Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1917-07-19


trouble makers only go OH to other
localities and continue their nefarious
propaganda. Work is ut 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.
Russia's Drive on Lembera.
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 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
ne moved on 1t from the south and
took 1t with comparative ease, togeth-
er with q great number of prisoners.
Ehe German and Austrian armies were
separated and their morale so broken
mat 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 Pinsk
SECTOR gaining considerable ground,
ana the activity Of their artillery in the
Riga region presaged an attempt to
break that, the strongest part Of the
Teuton line in the east.
On the west front the Germans
staged a successful drive against the
British close to the Flemish coast, fore
ing them back across the User river
IN the dunes. British trenches were
captured to depth of GOO yards on a
front of 1,4OO yards. This German at
tack may be part of an attempt to
reach Dunkirk, or it may have been
made to fOrestall British drive along
the coast that would threaten the Ger
man submarine bases.
There was tremendous fighting in
France, the Germans making desperate
attacks especially along the Chemin
des Danes. But the French withstood
the assaults stoutly and when they
were driven back anywhere, Invariably
recaptured the lost ground,
Germany's Internal Troubles.
Germany's internal ferment is in
creasing, the opponents of Chancellor
Won Bethmann-Hollweg are growing
In numbers and boldness, and the cab
met seems to be breaking up. But all
this can have no immediate effect on
the prosecution of the war, for it is
internal and the general staff headed
by Hindenburg and Ludendorff. domi-
mates the entire imperial government.
Changes In the ministry mean little
more than the substitution of one set
of puppets for another, and even the
fall Of the chancellor will be of only
academic interest to the outside world.
1t would appear that the war must 90
on until the kaiser, the crown prince
and the Prussian militaristic chiefs
are eliminated, or until the German ar
mics meet such crushing defeats that
the people take matters into their own
hands-which means the same thing.
The main committee of the reichs-
tag refused to vote q war credit unless
the government declared it's policy re-
gnrding peace and reform, and this the
government refused to do. Since the
demand of the committee is supported
by majority in the reichstag, min
isterial crisis was inevitable. The EN-.
peror himself went SO far as to issue
u manifesto declaring for equal fran
chise In Prussia. This If granted, will
decidedly weaken the dominance of the
Junkers in the Prussian government
The attempt to restore the Manchu
empire In China met with dismal fail
ure, and now turns out to have been
financed by Germany. Another bril-
liant stroke Of foreign policy by Zim-
mermann. The young emperor again
abdicated and General Chang Hsun,
his sponsor and the kaiser's agent, re-
tired to the imperial city section of
Peking, where he and his fast dwin-
ding army were hemmed in by the re-
publican forces.
The weekly report of the British ad-
miralty on submarine activities was
very gratifying, showing only IL mer-
chantmen were sunk, while II others
that were attacked, escaped. During
the same period arrivals in British
ports were 2.S9S, and sailings 2,79S.
The American steamer Kansas was de-
eroyed by q German U.bost