West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1915-08-05
ONE YEAR OF GREAT WAR AND
WHAT HAS Been ACHIEVED
AT Home Germany Has Been Vic
torious Against the Allied Forces
While She Has Lost at Sea-No
Indication That Conflict is Near
End

''"I VI war w lne August Review OF
Reviews. has the following To say:
On the first anniversary OF the great
war there is an inevitable temptation
to estimate in terms of achievements
and results the meaning of twelve
months of world war In this period
not less than l0.0O0.0OO men have been
killed. wounded or have gone into for
o'gn prisons; territory exceeding i'm
area Ohio or Pennsylvania has been
iaHaeod. Cities known throughout the
centuries as the treasure houses of art
or in the last century become the
centcrs OF modern industrial life have
been destroyed. Written history has
no record 10 compare with the tale OF
recent months of suffering. slaughter.
destruction. human misery. and hu-
man grandeur. But what now is the
result?
The simplest answer TO make to this
question is to take the premise that
peace would come tomorrow on the
basis OF things as they are. Such a
settlement it is instantly apparent
would mean that Germany. helped
rather by her use of the resources OF
her two allies than by any capacity
of theirs. has won mo European
territory than any state has acquired
by single war since the treaty of
Westphalia. a more complete victory
than any people since the Napoleonic
episode. Today her armies occupy
oil 80
square miles i'm France, that region
which before the war was the center
of French industry and French miner
nj production. In the East victorious
forces have pushed deep into Poland
and approached Warsaw. Riga and
Brcst-Litowsk.
ON the field of battle Germany has
won mighty and memorable triumphs.
Tier defeats have been repulses. when
her foe was in his last ditch They
We resulted IN the interruption of
an advance. the recoil from the ex-
treme point OF progress. But at the
close OF a year German armies are
fighting on French, Belgium and Rus
sian soil; only in a tiny corner OF
lisa q has the foe retained n foothold
ia the Fatherlamd. Allied offansivcs I'm
the west after terrible losses, have in
", ahiy been beaten down within
eight of their starting places Since
Won Kluck re-crossed the Aisne i'm
September. Germany has suffered no
material loss. despite the masses she
has sent to the East The Spring
Drive" OF the Allies has dwindled to
a gallant but only locally successful
push OF the French at the edge OF the
Lorette hills.
In the East the amazing victories of
Tannenberg, Lodz, the MaZurian
Lakes. and i'm the recent terrific cam
paign i'm Galicia have checked. repuls-
ed, routed Russian advances and to-
day late i'm july the Russian hosts
arc clinging desperately to the per-
manent line of Notifications about
Warsaw. against which German
masses arc steadily driving with still
unchecked vigor. The greatest battles
of modern warfare have been won be
tween the Baltic and the Rumanian
boundary by generalship and military
efficiency in men as i'm commanders
that has only the Napoleonic parallel
At the Dardanelles German-led
Turkish troops have for months held
back Allied fleets and army corps
Around the Gallipoli peninsula the
troops that lost Lule Burgas and Ku-
manovo are making a fight unsurpass-
ed at Plevna, unrivalled i'm the long
history of OsmanI power I'm Europe.
More English and French troops than
perished i'm the long CTimean cam
paign have found their graves I'm the
few wekes of fighting north OF the
Dardanelles; and five Allied battle
ships have been sunk I'm the narrow
waterways.
Serbian efforts have declined TO
mere passivity. Italy. bringing new
and eager masses into the field against
the shaken regiments Of Austria. di-
rected by German officers. has. as yet,
made but small progress in emerging
from the CONSTRUCTED field i'm which the
Austrian fortified mountains confne
her. To hold France, England and
Belgium at bay in the West. to sweep
Russia back over hundreds OF miles I'm
swift defeat, TO give Austria and Tur-
key the necessary support TO with
stand Tremendous attacks-this has
been within the resources of German
genius in the past months.
only on the water has she suffered
real defeat There her few free ships
have been sunk; her commercial
fleets have been scattered, sent 10
prize courts or interned Beyond the
seas Kiaochau, Southwest Africa, To
goland. Kamerun and Samoa have
been conquered. Sea power has dealt
with her as with Napoleon But as
Napoleon conquered the continent.
Germany has successfully defeated
Russia, France. Great Britain. Bel
gium. The victory for the first year
Is then hers Such difference Of opin-
ion as exists must be over the extent
OF the victory, which, however great, Is
nowhere yet decisive.
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