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VOLUME XVIII.
MORE GROUND GAINED BY ALLIES IN WEST
U-BOAT ACCEPTED AS A MERCHANTMAN
BALTIMORE OFFICIALS
ACCEPT ITS PAPERS
WITHOUT HESITATION
No Opposition Is Offered
When Master of “Deutsch
land” Formally Enters His
Ship as Freighter
By Aa»<x*-.at«d Pre**.'
BALTIMORE. July 10.—The German
merchantman submarine Deutschland
was entered formally at the Baltimore
custom house today without opposition.
Guy V. Steele, surveyor of the port
of Baltimore, made an ofllcial report
to Collector Ryan late today advising
that the Deutschland was an unarmed
mrchant vessel, entitled to all the privi
leges of any other peaceful ship aall
!nr under the flag of a friendly na
tion.
Upon delivering his ship’s papers to
the offices of the North German Lloyd
line today. Captain Paul Konig. of the
submarine merchantman Deutschland, is
sued a formal statement declaring his
voyage across the Atlantic had broken
England's rule of the seas.
Count von Bernstorff. the German am
bassador. today sent Baron von Haniel.
counsel to the embassy, to Baltimore,
•'to ascertain the exact status of the un
der-water liner Deutschland.”
At the same time the captain denied
emphatically the report that he car
ried a mes*age from Emperor William
to President Wilson, lhe statement an
nounced that the Deutschland was the
first of several submarines built for the
t ansa tian tic trade and that she would
Le followed by the Bremen. It fol
lows:
"The submarine Deutschland, which
I have the honor to command, is the
first of several submarines built to
crder of the Deutscne Osean-Rhederet
G. M. B. H.. Bremen. She will be
followed by the Bremen shortly.
“The idea of the building of this sub
marine emanated of Alfred Lohmann,
then president of the Bremen chamber
of commerce. He brought his idea in
the fall of last year confidentially be
fore -a small circle of friends, and the
Ilea was taken up at once. A company
was formed under the name of ‘Deutsche
< »zean-Fl heder el G. H. B H..* and the
Germaniawerft. Kiel, was entrusted
with the building of the submarine.
"The board of directors is composed
of Alfred Lohmar.n. president of the
board; Phillip Heineken, general man
ager of the Nordd Lloyd; Kommerzein
rat P. M. Herrmann, manager of the
Deutschbank; Carl Stapelfeldt. manager
of the Nordd Lioyd. has taken over the
management of the company.
MOST VALUABLE CARGO.
“We have brought a most valuable
cargo of dyestuffs to our American
friends, dyestuffs which have been so
muoh needed for months in America,
and w’Mch the ruler of the seas has not
allowed the great American republic to
import While England will not allow
anybody the same right on the ocean,
because she rules the waves, we have
by means of the submarine commenced
to break this rule.
"Great Britain cannot. however,
hinder boats such as ours to go and
come as we please. Our trip passing
Dover across the ocean was an unevent
ful one. When danger approached we
went below the surface, and here we are
safely in an American port, ready to
return in due course
“I am not in a position to give you
full details regarding our trip across
the ocean, in view of our enemies. Our
boat has a displacement of about 2,000
tons and a speed of more than 14 knots.
Needless say that we are quite un
armed and only a peaceful merchant
man.
“Regarding things in Germany. I may
mention that everybody is convinced
of the full final victory of the German
arms and those of our allies. All facts
of the last twenty-two months go to
prove that there is no doubt for
this.
FINE CROP PROSPECT.
•All Poland and Kurland, a country
of the site of two-thirds r.f Germany,
are since twelve months under peaceful
rule, and the entire country has been
put under the plow, and thousands of
acres will be serving for the next win
ter's supply of foodstuffs.
“Rains and warm weather In April and
May have brought a crop in view all
over Germany. Austria-Hungary. Bul
garia and Turkey, finer than since a
century
“Aik Serbia. Montenegro and a great
part of Albania are in the same posi
tion. Besides Belgium, one-seventh of
France is in German possession and all
in a flourishing agricultural state.
"So there is really not ihe least anx
iety for the British attempt of trying
to kill by starvation a hundred million
German and Austrian children and
women and non-combatants, the most
devilish plan ever tried by any nation
Ist the world.
’’Dur boats will carry across the At
lantic the mails and save them from
British interruntlon.
“We frost that the old friendly rela
tionship with the United States going
back to the days of Washington, when
it was Prussia who was the first to
help America in its fight for freedom
from British rule, will awake afresh In
lour beautiful and powerful country.
f-I’BMERGED ONLY NINETY MILES
•The house flag of the Deutsche
Oxean-Rhederei is the old Bremen flag,
red and white stripes with the coat of
arms of the town, the key In the corner.
This key is the sign that we have open
ed the gates which Great Britain tried
to shut upon us and the trade of the
world.
"The K ates which we opened with this
key will not be shut acain. Open door
to the trade of the world ano freedom
or the oceans and equal rights to al!
nations on the oceans will be guaran
teed by Germany's victory in this strug-
(Oonttnned on Pag* «, CoL 1.)
14 MORE DEATHS
DUE TO INFANTILE
PARALYSIS IN N. Y.
Rain and Cooler Weather Falls
to Check Disease , and 103
New Cases Are Reported
Today
(By AMMtated Press.)
NEW YORK. July 10.—Rain and
cooler weather failed today to material
ly check the epidemic of infantile
paralysis which, since its Inception two
weeks ago, has claimed 238 lives tn New
York City. During the twenty-four
hours which ended at JO o'clock this
morning fourteen deaths and 103 new
cases were reported.
Thirty of the new cases were In Man!
hattan. the largest number yet reached
there in a single day.
Five city departments united
today in a campaign to keep
the city of New York clean in order
to check the epidemic of infantile paraly
sis. Hereafter during the prevalence
of the disease, four million gallons of
water will be used nightly in flushing
the city streets.
The street cleaning department has
been instructed to accelerate the remov
al of garbage, ashes and refuse thrown
into the street in the congested districts
and the mayor announced today that he
has directed the police department to
arrest householders and storekeepers
who indulge in this practice. The tene
ment house commissioner has been in
structed to compel tenants to clean up
the halls, areawayd, cellars and yards
throughout the city. In'Brooklyn, where
the epidemic has been most severe, the
work of flushing the streets at night
will be more than doubled.
In announcing this extra effort to
clean up the city, the mayor said the
city government would use all its ef
forts during the continuance of the epi
demic to reduce the possibility of
spreading infantile paralysis by elimi
nating as much dirt as possible.
"There is no occasion for alarm or
panic,*' said the mayor. “The careful
observance of the simple directions as
to personal and household cleanliness
will go far to prevent further spread
of or exposure to infection.” Plans have
been made to induce all parents and
children who are inflicted with the
paralysis to send them to hospitals,
as only 5 per cent of the cases treated
In such institutions have died, while
of the children who were kept at home
’about 22 per cent have died.
After a conference with health of
ficers and other heads of, city depart
ments .the mayor said today that al
though little is known of the origin of
the disease, all scientific experience in
dicates that it is communicated by per
sonal contact and that the germs do not
live apart from the human body; that
it is necessary for one diseased per
son or another who has been in contact
with him, to come in contact with a
third person before the disease can be
communicated.
The national health service is endeav
oring to trace the origin of the epidemic
and to discover how the disease is
transmitted. Dr. C. H. Lavinder, who
is In charge of the federal health serv
ice. denied today a report that the
United States government plans to
quarantine* New York City.
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SECOND WARNING IS
Rlffl IT BANDITS
Mirra BORDER
Mexican Ambassador Notifies
Washington Officials That
Outlaws Are Headed for Bo
quillas, Tex.
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON. July 10.—A second
warning that Villa bandits are headed
for the Big Bend district of Texas
was given to the state department to
day by Eliseo Arredondo, the Mexican
ambassador designate. He told acting
Secretary Polk his government had
given him definite Information that the
bandits were moving northward toward
Eoqulllas, Tex, and promised co-opera
tion of Carranza forces.
Carranza Still Silent
On Border Controversy
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, July 10 —Eliseo Ar
redondo, General Carranza’s ambassa
dor here, received advices from his gov
ernment today which, he said, closed
the incident in which an American war
ship searched a Mexican sailing vessel
at Guaymas. No protest will be made
and his advices will be delivered to ths
state department later.
Arredondo said today he still was
waiting for instructions from General
Carranza on the course the latter will
pursue in negotiating the border
troubles. American officials favor a
simple and short course of direct ne
gotiation with the ambassador.
CITIZFNSTOTELLHOW
FUMES DAMAGED CHOPS
Large Delegation Here to At
tend Hearing Before Leg
islative Committee
Two hundred strong, a delegation of
citizens from north Georgia counties
who claim that their crops and property
have been destroyed by fumes from the
Tennessee Copper company plant at
Ducktown, reached Atlanta Monday
morning and will appear Monday after
noon before the joint committee of the
house and- senate which was appointed
to investigate the dispute between them
and the copper company.
The hearing will be held in the sen
ate chamber, beginning at 3 o clock.
Following the assertion of the far
mers of north Georgia that the board
of arbitration, appointed under the con
tract between them and the copper com
pany, was not awarding the farmers
proper damages for the destruction of
their property, Lamar HUI and J, A.
Drake, special attorneys for the state
in this litigation, drew up a notice to
file with the supreme court giving the
state the option of abrogating the con
tract with the copper company by which
this arbitration board had been created.
Governor Harris was asked to sign
this notice of abrogation, but instead
placed the matter of the Ducktown con
troversy in Its entirety before the legis
lature. The result was that the joint
committee of the •’two houses was ap
pointed to Investigate the claims of the
two parties in the dispute. The hearing
Monday afternoon will be the first held
bv the committee.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1916.
SEVERAL PLANTS IN
MACDN CLOSE DOWN
BECAUSE OF FLOOD
Ocmulgee River Far Out of
Banks and Water Surrounds
Several Plants Causing
Them to Close
Rain continued to fall over large sec
tions of Alabama and Georgia today
forcing streams farther out of banks
and resulting in increased damage to
crops, railroad lines, telephone and tele
graph property, small buildings and
some loss of live stock. Inhabitants of
places not seriously affected until today
had plenty of warning of the approach
of the high water and in most instances
moved out.
Eight was added to the death list
which until today had remained at
twelve. Only two members of the crew
of ten of the hshing smack Phillip
Keyes were saved when the vessel was
wrecked Wednesday’.
Macon. Ga., appeared as a new cen
ter of danger today. There the Ocmul
gee river was far out of banks and the
water had .surrounded several sewer pipe
and brick plants causing them to close
down. Many houses in a suburb of Ma
con were surrounded by water and in
halants were moved out. Damage to
railroad ridges, highways and crops in
that section was reported. Many ani
mals were lost.
Conditions were rapidly approaching
normal at Birmingham but flood stage for
the Alabama river at Montgomery was
forecast. Streams in the central and
southern part of the state were reported
rising fast.
Louisville and Nashville yards and
many manufacturing plants in north
Montgomery were threatened with over
flow. The Cromwell Lumber yards are
under water * s is the city incinerator
plant.
The Chattahoochee river, which is ris
ing rapidly today, had not got so far
out of banks as to cause closing of in
dustrial plants at Columbus. It was be
lieved last night that these plants would
be closed today.
The Louisville and Nashville reported
today that it could not resume service
between New Orleans and Mobile A
washout twenty-five miles from Mobile
is causing all delay.
West Point, da., reported that all
through trains on the Atlanta and West
Point railroad had been annulled but
that the Chattahoochee at that point was
slowly falling this afternoon.
Rains in South Carolina are hindering
rail traffic but trains still are running
on slow schedules.
Weather Man Promises
Fair Weather Wednesday
You can cancel that order for a gas
oline launch, it’s not going to rain those
forty days, nor those forty nights either,
lacking something like thirty-five days
and nights. The weather man says the
rain is peterinef out and that the clouds
are empty. He says it will probably
drip along here all during Monday and
a good part of Tuesday morning but
there the wentess ceases.
After Tuesday morning the forecast
is dryness. The rivers which are now
on the rampant and running high will
return to their channels and pursue their
normal and tranquil course to the seas,
umbrellas and rubbers will be purely or
namental and you'll have a chance to
mend the leaks in the roof.
Monday morning 7.52 Inches of rain
had been let loose. Sunday only .44
inches fell, however, and Monday less
is expected.
The record rain precipitation during
the present wet spell, as given out by
the Atlanta sation of the United States
weather bureau Monday morning, is as
follows: «
7 a. m. Tuesday to 7 a. m. Wednesday,
.02 inches.
7 a. mt Wednesday to 7 a. m. Thurs
day. .19 inches.
7 a. m. Thursday to 7 a. m. Friday,
.91 inches.
7 a. m. Friday to 7 a. m. Saturday,
3.85 inches.
7 a. m. Saturday to 7 a. m. Sunday,
2.10 inches.
7 a. m. Sunday to 7 a. m. Monday.
.45 inches.
Total, 7.52 inches.
It's been a long time since the old
Chattahoochee has crawled up over its
bunks to take alook at the surround
ing country. Great crowds in a steady
line of automobiles journed out Sun
day to see the uprising. The car com
pany was forced to put on extra serv
ice to accommodate the curious. The
corn patches and floral nurseries in
the lowlands on either side of the river
were flooded. The road was in a bad
way on this account for over a quarter
of a mile leading from the river. The
river settlement is prepared and sit
watching the yellow current in its de
structive movements.
Despite the heavy rains Atlanta has
been unusually fortunate in the regu
larity with which trains have been
moved into and out of the city. Al! of
the roads, of course, are running their
main route trains several hours behind
the scheduled time, but this is to be
expected. Within the Georgia bounda
ries the trains have been able to main
tain their schedules very regularly. It
is only on the trains passing across the
state line that there has been serious
delay.
The West Point road has been forced
to discontinue its trains Nos. 35, 3«. 37,
running between Atlanta and Montgom
ery. This is due to the high river at
West Point, where it is reported to
have risen to 22 feet. The Seaboard,
between Cartersville and Rockmont. has
had to discontinue a branch road on ac
count of the rising of the Etowah river
between those points.
Southern trams from New York and
New Orleans nave been late but are
making the trip nevertheless with no
prospect of any oisconttnuance.
The trains coming up from Brunswick
and Jacksonville are running late and are
forced to make slow time on account of
the high creeks, but no bridges are down
and no washouts along the.te routes w’ll
cause a suspension of operations be
tween Atlanta and these points.
GERMAN U-BOAT IN BALTIMORE. This photograph was
made in Germany and forwarded by mail from Berlin before the
Deutschland sailed for America. Only the upper works of the giant
underwater merchantman are shown in this photograph.
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Wilson Is Not Willing to
Serve Those “Gentlemen”
Who Would Exploit Mexico
Urges Salesmanship Congress
to Help Establish Confidence
in American Principles in
Every Land
(By Associated Press.)
DETROIT, Mich., July 10.—President
Wilson aroused great enthusiasm at the
World’s Salesmanship congress, today £»y
urging that business men carry justice
and fair dealing into the ports of the
world, particularly those of Mexico and
thereby establish confidence in Ameri
can principles.
His efforts, he declared would be to
serve all America by serving Mexico
herself for her best interests without
using force, and not to serve the few
"gentlemen” who wish to exploit Mexi
can possessions.
When the president asked the crowd
what it desired at the end of all the
present world troubles, it shouted,
"peace’’ and then he added that his'
wish was "permanent peace.”
"I hear some men say,” he said, “that
they want to help Mexico and the way
they propose to help her is to over
whelm her with force. That is tlP>
wrong way as well as the long way.
"After fighting them you would have
a nation full of justified suspicion. Thus
you would not help them. You would (
shut every door against you.
"What makes Mexico suspicious .is
that she thinks we do not want to
serve, but possess her. And she has
justification for these suspicions in the
way some gentlemen have sought to
exploit her possessions.
“ Iwill not serve these gentlemen but
I wili serve all American's by trying to
serve Mexico herself.
RESPECT SOVEREIGNTY.
"The way to establish our sovereign
ty is to respect hers.”
The president added that he believes
in the old Virginia bill of rights wnich
declares that a country may do as it
pleases with its own government.
This information, the president said,
was for those gentlemen, who "would
butt in.”
The president declared that the mer
chant marine which some are "slow in:
giving us” would be a great help to the
business interests of the United States.
In order to gain foreign business,
however, he added, it will be necessary
for American bu-siness men to adapt th*
goods to the demands of other countries
and not try to force their own Ideas on
other markets. Salesmanship, he said,
would go hand in hand with the states
manship after the war.
No more patriotic nor enthusiastic re
ception has greeted the president recent
ly than he received here. Thousands
lined the streets and when he entered
the hall the entire audience arose and
waved American flags.
Former Senator LaFayette Young,
publisher of the Des Moines Capital;
William C. Redfield, secretary of com
merce: Hugh Chalmers, the Detroit au
tomobile builder, and Norval Hawkins, a
Detroit business man, were to deliver ad
dresses. Mr. Redfield was to speak on
present trade conditions and conditions
after the close of the European war.
The lowa editor was to make a short
speech about “Uncle Sam, Salesman.”
Chalmers’ address purposed covering the
broad theme of salesmanship. Hawkins;
intended to dwell upon "The Man in!
Salesmanship.”
"Today all up-to-date executives are
pleading not fo r more men but for moro
man,” said Hawkins, "for more manll-j
ness, more manhood, because manhood is
nature in the highest form. The man-;
hood of Christ and not His divinity sub
dued Pilate.
FORGET SECOND SYLLABLE.
"The second syllable in salesmanship;
too often is eclipsed by the first. So l
much attention and interest are con-1
centrated on sales that man is forgot
ten. o r at best is considered of minor im
portance. These things are of vital im
portance to the man in salesmanship—
first, his selection; second, his develop
ment, and, third, his direction. Direction
of salesmen is something nobody but the
right kind of salesmanager can do ef
fectively.’’
PROSPECTS OF IN EMLF
ADJOURNMENT DWINDLING
Important Bills Keeping Many
Congressmen From Begin
ning Political Campaign
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, July 10.—Congress
began another week today with slender
prospects of an early adjournment
ahead. Four of the administration's
most important legislative measures re
main to be put through and Democratic
leaders see chances of a session lasting
into the fall.
The bills keeping members of con
gress here when many are anxious to
• get away to participate in the political
campaign are the army and navy appro
priation bills, the shipping bill and ths
administration's 3197,0(j0,000 revenue
measure. The revenue bill will be
passed by the house late today. The
army and navy bills, increased by mil
lions by senate committeec, face stub
born opposition in conference. Repub
licans intend to fight the shipping bill
with a filibuster.
The senate will take up the navy bill
this week when the agricultural bill is
out of the way. After passing the reve
nue bill the house probably will start
work on the general dam bill.
Three Are Killed When
Yaarab Shriners’ Train
Strikes an Auto in Pa.
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
SUNBURY, Pa., July 10.—The special
train carrying members of the Yaarab
Shrine temple patrol of Atlanta crash
ed into an automobile Sunday afternoon.
Three occupants of the machine were
killed and three others were seriously
hurt. The tragedy occurred on the Penn
sylvania division at Fisher's Ferry, be
‘ tween Harrisburg and Sunbury.
Two of the dead were men and one
was a child. The three seriously injured
were children.
House Picks Civil War
“Vets” to Attend Funeral
Os Victims of Mexicans
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, July 10.—Union and
Confederate veterans now members of
the house were today named as a com
mittee to attend funeral services in Ar
lington national cemetery tomorrow for
Captain Boyd and some of "the American
dead of the Carrlzal fight. The house
adopted a resolution providing for It
introduced by Representative Bennet, of
New York.
Progressives’ Executive
Committee Will Meet
(Special Dispatch to The Journal)
MACON, Ga., July 10.—A meeting of
i the executive committee of the Pro
i gresstve party in Georgia will be held
: here tomorrow to determine what course
I to pursue in the coming national elec-
I tlon. It is the opinion of the leaders
that the committee will issue a state
ment endorsing Charles E. Hughes, the
Republican nominee, and urging the
members of the Progressive party to sup
port him in November. Members of the
committee who will be here are Harry
Stilwell Edwards, Macon; B. A. Dewar.
Atlanta; C. W. McClure, Atlanta and D.
H. Clark, of Savannah.
NUMBER 80.
GERMAN THIRD LINE
PIERCED BV FBM;
NOW NEARJ>EBDNNE
French Critics Believe That
Capture of Important Town
Is Now Only a Question of
Few Hours
(By Associated Press.)
PARIS, July 10.—The French ad
vanced their line south of the Somme
yesterday a mile and a half, capturing
the German third positions along a
length of three and one-half miles and
are now within a mile of Peronne.
French critics believe that the capture
of Peronne now is a question almost
of hours.
The new French drive south of the
somme river yesterday had been pre
pared by artillery bombardments for
more than two days, and the com
plicated system of German defenses in
the loop to the northward made by
the river had been disorganized. The
task of artillery preparation had been
carried through rapidly and the infan
try attack probably would have been
made sooner but for the bad weather.
Yesterday morning the rain stopped
and the signal for the assault was
given. The French troops began to
move along a two and a half mile front. .
The left wing rested on the bridge over
the Somme one mile east of Sormont
farm, while the right wing lay a little
north of Belloy. The left wing and the
center crossed the German trenches with
a single bound. The Germans resisted
energetically, but finding themselves In
danger of being surrounded retreated
up the left bank of the river by the
Peronne roal At. 2 o'clock the village
was in the hands of the French.
Meanwhile the right wing threw the
Germans into disorder and arrived at
the outskirts of Barleux, where the Ger
man situation now appears to be pre
carious.
BRILLIANT OPERATION.
French military opinion characterizes
the capture of Biaches as a brilliant
and important operation. Whether the
Germans are still holding on to the
network of canals or have retreated to,
the other bank of the Somme the French
position on the last plateau before the
Somme and the important point of sup
port afforded by the capture of Biaches
give them direct command of the val
ley immediately above Peronne.
Under the system of interlocking
echelons it was the turn of the right
wing to push forward, the other echelons
on center and left being saved to ef
fect the moves required of them. The
troops south of the Somme apparently
had made good use of their breathing
spell. When the word was given they
moved forward with the precision of
a well-oiled machine. They swept
across the northern of the two plateaus
which save Peronne clearing out the
German positions and establishing them
selves solidly in the trenches, which
had been turned into quagmires by the
combined effects lof bombardment i.
incessant rain.
The Germans offered the best resist
ance they could but the French artillery
has been keeping up a formidable drum
fire upon their lines of communication
making it almost impossible Tor them
to get either reinforcements or food
in suitable quantities.
SUCCESS IMPORTANT.
Yesterday's success is important In
that it should enable the French heavy
artillery to push forward into a posi
tion whence it can pour a fire into the
flank and rear of the Germans who are
resisting at Combles, four miles to the
north and at Clery, half a mile north
on the other bank of the Somme.
These movements of the French paiced
the way for the next move of a central
echelon for which preparation continued
steadily all day, virtually without in
terference from the Germans.
A new attack was launched in the
Champagne by the French last night.
The war office today announced the cap
ture of trenches over a front of 500
meters.
On the Somme front the French took
a line of German positions in the neigh
borhood of Barleux. In this section 950
Germans were captured yesterday and
last night. The Germans made attacks
at five points simultaneously in the
Vosges, but all their assaults n
checked completely by the fire of French
machine guns.
Drive of the Russians
Is Gaining in Intensity
(By Associated Press.)
LONDON, July 10. —The of the
Russian armies along the whole of the
eastern front is greater than ever. Ap
parently it is sweeping on with increas
ing power. The Russians have crossed
the StockhoTt river in their operations
against the town of Kovel, a most im
portant strategical point, and have cap
tured a number of villages along the
line of the Kovel-Sarney railroad.
Petrograd dispatches say that the
Stokhod has been crossed at Ugli, which
lies a few miles south of the railroad,
but the Austrian official stat//ment
makes no mention of H<hting at Sto
bychwa lying west of the Stotehod,
wnich indicates that the Russians nave
crossed the river about thirty miles
northeast of Kovel. The Russian line,
therefore, in this region evidently is a
very extended one.
The Associated Press correspondent
at Petrograd says that a surprise at
tack delivered along thd Sarney-Kovel
line, while the Austro-Germansr were
engaged In defending the Rovno-Kovel
line, netted a clear advance to the Rus
sians of fifteen miles. Ofllcial Russian
dispatches say thet on the Lower Stok
hod the Teutonic forces are retiring »
in great disorder.
The Austrians have not only been
successful In resisting the Russian ad
vance in southern Bukowina, which
crownland the Russians hoped soon to
clear of their adversaries, but under
taking an offensive, have succeeded in
forcing their way across the Moldava
river. The Austrian artillery also has
been very active against the Italiana
along the Isonzo front.
