The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-07-18

been arrested and many Of them, In
Guiding so socialist members Of parlia-
ment, executed. Because of the num-
town of Sveaborg has been renamed
Golgotha. Finland is on the point Of
starvation. despite Its German friends,
and General Mannerheim. 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..
Morris told him plainly 1t was very
slim 80 long as Germany held the
country under her control. Ostensibly
as a measure to save food. the Finnish
government has ordered the expulsion
Of all Jews.
When the news came Of the assas-
sination of Count Won Mirbach. Ger.
man ambassador to Russia. In Mos
COW, at the instigation Of q group Of
social revolutionists, there were
many predictions that the kaiser
would get revenge by sending 4 great
army to occupy the chief Russian
cities. and indeed 1t was semi-o6lcial-
ly stated In Berlin that such would BE-
his course. But after breaking OF
diplomatic relations the chief Hun ap-
mild statement was issued hoping
"that the Russian government and peo-
pie will succeed In nipping the pres
ent revolutionary agitation In the
bud."> Il II not easy to see how Ger
many would gain much by further
grabbing In distracted and starving
Russia.
The pan-German party triumphed
over its opponents and forced the
resignation Of Foreign Minister Won
KusAlmann because Of his peace i'm
possible By fercs" speech, and then
proceeded to pick Admiral Won Hlntxe.
the trfckiest and most disreputabls Of
Tsuton diplomats, a. his successor.
Great excitement In the reichstag r.
suited and the socialists agreed not to
vote the war credit, which could not
be passsd without their aid. until the
new minister had announced his pol
ic1es. Won Hintse IL 4 swashbuckling
militarist and the creature of Admiral
Won Tirpitx. AZ minister to China he
disgraced himself. and ~ minister to
Mexico he deliberately stirred up .
row between Huerta and CarranEa in
order to embroil the United States.
The French press accepts the selec-
tion Of Won Hintse ~ evidence that
the milltarists In Germany are strong
er than the diplomats and are deter
mined upon q war to the finish. They
believe he will do the n-Germans
much more harm than good.
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Military operations Of prime impor-
tance last week were confined to AL
bania. a field of which little has been
heard for long time. There the
Italians and French got very busy and.
with the aid of British naval forces
In the Adriatic, started an offensive
that met with considerable success
and is still progressing as this IL writ
ten. Within a few days the allied
forces had advanced more than twen-
ty-nve miles on a battle front sixty
miles long. had captured Fieri, an Inn
portant town eight miles from the
rounded Rerat, the chief city Of south
ern Albania. They also had occupied
mountain positions of great strategic
value. Before the week closed the
Austrians had evacuated Berat.
This Albanian offensive was counted
on to have great political effect. es-
pecially in Austria Hungary and
among the small nations of the Bal
kans. Already 1t had caused evident
uneasiness among the forces of the
central powers that face the allies
from the Adriatic to Saloniki. In
Macedonia they made several costly
and vain attacks on the allies. The
apparent objective Of the allies in Al
bania IL the Shkumbi valley and the
old Roman road, the Via Egnatia,
leading to the vardar valley and open
ing the way to movement toward the
east that would outnank the enemy
north Of Monastir.
feated in this region the kaiser scay
force them to accept Won Below as
their seneralisaimo, despite their pro-
tests. The sRorts to Germanize the
Austrian general headquarters have
stirred up the already angry people
of the dual Kingdom. Another row
there has bssn caused BY more or lsas
opsa -esssrttons that Enpress zlta
ruined the olIsasivs On Italy By pre-
venting ths ~ Of - aaA otherwise
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