AUSTRIA'S DEFEAT MAT CHANGE GERMAN PLANS Caatral Powers Imt* Dult • Blow That Will F«rth«r Shake the Moral* of Their People. n Washington, June 24. — Italy ia •bias* with «nthu*ia»m and joy a* the result of the Italian victory along the Piave, the Italian rmtawy wax ad vised today in a cablegram from Rome Beyond telling of the effective ro-oper •tion of the Italian sea forces with the army, the message added little to pre vious accounts of the Austrian retreat. "The enemy," said the dispatch "has been beaten back across te Piave from Ifontello to the sea. Italy is ablate with enthusiasm and joy. "The Italian navy has effectively co operated to the defeat of the enemy by battering the positions along the Tagliamento river and north of Cas telazzo while the marine battalions operating along the lower Piave ad vanced and captured hundreds of pris oners. "The Austrian Aviators made an in cursion on Brindisi. Of nine planes which took part in the expedition two were shot down and the others forced to retire without do»ng any damage. In retaliation Italian and British avia tors bombed f'aturo and I.ura/zo. "A great demonstration of greet ing to Italy and the oppressed nalmn r alities of At : rin was hold th: ;i". noon in the gardens of the British em bassy by initiative of the British am bassador. Roumanian officers were present and weie received with great applause. These officers and the Ru manian legion are about to leave for the Piave front to fight in the Ita lian army against the common ene my." Crushing Blow halt Been Dealt. Wae^yngtg^, June 24.—Germany's entire offensive program may have been upset in the opinion of some offi cers here by the crushing defeat of the Austrian* along the 1'iave river. Official reports reaching Washing ton bear out the picture of the Aus tian (li-aster given in press accounts from Italy, although the full extent of the Italian succe ■ is not yet apparent. It is regarded as ♦•ertain, however, that the central pnwers have been dealt a blow that will further shake the morale of their people and pro bably will compel the German high command to make a complete read justment of its plans in France. Secretary Baker showed the signifi cance attached here to the defeat of the Austrians when he dispatched a telegram today to the American am bassador at Rome for transmission to the Italian minister of war. in which he congratulated Italy upon the splen did exploits of the army. Mr. Baker's message was prompted by the fact that the enemy was in re treat across the Piuve and before the news came that the Italian!) had smash up the retreating foe, making the retirement a disorganized rout. There is no doubt here now that the victory will prove to be one of the most decisive in character of the whole war. Army officers agreed with the view expressed by Mr. Baker that the de feat could not help hut influence greatly the course of event* in France It is regarded as vital from the Ger man point of view that the, Italian front may be made secure before Ger man designs in France can be prose cuted to their fulk-.i development. While there is imminent danger that the Austro-Hungarian government may collapse, Germany cannot devote herself wholly to the task she hits un dertaken of forcing victory in the wes1 * hefore American manpower can swinj the scales finally against her. For this reason both at the war de jMtrtmenl and in diplomatic circles there was much speculation as to th< mores to support Austria already tak R en hy the German high command There is little doubt that reports ol Urge German troop movements to Its ly art wall founded aa it la b«li«»«d tka situation moat ba raatarad tkara at all coata until tha whola great of fensiva in Franca ia to fall of ita own waight. Tha German problam in rushing troop* to Italy ia a difficult ona. Not only will tha withdrawal of man from Franc* weaken tha whol* offensive ef fort tharc at a tima whan American aid, the arrival of Italian division* and other measure* arc Iwginning to place at General Foch's disposal enough r» nerve* to enable hin. to strike hard at j any weakened point, hut the transpor tation of n sufficient force to offset the Italian victory must necessarily be J alow, Secretary Raker pointed out today that the Italians under General Diaz fresh from successful chci k of the | Austrian advances, took quick and full advantage of the rise of the Piave h*-' hind the enemy. Indications are that I the Aiiih of- the Austrian army, em-| ployed in forcing the crossing has been virtually annihilated and the Ita-j liarts are driving home their victory, relentlessly. Every day means fur- i ther disorganization among the Aus trian at the preient rate. German1 reinforcement* must arrive quickly, many officer.-, believe, unle>< the Aus-I trian war machine is to be crippled for month* to come. Meanwhile official reports show that growing seriousness of the food riot ing in Austria. The people apparent ly are in no condition to stand a great military reverse aoch as that they mu.-t now fa e. lhere nave r>ecn many sifrns recent ly thnt General Koch was rapidly fret ting Into shape a ; lroag reserve force. The employment of the American and Italian divisions has nerved to release French chock troops for rest and re habilitation. There are ni<i;.ation», also that the effect of the British man power legislation ia being felt at the fror.t. The divisions which suffered severely in the German assaults ap parently have been out of the line for ] «on« time. The recent successful re sistance of the Italian near Kheims ' was in position formerly held by these British units. Whether General Koch is prepared to take advantage of the diversion j caused by the Austrian disaster can-i not be foretold. Home observers here, 1 including Italian officials, believe that ! the situation on the Italian front ia so grave for the Germans that 'they j will be compelled to transfer their main operations to that theater, leav ing only defensive forces in the wit. Some officials here, however expect the Germans to hit hard in France in order to cover whatever other step* they are compelled to take for the re lief of Austria. Repeated blows al ong the allied front, it is argued, ' would tend to keep General Fo. h from j inaugurating an inter-allied offensive 'in Italy and might impede plans fAri i a >rreat counter drive in France. The j accelerated movement of American troops to France is going ahead with- j j out confusion. There is certainty in the minds of high officials that in ex cess of a million men will have been shipped Iwfore July 1. Originally it was not hoped to reach this figure, but j j the shipping obtained from Great Britain has proved sufficient to in j crease the program. Rev. Walton S. Danker is Dead From Shell Wound. With the American Army in France •lune 23.—The Rev. Walton S. Dan ker, of Worchehter, Mass., chaplain of the 104 infantry, died Tuesday from » shell wound. He was buried Wed nesday near the spot where he fell. Rev. Mr. Danker, the first Amer ican chaplain to give his life in the •rviee on the American front, wu decorated about a month ago, along with lift men for gallantry in the fighting at Apreinont last April. Rev, Frederick H. Dankkr, a Young Men's Chirbtian association worker and a brother of the chaplain, wmi with him when he died. MONEY AT RATE OF OVER ONE BILLION AN HOUR. Lmt th« Kiiier Know it Fi»« Billion Dollar Fortification. Bill ihoveJ .hrough in Houm in Fiv« Hours. Washington, (June 24.—Two billion lollara an hour waa the approximate rat* at whirh Congress appropriated noney today for wi,r purpose*. Both the senate and hou.-e broke all record* for * peed and harmony in action. In tha hou^e the formation*, car rying more than Ave billion* for big, run* and ammunition, for General Perrhing's army, wan, [mined in let* than Ave hour*, while in the *enate lit Lie more than an hour wa* consumed m putting through the sundry civil bill with more than three billion* for war. Combining the speed record of the two linuses, it surpassed anything any ap propriating body ha* ever done. *(>erm iny should know thi* tonight,' naid Representative Fes*, of Ohio, Re publican, as the house bill paused. "We liavn pa***-'! this bill at the rate of a billion and a quarter dollar* an hour." F'eople Should Know it Too. "Yes, and the people of the country should know it, too." commented Speuker Clark. In the senate the sundry civil bill, authorizing $.1,300,000,000 in cash and contract* for war supplies, passed in an hour and -0 minute*. The senate then began the reading.of the regular army bill, with its twelve billions to tal, which .probably will be approved tomorrow. The house took up the fortifications bill tooay with a speech by Representative Borland, Minsouri, Democrat, chairman of the fortifica tion* sub-committee, in explanation of the big gun program as the tatstand ing feature of tfc* discussion. . informing in* noo»e tnat tne gov ernment would build "an American Krupps" on an inland in the Ohio riv er below Pittsburgh, Mr. Borland wn asked how long it would take to turn out bin guns at this estaWiohment. Big Ouim Will be Needed. Representative Miller, of Minneso ta, a-ked if it were not true that big guns — 12, 14 and lii-inch, rould not be turned out there liefore January, 1920. Mr. Borland said some estimate* plac ed the date u early a* July, 1919, but regardless of the time needed the government would need its own great ar-enal in add'tion to the Midvale and Bethlehem gun factories and the fa cilities for gun supplies in France. If the war should and unexpectedly soon, which Mr. Borland doubted, eve ryone would rejoice and the money spent would be infinetismal. "If this plant cannot l>e construct ed in time to help win the war, the ex penditure is not justified," said Repre sentative Miiler. Representative Boland relied: "Of course we are not depending on any sudden collapse of the enemy. We are not underestimating the difficul ties. It would not be wise to underes timate either the delay or difficulties in winning tliis war. We are not go ing to postpone the construction of a big gun because forsooth we might not liegin to get the guns for 19 months. In 18 months we may be more sorely in need than we are today. We arc going right ahead with the program of winning this war if it takes 10 years to do 11 and the soouer the world finds out I'ncle Sam is in this war in enrneJt, that he is going to win it and conquer our enemies, then the sooner the war will be happily over." | Allied Offensive Hinted At. An allied offensive was hinted at during delinte when Representative McKenzie, of the military affair* com mittee, suggested that the maunfac ture of very heavy guns to be Rent to Kranoe "is for theii use when the al lies take the offensive." "My private opinion agrees with yours," said Representative Borland. Representative Borland added: "In addition to features of the big gun program that I have spoken, we have another contemplated in this program for th« mtnifMtgri of gufia, and that is quit* an ixttniivt big g*n program, 12 and 14-inch guns and 1 A-inch howit aars. To da that we must build what lha newspapers call an American Krupps; that ia, wa must build a gov ernment arsenal for the manufacture of guns froaa the rtee< Ingot up to the finished weapon, or possibly even froas the iron ora up to the .e finished wea pons. That will be built on an islam! in the Ohio river belu* Pittsburgh. It will absorb as much as possible of the skilled workers in steel in that vicini ty; ami the perfection of organiza tion and the assemnting of |iersonnel will tie possible there under conditions more favorable fhan thosa presented by any other situation. "While the newspapers have railed it an American Krupps, it is even bet-| ter than that, for instead of being a private monopoly under government control, it is a government arsenal, and we expect to make li ese guns on ly for the United States." Gassed and Wounded Men Arrive at Fort M'Henry. Baltimore, Md. June 23.—The first detachments of- Perilling'* gassed and wounded men arrived at Fort Me. Henry hospital Louay. Amone the patient* la an infantryman Buffering from mustard gas poisoning. He ha* not yet retrained the full power of his speech and tan only talk in whispers. He is Sergt. Hubert Hill, from Luf kin, Tex. Private William CI. Rowland, of Los Angeles, C'al., wan also gassed. He is a member of the seventh cavalry and' was on detached service with the am-' munition train horse section at Toul. Private Charles G. Hopkins, infan try-man, of Madison Tex., who was wounded last November at ToyJL^jgyp* to Ix- the first American wounded in action. One night the Germans raided the Amtirican trenches and during the fighting Hopkins was wounded in the left arm. He continued firing until the German- had been beaten back. Sergt. Harry D. Marrell, of San Francisco, member of the aviation '■orps, is suffering from a compound fracture of the left army. Marrell was up 5,000 feet testing out a plane when the engine became disabled and the plane fell. The machine straigh tened out at an altitude of 100 feet. i It fell into a haystack saving Marrell's life. Depth Charge* Effective Against Enemy Submarine*. London, June 23.—Interesting nar ratives from reliable sources refute the German assertion regarding the alleged ineffectiveness of depth charges and other methods of destroy ing submarines. On a bright moonlight night a British patrol boat observed a subma rine half a mile distant, apparently re charging. The captain immediately ordered full speed in the direction of the U-boat with the object of ram ming her before she was able to sub merge. The U-boat succeeded in sub merging, but the patrol boat came up and dropped six depth charges and then fired a r.hell at the center of the visible disturbance. I.arge quantities of oil came to the surface and cries for help were heard. Only one sur vivor was found. , A British submarine recently ram med an enemy submarine. The Bri tish boat cut through the enemy's plates and remained imbedded. Both craft endeavored to extricate them selves". The enemy, through using hi* ballu: t tanks, almost came to the sur face, bringing the British submarine along. Then the German drew away in great difficulty, apparently frati I colly endoavoring to keep afloat, but subsequently sank. i I Every individual must look this thrift question squarely in the fare. If he does not meat the iuue fully and 'promptly, he is not doing all that he can to win the war. GIVE YOUR EAGLE WINGS THESE DAYS. Hew • German in Brooklyn Convinced Visitor* of His Loyalty With Bond Display. The rommittM on public informa tion at Washington miuU out this in teracting story: Not long ago two small black boys, both eripples, were sailing papers on the «nm Broadway corner. One had lost his right leg, the other both. And plainly the first wasn't putting any thing like full business volume into his voice. A puzzled customer asked him why. "Well, boas," he said, and he made it a whisper confidence. "Ah *ho does wanter show that two-rrutcher that Ah'nt on'y je«' a-ho'lerin' fo' one lalg." Over in France our boys are now standing up srrHimt th* frrcato-t of all German drives. Every day more of them are taking wounds and death, chin up and with a smile. In the same weeks, over there, the government is asking ua for more money. And, un less we're to shame ourselves forever, we've not going lo holler for so much as a little finger. Two billion* are wanted now—two billion in war saving: . And we aren't even asked to irivc. We are asked to lend, al four per cent compounded quarterly. "Oh, I wouldn't want to take interest," "aid one fighting Indi ana grandmother; "I feel too much like I wax just inve ting it in the Lord." Hut it will rte invented in Un cle Sam as well. He will both make (Trim Ufe of it now «ml pay the inter est when the time come And in the meantime, while our boys are struggling and dying we have one more chance to »ht.w them We know wTl.il OWy're fhrti and that we're behind them evfry minute. A Baby Bond Display We can't "how them in any other way. Only out rponcy or our work can talk. In the la.it war savings drive an old Brooklyn delicatessen man was looked on with suspicion because he had a German name and accent—until he heard about it. "Vat ?" he said, "Vat? You dirk I'm some Kaiser luffer? Veil, I lefdt you know aboudt that!" And he "ledt them know" in fifteen minutes by means of a window display in which the sliced ham and pickles and herring could hardly be seen for baby bonds. He had $4,000 worth of them. "Andt now," he said then, "you fellers mit American names you show me!" If we're shouting for those boys in mouths alone we need never imagine Picardy and Champagne with our we're convincing even our children. As for our neighbor, we may well take npte of the expression he is wearing the next time we try it with him. But if we want to "show" our whole town and county, there is one way we can do it without even raising our voice. The government 1* giving us the chance to show by t«wns and countien anil by states. From each it is ask ing so much—as a minimum if you like. Rut from none is it asking a penny more than the bank returns and the assessment rolls of that par ticular town or county or state show that it'ran rightly afford to five. And if it doesn't make ifond. no old-h'ome week oratory about the Golden City of the Ciolden West or the grand old eastern state of Iluncnmbe can cam ouflage it. But— tarke warning from the inside—there are certain cities and statesjWhich are prepanng to give ao much more than *ny insulting min imum that if yours la a rival city or a rival stale which alio hopes to ahow the Hun it will he wise to begin now, and make lis working schedule "from II to 1J." We Meaa It. We are asked foe only two billions new. Ijiter there will be more two billion*, and ulways more. But of them in their own time. And two bUUona mean* $20 a head from the wbole 100,000,000 of oa. That la, •very man hia own double eagle. Now and hereafter give your eagle wings, and a beak, and claw*' "We mean it!" was th« dour old Vigilante motto. Lot ua leave no ortkly poaaibility of doubt that we do, either in Berlin and Vien na or among the alliea or among those neutrals who, with the right kind of showing from ua, may become al lies later on. In the old Indian war*, while only a few men could u»e the loopholea, everyone else in the blockhouse—men and women and children, too— stood U hind them in the powder moke and laded the gun*. The (fun* must be kept loaded now. Anil that alone isnt enough. The right word wan said nearly a year ago. It was said by • big colored volunteer, standing on guard at the entrance to hia San An I tonio camp He wasn't selling paper*, and he wasn't ■ mall, and he had both arms and legs. Hi* was a'job where he was going to need them. And he | wasn't hollering at all. In fact, he held hi* Springfield with so peculiar a ' quietness that some <mall boy on ! takers began to believe that, after all, I he might be only a piece soldier. And ! one of them asked him if his gun was |loaded. I "Am tnis gun loaded." he said; '"Am it loaded? Boy, Ah'm hear to i h'>w the whoel world this gun am I loaded." _ Government Hospital Train Brings Number of Patient*. A heville, June 22.—A government hospital train, one of the three in the service, left this city today after de | livering la« ni^ht 124 empyema pa itient: to army hospital No. 12. Kenil ! worth Park. Ei>;n<ma is a disease reuniting from pneumonia or pleure*y_ abcess often forming on the lungs. It | is thought that this climate will be : especially helpful to this trouble. The train was placed in commission | ut Pullman, III., last Wednesday and j left at once with the empyema com mission, headed by Major Dunham, for | Camp Lee, Va. The train is in com mand of Lieut. A. E. Maines with a personnel of 24 enlisted men. A numlier of Asheville people today were shown through this train and ! found it to be more complete than the layman would expect to find a station ary hospital. The six cars include a thoroughly equipped operating room, kitchen, dining and sleeping cars. The ; officers compartments have shower | baths and other convienees. With the Hart food cart Lieut. Maines stated ' that he IWd fed 250 patients in 30 minutes. The cart is equipped with two cylinders, which are a form of | tireless cooker, where the dishes are kept hot. It is something new. The tourist pullmans have tables which -lide under the seats, and new style < lockers made of iron with the paint I baked on so they can be cleaned with steam. Two Glen nan bunk cars named for I the designer, attracted attention. Kach accommodates 32 bed and 64 sit ting up patients. The bunks can be placed in reclining or changed into I settees. The trip from Camp Lee to Ashe | ville was the first for this car and was pronounced a complete success. Lieut enants J. C. Shaw and J. D. Overall of the medical reserve are asssitanta to Lieut. Maines. Two-Third* of U-Boat* Launched arc Destroyed Pari*. June 22.—Two-third* of lh« 1 Herman U-boat* launched arc already at the bottom of the aea, according to a statement made to the deputise by the under-aecretary of the navy. "And." continued the undtr-ieri*. tary, "we are deatroying them twica* aa faal a« they are building them.' Kvery time a Cermafi anbmarina ■ink* a ahip, *o much product of labor | and material* i? wafted Every time | you buy anything not needed, ae aadt .product of labor aad material* I* | waited.

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