New Britain herald., 1915-07-31
CONFIDENT
 ALLIES WILL WIN
Count de Montebello Says She Is Fit to Continue Struggle to End

Paris, July 31.-A year of war hnds France is fit to continue the struggle to the end and confident ot the outcome" says Count Adrien Lannes de Montebello in a review ct the first twelve months of hostilities, glven to The Associated Press. Count de Montebello, a recognized authority on military affairs, was one or the strongest advocates of the three year military service law, and its co-author With the former premier, Louis Bar thou. He was formerly deputy from Rheims and vice-president of the committee on military affairs of the chamber of deputies. His grand father was Marshal Lannes, at wnose death on the battlefield of Essling Napoleon is said to have wept.
 His review of the war follows:
 France was not expecting war, and her preparations therefore were less complete than those of her adversar- ies who, knowing their intentions, had accumulated an immense supply of fighting material and disposed of their troops in such manner as to strike the most powerful blow of which they were capable.
 German Forces Outfought-
 Germany threw against Belgium and France fifty-two army corps, or almost her entire military force as mobolized in August Under the inn pact of the German advance the French armies, with their British al- lies, suffered initial reverses and great losses, especially in the battle of sCharleroi. While the French armies were in retreat national ministry was formed and the civil population of France organized for war. The French and British armies stood on the line of the Marne from a point near Paris to the eastern frontier of France. They received the shock of more than 100000 German troops and defeated them with somewhat in- ferior forces. The Germans were out led and outfought in vast general action over a line of more than 120 miles,
 'The French troops were too ex> hausted by their fifteen days of marching and fighting to make their victory decisive. The Germans checked their retreat upon the line of the Aisne and had sufficient time to dig in. The battle of the Aisne de- veloped by the Germans endeayoring to turnour left and by the simultan- eous French effort to turn the Ger man right.
 Race For the Sea.
 This contest resulted in race for the sea in the obstinate two months battle along the Yser in Oc- tober and November. The Germans again failed and finally gave up that part of their offensive on account of their terrific losses.
 Simultaneous with the battlt of the Marne, though forming no par, of the battlefront of what has been called the Battle of the Marne, wore the operations in the Argonne, the Woevre and the Grand Couronne as Nancy. The army of the German Crown Prince, marching on verdun, and the army of Grown Prince Rup- precht of Bavaria, marching on Nam cy, both were defeated in some of the bloodiest engagements of the entire war.
 ''The ultimate result of these de- feats was the liberation of that part of the ancient province of Lorraine left to France after 1870 from the oc- cupation of the German army. The German forces had penetrated fifteen or eighteen miles. They were not only driven out before the first of No vember, but since then the French have invaded Upper Alsace. of which they now hold considerable part. This country, taken from France iii the war of 1s7O-71, has been reorgan- ized and is under control of a CIVIL government which restored the school and judicial system of France. Soissons Only Victory.
 From the battle of Charleroi to the end of the first year of the war the Germans achieved no successes on the Western battle front save Ihe slight advance at Soissons during the floods of the river Aisne the advance at Ypres, partially lost afterwards, Ut the time of the first attack. with the assistance of asphyxiating gas.
 ..The successes of the allies since the Battle of the Marne are in the re- capture of Thann, Steinbach, Hart. mans -Weilerkopf, Metzeral La Font enelle, together with considerable ter ritory, in the Alsation Vosges; the capture of Thanh Steinbach, Harts- in the Forest of Le Pretre, along tine wedge the Germans are still holding in the French lines at St. Mihiel; an advance of a mile along a front of ten miles at Beausejour, in the Cham pagne country; the capture of Neuve Chappelle by the British, the capture of Notre Dame de Lorette, Carency, and Neuville St. Vaast and an advance of two to three miles along a front about seven miles north from Arras by the French, and the clearing of the left bank of the Yser of the ene- my by the Belgian army.
 To Fight End.
 Never since the war began has the French army been so fit to continue