The Ketchikan miner., 1915-08-12
FROM MONDAYS DAILY SAYS TRANCE IS FIT


 Franco is fit to continue tho strug slc to tho end and confident of the outcome, says Count Adrion Lannes do Moutcbcllo in review of the first twelve months of hostilities given to the Associated Press. Count le Monte. hello, recognized authority ou mili tary affairs, was one of the strongest advocates of 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 on Military Affairs of the Chamber of Deputies
 His grandfather was Marshal I.au- nes, at whose death on the battlefield of Essliug Napoleon is said to have wept,
 His review of the war follows:
 "France was not expecting war and her preparations therefore were less complete than those of her adversaries who, knowing their intentions, had ac, eumulated an immense supply of fighting material and disposed of their troops in such manner as to strike the most powerful blow of which they were capable.
 D,1,r md 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 ini- tial reverses and great losses, especial ly in the battle of Charleroi, While the French armies were in retreat a national ministry was formed and the civil population of France organized for war. The French and British armies stood on the line of the Marnc from a point near Paris to the east ern frontier of France. They receiv ed the shock of more than 100000 German troops, and defeated them with inferior forces. The Germans were outled and outfought in vast general action over line of more than 120 miles.
 'The French troops were too ex- hausted by their fifteen days of marching and fighting to make their victory decisive. The Germans check cd their retreat upon the line of the Aisne, and had sufficient time to dig in The battle of the Aisne develop ed by the Germans endeavoring to turn our left and by the simultaneous French effort to turn the German right
 "This contest resulted in race for the sea in the obstinate two months battle along the Yser in De- tnber and November. The Germans again failed and finally gave up that part of their offensive on account of her terrific losses.
 Simultaneous with the battle of the Marne, though forming no part of the battlefront of what has been called the Battle of the Marne, were operations in the Argonne the Woevre and the Grand Couronne de Nancy. The army of the German crown prince, marching to Vcrtun, and the army of Crown Prince Rupprecht, of Bavaria, marching on Nancy, both were defeated in some of the blood jest engagements of the entire war
 9Th ultimate result of these de- feats was the liberation of that part If the ancient province of Lorraine left to France after 1870 from the occupation of the German army. The German forces had penetrated 15 or IS miles. They were not only driven out before the first of November, Lus ince then the French have invaded upper Alsace, of which they now hold considerable part. This country, taken iron France in the war of 1S7O-71, has been reorganized and is under control of civil government, which restored the school and judic- ll system of France.
 "From the battle of Charleroi to the end of the first year of the war the Germans achieved no success on the western battlefront save the slight advance at Soissone during the floods of the river Aisne, the advance at Ypres, partially lost afterwards, at the time of the first attack with the assistance of asphyxiating gases.
 "The success of the Allies since the battle of the Marne are in the re- capture of Thann, Steinbach, Hartnans Wcilerkopf. Mezeral La Fontenelle, together with considerable territory, in the Asatian vosgcs; the capture ef the entire German position in the forcqt of To Dofro aIou., tho ,unioo