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Newspaper Page TextUnl- orsfty of Oregon Library "WEATHER Maximum Yesterday, 80; Minimum Today, -J7. FOHEfAST Tonight and Tomorrow: Fair, Warmer Tucsitay. AISTH1AXS AHK ltlX- NrXO, KKKP THICK Rl'X.MXG. itrv w. s. s. nn lVlEDFORD I "Tench economy, one of the first and highest virtues. It begins with saving money,1 Abraham Lincoln. TRIBUNE Forty-elnhth Tear. Dally Thirteenth Tear. MEDFORD, OREfiON, MONDAY, JUNE 24, 3018 NO. 79. Ml ATT VJLTAB.JU ITALIANS CAPTURE 5,000 AUSTRIANS DRIVE EWEftflY BACK ACROSS THE PIAVE Mm mmMKL 7EL " HUN TROOPS MAPNITIinF ITALIMi SIGNAL DEMANDS FOR m ON STRIKE FOR quit in Jin F S FMV m-m SPEi (P m I I Si lUll LIlLIII I Ualian Ferres Attack All Aiuiia Liiic Austrian Workmen Formulate Ci- A j Extensive Strikes In tthine Cities HU 0 I llltflll U . rod Austrians Fiec. Leaving Caii- mand That Austrian Goven..,.ei;i ' jjS 2n.00 Munition Workers Quii , Italian Victory Growing Greaterim mense Numbers of Prisoner Cul tured and Huge Numbers of Guns Austrians Slaughtered by Who.e sale as They are Caught EkNVuer. Flood-Waters of Piave and Italian Armies Bridges Destroyed. ' WASIIIN'OTON, Juno 2 1; Omit Hit. of 45,000 prisoners ami cuimu;oj.- k tores of war material by tlu Iti'm ;is in their counter offensive whicii In-.-(1 riven the Austrians across the 1'i.iVc is nnnounced in an ol'ticuil cnlcium received today hy the Ilahan c:in.i. from lioiiie. "(HTensive opera 1 ion by on, troops hcun Sunday," says I he dis patch. "After violent artillery n'i nralions that destroyed all hriui except one, the mftiiitry drove loi wnrd with irresistible impetus. I ric flooded I'iavc contains thousand.- o enemy corpses. Divisions which passed the Piave were decinmicd by our artillery infantry. Attacked in Three Columns "Montello was attacked in three c i umns. Kencmy lines were brok.n ai (Vila Delhi Madonna and Nerve .a and reocciipied. Knun Maseraia to Sardinia the Austrians first rcMstid our attacks desperately but jWly were forced to retreat to Inc. leii hank. Untile continues fiercely in the Sardoiin sector. Forty-five liioii sand prisoners and enormous boot,, captured by the Italians. "American airmen displayed j:icut bravery in the first emouniors. Lieut. Younji, attacked by two Aus trian chasers, was obliged to ian 1 o. the lower I'iae.M V.x t reinely Heavy I hisses ROMK, June 21. Lxlivnudy heavy losses in men and inali-ri ;i have been sulfered by the Austrian in the defeat vvhicb the Itati.ins b..vt administered to litem on the i'iavc front, the war ollicc niinonnccii to day. The enemy has been driven Horn the entire west bank of the i'iavc, -cept at one point and was able cross the river only under the deaii'y fire id' the Italian arlillery. Italian troops have crn--cd tin id. channel of the l'iat riei, we.--, i. the main stream and recaplnted sev eral of their old positions there, ac cording to a scmi-officiiii aiiintim . -mcnt tonight. From Oapo Silc ciiier detachments are udvancin (j.aid the main stream of the river. (Continued on Page Six.) PARIS, June 24. The (Jermai.s launched n new atta k u gainst po.-i-tinns held by the Italians at Kliuny a 1 1 o'clock hist night, Afler hard ihtiug the (icnii.nii were completely rcpuUcd with serious losses, leaving primmer in the hanu. of the allies, accoruinc; t a slat- mcnt issued by the war office Jouav. The French have repulsed a tienuaii attack in the rcuion oi Anlhi n.i (wcrt of the Oise,) tb,e Miitenieiil says. LONDON", June 24. The Itriti-n made a siieccsiul minor ataek "'l j fiennan positionn south of Mi tcrvit i (in the I.vh nalieiit) last night. M;t', Germans wen killed and 50 iirisonc".. and snme machine guns were tnkiu hy the I'iritish, according to a stnt. incut is a u cj by the war office today. non ana Maciime uuns All Bnaues biiow itseit tor a beneru a-e : v . y- '&?hj)y Unless Ve Get Kore to Eat Wj But One Destroyed and Tht Ud.r ' and Invite Enemy Governments t j , e. ife?" Shall Not Work" Declare These Fire Eiyht Days Rain. Enlcr Negotiations. fel'l,.?St 1 aSfS- Toilers In Munition Factories. ITALIAN AliMY HEAiH, ..Aiv TKHK, June (N'iIit.1 - ( Ly l.; Associated I'rcss. - I ;;c Italian have taken bire number .m piisoM cis, ;rent (iiantitics of muuiiioii: ai.-l other booty since (lie Ait.-dn.in re treat beiran. The n'-eut retreat in tin A.ist.'i.in., aloni; the I'iavc front beyon under c v er of darkness on Sntuiuay :iit, ihc retreating tntops left their cannon be hind them. Italian detaclunculs arc nurai.i: the enemy cast id' I he I'iavc. Aus trian troops Id": to ov i ii:c rctieal Used their machine iiiis to stl up a barrage' fire. Attacked All Along Line When it was obscivcd ia.it lie Austrians- had beun a retrograde inoveiuent, the Italians btan ai tiick was (piickly pressed and became line from Montello on the north to ward the mouth of the river, i'hc a.- ..i . .. i i i '"''. I"1"""" ' """"".ector Paul in an interview with the i ii insiiitil . Mi'fiimn:inifH iiv -.m.! lent artillery fire. The number of guns h it bciiinu by the Austrians as they retreated h not been computed, but is said to he very great. The work of the American a va lors who appeared on the fiont last week for the firsl litnc eo:dribiiu.ti notably to the disorganiaiioii of Austrian forces which had eros.; d the Piave, according to liiaca. cor respondent of the Milan Sccola. The Italian attack began at dawe on Sunday. With the Monteuo -u the left flank, the attiuk wa e;unel ou along the line through Oi.inhiii to the San Dona Di Piave Iteac ilia rd Actions SoatJi of the Zcnson beiul tne An. -trians are fighting rearguard aciioi -to cover the retreat of their uiani body over the two bridges they Lav led at San Dona and tln.ohr' three, and a half miles IV, mm the Ai -nat ic. The Auslrian retreat wiiieh bega--in an orderly manner soon became wildly disorganized and conhi-i, Many thousands of A astro-1 lung. -nans -m rendered at Ihc tirb oppor tunity when overtaken by their pui saers. liain which had been falling for ciu'th days broke forth more viohru about daylight today at a time when Italian artillery and machine g'nis be gan to open tip on the reliring An trians who were struggling knee deep in I be mire. The Italian cavalry took pa it in '' pursuit, harrying the fiigiliw. Threw Away I'piiptiiriil As (be Auslriaus were nresM-d oy liic Italians they threw away the.r uuns and equipment. Tbev ven I. f on the Mon'ello stacks of brt.id, ca' -ned meat and preservts whit h Au-.- (Continued on Page Six.) WASIHNOTON, June 21. .i.c.e tnry Maker today cableil tin Aiacri cnii ambassador at Home for tra i--mital t' the Italian govcrmiiciu ecHiuratulatiotis upon the vn torv it the Italian ainiv oer the Austrians. lie -aid: "The people of the- l'liltcd Staler arc walchiliL' v i t h cnlliiHi.isiri aiai admiration the exploits of your brim-army. ! LONDON, June '. 4. Strikers in VH W" Sw tvf.. $ 1 jlhu various factories n Vienna on 'Vf. , ' N '""v I 'Saturday formulated u demand that fr-A A, - VA-4 SKvSl LONDON, June 24. Strikers in thu various factories n Vienna on Saturday formulated a demand that the Austrian government show iltielt' Tor a general peaie and invite (be KovoramenlH of enemy countries to enter Into peace negotiations, nays a dispatch from The Hughe to the Times. HepresentatlveH of the wor- kers eubmitted the plea to Baron Hurian, the Austro-llungarian for I eiKii minister. I ZruiCII, June 24. Tho Austrian I troubles are extending according to a dispatch from Munich quoting the I Nouesto 'N'uehrichten of thai city. Tho Vienna Zeit, according to these j advices, states that the n:rike ha3 become geneinl. , ,v ! Only lluir n Ittition A.MSTKltDA.M, Juno 24. There is only sufficient corn for half a bread ration in Austria, declared ood Dir- Vienna correspondent of the Ixtkal Anzeiger. The food department is attempting to make up this deficiency with other foodstuffs and In uddltion to 2")0 grammes of -beef, two wounds of horse flesh per person will be dis tributed weekly. Military mobile kitchens will he used to supply 100,000 persons daily for four weeks with a warm meal consisting of soup, 100 grammes of meat and vegetables. t'ahinet Crisis AMSTERDAM, June 2L-Fmperor Charles, says a Vienna dispatch, has reserved his dechdon regarding the resignation of the Austrian caldnet. In the meantime be entrusts Premier von heydler with the furl Iter direc tion of Austrian affairs. AMSTERDAM, June 21. --In dis easing Hie crisis In the Hungarian govern meat liinlapcqt newspapers, says the I.okal Airelgcr of Itertlu, menllon Count Tls.a, presiunalily as succe.s.ior to Premier Wokerle. A.MSTKUDAM, June 24. Fmperor Charles, a Vienna dispatch to the lx)cal Anzeiger of Uorlin says, un doubtedly will refuse to accept the resignation of the Von Seydler cab inet, which will remain as constituted except probably tor the Polish mem ber, llerr von Twnrdoskl, who will, retire. mill mi WASIM.NOTOX. Juno 24. Chief Cnnner'a Mulo Harry It. r'hamler of Atlanta, (la.. ,oniiiKiiwler of the naval armed Knril on nn Amerlinn mcam or, was today commended hy Si.re tary Ixmlels for erfli'lent conduct displayed durlriK an eiiKaKcment lie tween his vessel and an enemy til marine on May 12. After the suIh niariue had unsuccessfully fired four torpedo. Chambers' fiun crew openeil up and fired four nhots at the undersea craft, the fourth shot atrik iik tho ciiiuilnc tower as tho IMipat sulimerKed. It was not atel whether the sub marine was sunk but tho navy de partment's acrount of the eiiKaKement said "a heavy black smoke rose over tho C-hoat from the explosion of the shells. !Sjf ' I! - J Kmperor Charles of Anstrln-Hiuigary, who led the A us Ir bin nrmv tnfn defeat, Kmpress iia mid children. fensive and lost. Sermon troops are Iteing rushed to his nhl, hot his em pire s swilling with dscontcnt, strikes and riots over food shortage are in pmgi-ess and discontent smouldering into revolution amongst tho op pressed nationalities roiiMltnting his polyglot empire. T! CHARTERED BY U. S. SOI BY U-BOAT WASHINGTON, Juno 24. Sinking of an ulliod transport under Amer ican charier on Juno IS about 70D miles east of the Delaware Capes was roportod 1oday (o the navy depart ment. Tho transport had no troops aboard and was westward bound. lieports indicate lhat tho submar ine was not seen until, after the tor pedo struck the ship. The crew look lo the boats alter tho vessel settled and It was fulilo to uso tho guns. Tho i;-boat appeared on the surface and lired nineteen snots Into tho In p. 'i hreo boats Willi about slxly-seven members of thu crew uro missing. Ilio crow of 148 got away from tuo veakul in seven boats, four of which have been landed. Tho total rescued so tar Is given us St men. Two boat loads arrived by steamer at New York; one by m earner at llumplon Itoads and one by sailing vejei at iteriniula. L'niier an agreement with tho Ilrit Ish ailniiiHlly the navy department b, not permitted to announce tho uanie of tho vessel sunk. Unofficially re ports have reached heru from New York that she was tho Uwlnsk, a llrit isli sleamer Hying tho Itus.dan flaR. In view of tho fact that the vesi-el was attaiked far outsldn Iho Kuro peiin zone ot submarine, activities, some officials hero think hu may have encountered a Biihiiiarlno liiiad ni; for heme alter parlliipatini; In the raid mi the American coast. W-ASIIINdTON, Juno 24. A mip-(,h,,t district from Illg liutto creek In plemental wiiko scale announced to-l"1'"1 "eaver creek. WhethiT tho day by the chipping board fixes llie ' I'1"" will 'o found feaslbln will ho pay of refrigerating engineer em ployed on ship? operated hy the hoard at 19."i a month; olectrlcanii flu",; deck engineers fx,", ; and pump engt rfeera f S.'i. The ratea aro retroactive to May I. , 4 in- VP Tho emperor risked all upon an of 85 LOST LIFE E ORDE WASHINGTON', June 21.-Dilator ficnernl .McAiloo lod.iy orileieii nn iiiresliiilinn of hc cirrus li'uin wreck on the Jljehinn Central rail road near (.Jury, linl. ('IIK'AIIO, June 'J,- Acconliii!? lo O. Timui, lbij'mMii of 1 1 1 ( circus Irinii M-cid;ed wilh heavy less of !;i'e Heat lary, Ind., vast Sntunlny, Hutu h..k no one visible on tin- engineer's siJe of Hie cab of the engine a moment he fore il era-bed into the show Iran. Timni olimutcil Ihiil he nils ,t.) cl.f Icn'llis hack of I he circus (rain ami ii viii,. fialilically sienallcd lue ll'llll to slni, slciicil lo one sid(, and liiicv a luce thruiiu'li llie window' ni liie engine cub. He reporlcd to In., sn licrinrs that llie engineer was noi llsillle lo I 1 II lit Hint lime. Sixty-two boilics have been r,.iov eivil and ai'coriliiii; to I''.. .M. Cil.I.u .it y ncnM iiinu.icr of llie llai'iilen K- I Wallace circle., 'j:i of the ciiiiin;, cs nre lill :iu.--;iii' aiu are suiosd iO have Inen destroyed by Hie lire winci, ciuiiiiiicil Hie woimIcu circus cai.i. KALAMAZOO, Mich., .lime 21 Aluii.o .1. Sargent, eniiiiHcr of II. e troop train of empty i'lillm.in ci.s utiich ciii-bed into the 1 laciiiiack Wall.ice cihmis Irani near (iaiy, li.'i., Has iliibaru'cd llMin cilstoily tins fnrcuooii. SAI,l:.l. Ore., June 21. State En gineer will leave tonight for Medford to confer Willi the directors of .Med ford irrigation district relative to the proposal lo take tho water supply fol determined as Investigations aro made. The. Medford directors hnllovo that Illg liutto creek will furnish a safer supply of water. Arrangements have not yet been madi) for tho Halo of bonda. LONDON', .1 line 2 1. -lilcn.vvo strikes broke out Thutsday m C'ol ocno ninl Jliiesellicim, on the Rnmt, owing to a reduction in llie blend ra tion, 20,000 persons qiiiilinq work it iiiiinition factories, ncron'in to n dispatidi lo the Daily M.ui, from T'.ie llae;ue. A Dutch working niiin rciurnint; to The Hague reports Hint the liup'tary and police interfered but faded to prevent a street proeessioi:, of moru t hull i),000 strikers ut Colne. The strikers, who iiu'lude women, catered in tt dense mass lo nn jpen pir.ee where n mass meeting was heiii, Ai! tho speakers, who included foremen and forewomen, Hindu this uotla.3 tion:"' . ( "Unless wo get more to eat wo shall not w ork." The Diilchmau said liial sma.lpa.v is increasing greatly among tli. Krupp workmen at Ksstn. ' Wcntless Weeks In Storo I.ON'DONf, Juno 21. ilcaucsy weeks for (leriuany is n possiodity of the near future. Dr. August jMiiiltr. under secrelarv for food disaibimon. at n meeting of I ho reichstag f-iu! eomniillea Snurdiiy, says tin ehango Telegraph dispatcii from Co penhagen, iiiiuonnceil Hint it wou'd be impossible lo increase llie inc.it la tum. He snid thiil most likely it will be necessary lo lower it or introdiit i meatless weeks for the whole of lier luuny or at any rale cerium jails of the population. AMSTI'.IiDAM, June 21. Ciinnecl lor Von llcrlling, iH'Coriliu to the Vossisclie Zciliing of Km unlay, wi;l speak loday at the opening ol liie Je bale in Hie reic hslag on Iho esti.ralc for his office uiul Hie lorcign office. AM'STKKDAM, .Tuiie Jl. 1 he rciehsliig Ibis week will he asked to pass a new vole of credit of .,('i'.',. 0110,000 marks, according to Iho Hei liner Tagcslalt. This wiil rai.-,o icr man's war debt lo J:i0,ll00,000,:i00 marks. ENUF AMERICANS 10 SATISFY ALLIES LONDON, .liinn 24 Premier Lloyd (loorgo announced today that tho next couple of mouths would ho nnx loua ones. Thero might bo a groat blow coming in tho next few hours, ho said, and certainly In Iho next few days and on this blow tho Iksiio of tho campaign might depend. The entente allies, ho added, never felt bettor prepared lo meet It. Premier Lloyd (Jeorgo aM tho Austro-Hungarlans were In full re treat. Tho question now was, ho ad ded, whether they ould ho ahlo to oTfect retreat. Tho premier, who made tills an nouncement In thn houso of commons referred to Iho amazing organization which was bruglag American troops to Franco. "Kuoiigh Americans," ho added, "have arrived to satl.- fy the nlllci and lo disappoint and ultimately defeat our foes." Tho remodeling of tho former Dnn lols store room, comer of Kast Main and South Central, which will bo oc cupod July lt by tho Modtord J'har mart and Ucddy's Jewolry storo, In about completed, Kaiser Rushes Divisions From F.ench Tront to Aid Defeated Ally fto.ne Confident Allied Aid'Wiii End ttar This Year Enemy Began Precipi tate Retreat Saturday Night, Pur sued By Italians, Who Cross Piave and Press Fugitives. BY ASSOCIATED THEoS, June 24. Confidence tit Rome that tiiu war may bo brought to a victorious eloso this year, if the tillies give foe Italians a full measure of support ! tho ol'fensivo which has been launch ed ngaiiist tho Austrians, is leflectod in offieiul wireless dispatches receiv, ed today from tho Italian capital. These messages say tho Ausirmu reircat across tho l'iave, in wjicb. I he Italians nlrundy liava. taken 4j, UQQ prisoners, has become u veritabio route, but that information from se cret sources shows that many divid ions of Ocrmnn troops have been do tuclicd from tho front in Francs hnd nro being rushed to tho aiu of t.'m Austrian army, Italy's victory over the Austrians on the Pinvo front nppenrs likely to assunio the proportions of a veritable triumph for the Italians and a disas ter of great magnitude for tho aefeotw c.d enemy. Already it is nmiotinccd in official dispatches from Homo tho Aushiara havo lost 45,000 men in prisoners .i d great quantities of malcrial, whiio tho extent of their other caauuit;cj mny be indicated by the tliousunus of bodies flouting in the wutcis (i tho swollen river. L'nnblc to foreo bis way furtbj than the immcdialo vicinity of t:io west bank of the river nnd wua bridges thrown neross the streu" swept away by tho swirling waters i tho flood pouring down from mountains, the enemy begun a precipi tate retreat Saturday night. So hasty was his withdrawal tnn', ho left n great ninny cannon on tho west hnnk of tho l'iave, whik his re treating infantry columns, aceotding to news dispatches are already being pressed by Italian detachments thrown over to tho easterly sida of tho stream. I'rom Hie Mnnlollo nlalenn south ward to Iho Adriatic conies tiio san.i story of tho Austrian retreat. T'io 1'iavo river formerly emptied into tue sea quilo near Vcnico but iu recc'it years ils courso was changed to ita present location. In tho tirst ru.U of tho Austrian offensive, the enemy succeeded in crossing Iho old rivei bed, which is now u canal. From th.;i positions there the foe lias been dr'v cn and the Italians aro releutlcss'y pressing the pursuit. WASHINGTON'. Juno 21. Wert, ncsduy or Thursday of this week iiiuyho fixed ns tho dalo fo Ino itrawing of order number of young men w ho registered for tlie army droit on June !. Announcement of ar raiit'enteiits for llie drawing nwalU reports from half u doen loal boards whose records are incimpb. e. The drawing will he held w til formal ceremony in the eapilol, hko I lint which lived Hie order of neai'y ten million registrants a year ago. Thu plan has not been nuiilo puhliu but it is snid to ho a modification ol tho original sehemo. A very laro proporlion of tho nearly 800,000 reg. istercd uro expected to go into class one.