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AUSTRIANS, COWED, j IN BAD CONDITION But They Have Escaped Great Peril and, Strongly Reinforced. # FORCE FOR BALKANS TO ITALIAN FRONT "f_ I Defeat Due to Bad Strategy, Poor Gunnery, Lack of Training. _ London. ? Discussing with Tho World correspondent today the general results of the abortive Austrian offensive a high authority explained: | A ..,.1..: i 1 i ?i 1 * iiv- nusti iuiijs iiuti consiueraDic reserves in the mountains, but their troops were so discuoraged by the defeat that thp Austrian high command | concluded that no fresh attack could be made with any prospect of success. Extricated From Peril. "Up to today the Italians have captured sixty guns and about 20,000 prisoners, exclusive of seventy-two | Italian guns recaptured. Hut on the I whole, the Austrians have succeeded in extricating themselves from a posi tion of great peril, and now in the delta dividing the Piave they have been strongly reinforced and are offering determined resistance. "Certain Austrian divisions being entrained at Budapest for the Balkans June 18 were suddenly diverted and sent to the Italian front, showing i that the Italian success completely upset all the Austrian plans. "The reasons for the Austrian failure were several. First, the attempts to attack on too broad a front, with the result that they were strong nowhere, their idea being to. attack everywhere in the hope of breaking through somewhere. That plan might have been justified if the Austrians were overwhelmingly superior in numbers, morale and training, but as ; they had none of these advantages they were held everywhere with ease by the Italian reserves. Poor Gunnery, "Another cause was the ineffective shooting of the Austrian artillery, which never dominated the defense. "Then there was their inferior training and low morale, which was betrayed by their becoming disorganized and demoralized by the Italian defense. "Finally, there was no olcmont of surprise, the Italians knowing before hand the place and the time of the offensive. The Austrains tried the German system without the German methods. "It will be a long time before the Austrians regain the offensive power, if they ever should be able to do so without German help, which means a corresponding incrcase in the Italian morale, which never before was so high as it is now after their great trium ph. "The Italians were prevented from exploiting their victory by the great ; difficulties of the Piave, so the relative positions of th0 two armies remain the same as before the offensive. We must not look for any startling changes or any Italian counter attack because immense difficulties have to be faced and any advance between Lake Garda and the Pivae must be slow and methodical. An advance on the Italian right would only lengthen their line and make the left flank still more vulnerable. A glance at the map will show that a slight Austrian advance in the Tront mwtui- it.rvnl.1 4 4i-- ?i?1 _ - wvum iui ii wit? wnun* Italian line in the plain." Turning to the west front, The World's authoritative informant said: Guessing at Ludcndorff's Plan. "It is still doubtful where the enemy offensive will come next. There , is reason to believe that an attack will shortly take place on the northern British front, but a successful attack between Amiens and Paris would offer the enemy the biggest strategic results. Another alternative not to he overlooked would be an attack between Rheims and the Meuse with the object of cutting the French army in tv/o. The bulk of the German reserves are on the front between the Oise and the sea, and such an attack, if successful, would offer great results. An enemy attempt at a surprise prehaps is more likely in that ouarter than in any other. "There is no reason to believe that his next blow will be his final, supreme effort in a direction which probably Ludendcrff has not yet decided upon." I WAR PROFITEERS ! GOUGING NATION Federal Trade Board Shows 1 Big Packers Reaped $140,000,000. Washington, Jupt fP?In response to a Senate resol^lo#. directing it to I "furnish the Senate with any and all i facts, figures, data or information ( now in its possession" relative to t profiteering which would in any way r enable Congress to deal with the mat f ter, the Federal Trade Commission i today uncovered nests of profiteering i in every part of the United States. r "The outstanding revelation which c accompanies the work of cost find- c ing," the report to the Senate says, "is the heavy profit made by the low- t cost concern under a governmental c fixed price for the whole country, r The outstanding fact in the industrial i surveys is the heavy profit made by s the meat packers and by those allied t with them, and by the flour mills. ^ "The outstanding feature on the j score of profits is the trade tendency t > increase and maintain price against the forces of competitoin. "Barefaced Fraud," Alleged. "The commission has reason tele now that profiteering exists," tin report declares. "Much of it if; due to advantages taken of the necessities of the times as evidenced in the Wai { pressure for heavy production. Some 1 of it is attributable to inordinate ( greed and barefaced fraud. "Payment of extraordinary sal- | aries and in some instances bonuses ' to executives of corporations have been found by the commission. The power of dominant factors in a given industry in maintaining high prices and harvesting unprecedented profits is shown in a survey of the meat packing situation," the report says. "Five meat packers?Armour, Swift, Morris, Wilson and Cudahy, and their subsidiary and affiliated companies have monopolized control of the meat industry and are reaching for like domination in other products. Their manipulations of the | market embrace every device that is useful to them without regard to law. Their reward, expressed in terms of profit, reveals that four of these concerns have pocketed in 1915-1916. 1917, $140,000,000. { "However delicate a definition i < framed for 'profiteering,' these pack ers have preyed upon the people un f conscionably. 1 o 1 For Indigestion, Constipation or Biliousness Ju3t try one 50-cent bottle of LAX-FOS WITH PEPSL4. A Liquid Digestive Laxative pleasant to take. Made and recommended to the public by Paris Medicine Co .manufacturers of Laxative Bromo Quinine and Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic. o Subscribe to the Herald?$1.00. o Keep Well Jood to accumulate * in ! your bowels, where they Am are absorbed into your BgH Vh stipation, headache', bad bIh B^l blood, and numerous KjB other troubles are bound Sto follow. Keep your system clean, as thous- m ands of others do, by taking an occasional dose ^*$1 of the old, reliable, veg- BbL etable, family liver meat- BHR Thedford's Black-Drauffji! Spa a family medicine!' 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The speech of Dr. von Kuehlmann, he German foreign secretary, he deilared, was a clear admission that the eccnt enemy offensive had been bar en in its gains and that military success, if not impossible, was farher off than ever, and unless victory vas gained politically Germany must prepare for a long war. The change in the German tone, in he opinion of Premier Hughes, was lue to a realization of America's rreat effort. The Germans also enow that the Anglo-French armies j vere confidently awaiting the next mslaught, while the much vaunted Austrian offensive had spent itself ind any day might see the Austrian irmies in headlong rout and the :ivilian population in open rebellion. GERMAtTsUBMARlNE SINKS HOSPITAL SHIP > London, July , ?-A German submarine 70 miles from the Irish coast m the night of June 27 torpedoed the 11,000 ton hospital ship Llandovery 3astle, which had been chartered by the Canadian government and had seen in the service of carrying wound ?d and sick from England to Canada for many months past. The ship was then on her way to England. She had >n board 258 persons, including 80 men of the Canadian army medical torps and 14 female nurses. One of the boats containing 12 nurs ing sisters was seen to capsize, actording to latest information. The sisters were drowned. I Up to the latest reports only 24 of those on board, including the captain, have survived the treacherous attack, which came without warning. o r ' - I tht extreme weakness often results in | Impaired hearing, weakened eyesight, I bronchitis and ether troubles,- but if g Scott's Emvhion is given promptly, ? it carries strength to the organs ^ ^ \ and creates rich blood to build 2 up the depleted forces. rrlf P Children thrive on Scott's Emulsion. jl'(/ ? It is Free from Alcohol Q o j All dealers in farm machinery and i farm equipment must have licenses j tnder a proclamation of President j Wilson of May 14. Hk'ou^i Our I in the Federal Reserve I are placed in a strong* 1 before to take care of all our depositors, wh? I whether they keep < I accounts; and at the ss I . the most modern bank I Why not open an j I begin at once to parti I fits and the additional I system gives to you 1 with us? I PEOPLES f ^ Conway, ? I Dan. W. Hardwick, Pres. 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