Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-09-07

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have shown the determination and
ability to go forward, the alarmed Aus
trian commanders are hurrying great
numbers of troops to the fighting lines
and their resistance is increasing
Some of the heaviest fighting of the
week took place on the Bainsizza pla-
teau, where the Italians pushed stead
lily eastward toward the Upper Car
niola border and Laibach. At the same
time Cadorna's men have been making
considerable progress in their advance
on Trieste on the CarsO front, though
details of this movement were with
held by the Italian war office. On
Wednesday it was reported that prac-
tically all civilians had evacuated Tri-t
este. ]
The German crown prince has been
keeping up his continual counter att
tacks on the French in the Verdun
sector and on the Aisne front, but has
been repulsed in every instance, losing
great numbers in killed, wounded and
especially prisoners. The scene of /
bloodiest fighting about Verdun shifted
to the east bank of the Meuse, where,
the village of Beaumont was the CEN.
ter of desperate combats. At Dead
Man hill, also, the Germans made re-,
peated attempts to regain the pOsi-i
tons they had lost.
With bulldog tenacity the British
hung on to parts of Lens they had cap-i
tured, and consolidated them despitel
almost daily and nightly attacks by
Crown Prince Rupprecht's forces
Though heavy rains hampered opera
positions east and southeast of LANCE.
marck in the direction of Poelcapelle.,
On the Eastern Front.
The advance Of the Germans in Row
mania, Galicia and in the region OF
Riga slowed up very considerably, and
what little news came from those
fronts Indicated that both the Rouma-
mans and Russians were putting up a
creditable fight, except in the region OF
Fokshani. Perhaps they cannot keep
the foe out of southern Russia, but;
even so the possession of that fertile
region would help the Germans little
because of the wretched transportation
facilities westward. What Germany
needs now and is going to need much
more in the near future is food, and
that cannot be carried long distances
inland without railways.
A modification of Germany's policy
toward neutrals is indicated by her
backdoWn in the negotiations with Ar
gentina. She has promised indemnity
for the destruction of the steamship
Toro and virtually pledged the free
dom of the seas to vessels flying the
Argentine flag.
Americas Heavy War Bill.
More than nineteen billion dollars
will be required to run the government
during the fiscal year 1917-1918, ac-
cording to the statement of the house
ways and means committee made last:
Monday. This is about fifteen times
as much as for an ordinary year.
Chairman Kitchin said the loans to the
allies would aggregate $7,000,O00,O OO,.
the shipping board will require about
81 000,000,O00, and the other expenses
of the government will bring the total
to about $19,3OO,OO0,OO0.
The finance committees of the house
and senate have tentatively accepted
the recommendation of the treasury
department that the proportion of this
sum to be raised by taxation to that
raised by bond issues shall be about
to z. All but $2,000,000,O00 of the
money to be raised is provided for In
bills already passed or now pending
before the senate or before the house
committee.
President Wilson has approved Sec
rotary Daniels estimates for the con-
struction of great flotilla of destroy
ers, for which congress is asked to
authorize the expenditure of $350,000,-
600. The destroyer seems to be the
best weapon yet devised to combat the
submarine.
Apparently in no way related to the
murderous outbreak of cOlored troops
at Houston is the warning issued by
the Patriotic Education society, that
the Germans are conducting a propa.
ganda in this country to start a gen.
eral uprising of negroes against the
whites, promising German aid and
money to finance the insurrection and
telling the ignorant negroes that when
Germany rules America the blacks will
have equal rights with the whites. The
story is not so fantastic as it may APP
pear and the society is said to have
authentic information supporting its
statements.