The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-31

- the B6El1neT Z4aS0O1atSs E0N4CW4AAe l4AC 12 months of the war, for the Asso- c3ated Press says:
 "A wear ago d coalition with r3owerful mum nlericaI superiority = de- clared war on Austria Hungary and fzerrnzrv. The hostile countries have a far larger. population than have the tSro Central Powers and their com lined armies originally outnumbered those of the latter. The Central States, however, have known how to improve this difficult situation by all ternafely taking thesoffensive and de- sfsns1ve on the Western and Eastern
 s.In the west the German arn1iesz.in a rapid, triumphant advance carried their standards within 50 miles of Paris and have kept them flying there since mid-Septenber. Even though the right and left wings of our ,#ide-fung battlefront in France and Belgiuna have been bent back since then 1because there was no other method for the time being of counter actirg the numerical superiority of the British. French and Belgians) stiII Wee hold the positions fortified during the nine months, firmly in our Hands. so that almost all of Belgium and 0rtheasterns Departnef efafs or France have been occupied by the troops of Germany.
 asIn the East the Austro German n armies first held up the Russian nnils lions on the Ga1ician frontiers and then were forced to retire before manifold numerical superiority, to in7 trench themselves on the crest of the Earpatrfans and to beat back until \ May 1 the Russian assaults with heavy losses. Meanwhile Field Mar sha1 won Hindenburg in East Prus-s sia was able to destroy several large Russian armies and free East Prus- sia; to occupy conjointly with Aus trian troops Poland almost to the WistulaL river and in the northeast to Garry the war into the Russian prov
 While the positions in the war in the West continue to surge to and fro. and e6hree-greaH attempts made to break through our lines in the win ter spring and sun1er, were repulsed with awful losses to our enemies, the German and Austo-Hungarian armies en May I launched a great offensive against the Russian main armies in Ga1ieia. - s.Fs
 s.In q series of battles ana elaf1der constant pursuit the Russians were hunted out Of Az, ,470 square miles of GaIicia, their principal force was se- Kered at several places and they were driven eastward and northward-
 ssThe west bank of the Vistu1a in Poland has been cleared of Russian armies. The siege of Warsaw is about to begin and Field Marshal von Hin denburg 8 in the northward has pressed forward against Riga and now has Reached the vicinity of the city after numerous victories. The successes of inc Genans have cost the Russian Arrr1y many millions in dead wounded and prfsoners. The Russian empire 2 possesses only fragments. Of it's mighty arnIess and no longer can supply these adequately with arms and mu- nitfons. Their fate will be decided , very shortly. The Russian forces will be- destroyed or forced to fec deep in. to the interior to the eastward.
 aThe battles if the West have cut Do deeply into the French strength that now 18-year lads must bear Sr1lss Great Britain's original army has been destroyed and only enough &ubstitlites can be raised ito hold a A4-mfle front in Belgium. The Brit ish losses particularly those of off, cers, have been very heavy. The army of 5000, 900 men which Lord Kitch- ener promised six months ago has not yet appeared and our opponents in the west never againewiH be able to raise superior forces to ezpeI the Germans from the country.
 ssThe- action in the DadaneIles which has been in / progress for months against the Turks shows re- suits for the British and French only in great losses of men, ships and war supplies of all kinds The Turkish army steadily is improving in num- bers and quality. The Turkish for tifzcakions are quite as strong as they were lat the outset The prospects of the attackers reaching Constantinople, therefore, have vanished and since hone of the Balkan states are willing to enter the Ang1o-E'rench service anu since the Russian army which should have participated from Odessa has been destroyed in Galicia. it is diff1- cult to see any chances for France and GreatzBHitaiY1-
 tsShoa11ds Italy send an army f0 The DardanelIes. 1t will find a superior Turkish army to receive her. Italy, after conducting mobilization secretly for nine months, has entered the field against Austria-Hungary at the end Of May. An Italian army Of 1000, 900 men strong, has been attempting for two months to sweep over the fortf- fled Austrian passes and to cross the 1sonzo river, behind which the Aus tro-Hungarian defensive army occu- pies strong positions. All the at- tempts of the Italians up to the pres ent have been unsuccessful. The cost of the attackers has been hundreds of thousands in dead and wounded. Austria Hungary grows stronger day by day and although it's valiant sturg- gle is a difficult one against Italian superiority in numbers, it will be able se bar the way to the coastland and to Trieste and Tyro1.
 Meanwhile Italy has lost her en- tire colony at TripoIi to the Arabs and apparently is about to declare war on Turkey.
 saThe Serbian army after great losses in the winter has undertaken rio military operations. being content to guard the frontiers of it's country on which there no longer is an Austro- Hungarian army.
 The other Balkan states are about to decide which side they shall take in the war. Since Russia's forces is sunder control Of a civil government, which restored the school and judicial ssstem of France.
 From the battle of Charleroi to the end of the first year Of the war me Germans achieved no successes