Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1915-07-31

the war into the Russian provinces.
"While the positidAs in the war in the
west continue to surge to and fro and three
great attempo made to break through our
lines in the Winter, Spring and Summer,
were repul~ed with awful losses to our
enemies, the German and Austro-EIungar-
ian armies on May lst launched a great
offensive against the Russian main armies
III Galicia.
In Il series of battles and under con-
slant pursuit the Russians were hunted out
OF 1910 square miles Of Galicia, their
principal force wa, severed ut several
places and they were driven eastward and
northward.
"Thc west bank of the Nistula in Poland
has been cleared qf Russian armies. The
siege of Warsaw l. about to begin and
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg in the north
ward has pressed forward against Riga and
now has reached the vicinity Of the city
after numerous victories. The SucceS-e-~
"a the German~ have cost the Russian army
many millions IN dead, wounded and pri--
onerS. The Russian Empire possesses only
fragments If IT, mighty armies. and nv
longer can supply these adequately with
arms and munitions. Their fate will be
decided very shortly. The Russian forces
Will be destroyed or forced To flee deep into
the interior To the Eastward.
"The battles i'll the West have cut w
deeply into the French strength that now
.ls-year old lads must hear arms. Great
Bntain'~ original army has been DESTROYED
and only enough substitutes can be raised
to hold a 44-mile front in Belgium. The
British losses, particularly those of Off
GERS, have been very heavy. The army Of
5000, 600 men which Lord Kitchener prom
l~cd Fix months ago ha- not Vet appeared
and our opponents in the West never again
will be able to raise superior forces tD cX-
pei the Germans from the country.
The action IN the Dardanelles which has
been III progress for month, against the
Turks shows results for the British ana
French only IN great losses OF men. ships
and war supplies ri nh kinds. The Turk
l-h army steadily j. improving i'll numbers
and quality. The Turkish Notifications
are quite a- strong a- they were Ut the out
The prospects Of the attackers reach
ing Constantinople, therefore, have van
I-hed and since none IT the Balkan States
arc willing to enter the Angio-French SER
vice and since the Russian army which
should have participated from Odessa has
been destroyed III Galicia. ii i, difficult IVY
.-. -- - r.
Britain.
should Italy send I'M army to the Oar
dancIle~, il will find a superior Turkish
army ready to receive her. Italy. after
conducting mobilization secretly for nine
months entered the field against Austria
Hungary at the end cf May. All Italian
army 1000, 600 men strong, has been ut-
tempting for two months 10 sweep over the
fortified Austrian passes and to cross thr
l-onzo river. behind which the Au-trl-
hungarian defensive army occupies strong
positions. All the attempts III the Italians
TIP To the present have been unsuccessful
The cost Il the attackers has been hum
drcd- ci thousands III dead aud wounded.
Austria Hungary grows stronger day Nv
day and although IT. valiant struggle i-
y difficult one against Italian superiority
III numbers. II will ~ able Ia bar the way
10 the coa-tland and ~. Trieste and Tyrol.
~''Mcnnwhllc Italy has lost her entire col
ony At Tripoli Ia the Arabs and apparently
D. about 10 declare war on Turkey.
Lilo Serbian army, after great losses IN