Scapegoats.
AUSTRIAN GENERALS FIRED. Received this day, 9.30 a.m. Zurich, July 3. A telegram from Vienna reports sweeping changes in the I Austrian commands owing to the Italian- victory. Field-Marshal von Koswehs replaces Conrad. General Kva.uss, who was Prince. Eugene's Chief of Staff, becomes Chief of the General Staff, replacing Gneral von Arz. The German General von Buelow ljas been given supreme command on the Italian front. Telegram)* from military circles in Vienna attribute the chief blame of the Piave defeat to the Hungarian strike which crippled the oulpul oi munitions'. When the a I tacks began it was found I hat only seven days' ammunition was on hand. Tlie offensive also was liurried because politicians hoped for a success to relieve the political situation.
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 4 July 1918, Page 3
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