The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-11-05
TEE WAR

no chance of its being ended this
year. Few hope it will be ended
next year.
The most engrossing in interest of
the acts on the gigantic stage is the
$50 mile long battle that fo1 six
weeks has been going on in lNorth-
err France and Southwestern Bel
GUM. Here the armies are clinched
in a deadlock that shows no sign of
breaking.
After being pushed back. from
Paris, the Germans after some
weeks of desperate fighting or the
Afsne, began to extend their right
flank to the west. In this they were
aided by a heavy reinforcement set
free by the fall OF Antwerp. They
pushed their way 10 the shore az the
North Sea, took all the Belgian
coast towns from Ostend north and
began to push down the coaiH to-
ward Dunkirk and Calais.
Near the Frenco4Belgian line. they
were met by the British and 'Frenc.
and the remnant of the Belgian
army and for two weeks amid the
canals and sanai dunes of FLANDERS
ragged the fiercest battle yet. a3rit-
ish and French ships aided the al
lies, running close to shore and
fiinging shells as far inIand as their
guns would carry Unable to move
forward on this line, bhe Germans
advanced furth or inland, but here
also were checked, and at last adj
vices seem to llave for the time be-
ing given up the attempt to capture
the channel towns and establish an
airship base against England
Meantime, the battle ragged all
along the line clear to Switzerland,
but nowhere have the Germans made
any considerable advance. nor have
the allies been able to drive them
back from the positions they took up
after their first repulse from Paris
in September.
The armies have struggled so
steadily and fercely along this line
that there is now belt of country
from Switzerland to the North Sea,
which is almost sown with corpses,
and reeking with the corruption in
separalble from the presence of the
soldiers which threatens to start an
epidemic that may sweep Europe.
Both sides have shown courage
and devotion in the highest extent,
and though the Germans have not
won their way forward it must be
, said of them that the losses they
have sustained would have driven
any other army back in hopeless de-
feat They show no sign of slack
ening, and will probably advance
again in the attempt to take either
Paris or Dunkirk and Calais.
The operations of the armies on
the east are concealed lby more I'M
certainty than on the west. The
claims of the Russians on one side
and of the Germans and Austrians
on the other are undoubtedly high
/ ~ colored This much, however, is
certain, that the Russians have
gained more ground than their OPP
ponents. They are far into both
GEast Prussia and Galicia, while they
have driven the Germans and Aus
trians almost out of Poland Either
Germany is using the best of he1
troops in the wes-, or the Russians
are much better lighters than any
body expected, for the war has gone
In their favor.
Not much has been heard of the
lighting between the Austrians and
lServians lately, but there is nc
reason to believe that Austria ha.
made any progress in oyerrunnine
the little Balkan nation. The Mon
tenegrins also hold their own, and
are helping the French and British
in the siege of Cattaro.
Turkeys long expected entranc'
into the struggle was heralded las
week by a treacherous attack OF
; Russian Black Sea ports, which wer
Allbombarded without warning. TIL
Turks gained by this no materia
advantage, but lost what sympath
they might otherwise have retaine
among neutral nations. ct is har.
TO figure out just what the result G
Z this Development will he. The TUT
kish navy, reinforced by the tw
! German battle cruisers, Goeben an
= Breslau, can dominate the Blac
q Sea. where it will he of little us,
{ but will hardly come out of th
Is Dardanelles, at the entrance (
Is which a powerful allied squadro
: has been lying for weeks. Unle
Bulgaria joins Turkey, the Turl
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