.PAOE TTTRETI
GERMANY IS LIKE A FEUDAL CASTLE; ITS WALLS NOT MADE OF STONES. BUT MEN; : - !
GENERAL PERSHING'S TACTICS MUST BE SAME AS THOSE OF ANCIENT DAYS
IN RUSSIA TODAY
HEDFORD MAIL TTtTBtTNE, MEDFORD, OT?Ef)ONT, FRIDAY. ATOUST H, '1017
BLAME SOCIALISTS
FOR CHAOS RULING
BurleyisA
PETROORAD, Aug. 3. The polit
ical crisis, which is still unsolved, is
taking a Dew form, owing to the
growing tendency of .the country to
divide into two sharply -defined op
posing cmnps. In the first camp arc
the educated, especially the lunded
and industrial classes, led by mem
bers of the duma, and Moscow man
ufacturers, while the second is cora-
. posed of socialists of all shades of
opinion.
Tho- chief evidence of this divis
ion is an unofficial session of the
duma, at which the moderate pro
gressive party joined the old reac
tionaries in attacks otiMhe socialistic
policy of the cabinet, as influenced
by the councils of workmen's and
soldiers' nd peasants' delegates.
, Paul Milukoff sharply assuiled the
1 councils for trying to dictate to the
,. non-socialist members of the cab
inet in the manner in which they nl
' ready dictate to the socialist minis
ters. A sensational speech was
made by a member of the progres
sive party, M. Muslennikoff, who
ascribed the military disasters and
internal anarchy ns due wholly to
the socialists. He referred to the so
cialists as "a crowd of mad funat
ios; adventurers and traitors, who
call themselves the executive council
of the workmen's and soldiers' deputies."-
:": " '-.
M. Maslonnikoff declared tliot the
duma alone could have Russia, but
to do so it must cease sitting in a
corner, afraid pf itown shadow,
and meet in regular Bess-ion and de
mand that the ministers appear be
fore it and render an account of their
stewardship.' - V,:'
Nicholas Lvoff, constitutionalist
democrat, also declured thu .the.
Against this idea the officiul orX
grin of the workmen nhd soldier and
peasants deputies raised the cry that
the duma aims at a counter-rcvolu
tion. In this other organs of the
party of the left agreed.
At yesterday's session of the duma
nil the speakers repudiated the ac
cusation that their dim is a counter
revolution. -' They asserted that the
. councils nnd the government under
the influence of the councils would
ruin Russia irretrievably and that
the damn's only aim was to prevent
such ruin.
F
AT
PETROORAD, Aug. 3 General
Radko Dimitrieff, commander of the
Russian troons on the Riira front.
has resigned his command of the
twellth army. tlenerul Parsky will
succeed him.
General Dimitrieff, who is Bul
garian, tit the beginning of the war
represented his country as minister
to Russia. Immediately on the out
break of hostilities he telegraphed
liis resignation to Sofia and tendered
his services to the Russian war of
fice. 1 lis- tender was gladly accept
ed, for Dimitrieff had been com
munder-in-chief of the Bulgarian
army in the latter part of the first
Balkan war, but resigned his com
mission, -when Bulgariu, at the in
stigation of Austria, attacked her
former allies, Serbia nnd Greece. In
Bulgaria, Dimitrieff, who is as much
a politician. as a soldier, was known
as the "Little Napoleon." He has
. had many important commands in the
Russian army since the outbreak of
the world war. .
PLAN 10 SAFEGUARD
NEW YORK, . Aug. 3. Plans t..
safeguard American shipping from
attack have been worked out by the
naval construction board, nnd
special committee appointed by Ma
jor Generul Goethnls, it beenrae
known here when W. L. Saunders,
chairman of the board, advised war
relief societies to adopt the system
as a safeguard for their shipments.
Details of the plans were not made
public. Mr. Saunders, in n letter to
John Moffatt, secretary of the Fed
era! Council of Allied War Relief so
cieties, suid the plans had bt-en ap
proved by the federal authorities,
who now ore putting into effect
through the war risk insurance bit
Teau a premium on ships equipped
according to its provisions.
1
"SHiNDr
WL h"ksFRM( Asiatic A rJt C0arett M
W. hJ - -TURKEY , pSr V'O411 L 1 J S
S.. .
Read Just How the Allies, Reducing
an Outwork Here and a Wall
There, Must Vanquish the Kaiser's
Fortress.'
(Copyright, 1917,' by the Newspaper
' Enterprise Association.)
V, nhnt faces the American annv to
day, ds the great war swings into
the beginning oits fourth year?
'What is the strnteiric nml ruclicnl
situation. Ibcforc -the allies, and what
can PWtdiipg's force play in the
storming of the Gennnu citadel that
has been breached at some points,
nut stilt remains. .untakenT
It is possible t'oput into simple
words the military situation at this
moment. . . ' ',..
Let us imagine the central nower
group Germany, Austriu'-llungnry,
Bulgaria nnd Turkey us ji'.; great
fortress, which is besieged sn, all
sides. "
Tim l-nium- in llm "(mafia hiu,n"SCt.
Btfrlin like a (feudal lord) f ihtA
middle ages decided to grub his
neighbors' hind, and extend the walls
of his fortress to dominate them.
E
' SHOWN IN RUSSIA
AMSTERDAM, Aug. 3. Count von
Reventlow In an article In the Tages
Zeltung, referring to Arthur J. Bal
four's speech In the house ot commons
In which-he spoke ot the nationalities
of AuBtrla-Hungary determining their
own course ot future development,
tells his readers of widespread ma
chinations of American agents In Austria-Hungary,
started by former Am
bassador Penfield long' prior to the
Austro-American breach.
The article says that Americans
who left Austria soon after the breach
talked confidently to neutrals of "Im
pending complete political Isolation of
Germans In Austria, while In Hungary
also secret organization of entente
nations and America soon would bear
fruit." Both predictions have been
fulfilled, says Count von Reventlow,
who darkly adds:
"How long the former ambassador
to Constantinople, Elkus, remained In
Vienna or whether he Ib still there,
we do not know." .
Balfour's Idea, says Count Revont
low, Is the dissolution of the Auslro-
Hungarlan monarchy, which squares
exactly with the alms of the Ccech
poles.
AVIATOR FLEISCHMANN
KILLED BY FALL IN AIR
CIKCIXXATI, Aug. 3. Charles
Fleischmunn, who fell lo his dentil
from nn aeroplane in Great South
Bay last night, was the only son of
Julius L. Kleisclunnnn, former mayor
of Cincinnati, nnd president of the
Hoiwhmann Yeast coniwiny. He
was 22 years old nnd enlisted in the
aviation section of the. signal corrm
a few weeks ago. An uncle, Cnptnin
Max Fleischniiinn, is stationed nl the
Fort Omaha, Neb., I'nited States
aviation camp. ,
Instead of- walls of """stone, this
modern Teutonic, "fortress" has walls
of men. There are two main "keeps"
er eustles-at the ends of the fort
ress.. 'At one end arc Germany ami
Austria-Hungary ; ut tho other Is
Asiatic Turkey. . . , ,
Between these two great keeps is a
connecting link of fortifications, tak
ing in Bulgariu and Serbia, southern
Rumania and European Turkey,
j Just Like Feudal Gastlo. , ,
Projecting from this great fort
ress, and protecting its main walls,
are "outworks,", whicl) serve. to. hold
off the ullied armies. ' '
These "outworks" were '. built in
the first year' .of the war. It wus
the '(German year.'. For tlio lust, two
years nllit-d "storming parties have
been at work, reducing an outwork
here, breaching a "btistin" or front
there, and pushing evor closer to the
main keeps.
The problem was to breach those
walls. Tactics change; strategy re
mains immutable. The ancient Egyp
tians ntude their attack upon n wailed
Icily for exuetly the same strategic
Qbjeel as lluig'or Petam make their
attacks. Hannibal, when he staiiod
his wur against Rome by. rupturing
MWISIELLS
Ji
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COPKNHAGEN, Aug. 3.i-Accord-ing
to a published account of con
versations in Dresden, flmncellor
Michnelis suid tiiat while lie was
ready to accept nny opportunity
given him to secure an honorable
peace, the requirement of the hour
for Germnns wns to ovoid any mani
festations of nervousness nnd prove
to their opponents that Germany's
might was unweukened.
Gcrmuny's opponents, Dr. ' Mi
chnelis said, hud been greatly en
couraged by the exhibition of nerves
in the latest inner crisis and by the
Gcrmun longing for peace, which was
interpreted ubroad as a sign of
weakening of the Gcrmun people.
Peace w;ould be brought no nearer,
he said, by such things, adding that
the government would continue its
efforts for pence, hut would avoid
.curlier mistakes.
Chnnccllor Jlichnclis intimated
that the prospects for a speedy
peace were not bright, but that un
expected developments liiight at any
moment bring the iioestion to a head
and produce tangible results. He
appealed for unity nnd declared that
the entire (leiiniin press must back
the government in ull vital cincstions.
STATE OF SIEGE
DECLARED IN GREECE
IX)NDON, Aug. J. A state of fdege
has been declared In the whole Greek
department of Attica, Including Ath
ens and Piraeus, according to a dis
patch from Athens to the Exchange
Telegraph company.
Snguntum,' proceeded as Perilling
will have to proceed in France. The
difference is one of tactics not
strategy.' In the days of Egypt nnd
Romo and Curtilage the problem was
to attack a walled city; now an "umy
must attack a'wulled nation; walled
in with human beings.
The problem before tho ancient
general was to make a breach in the
walls and pour his archers and
spearmen into the flunks of the de
fenders, sweep them along, and at
tack them in tho rear. If a wull, wus
breached, tho defenders built a now
wull behind tho breach, and made
sullies out to strike the attackers on
tho flank.
The allies' human battering rams
havo attacked the kaiser's fortress at
seven points, as shown on the. ac
companying skctull, with these re
sults; . ' ;,
. ' Seven Attack Points.
1. Russia has -captured the Gnl
ieiun fronts of Bukowina and Lutsk,
but the remainder of the large Pol-and-Volhyniun
outwork remains in
tact. . . ' . , ;
Russia has reduced tlio Caucasus
front and joined hands with the
British-Indian army.
RUSSIA REFUSES
DF
PETROORAD, Aug. 3. The pro
visional government has refused lo
acknowledge Finland's independence
law and has instead issued a mani
festo dissolving the landtag and ap
pointing a general elector of October
1 declaring that the government,
when the luniltiig meets,' will submit
its own law. regulating Russo-Finn-isb
relations.
The fate of Finland can be decided
only in ngreeinent with the Hussion
people, the manifesto declares.
' The niinister for Finland took the
manifesto to llelsingfors and deliv
ered it to Governor-General Stako
vich, who rcud it to the scnute, utter
which he made a friendly speech, in
which he said:
"This manifesto is the most dem
ocratic action yet performed by the
revolutionary government, for it
makes Finland's people musters of
their own destiny."
The landtag is expected to decide
its course of action tonight. The so
cialist majority threatens lo defy the
manifesto and continue in session,
while the non-sociulists expect to
obey it. II is slated that the mem
bers of the hie.li court have tele
graphed to llelsingfors declaring
Hint Ihcy would refuse to administer
any future landtag enaelmcalH pass
ed under an unconstitutional inde
pendence law.
NO INCREASED EXEMPTIONS
FROM PHYSICAL DISABILITY
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.-First
and scattered reports from local
boards do not indicate nny increase
in physical exemption from the
nrniy draft over the nverage of
2H.77, established in 1803, it was
unnouueed toil")'.' ,
3. The British-Indian army has
captured tho Mosopotnminn front by
reducing Bagdad.
4. Tho British-Egyptian army has
reached the Syrian front.
. 5. The defenders of tho Qallipoli
front have driven nway tho storming
party at this point. .
0. Snrruil's army has breached
the Salonika front, but the, defend
ers cling to their second lino. '
7. The Italian army has breached
tho Carso front, but the temporary
second lino of walls holds.
8. The British-Frcneh-Belginn ar
mies havo driven the defenders com
pletely out of the Vimy, Peronne,
Uion and Maronvillers fronts, and
broken down a long . pioen of the
walls of the French-Belgian "out
work" nnd the' second lino of tempo
rary walls (tho llindcnhiil'g line) is
endangered. '
What llomaLs 1H1.
The Romans brought up battering
ranis nnd catapults, nml by pushing
them close to the walls of the be
sieged city they buttered uway'at one
or two. spots in the wall, until the
stones wore jarred loose and fell,
thus making n "breach" in the wull,
through which the foot troops could
SILVER COINS MINTED
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3. Minting
silver coins is proceeding at every
mint in the country at from five to
eight limes the volume of past years,
according to announcement today by
Director Baker of the mint, who has
just returned to Washington from an
inspection tour of tho mints in the
west. The chief demand is for
quarters and dimes. Forces at sev-'
eral of the mints probably will be
uiiguieiiled soon and may go on
longer hours to meet the demand.
Coinage of gold has been discon
tinued temporarily in order to per
mit the mints to devote all their cn
ergies to coining silver.
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rush. In tlio meantime, the defenders
of the walls did everything possible
to injure tho "battering rntti" and to
hinder tho besiegers, but if the bat
tering of the wall went Oil, 'they built
a second wall inside, in the shape of
a half moon. ,.
This is exactly what tho Teutons
hnvo done. When the, -outwork in
Frilnco-nnd Belgium was threatened
they built the "Ilindcnbursf line, ".be
hind which they rctirect'when Vthe
outer wull was breached,'.. JV- .
The problem before thtfalilcs Is to
smash through a wall somewhere bo
fore the Germans havo time to build
an insido wall; or else to. destroy the
inside' wall after tho firjsj.hns been
breached , and thus pour into ' the
fortress and take the defenders in
rear nnd flank; " '';,
But when tho ancient soldiers hud
built their half moon temporary wall
it was possible for the soldiers on
the old walls on either sidu to take in
flunk the besiegers when they rushed
in to assault the second wall.
The task of the allied and Ameri
can troops is to push home the de
struction of the "bastions," or
fronts, so thnt tho main walls of the
fortress can he attacked;--.
OF
MONTREAL, Aug. 3. Sir I.omer
Gotiiu, premier of Quebec, made the
following dei'luriilion today ' regard
ing the political situation:
"The attitude of the province of
Quebec is sincere. To us it nppeiirs
that a government elected six years
ugo upon u program containing not
one word relating to military mut
ters is not a government which
should impose' conscription ill Ciin
ailu today. I.ct us have elections,
unci if the ma jority of the Canadian
people declare in favor of it, I am
convinced that, our province, like
the others, will submit to the peo
ple's will."
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