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rr" LIFE IS NOTHING (MSI TO BRSKT Grave ' aclMK An iinvrmment Plana ArGon LESS DEEDS OF HEROISM The grave and menacing situation MARK BATTLE IN FRANCE created by the determination of Na tionalist Ireland united as seldom before, to resist .conscription, has aroused deep interest throughout fGreat Britan. Particctlar empha- TN BIG TG VBBAUZEiK SvSSZr Tl BE MBBE NWEBHIL In its tot with the Sinn Felners who ^ T I have openly proclaimed Germany as World Know** little of the Terrible, their ally. * The bishops have not ' j counseled violence, ■ urging passive Story—Men Fight and*' Dio—Oth- resistance, but this, Dublin cbrre . pondents point out, might easily be ere Heaume Their Places—M ^, .turned into active reaiitance by a • 'Faifhot Giwab Titanic 8tniggle,in hotheads when the time comes “ ■ I to conscript the young men of the Words. ' ' Another (iemian thrust at the al- lie<l lines, more powerful than thoj<i» that 'liavc g(»ne befoiv, is loriked for hy the war depart meat’s strategists if the present drive at the ehamiel ports fails. PYance la*t Alone l>escril>e it in country. 1 The pledge which is to be admin istered to what one authority esti mated as nine-tenths of the entire Catholic population of the country binds them ,‘.*to resist conscription by the most effective means at their disposal.”' This gives’ wide latitude and pleases "the advocates of both passive and active resistance. , The delicacy of the situation^ is LOOK FOR ATTACK WAR DEPARTMENT EXPECTS RENEWAL OF 6ERMAN DRIVE 7 The department’s weekly review Weekly Review of Washington Of ficials Hays Huns Will Make New Effort to Achieve Definite Re- . ^ '■■■ ' •; ■ / : Hiilts—Enormous Sacrifices of En emy Troops Fail to Get Itesired Results. / History is in the.making in North ern France, where 3.000,000 men have been fighting’night and day for a month to decide whether the na tions of the world shall live under the freedom of democracy or the des potism of autocracy. £”£GEN. FOCH SATISFIED •d British michlnt guuusr no morb could wo stof thoc« ■MAAS. You could Shoot 'SAB dOWA wUh your syt* shut but still they ■_ - a; & * •iass the enemy's enormous nacri- recognized by the Irish Times, hith- potism of autocracy. _ tiers have been barred of primary erto.in favor ot conscription, which Rut history and the welfare of na- rcsult;. but-added: Looked at from advises the .gpvenuueiu- and the (i^ nt | it re things which claim scare - i , .. ; ; m gi Iriqh ! adeis to escape from the truly J iy. a ,single thcdight froni thefsi 3. in The VYe;»t it misfiablf position.'’ by orgnui/.’iK j * warriors. T»* them*ilie great gone and the gun was bo hot It warp ed. They went ^own in heaps. You could swing the gun in an arc and see those bathes tall just. llkfe, a scythe cut a swath in a wheat field, but we couldn't stop 'em. It was | one down and another come on." A Yorkshire • infantryman told how his company, reduced to 60 men by 'previous losses, had held a stone fence for three hours against a Ger man company. “We didn't have a machine gun." he said, “but we had rifles and a plentiful supply of ammunition, aud we certainly bad some fine target shootin’ as those Germans came at us across the open fields. We lit tered the ground with dead, we shot until our arms ached, and just as we were gettin’ tired along came a bunch of. Scotch Highlanders and counter-attatked the Germans .in a wood where they were hiding. ‘‘The Germans you know, call the ajK CUSHM TUIUI 6EBMANS HAVE FAILEB Second Month Of Huge Teutonic Ef- fort. See* Wanhington Confident of ITtlmAte Failure of Grant Offen sive of German lioadcro Failure of Three Objectives ia Death Blow'. Germany’s latest and most costly drive to gain an indefinite strategic position has failed after on month's struggle. The second month will be gin, in the general belief of aruiy and official Circles with a short pe riod of recuperation. After ’that ^ 1 tJ y \ , ,i * / must come Hiiidenhurg's supreme ef- .sroh-h ItishlaiKlera tto U«M«« fn>m f(>r ., w|th an ,,. i, v . Hyll. and (hoy Just took oho look 1 waste „ f „„ th# , wdf ,j hal) when those • kilties began to conn at thorn across the fields then, took to their heeK. Hut ..another bun* h :ot* aftei leer . arid we h.ol mifirary siiuation ’can not, i:«»vcvgt. I battle now ra^Htc i: n ii« i iT ri* hi a great vol^mtarily r< , • •!' ’ Thi the uek would nnike th* enfojv st iTt Mon unnecesaarv. BOLSHEVIKI WANT STORES VeU th I- Or«!«*r t»* Rem**v •* Til (s’iiit;tle iia>» iHSMiine a inert- Ifatlit* fo» lire «»r tlt-atli. Ivili, kill, kill is , iIm* him* tiling tl»CM- b.ittle-ihr/t-d hu- | m.-utic .iigj* rt-meiiilM-r. Kill the other ricntivv first, or l»*’ll kill i h*’ I s;ray-rr**en rt'nks of Gennans, ever j pressing forward on their foe*, ap.iw i that it they kill enough LngTl-'h- f men ntal Frenchit en M e battle wMI h i be to A\'** fought j ever dreamed. j The thirty-day drive, on \mleh* jaiH the tw/Mve-duv thru st ‘ direetH I IS III nhoii: *n ioivud'tbo fh:inm*J ]|(>:•« hav. a lorrihm timeU, mw ., v ,. g . aKa , Ih , t a alU1 lh „ r some eot arouml-our 1 i... . 4 ou l(i ., l ack a i d th that t‘i**hi for hoi r:t behind dead G« i,am man di mselves agaitist a a nixed allied line coding positioAn. Foih is satisfied rhis sii-fflih.tut • latton wa>. :‘‘j-cU i an u Hrb vh< utl y d itrlii.n «kilt B1 fl **i 1 1 ft r li ff «# 11 • *1 l>) l.«i*“* ut \ • |*i ’*!* • |lt»J !>!* fu * *AOtit|. | i#*mi*‘ni re tiring to Gorre. a Hi 4 Jr* 44 | i*l gr 4p n».• • ni i• f G**n< ral K»« h as « 1 Th** Brit id Frtt h figi»» ing l n*half an ay, wher** they r**- J ♦ t| giV ., r j { |„v t if* rf!| txu ii«*f i*f ti.t* fttii** • L«*»*i. mclved i| y \ i* I* ph y tt* «*« k u | night t jioi I yiinI iik fnin t th«* i I v r n i flirt I M ‘ i r , ! ^ I ’ .* Hriti IkB lllf.lf'l ft** k 1 M-rr! -to*! l>%# f J"|ffl*■ f IA Ml: ip*!hd'* hrlD axpln-{Grfftt* liH |{ If* * V * iQIY fuqr ^.f iimp.ml, > of l,oi »r * Hitalrp B a It.1 U ,, i f w *• 1 4} f nmd* h|m 1;. 4 t kSt I -.’♦•mitt M MMIttl** 1 r *4 * \lnl 7tZ ?h-rr uf vi h».| f ll h* 11 f* * A ( Jt 11!)|* fM'C »iir***i V i ’ii*» (|»e k\t nrt l« .»h % * 1 Uw ItMtl b'vw rjut *rrd L •iif”««k%nln . I i«1sHt * and P »* , Aili*«l oil ♦ 1 f fit*, f If f • J of* . it»*9 tr ho,« Ht(ii F- • i*| were !*•« eg trd lltv* •wish * d 0f t ll ***0 Hbf* !t t h »t i und*T a f *• Lii s siicM fire, ti -if VC »*«» .*• f • Man** !.•• | f«t II,e (•rVWMM huro f* *4 for IM fWi >| Ihrtr r aped •* 4 »«*4r lb r,r - w 4$ he* k •*» 1 |||,. | # * I«|]|| 1 i, , s , '*»*nf»‘ IH if Ho** . \«* «!«-*.* 1% *4 th* (• si * li ly#" I* *' f f" Ml% rn. m n b ff *hy I tt • noth ur bn* r • Cell U| d ft I the The war has entered on tr •Uge. DlplomaAa, and officinla GL Washlngtoo ao . declare. They <• ac cept the word spoken by Bocrotnry Baker Saturday night that: "Victory la not ’ of hreoking am army, hot of , lag n people's heart." They see in the publication of the secret memorandum of Prtnce L/ich- nowsky, German ambassador at Lon don admitting that the policy of Berlin was/responsible for world war, the document that, ultimately will break the heart ot the German people. Likewise they have seen for days that the publication of the letter of the Austrian Emperor Carl, ad- mitting the justice of the claims of France to Alsace-LornMIne. Is the document that will eventually break the heart of Austria-Hungary. No observer either in the United States department or the chancel lories of the allied missions and em- bassles. is so imprudent as to believe that the morale of either people will j break and fall down af theae single trumpet blasts. Rut. they say. the essential truth of the two publica tions is so powerful that. the^Teutori peoples, sooner or later, will be com- pelled hy tboir consciences to accept, he'rtben The tfme will come, diplomat* pre- mtl-1 diet, w hen th** Teuton people* real!* tan-1 iz* that their arms cannot prevail, thit As lonv as the *ri»nt of p<xss(hle Vir tuosi tory in th«* battlefiehl can be kept before “them, either by dangling the conquered eastern empire or inagni- fying the ifftle western gaj|ls. R It predicted that the Teuton people* will follow'the trail, bloodv though 11’ ft**, to the hitter end. It It even eg!eved*fhtt firing defant—wtt% t ti pent Khlv hav f.N| burg - «»f ItHWiMaltot* •»# 11% fttrnaef «»f has left I the harks of their armies ta the wall i a serfM'skiliM* front nebin-l* the Teuton people* will reslat gal- Itieaw* vital pkMNlw. , III- •* now »«> disposed that he I 14Mf p*itaMise * •4 Is. II. l llsr m«Beet psms—hiiNf Hsren immi hewt |m pMMl%li •MW unman ur I. nd l r* * r Bt •leCkeuiau ef 1 lee* egntl ins that i ta a HesaiU tw VW 1 ».*, * h ethi sewih ef tile lb# u oder* ef ti he 1 hMshevlhi rear* •fds *4 tkesuih it Wu mid mesM te ship the military * 4 J* are to aereei» that Ihe at V ledltwaSwh tw Bwrenmm M MMM Drei ire hee been sbsa4 lew mini predlgfl ale rwO flirt het e e th# faywneaw t< ■resa in met Si W11 the fn ■wi frem the M life peri end the h MUl Bsvlst 194 tope. ( gnmme he peel Amtene ed * Aka _ „ |n ItopMk' rtamh raantee ihreeta Ihrtnlt esprtmtd Mila aeetetg taeiit adtantajes 'thie laiest Northwest of Mereall the Han nl Vtadltoeiah Frvn«h la«<a> h»«< • -»<■»•# a*«neli • h»ch recalled In the enpinfa <tf pfltnner* A semnd aitneh In thla ttrtnitr tmned ttane ?#• peiattneva and ennhled the Fvenrh In edttnre Ihme lines Ml the nelghhnflMMMl af Chnhat *'|n the temndn*? thentee af (he nffhnetve the new •nltent feeased ht the pressing hark » Gtvmrh). i ittag. • learr ell night eat la the morning t there la the story of a Rr*t i airy man a he. a pended In. •I the I aeven plnees hy shell frnnmeaia. i •. nnd I hroaghi hnrk hts ram mending afflc-! r line |ap. antte nnylnnuhf vwDnBndT then I sledge i h t he mem ever the sitae- TRIMS TI ATTACK SUN tss Bepnrlt fiem the fpani than that f the British he- •inns are net naming that the Get* tween Merham am ihe Lh mm dnnnn %iarkin« «iala in t*nnel. desperate fight sag ranttnned Ike hmieas area, a have (hit Impnr- thvwnghnnt I he peek lleee tlm en< vnni raitaat renter, the mpinve ef emy wnt nhle la win terrain nl dm* nhieh wnnkl hndty dkerapt the Kn* Hart tarttml mine nnd hy nrrnpy* mate Allied rammnnlmiinne. It their lag pan ef the Meastaee ridge ei- main ahjerlfee erted each a threat npan the BrBIth | Agalntg I his Man the armlet af farrei hi the eld Tpree salient peel* sta nellens are atandina tegefher In ed hey and Battrhendaele and the the halite area—Rrtliah. French Ypdes- Menia Bead at la farce their Amertran. Belgtaa Itahaa and Far- withdrawal tlssaa a line running anal ingneae divisions randy net only ef Ypree Me impel the inevliahle attach hat “With the ram hat e! teat lea still In strike hack a hea the proper me- i ihhr »pnch ntakiag ttmaaie acraet the At* iaatw hm pateed all hamaa cempre* hggggph. No ana la nhle even te vle an life B. la say aetklag af finding t ail nhle laagnage te pveaeai tkSe tltnaliaallea te ethert Mtstery. >nm# day. a mhle 4 #*!t :ir , t ttioi hr r h»r« it in th* m til the way * itfi.cd lint* «*r • H** ktr ft Ur I to sttsla ^r* •* rlirtMi «>i«l imp«»rfat)f • •Vi)•« t %se I \rrt«, wi«b Its grett rwUf»*sd • rcf*-r. tm|N»riaai aotnnrh of High- V t r * tnd mormons tapplle# af at;r*d maatiksns ? Arrae. with Ita Important rail r«md and highway svstem and whirh stand* like a yark aaalnat the German fiend X, HatehroaCk In the ralley ef Khr upper Lys which hi way tw ralala and Ihel parts an the neat renal ef rranca lastly. Dill sooner or later, after every renewed Mrrtfhe of aten and treaa- ure have failed Vo bring peace. Teuton p* «»ple* are bound to ash. "v\ hti are ae fighting ter?" and illie Mchaoasky and Clomencane dig* riosurya a til he the antaer. # This It the view sspressed here hy a reteraa diplomat and stttes- m-ia a h»* hat teen a half da tea wars aai and wane sad a teem of In terna tlpea I political crime b* solved and paaa MEANT IS STAY March tt |ht Geimaas vtarted H ernes hy the tent 94 I hea sends have fa Ilea an th**** bu»*Mi fleldt af Blcafdy had Flanders yet eho Is there tn tell 94 fhetr heroism * What hlaiofga% what poet, whet painter eaa dn ) net Ice tn tfete * I tenth and Clary Trench.' 4 near Givenchy, a here an officer and II heave Lee* mahlrn men eteed off fee teten hoar* three Gemma hat ta liens T,- **aa men—and a here the Inst Rag* hshmaa did nsd ga down eatll mare than l.ghu Germaat had Wen piled deed or eounded In free I of the himself The cavalryman had h ia jaries head aged al a fluid nmhn»! lancu statkm hat fwfnaad In gu to Gtetr drive far Amieea png an April the rear Hu slept fee twu hoars,) ^ in the uppur Lpu VhHgp. wMB then returned in the frwnt line l^ar mmt9 •vhniy alike starting with a SI heart he faught with n machine, f^urfal rath nnd etpendttnre ef men gan crew tutmned ia n ditch, than. dying dwam nnttl the Inal day s when a retreat wae ordered tent hgflDnu pnahnd the allied tlae* hack da, Inatead af ndlii And new with the Oermaga mark* Ha piled the Dmc. «W lullaat ate msetng Oermaat amend him In heapa eatll • Wary ferven I# rata force the alllee. he was evwrmme nnd hilled hy shear iw Amuctcnn tmnpu are al* weight ef numbers j ready gfvtng ban Thu French were Jnet an during at tt r engili mlth the the Bntiuh The • , «»ry la tuld ef one; fr**m ^ France French ante driver, chnaffear far a' Bhi ^ n » «*ns profssuea te helleeu d Iris ten commander who. when he, * ^*1 * W Oermaat haeu yet shan learned that seam ef hit comrades doned their desire te gain A miens were berg-pretmed in a village Jnet * M hi jHNMPhBlD ggPgpBMd |HH|B SlMD dH give the retell ef I the ethert of IDmt craw on thetr wny.!BB®F l tee urnap eemhet and httampt te I remaining hi hind with the gtm tn outline lit |ung drawn cenrae. hat | rover thetr ret rent the reel story will at ret W writ ten no pan it m In the jars meat ef their | trench? tn fine taut ten V serve. __ He __ II tu dHurnaa In detail the tactical aalfled high command Apparently j There were hut IS men who knew phases of ope rat leas taking place the Allies knee throe a la only • the story of that trench, and tkoae “WelvercWm. Scare Kglise. Met- eeoegh of thetr reserves to hold the{ is bow tie la unmarked graven area and the area stretching to the Germane, conserving thetr strength so arc where an the battlefield. Dior Lys was the scene of same of the as far aa bloodiest encounters of the way i _ “The fight lag la the arua renter-1 lag around Ml Kemmel continue* with increasing intensity. The key position remains In British hands. ‘ though the enemy gained a footing, along Its southern slopes “The German* have been able to| gain a local advantage In Flanders, yet surveying the combat situation aa a whole it can be affirmatively stated that their enormous sacrifices and heaped casualties have hitherto been barren of primary result. "The enemy while pushing with vigor towards the channel porta and increasing his pressure to a maximum has been unable to force even a strategic retirement upon the allies, much less disorganize their order of battle. "Unity of command has material ly facilitated strategic problems with which the allies are confronted. "The official selection of General Foch as commander-in-chief of the allied armies means that he now has strategic control of the belligerent strength of all of the allies in the West. t’The complete harmony of allied operations is illustrated by thebring ARREST PRINCE War Revela- »!«*•»* Are Very INMaMeful Prince IJchnovdsM. the German ambasaador at London up to the out break of the war and the publication of whose secret memorandum: which strongly criticised the Ger man foreign policy, la soon to bring him , before the German courts, Is virtually a prisoner at his chateau in Silesia. He now is under police burvelllanfe because, according to the Dusseldorfer Tageblatt. a plan by which the prince intended to escape to Switzerland before coming to trial has been discovered. MANY GERMANS WOUNDED ing up of a large body of trained Italian units to take part in the batr ' tie in the west. “Along the sectors of the front in which our own troops are in action there was a relatively greater activ ity. "In the Meuse area the enemy broke into our lines but was prompt ly .driven out with severe losses. In creasing sniping and machine gun fire was noted both along the Meuse 'and north of Toul. Our counter battery work showed itself efficient in keeping down hostile shelling * .which burst In greater volume and Intensity In restricted areas. '"The first two enemy airplanes brought town hy oar aviators were l»hot down behind oar Unas north of Hm) I# operatleas of import!are took place in th# Italian theater aside from Intermittent artillery bombard- meets "In ibe Knsi the enema Private Houae* Have Been Requisi tioned for Disabled Men The streams of wounded Germans from France and FlandeVs, say s the frontier correspondent of The TelegraaL continue so great that ail the hospitals, monasteries, convents and schools, not only in Brussels, but in many towns south of the Belgian capital, are filled to over flowing. The Germans have even requisitioned private houses for hos pitals. 183 AMERICANS CAPTURED Troops at Hclchcpray Trops at Scvhcpccy The capture of 183 American prl* oners ahd 25 machine guns by the Germans la claimed la the official re port from headQtiarters. The German storm troops. It la also declared, ad- rnnred do p depth of two kilome tres (shoot a mile nnd n qomter) Into the Amerknn lines at Seiche prey The Americans, the state- meal adds anatalnad Mary leaaaa tat men rannor reamre mnrV Te*< tell, the story uf that “Death sad O»or> Trench “ Multiply this Inci dent by a thousand, ten thousand, a hundred thousand, and tome concep tion may be gained of the heights to which they may descend. Three-quarter* of a million men have fallen In thU month of the mo**( terrible fighting the world ha* ever known. At least a quarter of a mil lion have been buried where they fell on the battlefield. More than a half million are suffering from wounds. Others are in prison camps. A Dutch merchant who arrived at The Hague from Germany this week said that the Germans had lost 500,000 men in the first 35 days of the Imttle, half of whom had been killed or had died on the battlefield before they could be given attention." This merchant himself saw 30 trains, each of 50 freight cars, at Aachen, filled with wounded Prus sians and Bavarians, all with griev ous hurts that had been dressed with paper bandages which they had worn for five days. The Mttle town of Treves, Belgium, with 900 build ings, houses 10,000 wounded 'Ger- man soldiers.— abend, landed two men wtik n ma- * !" f * ckiae gan In the louneaa of hit) car and went tn their aid The) Germans had eerupuMl the village hat the French chaaffrnr piloted Ills "JV. .. la street, his com-) for n dnfMMr ir down the pan Inns working the machine gwa as; . " . fast sa It could he fed Ilia rnr' yT" ” -embed the entire village until thej rmr ^ mm ^ In n tanks. Talk of through laternaUan nl n the attempted tn dl driven off fire rating that tba At ri.nl A heavy when the attach there was IP the foe. reached the southern bank, and then It was only when the Ger man dead 99 fHlyd (he stream that it was bridged by human bodies- is the Bnlknns Greek if *sfl Yet Field Marshal Hindeoburg, who is directing the German drive, has said that 400,000 Germans must be killed for the victory which he has promised his countrymen by Au gust. Four hundred thounand dead means a total casualty list of con siderably more than 1,500,000 men, the price he is willing to pay which Germany is willing to pay, for the victory which Berlin Is confident will result In a German dictated peace In Europe. A total of 110 German divisions —1.500.000 men—already have been engaged In the battle. Eighty of these divisions have been so severe ly punished that they have been withdrawn for rest and reforming, and as tha Germans do not withdraw k division until Its lore in kMled and woanded somber J.IPA. or ono- fonrtb of the dlvloftona strength, eagre Men of the German lasses can he gained Bttt! tha Germans surge forward in —T a Germans, yelling. “Tank* broke and f!**d in a panic ^ AL. _ _ line s Marseille* raaintent defended inaton The nreetdent said the last the Oise river for an entire day, the nrord In his comment on the German Germans endeavoring first to hrutK*') (arms forced upon Russia. But the narrow at ream, then to ford It (ha position of tha rulars of the Oer- "• l , ,l _ 1 man army, with an impenetrable . WJ| u bayonets | 0 front and a vol cano seething at hotae, is the sub ject for International comment and divides interest with the military Another story Is told of two situation at the State Department French machine gunners who had and at tha Capitol. There Is no disposition in Wash ington Id believe that the supreme efforts of the German military com manders have com# to a halt. Fight ing may .continue for months and the German forces may drly# their waves over the bodies of their dead to further conquest of territory. There is a definite conclusion in all quarters, however, that the kaisers' efforts to force peace with the aword are already a failure from which there can be no recovery. This failure must some day be recognized by all the people of the central empires, as it Is now by the advanced groups. When that day comes the top will be blown off the volcano and the people of these na tions, and not the Hohenzollerns and their present military masters, will force a real lasting peace. 9g the suvs iK miim * been compelled to fall back and leave their guns for the enemy. They brooded over this until nightfall, then they crept forward *800 yards to the German positions and came back with their own machine guns and an extra German one to boot. These are but a few of the stories that are coming in from all parts of the battlefield, stretching from the North sea down to the Oise river, within 50 miles of Paris. Everywhere it ha* been the same. Small bodies of troops fighting heroically against overwhelming numbers. The dead He in heaps, hut still the enemy keeps coming in wave after wave against this or that section of the front. . Held guns firth with open sight* at point blank range, rifles and machine guns are worked until ~ they burn the men serving them, "we kill them until it makes us sick at our stomarhs," aa one wounded Tonfhny explained, but still the Germans come until, by mere force of numbers, they get through somewhere, flowing around like the tide encircling the sand on the seashore. The battle !§' no longer one for cities, or towns, or hill*, or rail roads. It is a fight to the finish. It has settled' down to a grim race tq determine ^whether the German manpower la enough to make good the threat to wipe out the British army. -It I* a nf which at the same tins emit* •# tm Mb It ta against tha British that the Germans thair Maw. and tha bmd nt Jan* tmm in In the reports of their victories the German military rulers have at tempted to conceal the awful sacri fice at which they were achieved. They hoped for the decision that would drown out the demand for an accounting in the shouts of victory. It has not come. The tremendous loss cannot much longer be held from the knowledge of the people. out to do. % The Allied .torfcm* Germany this summer. If It I* la be ed at all, for the All tha ed «*# *•* raw he is wl <4 Gen. • Of Hostilities ha vs b tween tba troops of General Korni- loff and tboea of tba soviets. Res- tof-on-Don la In the hands of th* anarchists. Al Kherson, after tho Germans left, massacree of offtcere and bourgeois by soldiers occurred. Criminals nt Novo-Tcborkaak. who began to Indulge in sic seres, were dispersed by the mackino guns. Tbs Turkish cruiser Hamidles nnd two torpedo boats are reported to have arrived at Odessa. - J At the height of the drive launched against the and British on the we leading newspapers of treated the government's dwpHnl ty In the Russian pence as news of equal importance. War profiteering, coupled with famine fo rthe people at home, pro vides a subject for comparison and discussion that will eventually hraak down any government under which the two conditions exist. Absolute and gigantic failure of Germany’s commercial aims in the war is definitely announced tn Washington In a report of the De partment of Commerce. It is doubt ful if she can ever re-establish her self even under the most favorable conditions. Dispatches to embassies aRl bring reports that! Austria-Hun gary ,1s finally awakening to the un- happyln role the has played as the pawn of the German militarists and finds herself facing a hopeless fu ture. Chauacey T. Snow, assistant chisf of tha hareau of foreign sad domao tic commerce, and J. J. Krall. both of tha Department af. Cam ms res, have made a report aa tha reaalt of mouth# of latest! rat ton af poBtleaL industrial a trunk ef the war M tB ac tha time the