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N ’1:H'E TVIITTAL ISSUE
Official Reports for the Week. ,
v - V w-as"a.b'attalion commander.
May 18-Austrian columns advanced
' 500 men and eight machine guns.
May ‘I5-;The!Russians have beentiinable torinaintain their positions from Kielce to the Pilica or
‘541';’ ‘‘ ''‘'t0 Inowlodz, and they are beatinga hasty retreat toward. the east. '
May 16-South of Ailly and east of the Meuse the Germanstook some trenches from the enemv.
'" 'F'gfty-two -wounded and.'l66 unwounded Frenchmen were taken prisoners. Among thein
toward the Upper Dniesterrandu occupiedluiljrohobyez, captur-
. in
May l9-(gierina)-The total number of prisoners brought in during the first half of May was
, . The Austrians have captured 128 guns and 368 machine guns.
May,:20-‘-In-Russian‘-Poland"fighting’is proceeding‘ in the. hilly district of Rieloc. , .
" ,. -Betweenthe Pilica and the upper Vistula and southeast of Przemysl fighting continues.
"'3 ‘The7Easteni Waf‘Zone;"‘ " " ,.
VVhilst the people'of‘the'Unit'ed States are still pon-‘
dering and making Svarious conjectures as" to the pos-
sible answer Germany. may send in reply to President
VVilson’s note, a newthreatening cloud appears on the
horizon o'ver.the already warring nations. Italy, the
former ally of the]-Dreibund, now is planning to join
hands with Germany and-Austria’s foes, throwing to
the winds all assurances of sworn fidelity and pledges
of friendship,idebasing herself to the low level of a
traitor- .--= J’ " ’
VVith regard Italy, ‘Berlin describes her manner
of conducting the negotiations with Germany and Aus-
tria as that of the Black Hand. Should "Italy enter
into the war, as heir’-m'ob‘ and England are urging, the
ultimate ‘result’ will ‘only be" to spread the zone of
revolution in Europe; perhaps the best-way of assuring
a satisfactory'peace.' ,- The attempted revolution. in
Portugal was undoubtedly stimulated from '-Spain,
where the British'and' other reactionary influences are
powerful enough to'keep things in the‘Iberian ‘Penin-
sula in a'ferm‘ent.. ' . .. .- . ;
Of the progressof thexbelligerents ‘we shall let
the official bulletins speak. On. May .14 Berlin issued
the following statement,:.. . - ' " " - .- '
“In it night advancewest of Przasnysz parts of
the Russian First Turkestan ‘(Army Corps ‘succeeded
in ptinetrating, after. several unsuccessful efi’orts,'-‘into
our foremost trenches. “ By evening, ‘however, .the‘
enemy‘ had again-,been" everywhere driven back,‘.with
heavy losses,‘ including 120‘ prisoners.” - ' V
Onthe following day we read: “After temporary
minor successes for the enemy, “which cost the Ger-
mans threegiins, the advance'of strong Russian forces
near Szawle (Shavli)‘ has‘been.bro'uglit to a standstill.
.The enemy now has brought up?-treinforcements very
speedily in the region south,of the ‘Niemen'River.
Fighting with them has not yet'taken place.” ‘
Thenext day, however, a battleensued, of which
the Berlin ofiicial bulletin says; “A Russian advance
in the region of 'Shavli', Courland, was ‘repulsed easily.
The number of prisoners taken there during’ the last
few days is more than l,5O0.’’4, ; ' >
18In order to pursue their advantages gainedhon May
sian forces brought; up south of the River Niemen,
and fighting is in progress in the general direction of
Gryaykabuza, Syntowtz and Aoyaki. -Yesterday Rus-.
sians to thenumbervof 1,700 were made prisoners.”
All along the Eastern line'from the Baltic to the
Carpathians the German and Austro-Hungarian troops
have made substantial progress. In the South the
(Russians have been thrown back in Galicia to the
Przemysl line, and are threatened with the loss of
the territory they hold in the Eastern part of that
province. Austria’s official bulletin states that their
“German forces have-been -sent to attack ‘Rus-.
' troops have taken’! Sieniawa and forcing a crossing of
the San River;vthey took, nearly 13,000 prisoners,
eight guns and much war material. ‘ - I
At the Dardanelles the Allies are still halted by the
splendid bravery of the Turks.
The Westem Battle-field.
England is reconstructing her Cabinet. It proves
that the party system in Great Britain has broken
down under the stress of the war, and that the
governing classes who hitherto have managed to hold
their own and delude the British people by dividing
' themselves into two apparently-opposing parties, have
been forced to come together in their-last ditch, where
they will have to face theirintemal, as well as ex-
ternal enemies. Kitchener having failed to get mil‘-
lions has come to be satisfied if he can get hundreds
of thousr.nds, and the Canadian and Aiistralianscreens
have become, with what Indians are left, the chief hope
of victory for England, unless conscription“is"resorted
o. . .
‘t On the St. Julien-Ypres road the Germans again
attacked on May l5 and made progress. Three ‘Eng-
lish oFficers and sixty men and one machine-g"un fell
into the hands of the Germans.’ The number of.un-
wounded prisoners taken.‘ by the Germans : in this
region. since April 22 hasiincreased to 110 omcers and
5,400'men, to which more ‘than 500 wounded men
must be added. -' .,
' The report from Berlin on May 20 reads: “On
the eastern bank of the canal north of Ypreshghting
developed in our favor. South of Neuve Chapelle a
British attack made after a heavy preparatory artillery
fire was repulsed.”
Another report stated: “On the evacuation of
Carency an(l the western portion of Ablain it is ascer-
tained that a field gun, which had been built in the
first line, and a small number of auxiliary mine throw-
ers were lost. It is further ascertained that five french
guns‘, two or three revolver cannon and also two inor-
tars. which had been used as mine throwers, and which
previously had been taken from the French, were lost.”
In the VVest the Allies’ gains have not appreciably
altered the situation, while their losses in ofiicers and
men are materially affecting their eFf-iciency.
TO HELP THE CAUSE ALONG.
German-Americans who wish to publish pamphlets
(in English) to help the cause along, may obtain
from an authority of standing specially written, dig-
nified and convincing articles on any subject desired,
particularly relative to current conditions here and
abroad. '
(Department B, care The Vital Issue, Park Row
Building, New York, N. Y.)