Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ifaMM PJUBING ITALIANS. Oanwpcatal Telle What He Saw Dntaf the Flghttu*. From the New York World. The Italian Front on the Playe, June 14. (Tin London, June- 26.)? The Auatrions bolt across the Piare was a disaster. So closely did the Italians press upon the enemy's heels that Austrian soldiers were taken prisoners as they were trying to push nff twurta frrnn t)u> rlvar hink Tho - lost Italian batteries have been retaken. 8ome were found filled with explosives ready to be destroyed, but Austraians did not have time to blow them np. Several enemy batteries, hundreds of machine guns, thousands of rifles and an airplane have been found on the evacuated ground. The number of prisoners reported increasing hourly. It seems that on Saturday night the Austrians made up their mind to get back over the river. They started to retreat secretly, possibly about 2 a. m. Sunday. Machine guns were left in advanced positions to keep up the impression of unchanged # strength by constant firing. At dawn, Italian patrols, feeling forward, discovered how thin the ' enemy line had become. News of the | A il The F< ^ war pi |i been pi ! market ! These < ? conceri J businei I* The fij y ment t V by the . *> The pi V prove *j* The mi *1* tries. ^ ? ? details A The re] packer X This si] V annual I it appc than tl t V This cc ?a mi A only m A parent! V The a? earned A t means A mere f A Packet A slock i A upon si Furthc Y portioi V ance h A you re A have h ?|> years. X y " To con y and thi ? prices times 1 tional enemy's withdrawal was flashed up and down the line from the Mootello to the sea and everywhere an attack wu ordered. Ihe Montello is now free of all enemies except fugitives hiding in holes. Nervosa, which the enemy had made his gste to the Montello, was in Italian hands again last nigh?. The piles of corpses on the Piave shore show what losses the Austrlans had yesterday morning in trying to get across the river by boats and foot bridges under shell and machine gun fire. The 31st and 23rd rifle regi ments of the Austrian army, however, fought gallantly a rearguard action on the upper Plavo from Saturday evening till yesterday afternoon. They then had only eighty men wounded, and when these surrendered the general commanding this bridge, named von Kronstadt, shot himself. The whole Italian army is at the zenith of its fighting enthusiasm. Man for a man it Is worth twice what it was a week ago today. Doth sides are now adapting themselves to the new conditions by the Austrlans under Italian pressure of ground They had occupied this side of the Plarve. A few Italian patrols have crossed the river at some places and searched the bank for prisoners. jre th e Plain 1 ederal Trade Commission in ofits, stated that five large rofiteering and that they hai t. conclusions, if fair and just, i n not only to those engaged but to every other citizen rures given on profits are mis hat the packers have a mon facts. ickers mentioned in the repc their profits reasonable and eat business is one of the lar iny citizen who would famili must be prepared for large port states that the aggregati s were $140,000,000 for the 1 im is compared with $19,00< profit for the three years be ;ar that the war profit was he pre-war profit. >mpares a three-year profit v inifestly unfair method of m tisleading, but the Federal T ly has made a mistake in th rgregate three-year profit < on sales of over four and a about three cents on each d raction of a cent per pound ol s' profits are a negligible fa ind meats. No other large uch small margins of profit. ;rmore?and this is very imp i of this profit has been paid as been put back into the bus alize when you consider the tad to solve?and solve quick duct this business in war tir e necessity of paying two or t for live stock, has required tl the ordinary amount of work profit makes only a fair retu ? I went to Narvesa this afternoon. r? All was quiet except for a desultory o' exchange of shells, but the ground pi bore traces enough of the desperate c< fighting by which the Italian decided ai that the Austrians should give up fc the small fruits their offensive ic yielded. To get ray car along one of ti the roads up which Italian troops p] had fought their way to retake Ner- I vesa it was necessary to be constant- w ly shifting out of the way telegraph 11 poles, tree tops and fences that the cl bombardment had strewn across its shell Dltted breadth. Italian dead lay scattered *on the t? road and in ditches according as is their last advance had been a rush b: along the open or a crawl under cov- d er. For in the lanes of this crampled, ei inclosed country Austrian machine guns had taken a heavy price in gal- in lant lives. An officer showed me one cl redoubt in the outskirts of Nervesa H where no fewer than twelve machine tl guns had swept the ground on all sides. They had been silenced at last but Italian soldiers lay heaped up around them. , It was quiet though on the banks g of the upper Piave, so quiet one ^ could motor for several miles along g the road within 100 yards of the d river bank. It needed but a glance c upward to realize where was the t Packe Facts About 1 its recent report on meat packers have re a monopoly of the ire matters of serious in the meat packing of our country. leading and the statelopoly is unsupported irt stand ready to necessary* gest American indusarize himself with its totals. j profits of four large three war years. ),000 as the average fore the war, making $121,000,000 greater rith a one year profit mparison. It is not radfc Commission ape figures ii">mselves. [)f $140,000,000 Vrosj half billion dollars. It lollar of sales?or a f product I ctor in prices of live business is conducted ortant?only a small dividends. The baldness. It had to be, as problems the packers ly?during these war rtes, with higher costs hree times the former he use of two or three ? Ji_i rrn. - u! .nig capnai. tne aoairn on this, and as has \ *T*' ?sl activity of the day. Since 51 clock thia morning the Italian air-' lanes have hardly come down ex-. ;pt for petrol and more munitions, ad the weather has been perfect r their work. They were engaged i blowing up an Austrian munitions 'ain in the Conegliano station. In hotographB of this explosion, which have seen, the immense mass of hite smoke from the explosion look ke a cloud close beneath the ma- J line. The body of Major Baracca, Italys' -ack airman, who fell on the Montllo, where it was found by an Italin war correspondent, was brought ack for burial. As I heard Major 'Annunzio say of his famous brothr airman tonight: "It was the finest death an airtan could have. No enemy flier can j aim to have brought Barocca down. | [e died an unconquered champion of ! le air." Grandmas Not So I'd. hNther gazed long and earnestly at he picture of a be-capped and bepectacled little old lady that headed ter reading lesson. "Miss Brown," he said, wonderingly, ai last, "they lon't make grandmothers nearly so tld now'days as they used to, do hey? " :rs Pro 1 :he Meat Bu ) ' I been stated* the larg< been used to finance additions and impro enormous demands ol If you are a business nificance of these fac iness, talk this matte tance?with your bai I profits of the packiu \ large industry at the 1 No evidence is of fere 1 in support of the stal j monopoly. The Comn ] number and imports IThc packers mention prove to any fair mi competition with eacl to manipulate prices. If this were not true (positivc statement Furthermore, govern large packers menti< / about one-third of th They wish it w***e P< of th<"*- business. ( aressed beef for less ing to utilization of b of the methods of dist as well as in other cc The five packers mer with each other to th public statement. rney have been able i in its time of need; promptly and comph their case to the fair with the facts before L i I &&& I j ^^KJSX^BMSESSSi a Put on the Bevo ( I when you set the table for the bite to enjoy with your guests of the eve Here is a lunch menu worth rememt cheese and chopped olive sandv/icl bread)?dill pickles?shrimp salad? Itself a nutritive, Bevo adds an ap to any meal?hot or cold, light or h Served everywhere?families suppl druggists or dealers. The all-year-*rourid soft Manufactured and bottled ?iclu?iv< j Anheuser-Busch T. C. SLOAN j i Distributor MAI fiteersr isiness er portion of the profits earned has huge stocks of goods tnd to provide vements made necessary by the f our army and navy and the Allies, man and you will appreciate the sigts. If you are unacquainted with bus;r over with some business acquainnker, say?and ask him to compare ig industry with those of any other i present time. d by the Feti^jral Trade Commission oment that the large packers have a lission's own report shows the large .nee of other packers. ted in the statement stand ready to i i ? . . * - naea person tnat they are in keen i other, and that they have no power > they would not dare to make this ment figures show that the five >ned in the report account for only e meat business of the country. [>ssible to interest you in the details [)f how, for instance, they can sell than the cost of the live animal, owy-products, and the wonderful story Tibution throughout this broad land, tuntries. itioned feel justified in co-operating e extent of together nresentine- this to do a big job for your government ; they have met all war demands ;tely and they are willing to trust mindedness of the American people them. ARMOUR AND COMPANY CUDAHY PACKING COMPANY MORRIS & COMPANY SWIFT & COMPANY WILSON & COMPANY , -I JJi n Classes | you are going j rning. ll >ering: Cream I I ies (on brown fljjl -ice cold Bevo. petizing flavor j eavy. II ied by grocers. In drink 4ji >ly by I H St. Louis jfl UON, S. C. jfjj mi' i a jj| v i *? + i t t t t X T 1 t X X X f X X X * >* V I i X * . :<2.