Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1914-11-12
GREAT GERMAN WAR MACHINE |s FOUGHT T0 STAADsT|LL BY ALLIES

NEW YORK, Nov. 12-Looking
 back over the events of the month
 of October it is impossible to. escape
 the conviction that East and West German prospects have worsened un- mistakably, that in Poland and, in
 northern France and Western Bel
 gium German armies have either suf-
 Co dead halt despite tremendous ef' fered actual defeat or been brought
 forts and terrible losses. sf
 Five weeks ago German advance
 in Poland was just becoming appar-
 ent. After weeks of successful fight
 ing in Galicia almost at the gates of Cracow, Russian armies were in full retreat, Austrian territory conquered in September was being relinquished
 rapidly, the ever defeated Austrian army was springing forward, sweep ing Cossacks back over the Carpath- ians, reconquering Bukovino, on the road to Przemsyl.
 In the next few days German Of lfensive toward the Vistula began ito make as great a noise as that other drive toward the Seine in August. Instead of that triumphant Russian ladvance to Berlin, promised in early ldays, German cannon became audible in Warsaw, the Russian stronhOld at Ivangorod seemed in peril, halfaof Poland was in German hands. 'lrs
 But now in the opening week of November every German and Austrian army along the Russian marches Is in retreat, Russian troops are again in East Prussia, nearly 100 miles separ- ate the Germans from the position reached in their drive at Warsaw. Southward in Galicia Austrian armies are again retiring or clinging to posi- tions rapidly becoming untenable. rE' 1 In word, after a magnificent ' eff fort, after one more splendid demon stration of the efficiency of the Ger man machine, there has come one more absolute failure. Precisely as there was no disaster in the military sense at the Marne, the German re- pulse at the Vistula has been follow ed by no rout, the retreat has been orderly, the whole operation of with drawal successful-but the failure not less complete. .o-.E.:> ..,q
 In sum, Germany having failed to crush France in August has no less. completely failed to crush Russia in | October. As French armies after pre- l liminary defeat displayed unexpected unmistakable efficiency, French high command unshaken, confidence and real skill, so Russian armies and Gen erals have endured a supreme test and after it are flowing forward again toward Silesia, and on German and Austrian territory toward Zantzig and Cracow. After a gigantic, expensive wide swinging effort, German armies have failed, are back where they start ed and Russian troops are again com ing on.
 Turning west the situation is only lightly different. On September 12 Von Kluck came back to the Aisne Now, after nearly eight weeks. Ger man armies between the Disc and the Mouse have made no progress. Back and forth for while here. and there the lines have swayed, but every am bilious offensive drive nas been beat 1 en down. Precisely the same way from Verdun to Switzerland, the eastern barrier forts of France stand. l Today the Germans are literally wC/se off than in late August along this fine |
 In this period two great English re- endorsements have been brought to the | continent. Practically the whole En- | glish army has been transferred to | Belgium, has displayed the same ten acity and the little strip of Belgian territory remained unconquered as it | showed at Mons. At last Kitchener's | labors are beginning to tell. Not 120,- 900 but 3OO,OOO British troops are now sharing in the French campaign and half million more are approaching the term of their drill in English camps.
 Once and for all Germany seems to be outnumhered in the west New