Bisbee daily review., 1915-08-01

Suez Canal but the main body of troops failed to reach its objective.
 In Africa French and British troops occupied Togoland and part of
 Kamerun, German possessions. A British attack on German East Africa was defeated.
 The insular possession 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 a British contingent.
 On the seas there have been no great battles. Great Britain's supre- macy. owing to the overwhelming size of her fleet, has not been disputed to the ultimate issue, the main German fleet having remained in home waters. Two German cruisers which were in the Mediterranean when war began went to the Dardanelles, and were ac- qured by Turkey A few German cruisers and converted merchantmen, including the famous Emden, and the Karlsruhe, Kronprinz Wilhelm and Prinz Eitel Friedrich raided shipping of the Allies for a time. but were eventually sunk or forced to intern
 in neutral ports. The Austro-Hun- garian fleet has remained in the Adri attic and the Turkish fleet has been kept from the Aegean. Germany merchant marine has been swept from the seas.
 There have been several battles of importance, however In the first month of the war rear Admiral Beat tvs squadron dashed into Helgaland Eight. near the great German naval station, and sank three German cruis- CTS and two torpedo boat destroyers. In January occurred a battle in the North Sea between British warships and a German squadron which pre- sumably was attempting a raid on the English coast In this battle the Ger man cruiser Bluecher was sunk.
 The German Far East Squadron de- feated Vice Admiral Cradock's Brit ish Squadron of the Chilean coast on November l, sinking the Good Hope and Monmouth The British obtained their revenge in December when. off the Falkland Islands, a powerful Brit ish squadron defeated the Germans, sinking the Scharnhorst. Gneisenau, Leipzig and Nuremberg.
 German squadrons have twice at tackled the English coast. causing some loss of life and damage to prop erty English towns including Lon don have also been attacked by Ger man aircraft, which have made several successful trips across the North Sea. raiding points on the east coast.
 Methods of fighting have been al- tered radically in consequence of the lessons learned in the first year of the war. It has been pre-eminently a war .of machines. The resources aforded by modern scientific development have been taxed to devise new instru- ments of death and destruction more potent than ever had been employed It has been also a war of surprises. New problems have arisen, necessitat- ing reconstruction of the theory Of war. Plans and methods heretofore approved by authorities on military affairs were discarded, and the stans of the various armies were compelled to grapple with situations for which there was no precedent
 The first great surprise of the war was the German 42-centimeter (l6E inch) gun, which hurls for some 15 miles a shell weighing almost a ton. The great Notifications which where the pride of Belgium. and believed to be almost impregnable, were batter ed into ruins by these guns in a com paratiyely short time Two of these guns, stationed 10 miles from An werp, wrecked it's elaborate defense works. Liege and Namur fell similar ly
 The use of artillery and machine guns, in fact, has been one of the principal features of the war. Great execution was done by the new Krupp l1-inch howitzer, weighing nearly 70 tons, with a Smile radius The Aus trian 12-inch howitzer also has proved
 exceptionally efficient The French ! 75-millimeter gun is regarded as ono 1 of the most effective field pieces.
 On all the European battehelds ar |tillery has been the main reliance of l the various armies Trenches bustle
 with machine guns, which military men say bid fair to relegate the rife 10 a secondary place It was with ar tillery that the Austro-German forces blasted their way across Galicia a few weeks ago. making what was said to be the greatest concentration of heavy and light field pieces ever seen. With
 artillery the British won at Neuye
 Chapelle, the Germans at Soissons.
 Every considerable movement of in- fantry is preceded by a heavy artn- .ley bombardment and frequently the
 infantry has little more to do than oc- cupy the positions of the enemy made
 untenable by artillery fire
 The deadliness of machine guns ne- oaeaffafad raaorrea fo frnuoboe f,r