The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-31
FIRST YEAR BATTLE FINDS ALL WARRING
 NATIONS CONFIDENT
Military Experts Believe Success Will Attend Efforts of Their Huge Armies Now in the Field-A1 Admit Heavy Losses in Dead and Mssing-Three Big Cam paigns Divide Attention of Belligerents.

have been driven back and badly beaten and a German and Austro- Hungarian army has been arrayed neap the frontier of Roumania, Bull garia has come to an understanding with Turkey, and Greece remains the opponent of Italy, and an increase in the number of enemies under control of the entente allies no longer is to be anticipated by Austria Hungary.
 t.The Germans have every reason, therefore, at the end of the first year of the war to consider their sacrifices in blood and treasure have been re- warded. We are well prepared for a continuance of the war. Our nation still possesses determination to@con- quer and to make the necessary sacri- fees Our supplies of war material are assured by efficient organizations. Our finances are far from exhausted and there is mol ack of provisions. Our fleet, despite a few losses among the cruisers, is ready to be thrown into the struggle at the proper no-N submarines in all the seas are the der odaf our enemies. Thus their offensive has changed to a defensive and the prospects of eventual victory for the Central Powers is materially increased
 London. July 8 1-Sir Edward Grey, the British Minister for Foreign aAf- fairs has given the following auth oFiz- ed statement to the Associated Press:
 T have been asked to send a mes- sage to the United States of America at the end of the first year of the war
 The reasons which led Great Bri- tain to declare war and the ideals for which she is fighting have been fre- qde1tIy set forth. They are fully un- deratood in America I do not feel, therefore, there is any need to repeat them now. I am quite contented to leave the rights and wrongs of the causes and conduct of the war to the Judgment of the American people
 The United Kingdom, and. the en- tire Empire. together with their gall lant allies, have never been more de- stermined than they are today to prose cute this war to a successful conclt1-l sion which will result in honorable and enduring peace based on liberty, and not on burdensome militarism.' ''
 Paris July 31.--A year of war finds France s fit to continue the strug- gle to the end and confident of the outcome, says Count Adrien Lannes de MontebelIo in a. review of the first twelve months of hostilities given to the Associated Press. Count de Mon tebello. a recognized authority on rniIi- tary affairs, was oie of the strongest | cAdROCdLSS OI the three year military service law, and it's co-author with the former Premier Louis Barthou. He was formerly Deputy from Rheims and Vice President of the Committee of Military Affairs on the Chamber of Deputies. His grandfather was Mar shall Lannes, at whose death on the battlefield of Essling Napoleon is said to have wept
 His review of the war follows:
 France was not expecting war. and her preparations therefore were less compdestf than those of her adversar- 1 ies who. knowing their intentions, had accumulated an immense supply of fighting material and disposed of their troops in such a. manner as to strike the most powerful blow of which they were capable.
 Germany threw against Belgium and France 52 army corps, or almost her entire military force as mobilized in August. Under the impact of the German advance the French armies
 with their British allies, suffered dni- | tia1 freverses and great losses, especial | ly in the battle of Charleroi While the I French armies were in retreat a. ma tional ministry was formed and the | civil population of France organized for war. The Preach and British ar | mics stood on the line of the Marne from a point near Paris to the east I the shock of more than 1900. 900 Ger man troops, and defeated them with somewhat inferior forces. The Ger
 mans were pulled and outfougnt in a, vast general action over a line of more than 12O miles.
 The French troops were too ex- hausted by their fifteen days of
 marching and fighting to make their victory decisive. The Germans check l ed their retreat upon the line of the
 Aisne, and had sufficient time to dig in. The battle of the Afsne develop ed by the Germans endeavoring to turn our left and by the simultaneous French effort to turn the German right.
 sThis contest in a race for the sea in the obstinate two months battle along. the Yser in October and Noyern- Der. The Germans again failed and I finally gave up that part of their of fens1ve on account of their terrific l losses. :.
 Simultaneous with the battle of the N1arne. though forming no port Of the Battlefront of what has been called the Battle of Marne, were the opera tions in the Argonne. theWoevre and the Grand Couronne de Nancy. The army of the German Crown Prince
 marching on Verdun. and the army of Crown Prince Rupprecht of Ba- varia, marching on Nancy, both were defeated in some of the b1oodiest en- i gagements of the entire war.
 ..The ultimate result of these de feats was the liberation of that part of the ancient province of Lorraine Jeff f0 from fhf