The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-08-01
Review of Military Situation
Brings Only Exultation
to Major MOraht
GERMAN TROOPS
:. ARE OUTNUMBERED
But Despite Overwhelming Superiori-
ty Glorious Armies of the Kaiser
Have Destroyed the Enemy
on All Fronts, He Says

Berlin, July Especially MAI. Ernest
Moraht the military correspondent OF the
Berliner Tageblatt reviewing the L
months of the war, for the Associated
Press, says:
"A year ago a coalition with a power
ful numerical superiority declared war
on Austria Hungary and Germany. The
hostile countries have a far larger popu-
/ lation than have. the two central powers
and their combined armies originally out
3numbered those of the latter The CEN
sral states, however, have known how
to improve this difficult situation by al
terpated taking the offensive and defend
sive on the western and eastern fronts.
II, 'Tn the west the German armies In a
( rapid, triumphant advance carried their
! standards within 80 miles of Paris and
! have kept them flying there since mid
September. Even though the right and
left wings of our wide-flung battlefront in
France and Belgium have been bent back
since then because there was no other
method for the time being of counteract-
ling the numerical superiority of the Brit
fish, French and Belgians) still We hold
1.-THE positions fortified during the nine
months, firmly in our hands, so that
Ialmost all of Belgium and the north
4eastern departments of France have been
occupied by the troops of Germany.
I'm the east the Austro-German armies
First held up the Russian millions on the
&Galician frontiers and then were forced
Ito retire before a manifold numerical
&superiority, to intrench themselves on
1.-THE crest of tine Carpathans and to beat
Hback until May 1 the Russian assaults
with heavy losses. Meanwhile Field Mar
kshal Won Hindenburg in East Prussia was
liable to destroy several large Russian
Ia rmes and free East Prussia; to occupy
Hconjointly with Austrian troops Poland
Aalmost to the Vistula river and In the
Northeast to carry the war into the Rus
1sian provinces.
Offensive in Galicia
while the positions in the war in the
fwest continue to surge to and fro and
1three great attempts made to break
Through our lines in the winter, spring
Wand summer, We're repulsed with awful
N.osses to our enemies, the German anc
Observation-Disclosures armies on May 1
3 Launched a great offensive against the
HRussian main armies in Galicia.
3 I'm series of battles and under con-
slant pursuit the Russians were hunted
kbut of 43, 47O square miles of Galicia, their
#Drincipal force was severed at several
Nolaces and they were driven eastward
#And northward.
q 1.-THE west bank of the vistula in Poland
MAS been cleared of Russian armies. The
#5iege of Warsaw is about to begin and
NField Marshal Won Hindenburg in the
Hhorthward has pressed forward against
4Riga and now has reached the vicinity
+ bf the city after numerous victories. The
Hsucesses of the Germans have cost the
4Russian army many millions in dead,
#Iounded and prisoners. The Russian en-
Rbire possesses only fragments of its
NEnighty armies and no longer can supply
NIhese adequately with arms and NUM-
B ions. Their fate will be decided very
4Ehortly The Russian forces will be de-
Nttroyed or forced to flee deep into the
interior to the eastward.
III 1.-THE battles in the west have cut so
Hheeply into the French strength that now
NlS-y ear-old lads must bear arms. Great
M,3rtains original army has been Destroy
I'd and only enough substitutes can be
&laised to hold 44-mile front in Belgium.
HEhe British losses, particularly those of
Hlfficers, have been very heavy. The
III rny of 100000 men which Lord Kitche-
izher promised six months ago has not yet
n. ppeared and our opponents In the west
#hever again will be able to raise superior
Iorces to expel the Germans from the
ountry.
ssf "The action in the Dardanelles which
Has been in progress for months against
sNhe Turks shows results for the British
knd French only in great losses of men,
Nhips and war supplies of all kinds. The
Is turkish army steadily is improving In
IA umbers and quality. The Turkish forth
Wcations are quite as strong as they were
St the outset. The prospects of the at
Hackers reaching Constantinople, there
*3ere, have vanished and since none Of
%he Balkan states are willing to enter
Slhe Anglo-French service and since the
Russian army which should have partici-
" ated from Odessa has been destroyed
X Galicia, it is difficult to see any chances
lor France and Great Britain.
a Turks Ready for Italy
RI "Should Italy send an army to the OAR
la enelles, 1t will find a superior Turkish
IA rmy ready to receive her. Italy, after
Elonducting mobilization secretly for nine
Months entered the field against Austria
Hungary at the end of May An italian
&lrmy, 100000 men strong, has been at
#Iempting for two months to sweep over
The fortified Austrian passes ana to cross
The Isonzo river. behind which the Aus
4Iro- Hungarian defensive army occupies
4ltrong positions. All the attempts of
k|he Italians up to the present have been
{jnsuccessful. The cost of the attackers