Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-06-27

SOCIALISTS BLAME
AUSTRIA FOR war
In the absence of any grand operations on the
battlefront chief public interest today turned to-
ward the political storm which has been aroused

interest today turned to-
which has been aroused
in Germany by speeches
of the German foreign
secretary and the chan
eeiIor.
Won Ludendorff has turned against
kuehmann and it is persisteptIy re.
ported the latter will resign. The
Kaiser is reported to have given his
consent to the selection of a new
foreign secretary.
In the meanwhile the socialists are
up in arms and DR.. Haase, chief lead
er of the Independent Socialists in the
Reichstag, delivered bitter attack
against the recent speech of the
Kaiser and against the militarists.
Austria was accused of deliberate.
ly starting the war with the sanction
of Germany
A Berlin Socialist newspaper is de-
mandng "clean government" with a
chancellor who will really hold auth
ority instead of one who is the puppet
Of Ludendorff
25o,00o Men Lost.
Washington. June 27.--"It will be
difficult for the Austrians to under.
take another offensive against Italy
in grand style by themselves" This
message was received at the Italian
embassy this afternoon in an official
cablegrom from Rome which confirms
the defamation Of Austrian divisions
in the recent offensive.
According to Italian headquarters
the enemies losses from June Is to
June 26 totals sixteen divisions or
100000 men.
During the night of June 25 to Is
the bridgehead at Capo Sile was in
creased, the dispatch adds, and three
Austrians were taken pris.
oners on the Piave river.
Italian detachments crossed the
river and captured several hundred
prisoners.
Destroy Two Posts.
Rome, June 27.-An Austro-Hun.
garian post at Serre Val and another
at Col ROsso were destroyed by the
Italians on Wednesday. the war Of
flee announced today
Wednesdays operations we're des-
cribed as normal"
Bury $4,000 Foe.
London, June 27.-The Italians have
already buried $4,000 Ausrians on
the Piaye where violent fighting had
taken place said wireless dispatch
from Rome today
Says CzaroVitch is Dead.
Londcn, June 27---lt is rumored in
Copenhagen that the Czarovitch, for.
mer heir to the Russian throne, Is
dead, said an Exchange Telegraph dis.
patch IRON Copenhagen.
Riots in Petrograd.
Copenhagen. June 27.--Food riots
have broken out in Petrograd. Bolshe-
wiki troops turned machine guns on
the mobs.
Yanks Take ~ More Boches.
With the American Army at the
Marne, June 21.--A number OF Ger
man prisoners were brought in this
morning from the Beleau wood where
they mad been concealed in caves on
the rocky ledge where the enemy
masse done of the most formidable
machine gun nests of the whole war
The Americans were ordered to take
The stronghold at all costs, and they
did. Among he siazed German
equipment is 0 sensitive non.conduc.
tor telephone which was found con.
eealed under some brush
The Germans used this as dicta-
graph to detect sounds coming FROM
our lines, A counter attack was ex
pected in the Belleau sector, but il
Ala not develop
Twentynine more German prisoners
were captured By the Americans last
night in Belleau wood, This brings
the total prisoners TO III, including
seven officers, since the last figures.
Eleven large machine guns twelve
automatic rifles and many rifles and
'evolyers we're taken. The Americans
now hold all OF Belleau.
lllnoisan Gets His Man.
With the American Army in France,
June 27--1ieut Robert + Hin, Of
Flora, H. brought down q German
plane, northeast OF Cory, which Ia
south Of Metz, at dusk on Tuesday.