Nebraska Newspapers

    VOL. XLVIII. NO. . 4.
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C4MET QUAILS
AS FOOD CRISIS
GROWS INTENSE
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Premier Starts for Army Headquarters to Submit Resigna-
tion to Emperor Charles; Rations in Cities Ke-
vduced One-Half in Order to Give Relief
; , j in Galicia and Bohemia.
N (By Associated Press.)
London, June 21. Dr. von Seydler, the Austrian prepyer,
left Vienna at midday today for Austrian army headquarters to
submitihe resignation ot his cabinet to Emperor Charles, says a
dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph from Zurich.
. t t n k T - i.T- i. 4.1., Tnvvma -fonm flnVlAITa
' . rans, June zi. a uispaicm wj u xcmo vviw
says the Austrian government has decided to put Vienna and
, other large cities on half the present bread ration in order to
i ameliorate the conditions in Galicia and Bohemia. These con
ditions are so badthe Temps quotes the Vienna" Neue Freie
Presse as saying, that railroad
averted by such a measure.
' the cities, though badly off, 'are still
in better condition than the country,
where there is virtually no bread.
- - x Revolution Threatens. ; ; ;
Copenhagen. June 2l.--The situa
tion at Prague, Bohemia, and'." the
industrial centers , in that .district,
says the Neue Freie Presseof Vien-
. na, has 4conie so serious" that the
, Austrian "goyeriiment 'will either be
compelled to increase the bread ra-.
IIUU UK lull LllM JIOA V
exciting the working people. ; ;
In the latter event, the newspaper
declares, railway5 - communication
would be cut oa and a. revolution
would'Break out..f,X;; . x.- ,
; German" Embassy Menaced.,
- Lohdori, June 21. New bread riots
- started -Thursday' night in the.Favdr;
hen nd Brigittenay districts of
Vienna and there afe now more than
.150,000 munition workers -on strike
in the, Austrian capital, says ap :Ex-
- fti4ffr Teloopranli Hinatrh Trnrrl
Zurich. ', '
An attempt to attack the German
embassy- in Vienna, according - to
Vienna . correspondents of . Munich
- newspapers; was dispersed by the po
lice.1 There were- many arrests and
some persons were injured." "There
vcrc. viics vi vjtjjuaujr 10
. starving us. Down with Germany."
A statement issued by the . Vienna
ponce declares aemonsiraiors neia up
tramways broke windows and looted
food shops and bakers' carts. At the
municipal council meeting Herr Neu
mann, representing the socialists, de
nounced the Brest-Litovsk peace as
'a fraud and' said the' situation was
. untenable.
Excitemant at High pjtch. ,
Premier; von .Seydler is accused by J
the socialist Arbeiter Zeitung ot Vien
na, of producing a disastrous situa
tion by favoring the agrarians and
; traders. It. says the situation, could
' certainly have been prevented. The
paper ; rails against Oermany , ana
Hungary . and' tells the " authorities
they mtist immediately draw the at
tention of those countries to the fact
that the food conditions ' in Austria
are intolerable and demand neces
sary assistance. '
. . ; It adds: "The Austrian population
cannot starve while Germany and
Hnnearv have tolerably adeauate ra
tions. ; The government must be
placed under tutelage even in matters
relating 'to the food supply. It has
' deserved to be subjected to guardian
ship but the population must not be
. punished with starvation for the fail
ure of the government." .. '
' Potato Crop Late.
Amsterdam, June fl. Frankfurter
v Zeitungs correspondent m at ) Munich
telegraphs 4hat Bavaria is unable to
supply AustWa with potatoes. Frost
has retarded the new crop and the old
stocks must be used sparingly:
Funprnl nf l ipiitpnint Kellev
To Be Held This Afternoon
i ne runerai oi t-i. n. v. rveiiey,
t who. was killed in a fall on an avia
tion field' hear. Fort Worth,. Tesi.,
Wednesday, will be held today. . The
body arrived in Omaha yesterday un-
4 fellow aviator. I Services will be
held at toe home, imi tmmet street,
at 3 p.cm. today, conducted by Rev.
A. J. Morrir of Immanuel Baptist
- church and Rev. A. A. DeLarme of
the First Baptist church. -A detach-
ment - -of soldiers ; from Fort ; Omaha
wil' escort , the body, to Forest Lawn
cemetery. -. , ; h -. ' ,-
C. G. Burnham Appointed
: Burlington Road Manager
Chicago, June 21. C. G. Burnham
has been appointed federal manager
of the Chicago, Biirlintton & Quincy
and Ouincv. Omaha & Kansas City
railroads, it. was announced today. He
fill ti4f4 iMPi'etVliAn awa al1 Avk
. tnents ofbotb roads. , r '
B. B. Greer has been appointed as
' siftant regional director of the United
States faOroad administration,
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and other strikes can only be
.
BOHEMIANS AND
GALICIANS SEE NO
BREAD FOR WEEK
v.V c ,,- . - -v :' -
Workers at Wits' End ta Main
tain Existence:, Disturbances
at Xemburg of, Anti? ,
- Semitic-vhafacterV
Lodon,f Jur(e21.Vierina ' newspa
pers 'are quoting -s. socialist party
manifesto, which.,"declires that work
ejs andimatl-'orEce holders in Aus
tria are at their wjts' end to maintain
existence because- ot the food situa
tion in the monarchy, says a Central
News dispatch from Amsterdam " to
day. ; ' -s' - ".
1 In many Austrian (towns, the mani
festo, .declares-,,, .these r , classes .are
threatehed " with ' absolute' ' famine,
while simijaf conditions prevail- in
Prague, the Bohemian capital, and in
towns in Galicia. The situation is
declared to be terrible at these points,
where the population has not seen
bread or potatoes for a week.
. , Anti-Semitic Riots. .
' Amsterdam, June 21'. Th corre
spondent at Frankfort of 'the Nieuwe
Rotterdame ' Courant ' says " it is re
ported from Lemberg that the dis
turbances there are assuming an anti-
semitic character.
There has been noting in the last
few days, the correspondent says, at
Lemberg, Stryi, Vieliohka and else
where in. Galicia and it has led to
great excesses. A Jewish organiza
tion ior self defense has taken action,
it is added, to end the disturbances.
Hungary Starving, Says Tisza.
London. June 21. In many prov
inces of Hungary, there is only one
third or one-quarter the food neces
sary to maintain the population in
health, former Premier Tisza declared
in a speech to the Hungarian Parlia
ment .yesterday, according to a Buda
pest telegram forwarded: by the Ex
change Telegraph correspondent at
Amsterdam. . -'
permany must be convinced, added
the forme,r pferaier, that Hungary's
population was just as badly situated
as regarded food supplies as the ci
tizens of Vienna. It wu'd tax Hun
gary's efforts to the jitmost, he as
serted, to hold out until the new har
vest.. , . , - ....
CRACK GERMAN SOLDIERS
Model Division Sent Into Breach
At Chateau Thierry by Hun General .
OPPOSE AMERICAN TROOPS
- ' y. ... , '. . (By Asoclatd I'rrM.) . , . ' i
With the American Army in France, i success, and we, as a model division.
June 21. Just why the formidable
German 28th .division, was placed ,in
front of the American , troops north
west of. Chateau Thierry, and also why
a prize' regiment of that division now
is in the front line is shown by a let
ter taken from a prisoner. The letter
was written June 10 by Grenadier
Landauer of tne-jrenkdier,s regiment
No. 110,' to his, relatives in Germany,
It is Grenadier Landauer himself who
is the prisoner and his' letter is elo
quent testimony as to the impression
that v the Americans have made on
the .German emperor's best' troops.
The letter reads; -v' . '. . . .. ;
i "As far as my health is concerned,
I am faring well and that is the most
important thing. We aregain in the
front line because the American divU
Sion, opposite', us has achieved tome
Austrian Expected
To Concentrate Forces
In Renewed Assault
Italian Headquarters in Northern
Italy, June 21. It is considered only
a question of a brief lapse of time
before the Austrians will begin an
other offensive. It is said that this
time they probably will contentrate
their forces, instead of scattering
them as they did a week ago, when
they followed the German plan of
attempting to make a big general
offensive over a long line before re
vealing their point of attack.
It is thought that the plan was
even dictated by General Luden
dorff, the German commander, who
did not realize that the Austrians
were too weak to make such an at
tack, lacking as they did not only
artillery but general officers and of
ficers of lower grade." "
The reported presence of Em
peror Charles on the Italian front is
considered one of the signs leading
to the belief that the Austrians will
feel the .necessity of renewing their
attack. ; ' ,
YANKEES RENEW
FIGHTING AROUND
CHATEAU THJERRY
Line Straightened by Series of
Brilliant Attacks; Enemy Po
sitions Subjected to Heavy
Bombardment.
With - the t Amefican ; Army in
France; K; June 1 21. The American
forces northwest of Chateau 'Thierry
thii morning . further straightened
their line-by a series of small but
brilliantly executed attacks on the
nofth"'srae of Belleau wood. i
Americans at midnight last night
poured an . avalanche of projectiles
into- the wooi to-.the east of Chateaii
Thierry, ' where Aerial .photographs
had, shown there ws ,a host pi Ger
man troops and much enemy material.
The enemy undoubtedly w severely
punished.'' .t'' '; .-, ,'
.The American fire reached the high
est concentration mo a iu-minute
erlod when 1,200 -shells, of air cal
ers fell on one small afea. Later
the American gunners concentrated
their fire ' 6h 'the" toWnTof " Brasles,
where many of the : enemy were jas
setribled and which was the scene of
recent ; captures of pdsoners" by Our
patrols'... ? Aerial observations today
show the extreme 'accuracy; of bur
fireibut of course , the exact effect is
unknown. ' .
Attacks Repulse Says Berlin.
Berlin, June 21. Attacks by Amer
ican troops northwest of Chateau
Thierry and by. the Frerichouthwest
of Noyon were repulsed-by the Ger
mans, according to the ..German offi
cial communication issued today.
Both the French and the Americans
suffered heavy t casualties and some
prisoners, says-the communication.
U.S. Rainbow Division i
' Praised for Good Work ;
- ' Orl'Frontm Lonrame
With' itie .:" American" ! , Army In
tfrannTune 1 21 American- troons
teiRjSoSffi; InZ
completion of 100 days consecutive
L. t,. Trrih.'
erood work of the xlivision.
The citation renders homage to fthe
fine military qualities which the di
vision has contuiually exhibited- and
to the services it has rendered in this
sector," and adds: r
"The spirit, method and discipline
shown by the officers and men proved
they can at first call take a glorious
place in, the line of battle." ,
are to make good this loss
"At the present moment we are
lvinir in reserve in - a small wood,
where we Jiave made dugouts and'
furnished them with an sorts ot stun
from a nearby inn. Of course,, we are
getting' all sorts of knocks frort the
enemy-artillery, which; especially at
night, shoots at us accurately. '
t "Up t& now, everything has gone
pretty well, but we hope to be relieved
Soon and get some rest If one has
been' for; more than 14, day In' this
mixup, one has more than sufficient.
"For the present I am still in good
spirits and even if one does lose
one's head at times, one must; pull
one's self j together again. , Better
times wiU ' come and. then , all the
thousand; sorrows that now oppress
us will be forgotten. 'I have heard
with joy that no harm came to you
through the actiof enemy aviators J
IZiv Trewd a document S"li ludes only the ma Pyljto be-
be kept by them as a valuable sou twei.20 and 30 years and would be
venir f the war. It is a citation by ter"y if the nsoal mih-
the French general testifying to the tary. units of from 18to 45 were
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Omaha Minister Safe at
Front in France
-''key dfafn GalVQcb:
Mrs. John Calvert of Benson is
in receipt of a cablegram from lier
husband, Rev. John Calvert, in
which he states that he has arrived
safely "over there." Mr. Calvert
went to France as a Young Men's
Christian association secretary and
expects to be gone a year.
U. S. MAY EQUIP
LATIN AMERICAN
TROOPSFORVAR
Authority for. Training Hfre
r Men of Other Nations Con
ferred by Amendment
; V f to Army Bill.
; Washington, June 21. Authority to
train in this country and to furnish all
necessary eouipment tothe troops of
any other natioti engaged in the war
on Germany and Austria would be
"given the War department under an
amendment added to the $12,000,000,
000 army appropriation bill today by
th. senate military committee.
: As originally proposed by Secre
tary Baker, the amendment provided
only for' the training 'and equipping
of troops from the Latin-American
republics, but the committee made its
application general so that' war
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nished any nations fighting against
the Teutonic powers and also in or-1
la Viil i minhf Hftf Tm I m Afl an
expressed invitation, to the Latin
American governments. In discussing
the amendment today, Secretary
Baker said emphatically that no defi
nite plans looking to training foreign
troops in America had been taken up
and that no;particular country was in
mind when the amendment was sent
to congress. The department, hd re
iterated, simply -desired to be in a
position to act should the occasion
arise. ' '.' .'.'
The eight Central and South Amer
ica nations which already have
UCt niab it, sin 5 it ii v b uvvuivw
broken relations witn uermany pos-
ss a2 -t less
tJ!'A:w90:
outations made here. l his hgure in-
wusiucitu. i .
In the opinion x here Brazil, the
largest of these nations, probably
could raise an army oi 1,000,000 men
if aided by the United States in
financing and equipping them. The
other seven nations, Bolivia, Guate
mala, Ecuador, Uruguay, Nicaragua,
Honduras and Costa Rica, could fur
nish more than 1,000,000 additional
men. -
Operation of Railways
Fpr Four Months Costs
I Nation $250,000,000
Chicago, June 21. The railways of
the United States afterfour months'
of federal operation show a deficit
of S2S0.000.000. according to computa
tions announced today by the Bureau
of Railway News and Statistics of
Chicago. V x
These figures, it was asserted, were
comoilcd from the monthly returns
of the roads to the interstate-commerce
commission and are said to
reveal that the net operating revenue
for the first third of the year. 1918,
was less than $50,000,000 against a
rental due of more than $300,000,000.
. ,
Former German Steamer
v' Goes Down After Collision
- Washington. June 21. Sinking of
the American steamer Schurz in col
lision with the American steamer
Florida off the North Carolina coast
was announced tonight by the Navy
department. One seaman was killed,
but. all others of the Schurz's crew
were darerl
The Schure was the former Ger-
man ship Geier, of 1,600 tons burden
ZbOnO(X)
"PfAfl'Tr1
LIN-
M
Four Fugitives From '
Berlin Reach Denmark
Safely in Airplanes
Copenhagen June 21. Four resi
dents of Berlin escaped from Ger
many Thursday in two airplanes
and succeeded in landing safely in
Denmark. The. occupants of the air
planes declared that they fled from
Berlin because of conditions there.
The two machines, which are of
the Albatross type, left Berlin early
Thursday morning. Their flight
'was observed and guardships elong
the coast were warned. When the
machines reached the Baltic, the.
guardships opened fire and it was at ,
first erroneously reported that one
of the airplanes had been brought -down.
'
One of the two occupants of the
first Albatross was Dr. G. F. Nico
lai, formerly a professor of physi
ology at the Berlin university. He
is the author of a book that de
nounced Prussian militarism and
had been punished - with imprison
ment because of its publication.
NEWSPAPER MEN
SEE CLASSY FILM
VAKEUP AMERICA
Scribes to Be Guests of Market
Week Committee Picnic at
Carter Lake and See
Ball Game.
"Wake Up America" pictures were
the principal feature at the evening
entertainment to the Nebraska scribes
following a , banquet at the Chamber
of Commerce. The editors were
guests of the commercial body at
their club rooms. ' '.,1 '
O. Talmage, chauTnaJ. ot the
bureau of publicity' was toastmaster
at the banquet ( , John W. Gamble,
chairmari of the executive committee,
addressed the association. His talk
was replete with things of Interest
to the craft and stirring with patriot
ism. , .
Hear Jazz Music.
Don Desdune's band furnished the
music and fitted in with the spirit of
the meeting. The editors added
"jazz" to the music and kept every
one rollicking with their impromptu
songs.; State Publicity Director Will
Maupin and Will Israel of Havetock
made a decided hit with their down
south nielodies. These songs were
the same ones which gained them
notoriety during a recent tour of the
state made by the editors. ,
The editors and their wives had
fce&l ZtE
Vf' ? "'".rV
ilulvl viuv.iiv.nv tiv v
Titus Lowe tell of things he saw dur
ing his visit to France.
,. Tour Red Cross Shops.
The women were then taken on a
tour of the Red Cross workshops of
the city while the men transacted
business.
At noon all mef at Fifteenth and
Howard streets where special cars
were waiting on which they were
taken to the stock yards. kThere they
saw the big plant and were entertain
ed at luncheon by " the stockyards
company. Bruce McCulloch presid
ed and Mayor Smith made an ad
dress. ; -.
Yesterday afternoon they.' were
taken in automobiles on a sightseeing
tour of the city,, including Fort Oma
ha. Today's Fun.
Saturday the association will be the
guests oi the Market Week commit
tee at a picnic on the Carter Lake
club grounds. The morning will .be
devoted to an athletic carnival and
aquatic sports. In the Afternoon
Hugh McVcy of Topeka, Kan., will
deliver an address on "Rural Com
munity Building." In the' aftarnoon
they will be entertained at a ball
game at Rourke park. . The game will
be called at 3:30 instead of a twi
light game in order that the editors
may attend
TAGGART THINKS HE'S FOUND
Though Exempt and Over Age, Court Re
porter Says He'll Fire Machine Gun.
WAY TO GET INTO THE FIGHT
(Baffled in his, attempt to enlist in
Ihe United States air service, the Brit
ish royal flying corps -and the Cana
dian air cofris, J. S. Taggart, court re
porter in Judge Troup's court room,
thinks he has finally found a way to
get into the army.'Ife has assurances
that he will be accepted by the ma
chine gun. company, Forty-first Infan
try, United States regulars, now sta
tioned at' CampFun'ston. ' . '
Taggart, who enjoys an income of
several thousand dollars a year, is 36
years old, too old for the, United
States aviation service. He passed an
examination-for admission to the Brit
ish royal flying corps, but three day
before his papers reached London "an
order was passed barring all but Brit
ish subjects from the flying service.
The Canadianvaeria,l corps was next
on Taggart's list But he soon found
Km Stiadi. ate..
ITALIAN TROOPS
PRESS FOE BACK
ON PIAVE RIVER
v f .."
Invaders Iik Precarious .Predicament With River Out of
Banks and Bridges Swept Away; More Than 40 k
Enemy Divisions Engaged in Battle Line
Ana 30 Suffer Heavily - I v
i BULLETIN. ,
Paris, June 21. The" Austrian losses in their offensive
on the Italian front exceed 120,000 men according to a
dispatch to La Liberte from Rome;' quoting the' correspond
ent of the Corriere De 'Italia - !
(By Associated Press.)
, Italian Headquarters in Northern Italy, June 21-Fresh
rains have turned the Piave river into a swirling yellotf flood,
which moves silently hut swiftly, dealing a fateful blow to' the
Austrians on its western bank, tearing up the communicating
lines and preventing succor being given the shattered divisions
struggling under the steady pounding of the Italian guns of the
Duke of Aosta's third army , . : 1 7
: O The satisfaction of the Italians over
ALLIED BARRIER
HOLDS ENEMY Oil
LONG MEM
Austrian Drive in Italy So Far
'Signally Unsuccessful; Amer
ican Aviators Join in "
Raids on Pontoons. 1
"t "
' (Djr AMOcUtod TttM.) . ;
The barrier' the Italians and their
allies have raised along the t great
battle arc from the Asiago plateau to
the sea remains insuperable to the
Austrians. , , -
The operations by which the enemy
had hoped to press hisway from the
mountain peaks in the Alps and across
the Piave river to tne plains oi
Venetia thus far have met with almost
signal failure. Where the enemy wis
able in the mountains to press back
slightly the allied defenders of the
front in the first day of their offensive,
the ground has been regained; where
he crossed the Piave river and appar
ently was threatening the plains with
invasion, he npw is being sorely
harassed at every point by the
Italians. 'tn'
The battle is not a stalemate. In
the mountains the Italian, British and
(Continued oa P Two, Column IVro.)
Sidney Gottneid Given
Watch by Associates
" On Entering the Army
" Sidney , Gottneid, 2729 South
Twenty-third ' street, chief journal
clerk in the office of District Clerk
Robert Smith, received a silver mili
arw wrist watch Friday afternoon
from the clerks arid employes in the
office. Gottneid will spend tne last
da of his seven years' service as
clerk' Saturday, and leaves net Fri-
( day for Fort Riley, Kan.
.Uottneia wouia orainaruy noi uc
called for military service in the draft
until next September, but he had
asked his draft board to push his
name forward on the list. He is 29.
"Bob" Smith in his speech of pre
sentation spoke of ' Gottneid's seven
years of faithful service, of his pleas
ant relations with his fellow employes
and of the pride they felt in his go-4
ing into the national service.
that six months' residence and natur
alization as a Canadian is a prerequis
ite to admission to the Canadian fly
ers. Taegart is a veteran of the .Spanish
war and has seen two and one-half
vears of military service. . .
"I havebeen told that I could, get
a commission in some noucombatant
branch of the service," he says, "but
every old soldier knows, how I feel
when I say that no soft snap job be
hind the Unes would suit me. I want
action. , S it's ,yie .suicide, squad or
none at all for me now." '
As aji administrative official Tag
gart would be exempt from military
service, even- though he fell within the
limits of the present .draft law. .
. He is a Nebraska lad and was born
in Nebraska City, where his parents
still live. -
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the present situation is matched only
by . the . spger of the Austrian cow .
m'and." y: t. .-. , -.'-f - ; ,
Flood Hamnert Anstrisns. -
' According to' prisoners the swollen
river has been, the ' culmination of a
series of difficulties which prevented
the Austrians from making headway
either on the Montello plata or that
lection of the country -lying between
the Trctiso-Meitre and the Saa Dona
Di Piave-Mestre railway lines, wheta
the fighting has been har and cruel
all thfc. week, with the. Austrian sorely
oresed St, every point and, harassed
on, both Sides of the rivet by the ZtaJ
iani'Small guns and also Tiuge pieces
belonging tff the navy rriounted on.
floats, which move, about the water
way -at, wiH.;.,' - -hfi'V-'jV . ,
, Signor Barscca, .considered Italy
premier aviator, is missing. His ma
chine fell inside the hostile lines after
it had caught fire during a .fight. ;
v - Rome June 21."The f Austrian
plan becomes plainer and ' plainer,
says a semi-official note issued today.
"The plan is to obtain, no matter
!' ,Vif . nfii- ' rnmmjnrf nf. the Mon
tello, whence tljey Ncan nun rorwaru
th divisions accumulated on the left
bank of , the Piave;
"Along the Montebelluno-Snsegana
railroad, the battle ragedtU pf yes
terday afternoon and night A ahort;
stretch of the track whiclr the Aus
trians captured was covered with the
bodies of their dead.",' 1 ,
r, "Attacks follow one ' ; another
methodically but slowly on account of
the difficult terrain and the continue
-ft... -I. . Hi,,. . wfiSrh nrmvmnt.
both sides from using i their ?artiljery
to the full effect. , The , fine weather
is favorable ; to ' aviation operations,'
and the Italian airplanes continue to
destroy , bridges and ta direct iheir ;
machine'guns at a: low altitude o
the enemy troops. ; . ; '
Thirty Divisions cut up.., ,
- f "At present more than 40 enemy di
visions are engaged jn the 1 battle
line and ' of these 30 already have
suffered, heavily. v. s . :
"Jhe Italian counter-offensive is
absolutely superior to the enemy of-
I VK-.a..I .a. . MA HANI. A
region and. on the Treviso-Sah Pona
Di Piave road and toward the Zen
son bend, the Italians reduced by a
good half the ground won by the en
emy in his grand attack on, the pre-,
ceding day. ,v 1
J "Ctamanta. a! . MrldANAM ti4 : (flit .
number of dead counted on the field
show that, the Austrians lost heavily,
in the day's fighting. - ' i
"The attack on Lo'ssOn was carried
out by a fresh brigade, composed of
the 150th! and: 32nd Schuetzen corps
and special detachments. - The Italian
counter-preparation caught the enemy
while assembling and threw them into
disorder.- Nevertheless 1 his, attack
was delivered and thanks to the ar
tillery support, "a strong' portion got
a tooting on,, the eastern edge ot
Losson but later was . enveloped by
a rapid, and., brisk., counter attack.'
Eighty men were captured and the
remainder were killed or wounded. '
"At Cortellazzo - the check was
equally costly for the . Austrians).
Bluejackets and Bersagliercl succeed
ed by a surprise attack in breakin'l
into thfe third line,- sowing death an!
terror among the defenders' and cap
turing .200 , 'prisoners. . The "dash
enabled the Italians to wtde"h their
positions.""7'. ;; .:,,r;., . '
Food Carried by Airplanes.
Austrian.' airplanes were" compelled
to carry provision to- the Austrian
troops thatvsuccefcded iii' crossing the ;
Piave . river and wefe in ' danger of
Starving Owing to ; the flood which"
carried away Jheir , pontoon bridges
between Zenson. and..Musile accord
ing to a .dispatch received here by
the Girornale.Dttalia. . In '.spite,- of
the difficulties' that he is encounter-
ing. General VYurm, the enemy com
mander, i attempting to press on.
face of the resistance presented at?
l WSi..,r,V.'.