The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1918-07-25

he American commanders recently prol
been arrested and many of them. In
Guiding 80 socialist members OF pnrlia-
ment, executed. Because of the num-
erous executions there, he said the
town of Svenborg has been renamed
Golgotha. Finland is on the point of
starvation, despite its German friends,
and General Mannerhein, commander
of the Finnish army. asked Mr.. Nor
ris, American minister to Sweden,
what chance there was for Finland to
get food from the United States. Mr.
slim so long us Germany held the
country under her control. Ostensibly
as measure to save food, the Finnish
government has ordered the expulsion
of all Jews
h-
When the news came of the assns-
sination Of Count Won Mirbach, Ger
man ambassador to Russia, in Mos
cow, at the instigation Of group Of
social revolutioniSts, there were
many predictions that the kaiser
would get revenge by sending great
army to occupy the chief Russian
cities, and indeed 1t was semi official
~ stated In Berlin that such would be
his course. But after breaking off
diplomatic relations the chief Hun ap-
parently thought better of it and n
mild statement was issued hoping
that the Russian government and Deo-
PIE Will succeed in nipping the pres
ent revolutionary agitation in the
Oud.' 1t is not easy to see how Ger
many would gain much by further
| grabbing in distracted and starving
| Russia.
The pan-German party triumphcd
over its opponents and forced the
resignation of Foreign Minister Won
kuehmann because OF his "pcace i'm
possible by force" speech, and then
proceeded to pick Admiral Won Hintze,
the trickicst and most disrcputable Of
Ieuton diplomats. as his successor.
Great excitement In the rcichstag re-
suited and the socialists agreed not TO
| vote the war credit, which could not
| be passed without their aid, until fhe
| new minister had announced his pol-
| icleS. Won HintZe is a swashbucklinQ
milithrist and the creature OF Admiral
Won llfp1tZ. AS minister to China he
dlSgraced himself, and as minister TO
Mexico he deliberately stirred uD n
! row between Hucrta and Cnrronzo in
order to embroil the United States
The French press accepts the selec-
ton Of Won HlntZe as evidence that
CT In,
| cr than the diplomats and are deter
| mined upon war to the finish. They
| believe he will do the pan Germans
much more harm than good
y Ea-
Military operations Of prime impor-
tance last week were confined TO AL
Dahla, a field of which little has been
| heard for long time. There the
Italians and French got very busy ana,
with the aid Of British naval forces
In the Adriatic, started an offensive
'h'lt met with considerable success
ana Is still progressing as this is writ
ten. Within few days the allied
Iofc"S hhd advanced more than twcn
ty-hve miles on battle front sixty
miles long, had captured Fierl. an i'm
portant town eight miles from tho
Adriatir. and had practically sur
rounded Rerat, the chief city of south
erh Albania. They also had occuped
mountain positions of great strategic
value. Before the week closed tbo
AustrianS had evacuated Berot
This Albanian offensive was countod
on TO nave great political effect. cs.
pecialiy In Austria Hungary ana
among the small nations of the Hol.
kahS. Already 1t had caused evident
uleaSiheSS among the forces of the
central powers that face the allies
from the Adriatlc to Saloniki IN
macedonia they made several costly
ana vain attacks on the allies. Tho
apparent objective Of the allies in al.
Danin is the Shkumbi valley ana tho
ola Roman road, the Via Epnouo
,e""lh. TO the Fardnr valley and open
'"s me way to movement toward tho
east mat would outhank the cnc,nv
rorth OF AIonnstIr.
II the Austrians are dec,sivolv 1o
teated IN this region the koisor NOV
".t ''eih To accept Won Below nc
."''' Soneralissimo, despite their pro.
,eS'H' me efforts to Germanizo tho
austrian general hendU,nrters bovo
etirreo up the already angry neonIo
OF the dual kingdom. Another rnw
mere mas been caused by more or less
open assertions thnt Empress Zita
n.'" me offensive on Italy by pre-
.en'ihe me use of gas and otherwise
h"'''pering the commanders: A biz