, 1918-08-01
A Brief RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EIGN COUNTRIES. a..
IN LATE DISPATCHES
poINos AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
ABOUT THE WAR
Western Newspaper Union views service.

Austria-Hungary is planning a triple
offensive against Italy. according to
dispatches received at Rome from
Italian correspondents in Switzer-
land.
Rioting of peasants in the occupied
regions of White Russia Is increasing
and many German soldiers have been
killed. said IN official dispatch from
Stockholm.
Very serious revolts and mutinies
have occurred in Bohemia and Hun
gary. AT Manaros-Szjet $50 officers
and 500 Czecho-Slovaks who mutinied
were shot and 5000 arrested.
Villemontoire. a little more than five
miles south of Scissors, has been
taken by the French and Americans,
while farther south they have cap
tured Oulchy-le-Chateau and swept on
east of the town.
Since the fighting began the Ger
mans are reported to have used be-
tween sixty and seventy divisions.
Estimates from headquarters place the
German losses in that period at 20O,-
600 in killed, wounded and prisoners.
The French, the British, and the
Americans are still hammering the
flanks of the crown princes army.
Desperate engagements were fought
in the direction of Epieds and Trugny-
Epieds. which villages the Americans
again recaptured from the Germans.
To the north of Epieds the Franco
American line is now beyond Courpoil.
Americans, French, British and Ital-
ian troops are steadily pressing for
ward at nearly all points on the battle
line to Rheims, while east of the ca
thedral city a Polish contingent-the
first of the Poles to enter the combat,
Is declared to have carried out sue
cessfully an enterprise against the en-
envy in which more than 200 Germans
were made prisoner.
The Germans Saturday retained vir-
tually nothing of the ground they con-
Quered in their great attack of July Is
along the Marine, says a Reuters CORE
spondent at French headquarters. East
of Rheims. the correspondent adds,
General Gouraud's army, by a series of
brilliant local operations, has expelled
the enemy almost everywhere from
the narrow belt he occupied In Gour-
aud's advanced zone
WESTERN
Four automobile bandits held up a
Chicago jewelry store and escaped
with 500 cash and diamonds valued at
$50, 900.
Drnaflart yut1aan ha- 49,
suggestion of the woman's committee
of the Council of National Defense
that relatives of American soldiers and
sailors lost in the service wear a
black sleeve band with a gold star for
each member of the family giving his
NE in defense of the nation.
Az army of 100000 boys from 16 to
FL years old is toiling enthusiastically
on the farms of the United States to
assist the food production program of
the government. according to ]. A.
Van Dis of Washington, who is asso-
ciate director of the National Boys
Working Reserve, in an address in
Denver.
Mrs. Annette Abbott Adams was ap-
pointed temporarily by United States
District Judge William C. Vanfleet at
San Francisco, to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of United
States District Attorney John W. Pres
ton.
WASHINGTON
Names of ten American soldiers who
are prisoners of war in Germany were
announced by the War Department.
Maj. Gen. George w. Goethals, quar-
termaster general of the American
army and a member of the War Coun
Gil of the American Wal Department,
has arrived in Paris. He was met by
Gen. John ]. Pershing, commander of
the American expeditionary forces
in France, with whom he went to the
front.
In the peace suggestions which the
Berlin Vorwaerts declares the German
government is about to offer through
the Spanish government officials at
Washington detect the German design
to leave to a round table conference
the actual definition of peace terms.
Acting Secretary of State Polk said
the new terms seemed more favorable
to Germany han any that had been
made hitherto.
Several epidemics are sweeping Ger.
many in addition to influenza, accord
ing to a dispatch from Switzerland.
More thai 100, 1000 tons of shipping
are transporting 'foodstuffs and other
much needed supplies to Switzerland
Postmaster General Burleson will
personally direct the government oper
alton OF telegraph an ~dtelephone lines
assisted by First Assistant Postmaster
General John L. Rooms, David ]. Lew
ia, former congressman from Mary
land, and one other from the Postof