Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-12-26

lad been lost the kaisers tro -ne were checked.
 Tn June the French made g snc- ces:ful attack north of Arras. ca,,, taf1ns The Labyrinth Jun, g; bnf
 the ron m cf Grown Prince Run. pfecht of Bavaria held their lines NEloh were only dented.
 It vas September r be-ore tha allies
 were ready to try another ST at of 1"nslVe. Then Ioffre directed al east a million shellg upcn tn? Ger man lines in the Chairpaene in q IT Aehious thr e-day Dombardment. The German first and second line
 ff-ncAes were lcVslod. When tho
 charSe came the French were ab1a 10 capture 23,000 Germans and tax, about sixteen square miles Of ter,,. eoES' nGt the third German line hs,,s firm. 's' Simultaneously the French at-
 tacksd in Artois and the British in
 Flanders. Tn British bungied as
 'sual, anc after breaking the s~r
 man lines &, Loos, they left their
 sallant stcrming parties unsupDort-
 ed and the Germans in a counter
 attack %sre able t. regain most of thc lost trenches. Both ho French
 and the British boastsd cf victory ID tAis September E2ttic, one Of the sfeatss: of all time, making GettSs- tufg lcah small but tho Germans as serted ther enemies loss was erea>. CT than their own and pointed to the practically unchang d siege lire.
 What Inc higher Bri .ish 9uthorj- ties thought about it was shown in lhe second week T D"cetn ber when SIT John French was recallsd aoi sir Douslas Haig given his post as coEmander in chief in France.
 sEais EGtars Conffic..
 on January 6 Italy called 3,00O,- voo men to the colors and on May zl war for the ecnQues; Of Italia ir- tedenta" was clared on Austria. The Italians occupied Mcntfalcone June s and Gradfsca June 10. Then they assailfd the imm ansely strong Teuton positions in many places with great gallantry and doggedness. Losses were heavy on both sides. Sc far the invadar Is nave not shown much progress, although Goeftz seems ab~ut te. fall into their hands
 On February 21 ana succeeding days great Franco British fleet fried in vain to force the Dardanel1as and open 2. path Of supplies to Rus sia. On March j the allies landed 1 looGGo meI~ at the Dardanelles in the face Of a frightful fire which 1 made this one of the most gallant 1 exploits of the war. Once ashora, the Turks checked them on the steep hills. Later the allies landed at l pcints on the west shore of Galli- l poll, but there, too. they were unable tc penetrate more than few miles | from thc shore.
 A strong expedition from British India drove up the Tigris river into w1n Viclcry at kut- el-An.ara and pressed on to about l : dozen milas Of Basdad. Here the relDforoed Turks fell upon then1 in lllcted 8 great slaughter and forced 1 d disastrous retreat.
 In the colonies the GerI ans at the 1nd of the year still hold East Africa and part If their Kamerun colony. Premier Botha of South Africa, after putting down a Boer insurrection, lad reduced the last German strong 1old in South-West Africa.
 On the sea, the outstanding f2a- .ure of the year was the German at cmpt, beginning February IS, tc blockade Great Britain by subma- :ine. With trawlers, aeroplanos, swift mot2r boats, ntts and ingenious scientific contrivances to locate the pcsition of the undersea craft, the British waro able to hold the Ger mans to minor successes, compared
 othe enormous tonnage attack. The von Tirpitz submarine campaign may oe declared definitely failure, and se ms to have been abandoned.
 Successes oG Eardanelles.
 In other quarters submarines were nore successful. At the Dardanellts after battleship Of the allies fell victim to the unseen foe, lntil tho great flees was forced to J ithdraw to w?ll-guarded harbor, aving only swift craft to roam tn. Infested Mediterranean.
 From the Ar erican point of view the chi:f event of tho year in the gar was the linking of several pas :enger ships by Teutcn submarines md the consequent loss of about ,ne hundred and fifty American lives. Tbis brought us perilously near to , break with Germany and has had still more serious consequences with Austria.
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