Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-08-01

BERLIN, july A.-MaJor ERNEST MO
raht, the military correspondent of the
! Berliner Tageblatt, reviewing the twelve
months of the war, for the Associated
/ Press, says:
"a year ago q coalition with power
! full numerical superiority declared war
on Austria Hungary and Germany. The
I hostile countries have a far larger pop
ulation than have the two central powers,
and their combined armies originally out
numbered those Of the latter. The CEN
/ trail states, however. have known how to
I improve this difficult situation by alter
nately taking the offensive and defensive
on the western and eastern fronts.
I'm the west the German armies in
I q rapid triumphant advance carried their
/ standards within fifty miles of Paris and
have kept them flying there since mid
! September. Even though the right and
/ left wings of our wide-flung battle front
in France and Belgium have been bent
I back since then because there was no
other method for the time being of coun-
teracting the numerical superiority of the
British, French and Begians) still we
hold the positions fortified during the
nine months firmly in our hands, so that
almost all OF Belgium and the north
eastern departments of France have been
occupied by the troops Of Germany.
IN the east the Austro-German armies
first held up the Russian millions on the
Galician frontiers and then were forced
to retire before manifold numerical
superiority, to intrench themselves on
the crest of the Carpathlans and to beat
back until May the Russian assaults
with heavy losses. Meanwhile Field
Marshal Won Hindenburg in East Prus-
STA was able to destroy several large
Russian armies and free East Prussia;
to occupy conformity with Austrian troops
Poland almost to the Vistula river and
in the northeast to carry the war into
the Russian provinces.
while the positions in the war in the
west continue TO surge to and fro and
three great attempts made to break
through our lines in the winter, spring
and summer, were repulsed with awful
losses to our enemies the German and
Austro-Hungarian armies on May l
launched a great offensive against the
Russian main armies in Galicia.
In a series of battles and under con-
slant pursuit the Russians were hunted
out of a. 40 square miles OF Galicia, their
principal force was severed at several
places and they were driven eastward and
northward.
1.-The west bank of the Vistula in Po-
Land has been cleared of Russian armies.
The siege of Warsaw is about to begin
and Field Marshal Won Hindenburg in
the north*ard has pressed forward
against Riga and now has reached the
vicinity of the city after numerous VIC
tories The successes of the Germans
/ L. all
lions in dead, wounded and prisoners.
The Russian empire possesses only frag-
ments of it's mighty armies and no longer
can supply these adequately with arms
and munitions Their fate will be decided
very shortly. The Russian forces will be
destroyed or forced to flee deep into the
interior to the eastward.
The battles In the west have cut SO
deeply into the French strength that now
1S-year-old lads must bear arms Great
Britain's original army has been des-
, troyed and only enough substitutes car
be raised to hold a forty-four-mile front
in Belgium. The British losses par
ticularly those OF officers, have been very
heavy. The army Of 100000 men which
Lord Kitchener promised six months age
has not yet appeared and our opponents
in the west never again will be able e
raise superior forces to expel the Germans
from the country.
THE action In the Dardanelles which
has been in progress for months against
/, the Turks shows results for the British
and French only in great losses OF men
ships and war supplies OF all kinds The
Turkish army steadily Is improving In
numbers and quality The Turkish fortl
fications are quite as strong as they
were at the outset. The prospects OF thu
attackers reaching Constantinople. there
fore, have vanished and since none OF th'
Balkan states are willing 20 enter thu
Anglo French service and since the Rus
sian army which should have partici
pated from Odessa has been destroyed IL
Galicia. it Is difficult to see any chances
for France and Great Britain.
Should Italy send an army to tn
Dardanelles It will find a superior Turk
ish army ready to receive 1t. Italy
after conducting mobilization secret,
for nine months, entered the field Rgsins
Austria-HungaTy at the end OF May. Al
Italian army 100000 men strong. ha
been attempting for two months L
|. sweep over the fortified Austrian passe
aud TO Cross the Isonzo river, benin,
which the Austro- Hungarian defensive
, army occupies strong positions. All tn
attempts OF the Italians up to tn
present have been unsuccessful. IN
cost OF the attackers has been hundred
! Of thousands in dead and wounded. Aus
: tria Hungaria grows stronger day b.
Z day and. although It's valiant struggle I
I a difficult one against italian superiorit,
I in numbers. it win be able to bar tn
/ way 70 the coastland and to Trieste an
r TyTol.
Meanwhile Italy has lost its entir
. colony at TTiDon to the Arabs ana Cd