The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-08
United Press
War Summary

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1,436th day Of the war.
Picardy front: The Australians
with whom Americans are brigaded,
made another advance last night,
pushing forward slightly on a front of
nearly two miles, on both sides of the
Somme.
Marne front: A violent artillery
duel is reported on the fifteen mile
front from the Marine northward to
the viIlers-cotterets forest, which in.
ciudes the American position between
vaux and BeIieau wood.
Flanders front: Australian troops
successfully raided German trenches
east Of Hazebrouck. Hostile artillery
was active near Bethune.
Lorraine front: American positions
in the Toul sector were bonrbarded
last night.
Italian front: The Austrians are
concentrating heavy reinforcements in
the Innsbruck and Trentino regions,
evidently for resumption of the Of
fensive on both the mountain and
Piave fronts. General Ludendorff is
said to have visited Austrian head
quarters to hasten preparations for
the new blow.
Russia: Employing Ambassador
Mirbach's murder as an excuse, Ger
many will demand free passage of
troops to the Murn1an coast by way of
Petroarad and the right to police both
Petrograd and Moscow, according to
diplomatic information received in
Stockholm.
Dispatches from various sources in
dicated today that Germany may seize
upon the murder of Ambassador Mir
bach as the long awaited excuse for
completion of the military conquest
of European Russia.
The kaiser, according to Anster-
dam advices, has directed that rela-
tions with the Russian delegates in
Berlin be broken off.
Diplomatic messages received in
Stockholm stated that Germany will
demand free passage of troops to the
Mur1nan coast through Petroerad,
thus facilitating the German-Finnish
campaign against the small allied
forces at Murnansk and koia. It was
also stated that Germany will demand
the right to police Petrograd and Mos
COW. which would virtually place the
Russian government under German
domination.
The 5oIshevik are doing everything
possible to appease the kaiser.
Nihilism VS. Prussianism.
[By J. w. T. Mason, United Press War
Expert.l
NEW YORK, July S.-Nihilism has
return to Russia. The assassination
of the German ambassador, Won Mir
bach, at Moscow, Is the beginning of
Russia's reawakening.
The same measures Of desperate
self defense, enforced on the people
by the absolutism of the Romanoffs,
have been called again into play by
the ruthlessness of German dictation
to the present Slav government. Rus
sian liberty, enmeshed b. the Hohen-
zaIern mi1itarists, is taking to bombing
it's way to freedom. This new phase OF
the revolution was bound to occur
sooner or later. The people who risked
their lives uninterruptedly for liberty
under the cZar are not of The breed to
be cowed for ever by German mill
tarism.
Opposed to the terror of the Ger
man sword has now come the terror Of
the Russian bomb. Germany cannot
destroy this new enmity by force. Nj
mi1ism flourishes best when efforts a.
its suppression are most relentless
1t is strange that the famous nihilist
leaders have not gone into actor
against the Germans before this. But
there probably has been some reluc
tance to set the terrorist bands a
work anew for fear they might in
terrupt the successful working out O
the revolution.
Now, however, that German influ