Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-08-11

said, at the head Of England. Thence
h crowded Onward over the dunes
of Flanders. past Ostend and to where
the little River User runs like a ditch
across the sandy wastes. BEHIND that
moat the heroic remnant of the Bel
gian army, shoulder to shoulder with
the British, defends the last. poor little
corner remaining Of the kingdom of
Belgium.
From time to time the Germans have
risen out of the ground to burst their
bounds n make a drive at the port
Of Calais. Paris having ceased to be
their objective. They have brought
out monster guns that fire 20 miles
sluices of the canals and flooded their
own countryside; the British bulldogs
have held their trenches and British
warships rave shelled the advancing
column.
The allies of the entente. too, re-
peatedly ave strained to break the
deadlock. But the capture of a de-
serted hamlet or a few acres of drear,
yellow earth has cost them from TO-
900 to 10000. And the French are con-
tent to pursue the housing strategy OF
"nibbling," as Joffre terms it.
The English at home were cheered
through a gloomy winter with the as
surance that the war really woul be-
gin in the spring, when Lord Kitch-
ener would nave his recruits trained
for service. Now, they are beginning
to hear the whispered warning that
they may nave to wait another year to
see the beginning of the advance to the
Rhine.
Tho Deadlock In the East.
Whenever the kaiser has thought to
down his western foe the czar has
pulled him off. Out of that wilderness
of humanity called Russia, swarms
have time n again poured into Ger
many and Austria. They have thrice
beaten the Austrians to their knees. but
in the end the invading Slavs have been
put to ignominous flight.
AS in all their wars. however, the
Russians have shown themselves stub
born enough on their own soil, and they
hold a line no less than 500 miles in
length. In her recent pursuit of the
fleeing Russians from Przemysl and
Lemberg. Austria seems to have found
the going harder the farther she went.
Germany has made only one drive on
Paris. when she was turned bach at
the Marine. but on Warsaw she has
made five terrible drives and four Of
them spent themselves on the plains Of
Poland. The kaiser himself moved his
helmeted chessmen to within seven
miles of the Polish capital. hut only to
be stalemated.
For many months Warsaw has heard
the German eagles screaming at her
gate.
The Deadlock at the DardaneIIes.
The entente has been on the defen-
sive in its two European campaigns. 1t
proposed to itself, however, one great
drive for the purpose of cleaving Asia
and Europe with a wedge of steel at
tn Dardanelles. This is perhaps the
most significant operation of the war.
For had Paris fallen to Won Kluck he
would have had only a city. But Con-
stantinople is the gateway of empires.
And If England and France should
clasp hands with Russia across the lit
tie sea of Marmora the entente will
have outflanked the two kaisers. The
war would be Over-at least as soon as
the vanquished could be brought to a
realization of the fact hat they were
whipped.
More than five months have passed
since the superdreadnoughts began to
hammer at the Dardanelles. 1t is now
four n and more since the allied
army landed on the Gallipoli peninsula
and began to push the wedge. Yet they
have driven 1t in only a. very small
fraction of the AZ miles it must go to
penetrate the Dardanelles alone.
Since they declared war against Aus
tria the Italians have made wifi adj
vances. climbing the Carnic Alps and
rounding h top of the Adriatic. But
l SlldG M0I xS NOuIlE dlu lJS llCcUtlOn is
as strange as it's progress.
Although Italy is warning upon Aus
tria, Austria's ally is not warning upon
Italy. Germany only withdrew her am
bassador from Rome; she has not yet
declared war or come to h defense of
the Austrians. On the other hand, while
Italy was welcomed into the entente
and appears to have received a bag Of
British gold, she is hoeing no row but
her own. The first page in the history
OF this italian war. as in the history
of the great war. remains to be filled
out.
Wherever there is a trench, the war
Is arrested. Almost the only exception
to the rule occurred in the Austro-Rus-
sian campaign in Galicia, and the Rus
slams blamed their expulsion from that
front to the lack of guns and alnmuni-
ton.
The minor campaigns AVE been as
slow and indecisive as the major opera
TONS. The Turkish advance on the Suex
canal and into the Caucasus, and the
British advance from the Persian gulf
toward Bagdad have celebrated no vie:-
tories as vet.
The Deadlock on the Sea.
On the sea. as on the land, the year
has been 2 deadlock. 1t Is true that by
naval strength Britannia has continued
to rule the wave and that not a German
naval or merchant flag may be shown
outside the Baltic. England has effect
ually turned the sea int a desert Inn
passabie to German trade. But this rep-
resents no victory won. no net gain. For
England controlled the seas 200 years
before this war began.
England entered the war with two
objects: First, to prevent a great mill
tary power from dominating Europe
controlling the natural landing places
/ Of the British on the cnnfinenf They