Bisbee daily review., 1918-02-05
IF
 THE TEUTONS TOWNS NEAR VENICE
Hun Airmen Bomb Towns on the Venetian Plain. Internal Conditions In Germany Are Quieting Down.
CRv Review Leased wirel

ROME. Feb. 4.-Nenice and number Of towns on the Venetian plain have been bombed by enemy airmea. ac- cording to the Italian official cOmmu- nicatiOn issued today. While no dam age and no casualties resulted from the attack on Venice. considerable de- StructiOn was wrought in the tOwEs ot Padua. TrevisO and Mestre. where also a number of civilians were killed ot wounded.
 The communication says:
 Enemy aviStorS again gave vent to their miSchievous impulses by 0onl- harding Venice and other towns on the Venetian plain. where the peace ful population is denSest and the usilS- tary objectives Of the least import anCe.
 -Padua. TreViSO and Nestre were repeatedly attacked. AS usual the greatest damage was done to private property. and the largest number Og casualties was among the civilians. The civu hospital at TreVisO was hit. and altogether eight persons were killed and ten wounded among the population.
 There were neither casualties or damage at Venice.
 From the meager accounts Of the economic situation in Germany reach ing neutral cCuntrieS-and they are measer 10 degree-the general strike that prevailed throughout the empire last week has virtually ended Apparently the hard hand of the mili- tary authorities had much tO do with the breaking up OS the movement on the part of the workers, whose full energies are required by the severn ment at the present moment to aid in the prosecution of the war. for even their leaders are reported t0 have advised the men tO return "a their work.
 The proclamation of martial law in Berlin and throughout BrandCnburg by the military commander evidently had its full effect, for. with the threat Ot summary cOurt-martial and execution staring them in the face. the strikers carried out no disorders in Berlin SatuCiay Hike those earlier iR the week.
 Under the Surface
 
 pervade the entire country except at Jena. capital Of the duchy Of SaNe- Weimar, where new trouble has arisen. lt is not improbable that the strike here has been engendered by sympathetic feeling on the part Of the numerous students.
 That under the surface the political waters in Germany and Austria Hun gary are Sliu disturbed is indicated by the announcement that the Ger man and AuStrO-HunsariSn foreign ministers and General von LUdendorf. chief of the German war lords next tO Non HmdenbUrg. are tO meet in close conference in an endcsvOr to bring about an ameliOragiOn Of the tense economic and political questions affecting Germany and the dual mon archy and doubtless lay plans to com bat the peace views and deSreS of large parts of the populations in the two countries,
 The Sitter Bit
 Apparently with the Germans it was a case Of the bitter having been bit in their attack on the American sec tor in Lorraine on Saturday AithOugh the attack was a sudden one and the Germans placed heavy barrage along the American line of several kilome- ters. the Americans responded with Svidity and with their 75'S tore up the German front trenches. blew mp several Of the dugOUtS and cut their hSrbed wire entanglementS. causing damaSe which it will require several days tO repair Little damage was done the American positions. Seem incly the Americans OutgSmed the en- emy on his initial point Of assault. and later even extended their zone Of bombariment over wide region. On the other battle fronts the opera tiOns of the infantry continue of a minor character, although the artil- lery duels are intense on certain sec tors in Belgium and along the Aisne iu France, Alter weeks of watchful waiting there still is no indications that the Germans contemplate at an early date their promised big offen- sive against the entente fronts. which it has been asserted would be deliv- cred with the old armies reinforced troops brought from Russian theatre.