Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-07-28

trouble makers only go 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 Lemberq.
Russia's re-awakened troops, direct
ed by General BrussilOff and command
ed by General Kornioff, continued
their great drive In GalicIa last week
and inflicted tremendous blow on the
Austro-German forces by breaking
through their lines and capturing
llalicz. This city 10 regarded as the
key to Lemberg, the immediate oblec-
tive of the Russian offensive, and last
year was unsuccessfully attacked with
BrussIl0tf from the north. This time
he moved on 1t from the south and
took 1t with comparative ease, tOgeth-
er with a great number Of prisoners.
The German and Austrian armies were
separated and their morale so broken
that Kornilof was enabled to use his
Cossack cavalry In the pursuit with
telling effect.
Some distance to the north the Rus
slams tiercely 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 10 the Flemish coast, fore
Ing them back across the User river
in the dunes. British trenches were
captured to depth Of 600 yards on n
front Of 400 yards. This German at
tack may be part Of an attempt to
reach Dunkirk, or II may have been
made to forestall n 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 Chemn
des Danes. But the French withstood
the assaults stoutly and when they
Iriynn hn oil f,,,,
recaptured the lost ground
Germanys Internal Troubles.
Germany's internal ferment is in
creasing, the opponents of Chancellor
Won Bethmann-Holweg 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 II Is
internal and the general staff, headed
by Ilindenburg and Ludendorff DON'T
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 go
on until the kaiser, the crown prince
and the Prussian mlitaristic chiefs
are eliminated, or until the German ar
mics meet such crushing defeats that
the people take matters into their own
hands-whlch means the same thing.
Tho naIY 90 ~
tag refused to vote war credit unless
the government declared its policy re-
garding peace and reform, and this the
government refused to do. Since the
demand Of the committee Is supported
by majority In the reichstag, a min
isterial crisis was inevitable. The ems
per0r himself went so far as to issue
a 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 brill
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
Picking, where he and his fast dwin-
ding army were hemmed in by the re-
publican forces.
The weekly report of the British adj
miralty on submarine activities was
very gratifying, showing only II mer-
chantmen were sunk, while IL others
that we're attacked, escaped. During
the same period arrivals in British
ports were 2,S9S. and sailings 2,T9S
The American steamer Kansas was de-
stroyed by q German U-boat