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•CHANGE DRAFT RULE ALL DISCHARGES AND EXEMP TIONS ARE WITHDRAWN TO RE-CLASSIFY MEN ^ Set* Forth I'lanM to Oovorn RegalAtlonn of Draft Law-*—^very Man Not In SorvW-Munt FUR Out QurmlJonnairc — Anawoni ^WIII CJaiutify Them for Scm-vIc© Call#*. I’rovoftt Marshal General Knoch Crowder has taken the most radical Mtcp yet made in revlHion of the draft regulations. An entire new net of regulations was made public, comprising a book let of more than 100 pages. They will govern the selection of every man calltMl to the colors in the fu- tarc. Thousands of copies are being .sent to all local and district boards in the country. Certain of the regulations go into effect on November 20. Others, not ably those which govern the process of selection and classification, will oot become effective until December -i:». when the local boards will be gin sending out questionnaires to lhr* registered men. •‘The new regulation*,” says a Haiement by Gen. Crowder, **not only repent all preceding regula- iJons. hut cancel all exemptions .tad dlarhanre* which have been granUMl by local hoard* under the • prvwent system. They will restore t-*ery man to his original statu* md tlie local l»oar<l* will semi a qumthinnaire to every man who Is •m* In the IMsirlblng the new scheme and *ttmm.iiaaing the new regulations C.m Crowder said: •Tb* completion by aach regla- t/sot of the Questionnaire la the first great stage of the new system and ihr dirricultles which will attend It sto fully recognised. To meet them fhU office has begun the mobllisa **oa of the legal taleat of the roun try to eaable every oae who eeeha It * in receive aid la the preparatloa of hi* questionnaire The rotapletion of the question ra re by the registrant will not re quire as much worh as did the pie claim for dependency uadei system la It the reglstraat •• she a full statemeat of all the farts . .**1 which he will reply to aoctire inferred claaelflealloa aad upoi - s »eh u»e local board will be ei - led to tit ble dase * If the registrant I* a farmer m rn tiled la aay eaterpiiee which Is • eseary to the public latereet. hs •..uet state the fhets la miaete do I «il. hut so shlllfufty has tho gnus i -naalre hosa designed that every enavar Is aatldpated aad regal ocly ta rare lastsares more thaadvo «ff three words 1>n# of the aoleworthy festuree of (he nee regulations Is the ap leoaimeat of an officer of the re- •errs corps of (he Cnlted Ht.'les as sn ssslstsat to the sdjataat general of each state This officer will also »*» the disbursing officer, and the fteas, tsl affairs of the selective »er vice system will thus be brought (Bio intimate touch with the provost mar- sJi.il general • office ••IJoder part 4. which deals with rlasaifirst!oa rules and principles, there are clearly laid down the varl* • 'tis rule# which will govern district *r.d local boards In the classification of registrants '' ‘ The group of registrants within the jurisdiction of each local board 4« taken as the unit to be classified IWthin oerb rises the order of lie. toAlty Is rirCrrntlnod by the drawing u lib h has hither!.i a*«Ugned to esrry muui an order of avallablllt) ft»r mili tary M-rvice relative to ail men not .M-nnaneetJ, or tiunptvrai'iJy evempt- «-d «ic dUchargeil. The effect of classification in c’ass one is to render every man so < tanaifted liable to military service In the order determined by the nation al drawing. The effect of classifica tion in class two is to grant a tem porary discharge from draft, cffec- tive until class one in the jurisdic tion of the same local board is ex hausted The effect of classification in class three is to grant a temporary .Hscharge from draft, effective until • lasses one and two, in the jurisdic tion of the same local board, are ex- t austed and similarly class four be • nines .liable only when classes one. tand three are exhausted. The • •ffoct of classification in class five is to grant exemption or discharge II <>m draft.’* The .si\t4M'n-pag<* questionnaire compiled by Provost Marshal Gen eral (Towder’s draft expert* has Iwuut formally mmle public. It asks i IK questions, dtMigmsl to disclose a man's whole life. ^ Oh the answers each of the imui who must reply to these questions give, will depend their selection for military service. One of the most important fea ture® of the questionnaire is th£ fact t Mat it contains for the first time of- tirtally the exact classifications, the . xuet nature of the five groups in which registered men will be divid ed. These were given uncfficially a dinner in honor of Secretary of War Baker and Gen Crowder in New York, but have been widely revised M’d greatly changed since then. As »'i.ide public, they follow’: Class 1. « a) Single men without dependent r ! a lives. . fb) Man led man, with or with- • ' it children, or father of mother- \> * children who has habitually fail- • ; to support his family. • cl Married man dependent on v Te for support • d) Married man. with or with- t. il children; or father of moiberleuu • ' ildrea; man not usefully family sapper ted by Income pendent of Mi labor. (e) Unskilled farm laborer. (f) Unskilled industrial laborer. •Registrant by or In res poet of whom no deferred classification Is claimed or made. APPEALS TO LABOR Registrant who falls to submit t WILSON ASKS THAT COUNTRY'S questionnaire and in respoct of \ deferred classification^ is j WORK BE PUSHED , v claimed or made. All registrants not Included In any other division in this schedule. WAR MUST FIRST BE WON or father of motherless children, ^ where such wife or such motherless children are not mainly dependent upon his labor for support for ^ne reanon that there are other reason ably certain sources of adequate sup port (excluding earnings or possible earnings from the labor of the wife), available, and that the removal of the registrant will not deprive such dependents of support. (b) Married man without chil dren, whose wife, although the reg istrant is engaged in a useful occu pation, is not mainly dependent upon his labor for support, fqr the reason that the wife Is skilled in some spe cial class of work which she is phy sically able to perform and in which she is employed, or In which there la an immediate opening for her under conditions that will enable her to President Opposes Negotiations IahiJo ing to End of Htrifo Until Victory la Won—Says Teutons Will Win if Peace Is Now Made—Ha* Bent a •' •/ v . • » • ■ V. 'A '' • • Great Ijover of Peace Abroad to U'iad Out How to End tho War With Victory. The text of the pre^i-ent's. speech before thfe American Federation of Uibor follows: “Mr. President, Delegates of the American Federation of Labor, Ladies and Gentlemen: I esteem it a great privilege and a real honor to be thus admitted to your public support herself decently and with-, counc ^ a - ^ Tien your executive com- out suffering any hardship. i mittee paid me the compliment of in- (c) Necessary skilled farm labor- 'Ding me here I gladly accepted the er in necessary agricultural enter- 1 t “ vltat | on b ©CAUse it seems to me Necessary skilled industrial our bistory, is the time for common en- j * prise. (d) laborer in necessary industrial terprise. riass HI. • (a) Man with dependent children (not his own), but toward whom he stands in relation of parent. ; that this, above all other times in counsel for the drawing not only of I the energies but of the minds of the , nation together. 1 thought that It ' was a welcome opportunity for dis closing to you some of the thoughts that have been gathering in my mind during the last momentous Cb) Man with dependent, aged or months. infirm parents. | "j introduced to you- as the (c) Man with dependent helpless p res |^ en ( 0 f the United States and brothera or staters. i yet I would be pleased If you would County or ■—telpal officer. 1 pu t the thought of the office Into (el Highly trained fireman or policeman, at least three years in service of munlcInalHy. ifi Necessary fusion house clerk. <g) Necessary employee of Unit ed States In transmission of the malls. (b> NoetMnry artlfleor or work- Mi Un!to4 Stains armor* or an il I) Necessary enployee In service of United States ij» Necessary assistant, assorts to or hired manager of necessary agri- cult nml enterprise. - — lk) Necessary highly specialised ter ha lea I or mechanical esperi of necessary industrial enterprise. ll) Neceaanry assistant or associ ate manager of neoeanary Industrial enterprise IV. • Ife or children the background and regard me as one of your fellow cltlsens who has come here to speak, not the words of authority, but the words ol coun sel. the words which men should ■peak to one another, who wish to be frank la a moment more critical perhaps than the history of the world has ever yet known A moment when It Is every man’s duty to forget him self, to fo r ge< bis own Interests, to remind ourselves Juet how this war rrme about and Just what It la for fill himself with the nobility of * great national and world conception, sad net apon n new platform ele vated above (he ordinary affairs of elevated to. where men have views of the long destiny of maa- hM. •*l think that In order to realise jnst what thta moment of council In It la very desirable that we should ** 1 await (he verdict of history Aad legislative, ex ere (he thing that needs to he ei plained live, er Judicial of tho Ugitod Hates fee why Germany started the w«r or of MUM, territory, or District gtlMwwiH Wit tho wmMm ol Columbia • b( K’-Kuisr or duly ordained* minister of religion In the world as any tef ItlT. who on preparing for May II. I ilalutry in nstion enviable haa ever Id) la military or naval service of the United Staten. (e) Allen enemy. ** if) Keeideat alien Caot an ene my) who claims esempUoe. Ig) Pent— locoUy and perms neatly physically or mentally nnfit for military sendee. <h) Person morally nnfit to be n soldier of the United Mateo. (I) Licensed .pilot actually ployad ta (be ..malt »• bl. Members of well recognised reli gious sect or organisation, organised snd existing on May II. 1917. whose then ealstlng creed or principles for bid Its members to participate in In any form, and whose r convictions are against war or par ticipation therein. * Seven days are allowed regis trants after receipt of the queetion- ralre to fill It out and return It to the local board. Officials" believe that classification by the boards will be a routine process, requiring lit tle time. * Heel available estimate* indi cate that the flrnt of the five rloaues into which all draft regis trant* are to be divided will con tain more than 2,000,000 men, subject for duty with the color-* l»cforo any man in any other class will he culled up. — L -:—■ ■ -—-r It Is regarded ns practically cer tain that ('ongresK will take up the question of extending the draft law to cover men who have attained the age of twenty-one since it was enact ed. Should that be done and provi sion be made for the registration thereafter of every man as he reach- ed that age. it is probable that per haps 000,000 would he added to class one automatically by next March. In that event, no present plans for the army would reach the men in class two. Officials have already considered the possibility that Congress will de ride to take in these additional young men. Some fair system by which they may be registered, classi- fied and assigned to placea will be devised. New regulations to be puev lished shortly probably. will set a way in which this can be done. The questionnaire automath:«l- ly' revoke* all exempthm* under the first draft. Any man falli.iz to return it with questions an swered within fteten days after it* rec«*ipt, is subject to a year's p Is on sentence. Especially numerous are the ques tions asked of mag who claim emptlon because of de^ndents. The man muat give Urn data, place ..nd jby whbm bn wan married; of income; how much ht wife world stood nl ad of her wonderful intellec tual and material achievements, aad all the Intellectual men of the world went to school to her. Aa a univer sity man, I have been surrounded by men trained In Germany; men who resorted to Germany, bees nee here else could they get such thorough and searching training, ularly In the principles of and the principles that un- derly modern material achievement Her men ol acience had made her pa the most compe tent Industries In the world, and the in Germany.* was of good workmanship and of material. She had access to all the markets of the world and every other man who traded In those mar kets feared Germany because of her effective and almost Irresistible competition. She had a place in the sun. Why was she not satisfied? What more did shie want? . There was nothing the world of peace that she did not already have and have In abundance. "We boast of the extraordinary pace of American advancement. We show with pride the statistics of the increase of our industries and of the population of our cities. Well, those statistics did not match the recent statistics of Germany. Her old cities took on youth, grew faster than any American cities ever grew; her old industries opened their eyes and saw a new world and went out for its conquest, and yet the authorifes of Germany were not satisfied. Yon have one part of the answer to the question why she was not satisfied in her methods of competition. There is no important industry in Germany upon which the government has not laid its hands to direct It and, when necessity arises, control it. "You have only to ask any, man whom you meet who is familiar with the conditions that prevailed before the war in the matter, of interna tional competition, to find out the timates she needs to Uve comfort ably; whether*she ever worked; when and 'where; hoy much she made, what her earnings during the last twelve months were; whether they live with the parents of ei-.her. and.Jf they rent a home.-who their landlord is and how much they pay for rent. Each man must give all his occu pations a*nd how majry hours a day he has put in at each for the last eight years. To assist In this work the coqnci! of national defense at the requ?»t of Provott Marshal General Crowder called upon all state councils of de fense to aid local boards in ihei' preliminarr* classification Five to fifteen workers for periods of from three days to two weeks will be by each board, according to of the district .methods of competition which the ‘German manufacturers and expert# used under the patronage sup port of the government of Germany. You will find that they were the same sorts of competition that we have tried to prevent by law within our own borders. If they could not sell their goods cheaper than we could sell ours, at a profit to them selves, they could get a subsidy from the government which made it-pos sible to sell them cheaper anyhow !p.nd the conditions pfr competition were thus controlled in large meas ure by the German government it self. But that did not satisfy the German government. "All the whole there was lying be hind i^s thought, in its dreams of the future, a political control which would enable it in the long run to dominate the labor and the industry of the world. They were not con tent with successes by superior achievement; they wanted success by. autocracy. I suppose very few of you have thought much about the Berlin-to-Bagdad railway. "The Berlin-to-Bagdad railway was constructed in order to run the threat of force down the flank of the industrial undertakings of half dozen other countries, so that when German competition came in it would not be resisted too far—be cause there was always the possibil ity of getting German armies into the heart of that country quicker than any other armies could be got there. Back at the map of iBurope now. Germany, ill thrusting- upon us again and again the^dfecusshm of peace, talks about what?.Talks about Belgium, talks about northern France, talks about Alsace-Lorraine. Well, those are deeply interesting subjects to us and to them, but they are not talking about the heart of the matter. * "Take the map and look at it. Germany ha* ab*olute control of Austria-Hungary, practical control of the Balkan Staten, control of Turkey, control of Asia Minor. 1 aaw a map in'which the whole thing wn* printed In appropriate * black the other day. nmj the black atreirhed all the way from Ham burg to Bagdad—Cltr bulk of (Ger man pouer lunertml Into the heart of the world. ** "If It ran keep that, nhe kept all that her d * a nnt* contem plated when the war hrgaa. If »he can keep that, her ptmer ran 1 dtatuft) the world aa long mi *br keep* It—alwat* provided, for I feel hound to put IhU provision In, always provided the present In- flamer* that matml the German government continue In control It. "I believe that the spirit of free dom can get Into tbo hearts of Ger mans snd find ns fine a welcome there as It can find la any other hearts Hut the spirit of freedom does not suit the plane of tho Pun- Oermass Rower can not he used with eoar*u:r..ttJ force sgataet free people# If it it used by free people "You know how many Intimations cams to us from on# o( tho ooatrsl | powers that It Is man anxious for pours than the chief central power, and you know that It moans that tho people la that control power know that If the war ends as It stands, they will la effect themne he vnasals of Oormssy. note standing that their populations compounded with alt tho peoph that purl of the world, sad note standing tbs fart that they do Uriah In thoir pride and propur si of nationality to bo absorbed dominated "Germany Is determined that political power of tbo world belong to her. There have been su ambitions before. They have In pari realised. Hat never before have those ambitions been based upon so exact and precise end scien tific a plan of domination. "May I not any that It Is am axing to me that any group of people should be so 111 informed as to sup pose. aa some groups In Russia ap parently suppose, that any reforms planned in the Interest of the people can live *ln the presence of s Ger many powerful enough to undermine or overthrow them by Intrigue or force. "Any body of free men that com pound with the present German gov ernment is compounding for Its own destruction. But that is not the whole story. Any man In America, or any where else, who supposes that the free Industry and enterprise of the world can continue if the Pan-Ger man plan is achieved and German power fastened upon the world is as fatuous as the dreamers of Russia. purpose to do, see that thu condltlons- of labor are not rendered more oner ous by the* war—but also that we shall see to* It that the instrumen talities by which the conditions of labor are Improved are not blocked or checked. That we must do. "That has been the matter about which T havw taken pleasure in con ferring from, time to time with your president, Mr.- Gompers. And, if I may be permitted to do so, I want to express my admiration of bis patri otic Courage, his large vision and his statesmanlike sense of what is to be done* I like to lay my mind along side of a mind that knows how to pull in harness. -The horses that kick over the traces will have to be put in a corral. * . "Now to 'stand together’ means that nobody must interi-upt the pro-* cession of our energy, if the inter ruption can possibly be avoided with out the absolute invasion of freedom. To put it concretely, that means this: Nobody has a right to stop the pro cesses of labor until all the methods of conciliation and settlement have been exhausted; and I might as well say right here that I am not talking to you alone. You sometimes stop the courses of l&bpr, but there are others who do the same, and I be lieve that I am speaking of my own experience of others when I say that you are more reasonable in a large number of cases than the capitalists. "I am not saying things to them personally yet, because I haven’t had a chance. But they have to be said, not in any spirit of criticism. But in order to clear the atmosphere and come down to business, everybody on both sides has got to transact busi ness and the settlement is never im possible when both sides want to the square and right thing. More over, a settlement is always hard to avoid when the parties can be brought face te face. "I can differ with a man much more radically when he Isn’t in the room than I can when be is In the room, because then .the awkward thing is that he can come back at me and answer what I say. It Is always dangerous for a man to have the floor entirety to himself, and there fore we most insist in every instance that the parties come Into each oth er’s presence and there discuss the Issues between them • "Hirrcforr. vm c«»an*H to )*•« Is (lit*: .IjtC u* shorn oarsrtves Ai—rrirans by shoeing that we do not want to gu i»ff in se|anrntr •amf we neimtni by imp*elves, ho4 that we want to r*»-o|M a eate with all other classes anal all other ■r*a|Mi la a common ewteryrtse which Is tv Release the %fdrtl* of the world from bondage. BAKER’S STATEMENT CALL DRIVE AillNST ITALY POLITICAL OFFENSIVE DOUBTS RUSSIAN AID »ntd be silling to set that up final teat of an American the manning of democracy very much distressed. Secretary of War in Hi* Weekly Re view ('ommento on Gain* by BriL l*h and French—Enemy Definite ly on Defensive in the Went— Italian and Russian^ Situation are .... I- Doubtful. The effect of Germany’s "politi cal offensives" against itussia ami Italy, upon the task ahead of the Allies is recognized In Secretary Baker’s weekly review of military operations issred Thesday by the war department. "The close interrelation of events; on all fronts can not too frequently be emphasized," says the review. "The political situation in Russia made it possible for the enemy to detach important contingents in the east which were speedily transported to the Italian front. "It is not unlikely that before ini-. Dating their powerful drive against the Italian forces, the enemy made painstaking and systematic attempts to undermine the morale of the Ital ian troops, with a view tp breaking down thetr resisting power. "This carefully planned political offensive conducted preparatory to their military offensive reveal* clear ly the present methods of the Ger mans "Surveying the broader the European situation to-day w# find that the enemy in the east i confining his efforts to political pneJ paganda Along the Italian sector, he ha* recently made deeperate at tempts lo secure a decision by means of a political-milltar> girlve "In th* west, while attempting to aap-tbe fighting strength of the bel ligerent peoples, the enemy ba* now been compelled to act on the defi*n- slve, snd I* bring slowly, but snrelv driven bark. It sbenld be borne in mfnd. however, thaf the further dis integration of the Russian force* will mean that the Germpne will be eble to thin out their line along tbl* front s blrb will thus aetomatirallv il "I wt as the That ta I have IMP faitoe «itDean* bp aaroa things| that have happened recently The) mob spirit la displaying Itself here and there la this country I have sympathy with what some mea are (fee Ith- are l of aot Mrit and the t ha ( we i ran i our mea have they ' are not thin g whl rb w "What I am opposed to is not the feeling of the pacifist* hut their stupidity. My heart is with them, hut my mind ha* a con tempt for them. 1 want peace, hut 1 know how to get it, and they do not. "You will notice that I sent a friend of mine. Colonel House, to Europe, who is a* great a lover of peace as any man in the world: hut I did not send him on a. peace mission; I sent him to take part in a conference as to how tlie war was to lie won, and he knows, as I know, that that is thi* way to get |>eaoe, if you want it for more than a few minutes. "4H of this is a preface to the conference that I referred to with regard to what we are going to do. If we are true friends of freedom- cur own or anybody else’s—we wjll see that the power of this country and the productivity of this country is raised to its absolute -maximum and that absolutely nobody is allow ed to stand in the way of it. "When I say that nobody is allow ed to stand in the way, I don’t mean that they shall be prevented by the power of the goverpment but by the power of the American spirit. Our duty, if we are.to do this great thing and show America to be what we be lieve her- to be. the greatest hope and energy in the world,-then must be tp stand together night and day until the Job is finished. "While we are all fighting for freedom we muat see. among other thioga. that labor la free; and that a number' of Intereating ».!t means not only that *a)iag. but I hate no sympathy with tbe mea that tabs tbeir punlabmowt Into tbeir own bands aad I want te uaf’to every man tube does Join such s mob that I de aot recognise blm ar worthy of tbe free Institutions <>f tbe United dtotee • • • And so I • ant to niter my earnest protest against any manifestation of tbo aplrtt of laurleuaneau anywhere or In any cause "Why. geatlemen. look what It means: Wo claim to be tbs great est democratic people In the world, and democracy means, first of all. govern ourselves. If not self-control then rapablu of that great u call democratic gov ernment. A man who takes tbe law into bis hands In not tbe right man to co-operste la any form of or de velopment of taw and Institution "And acme of the proceasos by which tbe struggle between capital and labor la carried oa are pro- ceeses that come very near to taking the law Into your own hands. I do not mean for a moment to compare them with what I have Jnat been speaking of. but I want you to see that they are mere gradation* -of the manifestations of the unwillingness to co-operate and the fundamental lesson of the whole situation is that we must not only take common coun sel, but that we must yield to and obey common counsel. "Not all of the instrumentalities for this are at hand. I am hopeful that in the very near future new in strumentalities may be organized by which we can see to it that various things that .are now going on shall not go on. There are various pr - cesses of the dilution of labor and the unnecessary substitution of labor and bidding in distant markets and unfairly upsetting the whole competition of labor, which ought not to go on—I mean now on the part of employers—and we might In terject into this some instrumentality of co-operation by which the fair thing may be done all around. 1 am hopeful that some such instrumen talities may be devised, but whether they are or not* we must use those that we have and upon every occa sion where it is necessary to have such an instrumentality originated upon that occasion, if necessary. "And so. my fellow citizens, the reason that I came away from Wash ington is that I sometimes get lonely down there. There are so many peo ple in Washington who know things that are not so, and there are so few people, in Washington who know anything about what the people of the United States are thinking about. I have to come away to get remind ed of the rest of the country; I have .to come away and ttilk to men who are up against, the real thing and say to them, ‘I am with you . if yqu are with me.’ And the only t'st of being with me is not think about me pqraolKAllJ at all. but merely to.think oi me as the expression for the time being of the pdwer and dignity and hope of the United States." roauib ate lo , Ibe * fen tag < if tbeir (ratal a i tee in the a • -» ne 1 Wi nil aa render SVI Ita ble a led root latent* te tahe per t la 1 the rn Kuir rnrr l a now proceed Hag In Italy "Dei ing tbe 1 w**«* I 1 J nst dors Kt • both (O re<*( »rd i Biftrs nt tactical gain • v **YV|i ih r *SM * beat itaele seen ri #1) in Brit lab hand*. tbe fl( rat stag* »f tb# opera t) on* be gen dv iriag th a led week nf St tptem her have been brough t to i a fttarreaaful mn r| r. '*HkPHRPMMrtl vaanterpan • • *>- Rrltuh •accaas took placo aorth of (he AIM# Hera tbo retreat of the enemy sat)c|paled last aaak waa car ried oat Tbo praaoare of tb# Freer a offensive reached a climax vbea they were enabled to enfilade tbe Oermea line* along tbe creel of the Cbemia- deo-Deme* "For the pa*t lbeep year* tlie prenrace of the rwnmj oa thi« ritlae had brea a **mrre of anxiety to the FVcach. To itt*ludge theta a a* a prtarlpal objertlte of the repealed offm»Ue* •dace l*»t April. Tlie *ardea farced evaraa- (!**•» of unmi 40 *qaaee mile* of the muM important tnmla ta ltd* •ertor of Hie aewtera front ha* beea the tangible renolt achieved. ‘Tbe importance of Ibis aacceaa- ful French advance mnat not ba over looked It mean* more than n mere gain of* no many equare ml lee of ter ritory. it means the penetration of the powerfully fortified Siegfried line, hitherto considered by the ene my impregnable, and pusher, back his main defensive positions to vrtt in five miles of the fortress of Lao the British and the French were able the major objective. "In the sector where a small de tachment of our troops had taken up their places in the trenches as a part of their training, tbe enemy (a* is customary in trench warfare when laken places in front line trenches), for reconnaissance purposes, execut ed a well planned raid and succeed ed in temporarily penetrating short segment of the line held by our forces, inflicting a few casualties and taking prisoners. "A unit of our artillery, also in the course of its training, came in contact with the enemy and acquitted itself very creditably in this first en counter. "In Italy, the situation is develop ing as normally as can bo expected under the circumstances "The Italian retreat, 4 somewhat confused in its earlier stages, has be come more orderly, and the retire ment during the week continued un interrupted. ’ The line of the Tagliamento river was held by the Italians long enough to insure the safe retirement of large bodies of trobps. This line has now been abandoned and the enemy, penetrating the Venetian plain, has reached Livenza. "The Italians are continuing their efforts to detain the \advancing Aus- tro-German forces. “Along the eastern front no opera tions of military importance took place. "The enemy, instead of attacking, has renewed his efforts to fraternize with the Russians. * Owing to the involved political situation and the fresh outbreaks of the extremists elements, it is probable that these may have marked influence on th genera) strategy of the war. whi we must be prepared to meet." Economy in the use of food and * i • coal will make the problem easier. Both of these things are necessary. I a brilliant one to keep tke human machine go ing and tbe other to Insure economic ' Daly seems to be bolding her river lines very well. Let a# hope that the Allies will turn the disaster Into ust do what we have declared our| life victory. They ought to be able to (lo Ibis uBless tbe t'rr, powers are merit stronger in re- •oureee than we think they are