The Alaska daily empire., 1915-06-08
CONDITIONS AF BEGINNING OF
 TENTH MONTH

TENTH MONTH
 review of tho war conditions that existed with the beginning of the ten months of the war in Europe, on Juno l. sent out from London, says that in spite of the most desperate lfighting in history the deadlock that has existed since the struggle began ! stil continues in both Che Eastern land Western theatres.
 In the Eastern theatre Germany has maintained a force Of approxi. mately 924.OOO men for the past six months. Austria, before the Przemsyl reverse had 100000 men in this ter ritory
 To oppose Germany's 2,2S60OO men in the West, England has 50o,0O0, Belgium 5OOOO and France 100000 trained troops.
 Russia has 2.5OO.000 in the Eost and 100000 more in her Turkish cam. paign.
 France has lost more than l,500,000 men to date. Russia is said to be the heaviest loser with 250O,o0o killed. incapacitated and captured. The leu. ton figures are unobtainable, but Rus. s.a sets forth the claim that 1t has more than 65OOOO prisoners in it's detention camps. The Teuton prison.  CTS in England are declared to run over 100000.
 New Era in Fighting
 The entrance of Italy into the war on May 2S marked the beginning of a new era in the fighting A south western theatre was thereby created. The Italian army, consisting Of more than 5OO.OOO trained troops and back ed by more than 100000 volunteers, is well into Austria-Hungary; Prac- tically the whole Alpine region is now in it's control with the Teutons offer ing little or no resistance to this for. ward movement
 In the trans.Caucasia campaign tho Turks appear to have been thrown back with fearful slaughter, and are unable to meet the Russian offensive there. On the other hand, the Slavs have been swept from East Prussia Also the recent campaign of the Siavs along the San river met with decis- ice setback at the hansd of General von Mackenzen. and the Teuton ap- pears now to be slowly but surely forging a ring of steel around Przem- ysl
 Due to German preparedness at both the Bosporus and Che Dardan. elles Constantinople today appears to- be safe as 1t was three months ago. Floating mines and well-manned forts along the inner straits of the Dardan- elles are keeping the English and French fleet on the one hand and the Russian Black Sea fleet on the other hand from capturing the Ottoman capital.
 Summary of Fighting
 Here is brief summary of the nine months of fighting.
 Germany invests practically the whole Of Belgium which she stlll holds
 The German drives on Paris and Warsaw end in failure
 German troops are pushed back to the France-Belgian border.
 Germany blocks the Russian pro- posed investment of Budapest and vienna by a smashing victory in the Mazurian Lake district
 The Russian army invests Przem- ysl
 The Austro-German armies are .crushingly defeated in the Dukla pass region and other points in the Carpa. thians. but exhaustion of men and res sources blocks the proposed Slav in- vasion Of Hungary
 The Russians are thrown back along the San river and toward Prz- emsyl, the city again being theraten- ed.
 The Battle of the Marne is fought in the Western theatre with no de- cisive result
 Many Bosporus and Dardanelles for tifications are reduced by the Anglo French fleets.
 Turkey is crushed in her suez and Caucasian campaigns.
 Germany imposed war zone about the British Isles and the Kaiser's di- yer warfare results in the sinking of the warships Greasy. Abouklr, Hogue and many other naval and conner. cial vessels.
 The liner Lustitania is torpedoed in the war zone with the loss of i,20O lives
 Italy enters the war and inyades Austria.
 The American liner Nebraska tor pedoed but makes Liverpool safely
 In the most important naval en- gagement of the war. the German Pa cific squadron was annlhiliated by the English fleet off the Faullland isl ands, near Cape Horn