Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-07-21

ter of a storm or dissension In Ger
If the Officers Reserve corps. g.
own; the photograph was found on a
ssian army in Galicia and captor Of
trouble makers only 60 on to other
localities and continue their nefarious
propaganda. Work is at 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 Lemberg.
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
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 Pinsk
sector, gaining considerable ground,
and 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 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 600 yards on a
front Of 1,4O0 yards. This German at
tack may be part of an attempt to
reach Dunkirk, or it may have been
made to forestall a British drive along
the coast that would threaten the Ger
man submarine bases.
There was tremendous fighting ain
France, the Germans making desperate
attacks especially along the Chemin
DIES 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 holiness, 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 md 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 20
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- |
.ag refused to vote war credit unless |
he government declared its policy re-
yarding peace and reform, and this the
refused to do. Since the
demand of the committee is supported |
" majority in the reichstag, a min
sterial crisis was inevitable. The em4
,eror himself went so far as to issue
manifesto declaring for equal fran
'hise in Prussia. This, If granted, will
decidedly weaken the dominance of the
|unkers In the Prussian government.
The attempt to restore the Manchu
empire In China met with dismal fail
Ire, and now turns out to have been
inanced by Germany. Another bril-
liant stroke Of foreign policy by Zim-
hermann. The young emperor again
Ibdicated and General Chang Hsun,
Is sponsor and the kaiser's agent, re-
lred to the imperial city section of
'eking, where he and his fast dwin-
ling army were hemmed in by the re-
ublican forces.
The weekly report Of the British adj
1iralty on submarine activities was
cry gratifying, showing only II mer-
hantmen were sunk, while II others
hat were attacked, escaped. During
he same period arrivals in British
orts were 2,S9S, and sailings 2,799.
he American steamer Kansas was de-
-royed by German U-boat.