French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1918-08-22
European.

European.
Lord Robert Cecil, British under 70
rotary of state for foreign affairs, says
he believes the International commits
sion on revictualizing forms b nucle-
US Of a league Of nations.
Available from French sources, it
is pointed out that the German losses
! since the beginning of the war to
the present has been not less than six
| million men.
From the British Army headquarters
in France, it is learned that German
/ acknowledges her man power is dwin-
ding.
Judging from the news emanating
, from Russia, the march of events is
rapidly assuming proportions of a rout
to the Bolsheviki.
Cz~echo-Slovaks have taken new
heart in heir heroic fight against the
| Germans and Austrians, due to the
rapid movement of allied troops at
V~ladivostok and to the west of that
city.
Just four wees ago the residents OF
Paris were awakened by the sounds of
such a cannonade as they neve had
yet heard. 1t was General Mangin's
counter preparation" against the Ger
man attack which the enemy believed
was to take him into the gates of clas-
sic Paris.
Allied troops, among whom the men
from America have borne a creditable
part, have captured $4,000 prisoners
| on1 po0-O EhCo co1o-4oo- h,-oIroI ~
in the four weeks drive against the
central powers.
! The German supreme command on
I the western front, it is reported, has
passed to specialist in retreats-Gen-
eral o Boehn, who conducted such
q mastery retreat four years ago, when
General Joffre turned and hit them so
hard they never knew what had hap
pened.
The Germans are being beaten and
outgeneraled at every point, and the
soldiers from America have hardly yet
started.
Another defeat for US; we shall
lose the war. We have nothing to
eat, no clothes, no shoes; we shall
starve and be utterly ruined" AS a
CUE for this state of mind the Volks
Zeitung, says an Amsterdam dispatch,
administers an antidote in the shape
wanting to murder, rob and enslave
German men, women and children"
"FOch and Haig probably will con
tinue attacking on the Somme, but
they will never achieve more than
| pyrrhich victories, which will assist in
the attrition Of their own ~forces,'' says
Baron Won der Osten, the military
critic of the Rheinische Westfalische
Zeitung Of Essen.
, The Weser Zeftung of Bremen, with
iIlconcealed pessimism, regretfully adj
mits that the once derided United
States army is giving more trouble
than was anticipated.
The Frankfort Gazette is pleading
with the German military authorities
to tell the whole truth "as far as pos
Sible."
Allied and neutral shippingsunk by
enemy submarines during July amount
ed to 100000 tons. This is about one
half Of the tonnage sunk in July, 1919.
The entente nations constructed
during July a tonnage in excess of
$50, 900 tons that were destroyed dur
ing the month by enemy operations.
Turmoil in Bohemia has resulted in
the execution of seVenty-four Czech
soldiers and wholesale arrests in many
raids. The Hungarian garrisons are
being reinforced and arms are being
con1scated. Public& nd private meet
ings have been prohibited and sey-
eral newspapers suppressed while 9TH
ers are censored.
Munich newspapers say it is believ-
ed that even a slight incident will
bring about a general uprising in b.
hemia.
Four hundred and forty-two men are
missing as a result of the ~torpedoing
of the French steamer Djemnah in the
Mediterranean the night of July 14-15,
while bound from Bizerta to Alexan-
dria, with troops on board, according
to a French official announcement.
The British government has issued
a declaration formally recognizing the
Czecho-Slovaks as an allied nation and
the three CZechO-Slovak armies as an
allied force regularly waging warfare
again the central powers.
Three German generals recently
commanding near Montdidier have
been cashiered for neglect of duty. A
large number of soldiers were court
martialed.
1t is announced that the Czecho-
Slovak forces have increased to 30O,-
600 and are being reinforced by Ser
bans, Cossacks and counter revolu-
~tionists to the Bolsheviki.
The social revolutionists have an
nounced, through German sources,
that they will soon institute a reign
of terror in Moscow. 1t is stated that
conditions in Petrograd are equally