The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-06-21
NEWS NOTES

impending in Austria, according to
unconfrmed advices from Spain and
Holland. 1t is said that rioting has
been going on in Vienna and matters
have come to a critical stage. How
serious the situation has become is
not yet known. There have been out
breaks in various parts of the coun-
try, notably in Bohemia and MoraVia,
and the political tension between
Austria and Hungary has been one of
the features of the news emanating
from the dual of monarchy for some
time.
A Pan-American labor federation
to knit closer together the labor Gle
ments of North America was urged
at a meeting of the American Fed
GRAFTON in session at ST. Paul. The
report pointed out that whereas
Mexico sought closer relations with,
American labor, German propaganda
had done it's utmost to block the
plan. The convention also consider
ed the allied war aims and it is
probable will reassert its opposition
to meeting with any representatives
of the Central Powers.
The first aim of tho Government
control of the railroads will be to
transport men for the purpose OF
winning the war. This was the state
ment of Secretary McAdoo in outlin-
ing the policy of the Government.
He declared also that the railroads
owed it to the public to give proper
service and 1t owed fair compcnsa-
ton to the millions of men in the
employ of the big corporation. He
said the roads would be so conducted
as to disprove the common assertion
that a corporation has no heart.
Probably having in mind President
wilson's promise that the war should
not be ended until wrongs of Alsace-
Lorraine are righted, forces of Amer
lean troops now are occupying Sec
tors in the picturesque territory OF
Alsace. They have been there since
May 81, and, possibly sensing the
Importance of the move, both from
the strategic and moral standpoint.
the Germans already have delivered
an attack against them. The Amer
lean casualties were light.
In the famous st. Mihiel sector,
where Americans took over their first
sector of the battlefront, the Ger
mans have delivered stroke and
were rewarded by being able to gain
the village. Soon afterward, how
ever, they were expelled and the
position regained. Prisoners were
taken from the Germans. who in
their anger turnout Sunday ''strafed"
villages in the rear with their ar
tillery.
At nearly every point along the
long Italian front, the Austrians,
who launched a great offensive Sat-
urday, are being held by the Italian
and allied forces. Enemy troops
have crossed the PiaveN River, but
they are being hard pressed by the
valiant Latin soldiers. Three thou
sand Austrians have been made pris-
oners, while the Vienna statement
claims the capture of 10000 prison
ers.
Secretary Daniels in asking the
House to concur in the Senate
amendment to the Naval Appropria-
tion Bill increasing tho navy's en-
listed personnel from $1,000 to 49,
4S5 men, declared 10000 men will
be needed to man the great feet Of
warships the United States will turn
out during the next fiscal year.
The Austrians Saturday launched
their long-expected offensive on the
Italian front. On line extending
for a distance of from seventy-five
to one hundred miles, the Italian
Premier announced in the Chamber
of Deputies, the drive was begun.
He added that the Italian troops are
resisting "magnificently."
Claiming that with slight losses
the German forces practically ami
hilated 10000 Bolshevik Red Guards,
Gen. Knoerzer reported to the Ger
man commander in the Ukraine that