Republican farmer., 1918-08-02

NO the eastern bank of the Piave from the Montello plateau to the Adriatic. Minor Operations.
 Among the years operations of comparatively lesser importance were the British drives in Palestine and Mesopotamia; the Turkish advance in the Caucasus; the French and Italian offensive in Albania; and the fight ing in the German African colonies Jerusalem was captured by the Brit ish on December 10, ana shortly after ward the fall of Jericho was announc- ed. Since the taking of Jericho the British forces in Palestine have not | been active on the offensive General Maude led the British troops into Bagdad on March II, and shortly afterward died from cholera. His forces pushed further up the Iii gris until the intense heat of summer terminated operations.
 The Turks after the collapse of Rus sia took advantage of the demoralized condition of the Russian forces to ad- vance through the Caucasus and ob- tain possession of the regions subse- quently ceded them by the treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
 The French and Italian drive in Al 1 progress.
 | During the year British forces in Af- rica drove German forces before them in German East Africa and in German Southwest Africa and finally compel led them to disperse or surrender. This took from Germany the last of the vast colonial possessions held by her when the war began.
 Submarine Warfare.
 The past year has been marked by gradual decline of submarine sink l ings as compared with the number of ships being built by the Entente al- lies. The operations of the British and American destroyers have spread terror among the "wasps of the sea, , while a great mine field completed ir May by the British navy converted virtually the whole North Sea into ar area closed against U-boat activities
 The harbors of zeebrugge and Os tend. from which German submarine: had been operated against Entente shipping, were either sealed entirely or made virtually valueIess as subma rine bases by daring naval and ail raids by the British in May.
 U-Boats in American Waters.
 German submarines visited Ameri can waters in June and sank at leas
 
 rations being from the North New Jer- sey coast south to the Virginia Cape: and easterly half way to the Bermu das.
 The only United States transpor lost while carrying troops to Europe was the Tuscania, which was torpe doed off the north coast of Ireland on February with a loss of PIP men
 Hospital Ships Sunk. During the year eleven hospita ships have been sunk by submarines the latest and most fragrant case o. this violation of the Geneva Conven tion being the destruction of the Brit ish steamer Llandovery Castle, car rying Canadian nurses and doctors | 1IlIS lOOh p1dCS O14 J u4AO GfJ O1llS e of the 25S persons on board being res cued.
 The total shipping reported sunl since August l, 1917, is more than 4, 250,000 tons.
 Against this destruction of shipping the Allies have combined their ship building capacity. The actual mum Der of tons of shipping launched ana put into service has not been pub lished. Official announcements hav' been made in the recent past, however to the effect that more ships are bein& built than are being sunk. On Jul! 4, ninety vessels were launched a American shipyards.
 Losses in Battle
 The years fighting has entailet great losses for most of the belliger ents. During the drive into Italy las October and November the TeutoniC Armies claimed the capture of more than 1S0,000 Italians. In the Ger man offensives in France this yea about 19o,oOO French, British, Ameri can and Portuguese were reported tt have been taken prisoners. AOOeQ LO LneS6 lObSSS dT6 IIlS Cd , sualties in killed and wounded. NJ definite figures have been issued b! Germany and Austria but it has beer reported on what appears to be gooC authority that in the fighting iron , March21 till June S4 the Germans los more than 600,00o men. The Frencl and British losses were oonsiderabl, smaller. as the Allies were fighting :, from entrenched positions, ) Financial Aspects. The United States has floated thre great Liberty Loans, The proceed of these loans have aggregated S10, Ss,542,s00, The total cost to tn United States, according to lates available figures, is S1s,So0. .0oO. .00C Since the the nation entered the war
 has extended credits to the Allies az gregating s6,Os1, ,590,ooo,
 The total cost of the war to Eng land up to December 16, 1917, wa placed at R6,242. 1000, 600. while Frencl votes of credit are somewhat smaller At latest reports the total of the Ger man war loans approximated s31, 900, 0o0,00o,
 Internal Disorders,
 There have been numerous report , of disorders in countries engaged i . the war. Riots and bioodshed hay been reported from Germany and Aus tria many times during the pas r spring and summer and there is litti l doubt that the Slavic races of Austri l are seething with discomfort. Ireland came to the center of tn ] stage in this connection early in May |. when a pFo-G German plot was detectet F hl1t ninned in the hlId Eith the arres