The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-23

for publication a review of the first wear of fl7e6 war from the standpoint of the TeItonic and Turkish Allies The matter as issued by the Embassy was described as A Summary of the Net Results of the Conflict to sDate,', and 1t came to the conclus- ion that .sthe position of Austria Hun gary and Germany is most encour- aging from a military, economic and Financial point of view and that the second year of the conflict had be- gun under them ost promising aus lpices for the Allies of Central Europe
 The full text of the matter given out is sas follows:
 "A survey Of the most important events of the war at the end of the Iopeartions leads inevitably to the con- l clusion that Great Britain and her Allies eretthe victims of an aStound- ling gross miscaIculation when they ernbarked Aupon an adventurous pos kundertaktnE in the belief that an, easy Iwictory would be theirs. Thef position Eof Francs today is especially deplor- kabze in view of the. fact that the lerax1ne for revenge in Enst country khad sl1bszded with the advent of a ] >tRenerakfon free from personal mem tories Of 1870; but the efforts of the fEsrznan government to establish closer relations with the westrly 1neiEhbor vEere1 frustrated by the grow ing influence of tha English and the Russian jingoes. As far back as1 91 2 the military party in the French Re k1hnffe openly inau a-urated aggressive x1,EsT5 ir1cau ding the projects 2fcr bringing the colored troops of the French colonies into line against Ger many and for the increase of the standing army by the bill known as kffe sthree-year service law, which was enacted by the French pariia- q i 3
 The aggressiye attitude of Russia was apparent even to the casual ob- server for many months before the firing of the first gun. The subvGr- sive agitation carried on by Russia in tArstria-Hungary, and especially in against Germany in 1913; the thinly yelled military preparations dating as far backTas 1909, under the guises. of the so-ca1led trial mobilization and finally the cdI1clusion of a network of strategic railways directed against Germany and Austria-Hungary, gave the lie to the official assurances from St Petersburg that the Russian Elm pire was bent upon preserving the peace of Europe in the face of Ger man proyocations
 Tn anticipation Of the copf1agra ton. the resources of the Triple Entente A had been employed to their utmost in sang erdeaxor to secure the cooperation other collntrfes against Germany: to tanper with established Royalties and disrupt traditional friends ships Diplomacy, press ampaigns and Ehe lever of the powerful Franco British financial groups were applied to the task of encircIing the rising German Empire with 2. ring of enmfties- The late King Edward spared no efforts to eyatice Austria-Hungary from her treaty alliance with her Western neighbor Ith P rench support, fin : aneia1, political and other Advantages I were offered to the Dual M Monarchy as unavai1ing inducements to an act of international freaEhery which finally has beeni committed in Italy In the light of these facts, now recalled by tragic events. it would beI futile to deny that plot to crush Germany had been carefully and tenaciously prepared by the Triple Entente, and the protestations of the British French and Russian governments that the war had been forced upon them will not bear scrutiny.
 In August, 1914, Germany and Aus atriaeHungary found themselves face to face with the most powerful coal kitions in history. The military achieve rnents of the two Central powers are therefore, all the more remarkable With the sole exception of a strip o1 the eastern part of sGa1icia, which is being evacuated by the Russians the territory of Austria-Hung gary is abso: Ii1teIy cleared of the enemy The raids and incursions of the huge Rus, ithose sof the French in A lsace, have ~fEiaa armies on the eastern front, like proved disastrous to the invaddrs These two striking failures iIIustrate . the negative results of the nightly of fensive launched simultaneously 1T the east and the west agaipst the Qua Alliance s5 z. The part played by the -Austro Hungarian army in the initial phase of thez operatfons deserves a specia
 honorable mention. Though outnum
 bered, and with numbericaIly infer for artillery. the Austro- Hungarian: feffectively undertook, in August, 91- the surprising drive against Krasnil and Lubfin, across kIne plains of Rus sian Poland This novemen mt succeed ed in its aim to causela strong diver sion which compelled the Russians tt withdraw a considerable part of theil forces from the north. This deter mined, though sIort-1ived, offensive frustrated the sweep which the Rus sians had inaugurateds toward Berlin But the Austrp-Hungarian advance into central Poland was greatly i'm peded by the many forests and by tht absence of roads and railways. The proportion of the Russian forces a that time concentrated gainst thc Austro- -Hungarians was approximate 1y three or four to one. Eastern Gal icia, where the numerical superiofit. of the enemy was even greater, hat to be abandoned. This vast advan tage in numbers on the part of tn, Russians is to be explained solely b. the trial mobilization,'s which prac tically had brought the Russian arm. up to it's full fighting strength Ions before war had been declared. Tn, Austre aungaa5a retirement befor, the overwh heIming Russian armies wa
 nisfnterpreted by the Triple Entent as a collapse of the military powe of the Dual Monarchy. More recen events have served to correct this CT roneous Impression.
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