Bisbee daily review., 1918-06-23
AUSTRIANS HAVE CLOSED ONE PHASE
 OF THEIR FIGHT
Germans Expected to Aid Their Ally in Next Great Push Against Italian Lines, Says Report
CBy Review Leased wire)


 Blocked in their advance across the Piave river by the Italians and British and with their line of communication threatened by the rising waters or that stream. the Austro-Hungarians apparently have closed the first phase of their offensive against Italy. View ed after a week of fighting. the of fensive has been little more than demonstration in force over a battle line more than ninety miles in length It has gained none of its objectives and has cost the Austrians very dearly.
 From the first day of the attack it was seen that the Italians were not called upon to meet tremendous en- slaught on some strategic key to their positions such as was launched at Ca poretto last October. They had rath- CT, to defend their lines oyer a wide front against which was launched seemingly without sufficient power to penetrate more than some of the ad- vanced posts of the Italians and their allies.
 The second phase of the offensive is expected to begin at any time.
 It is not believed that the Austrians will be willing nor they will be per mitted by Germany to eni their drive against Italy without result, indicaI- ing an altogether futile effort. There have been intimations that Germany would assist in the attack which is coming and which may be launched against the mountain sector of the front. Large bodies of men have been assembled there.
 The serious food shortage in Aus tria- -Hungaria has given rise to scH- satiOnal rumors. . One cf these. from Amsterdam says an attempt has been made on the life of Emperor Charles This rumor lacks confirma tion. There is little doubt conditions in Austria are near a crisis. Little of the true status of affairs can be learned but what little news filters through neu- tral countries shows that the Austrian people are on short rations, that ser1- ous rioting has occurred and that gen eral strikes are feared. In a clash be- tween police and strikers at Buda- pest forty-fiye persons are reported to have been killed or wounded.
 A Bulgarian commission has arrived in Vienna, according to dispatches from The Hague, for the purpose of negotiating with the Austrian govern ment concerning a change in relations with Germany. This, coupled with the fact that the present premier of Bull garia entered the war, and the known war-tiredness of the Bulgarian people may be significant.
 Since the abortive attacks on the Rheims front early in the week. the western front has been quiet. There have been patrol encounters and the usual operations along the fronts where great battles were being waged during the recent past. but nothing Se- sembling a new drive by the Germans at the allied line has been reported. Berlin officially reports the presence of Italian troops in the Rheims sector. American forces have continued their intense activity on the fronts where they are holding positions. Northwest of Chateau Thierry they have pushed their lines forward once more and east of the city have bOmbarded bodies Of German troops.
 It is reported that Nicolai Lenine. the Bolshevik premier of Russia. has decided to resign, in spite of vote of confidence given him by the soviet committee. The CZechO-Slovak move ment has become so menacing east of the Ural mountains that Nicholas Ro- manOff, the former Russian emperor has been removed to Moscow.