The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-08-06


Marne, perhaps the most important
contest of the war thus far, tie Ger
mans were compelled to retreat and
have since held an entrenched line
from the Belgian coast to Alsace, re-
tanning possession of northeastern
France and most of Belgium. In this
theater the war has been so even that
tie capture of group of houses or a
few yards of trenches has been con-
sidered a victory worthy of mention
in the official reports. The German
attempt to break through to the Eng
lish channel, the British victory at
Neuve C-apelle, the German triumph
at scissors, while calling forth su-
preme efforts, did not materially
change the relative pasitions of the an
tagonists along the front Of nearly
300 miles.
On the eastern front Russia faces
Germany and Austria-Hungary. Rus
sian armies invaded Galicia and Buko-
wilma, capturing most of the former
province, but lost the greater part OF
this territory as result of Field
Marshal Won Mackenzen's great drive
from Cracow. The Germans invaded
Russian Poland, and tteir attempts to
capture Warsaw led to some Of the
deadliest fighting of the war. In time
the struggle here settled down to
trench warfare, much as in the west,
with Germany retaining large part
of Russian Poland Russian invasions
of East Prussia resulted in disastrous
defeats. Further north, the Germans
swept in tie Baltic provinces of Rus
sia, capturing Libau, on the sea. The
unprecedented extension of battle lines
which this war has witnessed reached
it's most remarkable exemplifcation in
this campaign, in which the front has
been drawn out more than 600 miles
from the Baltic to Bukowina.
Italy, after ten months of uncertain
ty, began war with Austria-Hungary,
in May, and has occupied fringe of
Austrian territory in the mountainous
region to the north. Trent and Trieste
are the objectives of the Italian cam
paign. Owing to the difficult nature
of the ground neither of TIE antag-
onists has made much headway.
In MOslem Regions.
On the Gallipoli peninsula, in the
iDardanelles and in the Bosphorus,
Turkey, aided by her Teutonic allies,
is at war with France, Great Britain
and Russia, with possession of Con-
stantinople as tie great stake. Fol-
lowing the failure of the naval assault
on the Dardanelles by an Anglo-French
fleet, troops were landed on the PENN
sula. Few details of this campaign are
available, and little is known beyond
the fact that the fighting has been par
| ticularly severe, and that tie allies
have occupied and retained the tip of
the peninsula.
Servia and Montenegro, the former
assisted by British troops, are at war
with Austria-Hungary The Austrian
invasion of Servia ended in failure.
On the Montenegrin front there has
been only desultory fighting. Both
Servia and Montenegro have recently
invaded Albania, with the object of OBJ
tanning ports on the sea.
On As1atic soil Russia is at war
with Turkey in the Black sea region.
Neither side has employed large
number of troops in this campaign.
There has been fighting in the Cau-
casus and Persia, with no great ac-
complishments. Further south, in
Mesopotamia, there has been sporadic
fighting between Turkish and British
troops. Turkey sent an army to at
tack the lsuez canal, but tie main
body of troops failed to reach its OBJ
jective.
In Africa French and British troops
occupied Togoland and part Of the
Kamerun, German possessions. A Brit
ish attack on German East Africa was
defeated.
The insular possessions of Germany
in the Pacific were captured by Great
Britain and Japan.
Tsing-tau, the German fortress in
China, was captured by the japanese,
aided by British contingent.
No Great Sea Battles.
On the seas there have been no
great battles. Great Britain's suprem-