The Sentinel=record., 1918-01-24
GERMAN PRESS WORRIED
 OVER AUSTRIAN SITUATION
The Italians Have Been Successful All Along the Battle Front, Rading En. emy Positions and Bringing Back Prisoners, Machine Guns and Ma. terials.

New York, Jan. 23.-With tho ro- ported modification in the politica, unrest in Austria Hungary. and q continuation of silence as regards tbo internal situation in Germany tba mo- taDle feature in the world war is the apparent resumption and on a some what larger scale. of the military op- erations on the western front in France and Belgium.
 Although for the moment these op- erations viewed from the cold facts as announced by the various offices do not transcend in importance the usual small operations by raiding and reconnoilering parties which have oeen in progress since the severe Wintry weather began, reading be- tween the lines of -se communica- tions 1t is not difficult to see thai the maneuvers now in progress OF various sectors are in tfTc nature ,ot trying out processes Of marked character.
 From tEe North Sea to the Swiss frontier the lessening in the rigors of the winter has permitted the bel iigerenis again to send forth their men in enterprises which seemingly forecast the intention shortly to re- sume fighting activity more exten- sively
 For weeks the big guns along the entire battle front have been roar ing in intensive duels on numerous sectors. but the infantry has lain idle owing to the deep snows and later to the morasses which formed as a result of the thaw.
 On their extreme right in northern Belgium the Germans have carried out "an important raid' and gained a footing in French advanced trenches east of Nieuport. while along nearly all of the front in Flanders the ar tilleries have increased the volume of their fire
 To the south around Lens. Arras and St Quentin the fighting although still by comparatively small forces, daily is growing in strength while eastward, along the Chemin des Danes, nast Verdun and thence to the Swiss border the French and Germans are continuously engaged on various sectors in artillery fighting and infantry activities considerably above the normal as compared with the early days of the war.
 On the front in Italy the change in the high command evidently has not resulted as yet in any better ment of the strategetic positions of the Austro- Germans
 From the Asiago plateau eastward to the Piave river and thence south ward 10 the Adriatic sea- the Italians have been victorious in numerous minor operations, raiding enemy po- sitions and bringing back prisoners machine guns and materials, or hold ing in their tracks Austro- German elements which were endeavoring to launch attacks
 The greater portion of the strik- Ing workmen in Austria are said to have returned to work, but the sit nation both in Austria and Hungary is declared still to be acute, owing to the desire of the people for peace
 In Germany some terpiditiOn ii being evinced by newspapers of pan German leanings over the situation in Austria.
 The socialist newspaper Voerwarts of Berlin, has again been suppressed this time for announcing the solidar- ity of the German proletariat with Austrian labor in the peace struggle
 British labor in conference has again upheld the war aims set fortf by President Wilson aud Premier Lloyd George and reassefted that i Germany will not accept them, British labor must fight on"
 Two British steamers lwere sunl recently in the Mediterranean se'