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The evening world., 1918-06-22
WAR WEAKNESS IN
GERMANY GROWING:
KAISER |SASSA|LED
Reports Tell of Evil Conditions
and Discomfort With the
Military Spirit.

AMSTERDAM, June 2..--Reports oi
unrest and war weariness are az ,ip
coming out OF Germany. Their range
covers criticism OF mora, condition ons.
Germany's attitude toward Russians.
and criticism OF the Kaiser.
The kaiser's recent announcement
at Great Army headquarters that
Germony's purpose iE the war iP 10
SubJugate the Anglo-saxon splris in
tho world has caused several German
newSpapers 10 attack his point OF
view. The Munich POSI- says tho &C.
casion could have been celebrated
with clomency and humanity inAteao
OF u warlike speech agaiust England
without words OF thnsks to his own
people. Tho paper concludes that the
Anglo-SaIon races. are powerful
enough 10 accept the Kaiser's cAal-
lenge.
Tho German quarterly church re-
view. published by tho Protestant
kreuzzeltung OF Berlin, says tho
task OF tho church has become Inn
measurubly harder because Of the
utter lack OF discipline and religious
feeling among the people. Our
youth, with their easily gotten money
In their pockets, swollen with sinful
pride. are entirely contemptuous OF
restraint and confluence. Confusion
reigns In numberiess OF the admin.
lstrativo Government departments as
TO what is right and wrong. The
highest law seems 10 be proflteering
and amusement"
The review graveiy condemns the
Cologne proposal to legili2e bieamy.
which proposition the document
takes quite seriously. though at tho
time II was made II was represented
by eminent Germans as a mere freak
The Rhcinisch- -westfaellsche Pei.
tung OF Essen quotes Herr Hofer. In.
dependent Socialist. as saying An ths
Prussian Lower House Thursday.
Ten thousand Red Guards were
mercllessly moved down at Tagan-
rog by German troops. and then vnu
sly we are at peace with Russia.
am perspaded that Russia will snrjn,
al our throats when the time comes
IL Is base 20 xiii an enemy after he is
blinded by poison gas. The people
must overthrow n Government which
Is incapable OF attaining 4 speedy
peace by understanding"
The evening world., 1918-06-22
MRS HEARST'S CHARGES
IND|CT TIMES AND TRIBUNE
Corporations and Editors Also Held
10 Answer for Alleged
Libel.

On the complaint OF Mrs. William Il.
Hearst, the Grand Jury yesterday IN
dicted the Times and the Tribune.
charged with publishing a libel. The
corporations publishing the papers al 50
were indicted, and Ogden NJ. Reid.
President of the Tribune Association
Enrol Hart, assistant night editor OF
the Tribune Adolph s Ochs. publisher,
and John II. Paine, night city editor
OF the Times,
Mr.. Paine and Mr.. Reid gave $1,000
bail each. Attorneys for Mr.. Ochs and
Mr.. Hart said they would appear next
Tuesday. the date OF pleading.
The articles complained Of dealt with
the Fifth Avenue Canteen. in which
Mrs. Hearst Is interesed. The indict-
ments allege that In the articles the
meaning was conveyed" that Mrs.
Hearst was then in sympathy with
the aims and purposes OF the German
Empire and that the said Mllicent v.
Hearst was disoyal TO and traitorous
TO the United States offAmerica."
No Indictment was found against the
Evening Mall. which published an arr
tlcle somewhat similar and against
which VII lam A. De Ford said he had
complained.
The evening world., 1918-06-22
STARVING WOMEN
BATTLE FOR FOOD
AND DEMAND PEACE
Spectators Believe Wars End
Is Near and Sell Hearded
FoodStuilS.
By e. Segrue.


ApONuNlL. lN1N. hN INC fNa~ INulta alliua "
trle Nov lo-. W1rldl.
GENEVA, June ~. - Nile. Giran-
din, French woman who has lived
nine years in Austria, arrived In
Geneva from Vienna yesterday. Nile.
Girandin says the meagrc results
achieved so far in the offensive
against Italy have caused disap-
pointmcnt among Austrian official
classes and increased irritation among
the people
People admit" she said 10 me,
the results claimed have fallen
sreotly below expectations. The
Austrian custom officials at the
frontier were gloomy and anxious. |
believe If the offensive fails the COLI
lapse OF the Austrian Empire is In
cvitablc.
The air in Vienna is heavy with
expectations OF great events. lie
authorities have taken 9ll prccsu-
tlons 10 deal with any revolt. Every
street in Vienna 10 patrolled by SOL
diers, and | was told the same meas
urcs were taken in other towns. The
country seems TO be hurrying toward
the situation which prevailed during
the strike last January. On that
occasion, during three days, u revo-
luton seemed inevitable.
Except so far as the very rich are
concerned Austria is confronted with
famine. The misery is heartrending,
and no civilized nation. no matter
how great its docllity, can con-
tinue 10 endure IL long. Stocks Of
old potatoes are exhausted. and the
daily ration OF uneatable bread has
been reduced 10 quarter OF n pound
daily. This bread is made OF chest
only TO hospitals and babies. A
quarter OF a pound OF meat Is al.
lowed on Sundays provided the pur-
chaser survives the riots which in.
evitably occur in n meat market.
"A significant development in the
present situation Is that food specu-
lators are allowing their stocks TO be
sold. The explanation OF this action
is that they realize the end cannot
be far distant anC they want 10 real
lze prohts before IL Is too late.
prices for foodstuffs.
"Order an authority are dissolvinr
rapidly in Austria, and the panrs OF
hunger are disclosing primitive traits
in the peoples character. The pro-
cesSions Of women through the
streets demanding bread and peace
seem like professions of spectres. so
caunt and haggard are the partici-
pants. Womcn who for hours wait
outside bakers shops All tho air with
wild lamentations and reproaches.
The sufferings OF children and their
constant cry We're hungry arouse
their mothers TO fury. ! stood among
these crowds and felt 7 was in tine
company OF savages. Disorders pro-
voked by the prevailing hunger are
OF almost daily occurrence"
The evening world., 1918-06-22
HOPE TII.HElD OUT.
THAT BAYlIES IS ALIVE
Flyer May Have Escaped Death
When Shot Down Behind the
German Lines.

PARIS, Juno 22.--Hope is sull en-
tertained here that Lieut.. Frank L.
Bayiios, leading American Ace In the
French Flying Corps, escaped death
when his machine was shot down slx
miles within the German lines last
Monday.
1t develops that Baylies was at
tackled simultaneously by four GET
man slngie-seater machines. The
cnomy had the advantage OF position
~ well. but Baylies put up d game
light. lie attempted to take the Of
fensivc against the Germans, but his
machine caught fre and fell after a
few moments.
From Feb. 10, 1919, to June I Baylies
had gained twelve aerial victories and
had been promoted from Corporal to
Sergeant and then 10 First Lieu,eu-
ant. On June he was awarded .he
cross OF the Legion OF Honor and he
had been cited in French Army or
ders several times previously. lie is
twenty-one years old and his hume Is
in New Bedford, Mass.
Sergt Kobayaski. the Japanese
aviator In the French service, has
been killed in an aerial battle. lie
was flghtinK against a number OF
enemies when his machine was set
on fire by an incendiary bullet. lie
jumped from his airplane at the
height Of about 5000 feet and fell be-
hind the French lines.
The evening world., 1918-06-22
HUNGARY HAS LITTLE
FOOD FOR AUSTRIA
Many Provinces, Tisza Says, Have
but Half Enough for Their
Own Populations.

LONDON, June 22.-whatcvcr aopc
Austria had OF ohtqining much food
from Hungary has bcen shattered.
Hungary. which waS thought to have
plenty, turns out 10 he short OF food
stufrs.
Former Premier Tsza is quoted in a
Budapest despatch VIA Amsterdam as
having told the Hungarian Parliament
yesterday that in many provinces there
is only a third or n quarter of the
food necessary to maintain the popu-
latioD in health.
Germany must be convinced, he
added, that Hungary's population was
just as badly situated regarding food
supplies as the citizens OF Vienna. It
would tax Hungary = efforts to the ut
most to hold out until ;he new harvest,
he asserted.
The evening world., 1918-06-22
IN PAVE TRAP ARE BEING FED By AIRPLANESA


exceptionally heavy forced yield the
Regiments helped
Infantry Bsssno Brdased and by Borsago cycs
column.
Of the Pise sailors and
lines capturing 200 prisoners
firmly holding tho positions
Cavazuccherna the end OF the
tho coasO extended bridgehoad
The OF adverse atmospheric conditions carried
machines brought For The first
Allies had had their
arrived
aesire participate ip the battle.
bad his
not he inst rom a fight"
The evening world., 1918-06-22
SEIZED GERMAN SHIP GEIER
GOES DOWN IN COLLISION
Is Sent 10 Bottom by the Florida
OF the Coast of North
Carolina.

WASHINGTON. June 22.-Sinking OF
the American steamer Schurz in coll
lision with the American steamer Flor
ida off the North Carolina coast yester-
day has been announced by the Navy
Department. One seaman was killed.
but all others OF the Schurz's crew were
saved.
The collision occurred at 40 o'clock
yesterday morning. ten miles southwest
OF Cape Lookout. The SchurZ was afioat
for two hours after being struck and
the Florida stood by to take Off her
ships COMPANY.
The Schurz was the former German
ship Gcier, Of l.GO0 tons burden. rs
feet in length.
Manuel Gouvcla jr. OF Honolulu was
the man killed. The survivors were
being taken to an Atlantic port when
the report reached the Navy Depart
ment,
Nothing was given out as to the cir
cumstanecS of the collision.
The evening world., 1918-06-22
DOG BITES EIGHT PERSONS
IN WILD RUN IN JERSEY CITY
Leaps Upon All in Its Path Till Shot
by Policeman-55o Unmuzzled
Animals Destroyed.

Eight persons were bitten by blacH
mongrel dog which ran wild for a mile
and a half through Jersey city early
yesterday morning. The doc started al
Second and Coles Streets and was shot
at the foot OF Henderson Street by u
pursuing policeman. The animals head
viii be examined for rabies.
Those attacked by the dog were
Joseph Halpin, twelve, No. 29s Barrow
Street: Celia Boskowitz. eight. No. 500
Second Street Samuel Wetnthal. TWEEN
ty-one. No. 23i Wayne street; Tiliie
Muscio, eight, No. 3Sl Monmouth Street {;
Fannie Paloski, seventeen. No. 42S Jer-
sey Avenue Florence Whelan, twenty
hve, No. s6 storms Avenue; George
Loeb. No. 302 Fourth Street. and Stella
Bacburska, eight. No. 76 Bright street,
Jersey City officials up to o'clock
last night had destroyed $50 unmuzzled
dogs in the last week.
The evening world., 1918-06-22
AUSTRIANS ADMIT OFFENSIVE
HAS PASSED TO The ITALIANS
Vienna However, Declares Waves of Allied
Troops Destroyed in Scores of Attacks
AUSTRIAN REPORTl

VIENNA June 22.-Thc Austrian
oHicial communication issued last
night, says:
Yesterday the enemy continued
bis attacks with undiminlShed Vi
olepcc TO wregt from US the sue.
ceases We won west OF the Plave
His efforts again were vain. Al
his assaplt9 wero broken down
before the unEincbing rosistsne,
ef cur heroic troops.
The struggle on the Carso Pla-
tsau and on the Montello incroas-
"a 10 especial violence. Field Mar
sha. Zegigers divisions, IN their
hastily constructed trenches de-
stroyed waves OF enemy storming
troops. Everywhere our soldiers
stood their ground In the hand
10 hand 1ghtlng.
On q front OF twelve Kilometres
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tseVen ana balf mIlesJ the Gu
cmy concentrated thrusting troops
amounting TO eight regiments In
order 10 shake the wall formed by
our brave men. The tremendous
consumption OF their power forced
tho Italians TO throw reserves
utter reserves into the battle.
Apart from their sanguinary loss.
g., tho number or prisoners also
increases daily. Thirty-two hun
drcd prisoners wero captured on
the last Lighting day but ono ON
the Montcho alone. or these, 1000
were taken by a single Hungarian
infantry regiment.
The HungaVan regiments, Aus
TRAN reserves AID Hungarian
honNcds have ADDED "A new and
honorable page To their glorious
history as attackers as we'll AS de-
Tenders In hot engagementB, which
haze continued day and night.
On tho mountain front artillery
duels prevailed yesterday.
The evening world., 1918-06-22
ONLY ONE DAY OF LIFE
ALLOWED SOvIET'S FOES;
THEN 4 FIRING SQUAD
Reign OF Terror in Moscow Marks
% the Rule OF the Bolshevik
Faction.

M oSCow, juno 80. The
Nl President OF the commits
sion appointed TO combat
counter revolution has defined the
procedure which lately has ordered
numerous executions as "organ-
lied terror against enemies OF the
Soviet rule" Prisoners. says tho
commission, are shot only II the
vote Is unanimous. "We Judge
'rr'-- In most cases one day,
or u few days at most, have
elapsed between arrest and SEN
Sec" he adds.
Maxim Gorky's newspaper. No
Naya lhlzn, protesting against
thcso inquisitions. says that al
most Invariably criminals are
hemmed in by wall OF evidence
and forced to confess.
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Continued from First PagcD

offcr TO the Entente, hut rather has
extended an invitation 10 the En-
tente 10 take the road OF sincere
concrete negotiations. with the re-
minder that we never Internationally
wanted 10 realize our war aims by
force alone"
The Budapest Nilas says:
"Burlan's utterances are more
significant, since he adds that he
makes them in Germany's name too"
While the German press halls
Burian's assurances OF Austria's 10y
atty 10 and solidarity with Germany,
with stereotyped satisfaction, con-
cealment is no longer possible of tho
bad blood between Austria and Ger
many. The Lokal-Anzeiser, for in
stance. betrays a veiled resentment
that Burian should affect to speak in
Gcrmany's name as well as Austria's.
There appears TO be no sympathy in
Germany for Austria's plight. Ger
man public opinion openly reproaches
with having only itself to
blame for It's internal troubles, and
there is widespread resentment that
ehould again be called on 10
save Austria
The evening world., 1918-06-22
HecaPture Of Cape sIIe .u'
safety of Venice.

In a statement issued here to-S..
DR.. Felice Ferrero, director 30 LAY
Italian Bureau of Information, at No.
sol Firth Avenue, said that the re-
pture OF Capo Sile by the ItaI,ans
was one OF the most innostans
events in the battle along thap thp9r.ant p
With Capo Sile again in NV.
hands the Italians feel that venics
y once more safely out OF ranea ~
the big austrian guns, for Cano s,Ia
control5 the locks by which the sdo
!acent ! iahd was flooded last autumn
t, Mnuh tne i.anans feared the enemy
would reach the lagoon OF Venioe
The evening world., 1918-06-22
MAN OF MYSTERY FOUND
STARVING IN The STREET
Paralytic Claims to BE DR..
Thomas Armstrong, Can
Ger Expert.

4 man oy mystery is under treat
ment in Harlem Hospital to-day for
starvation and exhaustion. lie de-
scribcs himself as DR.. Thomas Arm.
strong, expert in cancer and graduate
OF the University OF Toronto. lie looks
oder than the sixty-two years he claims,
and has to use two canes because OF a
paralyzed leg,
After he had been picked up by a
policeman at l16th Street and Eighth
Avenue, a motorman told the policeman
the man had been a passenger on his
line for twenty-five years. but he knew
him only as Pop and never knew
where or how he lived.
A DR.. Thomas NJ. Armstrong, gradu-
ate OF the University OF Toronto, in
1909 claimed here to have found an al
most certain cure for cancer without
the knife
The evening world., 1918-06-22
LOSS Of BRIDGES
PUTS AUSTRIANS IN
DESPERATE PLIGHT
Offensive Passes to Italians
ana Enemy Cannot Bring
Up His Artillery,
BH Ward Price.
Coy,rgI' 1918. p, TIE rre.s rrhlS Ins Cs.
The Nov YuaS Nosldl r.

COptng1i lals. ;, T,s rr;,,s r.SlNIns ".
WITH THE ITALIAN ARMY ON .
THE PIAVE, June sl.--The plalnest, A
sign OF the collapse OF this Austrians-srs
attempt at a first class offensive -is,iss
that the initiative has passed to tirq- .
Italians. II is they who now are htsesS
tacking TO regain the fragments ot'r'
, their line which arc still in the enc -eti
, my's hands. The Austrians. with
shelled. bombed and flood batterel-J :
foot bridges for their only lines OF -
supply, find themselves ia an awkisss
ward position for defense. The ItAl.1rs
Ans press them with fresh forces and. ~
having been unable TO bring guns -
across the swollen Pisve, the enemy .
relies for defense mainly upon nests
Z machine guns hidden in woods and
dclls into which the surface OF the
Montello is broken.
Under the pressure OF tho swollen
Pisve, the pontoon bridges acroos
which the Austrians send their refn-
forcements and supplies bend help
lessly. The enemy's sappers are
splashed with the tprsy OF Italian
shells failing in the water on every
side. They work desperately to-.
strengthen the bridges against the
fury Of the food but despite their
work, every minute q the day and -
night, bridge after bridge splits. P
Their artillery is GOOD. tteir men
are brave enough. bu. they lack sreat
military knowledge"
This Is an expcr. estimate or IA
lighting form VI the Austrian Army
as shown in its first full dress en-
counter W. the British expedition =
airy force in Italy. As for the British
soldiers, they are full O. delight At
the hard knock they have given the
enemy. The number OF Austrian
prisoners has risen TO 1854, with a
seventy-two rlachine guns and I've -
mountain guns. .iT
Two OF their four alta eking diyisions.
which had been brought up over nfr,,f. -
had not the least idea OF the lay OF ths -
ground They did not even know they W
had British troops to face. Ia
Another surprise fer the Austrisns
was that they should meet any rcsis-
tance at all after the heavy barragSSs'
they put down. II was indeed as heavy 10
as the German baIinge In France, 80
though not 30 long, with gas shells on
the front lines aud slrapnel on the
supports. But the Br tish battalions -
lines were not dtsorganizcd even by
the inevitable losses this bombardmeat
caused.
On the extreme right the enemy I'D
manage TO push for $50 yards into the
British positions. but the Colorel OF
the battalion concerned, seeing theua
clambeTing up townd his battalion
headquarters, got together a minsied
body OF orderlies. officers servants and o
cooks and led a couuter attack which n
drove back the Austrians to tho front
line trench again, from which. lzber 4.
the day. a counter attack by q York.
shire battalion finally elected thsm. -
The evening world., 1918-06-22
Mrs. WoeIwerth IL Found Unable
10 Manage Affairs.

Mrs. Frank w. Woolworth. wife OF
the owner OF a chain OF Ave aud ten
cent stores. was pronounced by a Sher-
ins Jury yesterday incompeter: 10
manase her affsirs, Her husband the
petitioner. presented evidence of her
mental condition In support OF his tp-
pllcatlon In the Supreme Court tOr the
erty and person. Mrs. Woolworth was
Miss Jennie CreiEhton. daughter OF
Thomas CreiRhton OF Pictou, Ont. She
was married 10 Woolwcrth on June II.
lt7s
The evening world., 1918-06-22
WHY LARGE CITIES WERE PUT
ON HALF BREAD RANONS
Conditions in Dual Monarchy Are
Gravest Nation Has Ever
Encountered.

PARIS, June ga despa.,h TO
the Temps from Geneva says the
Austrian Government decided to put
Vienna and other large cities on half
bread rations in order &c amel ora 70
the conditions in Galicia and Bo-
hemia.
These conditions are so bad. the
Temps quotes the Vienna Noue Freie
Presse as saying. that railroad and
other strikes can only be averted by
such a measure. The Vienna news
paper adds that the cities, though
badly OF. are still in better condition
than the country. where there is vir-
tually no bread.
The evening world., 1918-06-22

HAVANA, June %. ".-Presldent
Menocal sent a message to Congress
yesterday urging the prompt passage
OF the Obligatory Military Service
Bill. II is said in well informed circles
that - Ccr"res- rails to PASS the
measure before adjournment, the
President will put 1t into enect ny
decree.
The evening world., 1918-06-22
BILL FOR A HUDSON TUNNEL.
senator Calder Ia Introduce Meas
ure for VehicuIar Tube.

tion OF tunnel for the use OF walkers
and vehicles under the Hudson River TO
connect New York and New Jersey at
New York City, would be authorized in
bill being prepared by senator calder
Of New York, who plans 10 introduce il
early next week.
Under its provisions the cost Of con.
structon would be divided between the
two States and the Federal Government.
The evening world., 1918-06-22
WAR LOAN TO GREEKS.
America Advances sI5,70O,OOO to
Hellanlc Nation,

WASHINGTON, juno Pa credit
OF |l5,7sO,OoO to Greece, the Gfst under
the new financial agreement between
that country and the United States,
was announced yesterday by the
Treasury Department. This brings
the total OF Allied credits to S5,97O,
10000.
The evening world., 1918-06-22
wayside Cross society Fesaded a.
Nemavlsl

LONDON. June s:.-The wayside
Cross Society has been founded.
under the Presidency OF Lord Shnftes-
bury. in the belief that one Of the
best memorials TO those who have
laid down their lives in the great war
is the visible representation OF Christ
crucified as the supreme sacrifice.
The evening world., 1918-06-22
bermuda War Proclamation For-
bids Export of Potatoes.

WASHINGTON, June ee2.-Bormuda.
by proclamation issued under martial
law, has forbidden exports OF pota-
toes As measure to insure the food
supply Of her people, a report re .
coived here to-day said. A maximum
retail price for potatoes OF cents -
pound. and "A minimum price OF 1915
q barrcl OF approximately 100 pounds
have been fixed.
The evening world., 1918-06-22
AUSTR|ANS BEGIN PEACE OFFENSIVE
AS FOOD CONDITIONS GROW WORSE

year absolutely stripped clean. Hun
gary too Is beginning to show signs
Of coming food exhaustion, while
Gormdnys scant reserves will be de-
plctcd by inevitable helps 70 Austria.
The evening world., 1918-06-22
Flies From Philadelphia with Mail
In 4S Minutes.

Fighting against strong wind
Lieut.. Miller. carrying six pouches Of
mail, new from Philadelphia TO Bel
mont Park in forty eight minutes
yesterday afternoon.
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DIED.

juno 81. RlcHAan ,v
OLD. In his TSd wear. Ann
Funeral services vii =. -. =.
LenoH Avenue unltsrian Church -.
~ ana LenoE aN' on Monday, IN. ~
at o'clock. June ~.
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HERE'S A WEEKLY MENU FOR
AUSTRlANs.

What shall the people eat? One
pound OF potatoes, at least h,.. IL
eatab.e, a quarter Of u pound of
black c!ONsr, a quarter Of a poupd
OF other m:al prodC, s, 4-lO ounces
OF rat, ono egg. seven ounces OF
sugar, seven ounces OF meat, only
obtainable by standing in queues all
night: a .:.:!e marmalade and cotfee
ersatz tsubstitute). This, EXCEPT for
bread, Is our weekly food ration!
The bread ration was the basis of
our diet in Vienna, The ponnIocs
cannot bear It's reduction. The con:
sequences are unforeseeable."
Hungary already has promised n
thousand carloads OF early potaloes
a thousand carloads OF peas and
beans, while Austrian Food ControI-
Ter Pawl returns from Berlin 10 Viennn
with promises OF supplies from Ger
many's scant food reserves other tban
hreadstuffs. The first bread reiiey
however, only is expected from the
early Hungarian harvest. which he
gins Sunday or Monday. though the
nrst nuur deliveries are not exnected
for fourteen TO twenty days.
Austria will enter the new food