week to
whip the War Revenue Bill into
shape. The members so far have cut
$317,750 from the measure, and by
changes from the House bill have
added $165, 100000.
The army has sent out call for
several thousand bakers and appren-
tees to serve during the war. Virtu-
ally all will be rated as non-commis-
stoned officers and their pay will
range from $33 to $51 a month, with
additional pay for foreign service,
and everything in the way of quar-
tiers, rations, clothing and medical
attention provided.
Paris gave warm welcome to the
first sanitary squadron of the Ameri-
can eXpeditiOnary corps on its arri-
val in France Friday night. The
squadron is composed of $50 physi-
clans and surgeons and seventy-fve
nurses.
Berlin has denied that any German
naval expedition has been sent to
American waters.
Two more Spanish steamers have
been sunk with the loss of probably
one hundred lives. The largest YES
sci was the mail steamer c. de Eliza
guirre, of 1890 tons, and an official
statement reports only twenty-five of
her forty passengers and crew of six
ty landed. The other steamer lost
was the Begona, of $500 tons.
Regulations to govern exemptions
under the selective draft are being
worked out by Provost Marshal Gen.
Crowder with a number of promi-
nent lawyers. 1t is probable that the
jury wheel system will be followed in
selecting those to go into the first
army of 100000, and not until each
district has provided the number ap-
portioned to it will exemptions be
considered.
Vacancies in the officers training
camps, resulting from the withdraw
al of candidates for commissions or
for any other cause, will not be filled,
the War Department announced 1t
is regarded as too great a handicap
on the whole force to have men enter
now and attempt to catch up.
Foreign Minister Balfour head of
the British Mission to America, de-
rlared at Ottawa that the British en-
pire had "staked it's last dollar" on
democracy, and that if democracy
failed, England would be bankrupt
indeed
The Italians have smashed their
way across the Timavo River and
captured San Giovanni, two miles
northeast of Duino, which is on the
railroad leading into Triest Nine g.
inch guns fell into the hands of the
Tt,I;ane