Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-07-20

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trouble makers only go on to other
localities and continue their nefarious
propaganda. Work is at a standstill
in many of the biggest mining and lum-
Der camps of the country.
The department of labor last week
created the United States public serv-
Ice reserve, for the mobilization of
adult male volunteers for service in
employments of every kind, public and
private, which are necessary to effec-
tive conduct of the war.
Russfa's Drive on Lemberu.
Russia's re-awakened troops, direct
ed by General Brussiloff and command
ed by General Korniloff, continued
their great drive in Galicia last week
and inflicted a tremendous blow on the
Austro-German forces by breaking
through their lines and capturing
Halicz. This city is regarded as the
key to Lemberg, the immediate objec-
tive of the Russian offensive, and last
year was unsuccessfully attacked with
Brussiloff from the north. This time
he moved on it from the south and
took it with comparative ease, togeth-
er with great number of prisoners
The German and Austrian armies were
separated and their morale so broken
that Korniloff was enabled to use his
Cossack cavalry in the pursuit with
telling effect.
Some distance to the north the Rus
slams fiercely attacked in the Pfnsb
sector, gaining considerable ground
and the activity of their artillery in the
Riga region presaged an attempt tt
break that, the strongest part of the
Teuton line in the east.
On the west front the German.
staged a successful drive against thu
British close to the Flemish coast, fore
ing them back across the User rive
in the dunes. British trenches wer,
captured to a depth of 600 yards on
front of 400 yards. This German at
tack may be part of an attempt t,
reach Dunkirk, or it may have beer
made to forestall a British drive alon,
the coast that would threaten the Ger
man submarine bases.
There was tremendous fighting il
France, the Germans making desperat
attacks especially along the Chemil
des Danes. But the French withstoo
/ the assaults stoutly and when the
were driven back anywhere, invariabl
recaptured the lost ground.
Germany's Internal Troubles.
Germany's internal ferment is in
, creasing, the opponents Of Chancellc
Won Bethmann-Hollweg are CROWN
in numbers and boldness, and the cal
: met seems to be breaking up. But a
this can have no immediate effect O
the prosecution of the war, for it
internal and the general staff, heade
by Hindenburg and Ludendorff. dom
. mates the entire imperial governmen
2 Changes in the ministry mean littl
more than the substitution Of one s,
:, of puppets for another, and even tt
= fall Of the chancellor will be of on
academic interest to the outside worl
1t would appear that the war must S
on until the kaiser, the crown prime
: and the Prussian militaristic chic
are eliminated, or until the German a
mics meet such crushing defeats TIL
:. the people take matters into their ov
= hands-whfch means the same thing.
:, The main committee of the reich
tag refused to vote a war credit unle
the government declared its policy r
= garding peace and reform, and this Il
government refused to do. Since Il
'. demand of the committee is support,
. by majority in the reichstag, mi
: isterial crisis was inevitable. The el
% peror himself went SO far as to iss1
a manifesto declaring for equal fra
chise in Prussia. This, if granted, W
decidedly weaken the dominance of t
Junkers in the Prussian governmer
lie The attempt to restore the Mancl
D. empire in China met with dismal ia
lie ure, and now turns out to have be-
lie financed by Germany. Another br
lg liant stroke of foreign policy by Iii
lie mermann. The young emperor aga
d abdicated and General Chang Hsu
o. his sponsor and the kaiser's agent, I
E. tired to the imperial city section
D. Peking, where he and his fast dwi
rt ding army were hemmed in by the I
a. publican forces.
g The weekly report Of the British g
10 miralty on submarine activities "
lie very gratifying, showing only II MI
IS chantmen were sunk, while II othe
l. that were attacked, escaped. Duri
IL the same period arrivals in Britt
Id ports were 2,898, and sailings 2,7!
ut ! The American steamer Kansas was
lie stroyed by a German U-boat.