The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-08-01
Declares a German Military
Correspondent in Review
ing the Great Struggle.

COTGSpUttU6tlui t1Vyt0"
ina the Great Struggle.
BERLIN, July s1.-Mator Ernest
Moraht, the military correspondent
OF the Berliner Tageblatt, reviewing
the twelve months of the war. Tor
the Associated Press. says:
"a year ago q coalition with
powerful numerical superiority de-
c1ared war on Austria-Hungary and
Germany. The hostile countries
have q far larger population than
have the two central powers ana
their combined armies originally out
numbered those of the latter. the
(. Central states, however, have known
how to Improve this difficult sit
& uatton by alternately taking the Of
.fensive and defensive on the YES
tern and eastern fronts.
Germans Hold Positions.
sTn the West the German armies
m rapid triumphant advance carried
their standars within fifty miles
OF Paris and have kept them flying
there since d-September. Even
though the right and left wings OF
our wide-fung battlefront in France
and Belgium have been bent back.
Aiuce then because there were no
other method for the time being OF
rounteracting the numerical SUPER
iortty Of the British. French and
ReIrfans) still we hold the positions
fortified during the nine months,
nrmly In our hands, so that almost
ali Of Belgium and the northeastern
departments Of France have been
occupied by the troops of Germany.
.ss1n the East the Austro-German
armies first held UP the Russian
millions on the Galictan frontiers
and then were forced to retire before
manifold numerical superiority. 20
intrench themselves on the crest OF
the Carpathtans and to beat back
until May i the Russian assaults
with heavy losses. Meanwhile Field
Marshal Won Hindenburg In East
prussia was able to destroy several
large Russian armies and free East
Prussia; to occupy co-Jotntly WIN
Austrian troops Poland almost 20 the
Vfstula river and in the northeast
to carry the war into the Russian
provinces.
while the positions in the war
in the West continue to surge "
and fro and three great attempts
made to break through our lines IN
the winter. spring and summer, were
repulsed with awful losses to our
enemies. the German ana AuslI ;,
HUNGARIAN armies on May 1 Launched
a great offensive against the Hus
sian main armies in Galtcia.
I'm a series of battles and under
constant pursuit the Russians were
hunted out of 43,47O square miles
of Galicia. their principal force was
severed at several places and they
were driven eastward and nortn-
ward. y...,,
IN Poland has been cleared of Rus
sian armies. The siege of Warsaw
is about to begin and Field Mar
shall Won Hindenburg in the north
ward has pressed forward against
Riga and now has reached the VI
entity of the city after numerous
victories. The successes OF the GER
mans have cost the RUSSIAN army my
many millions in dead. wounded and
prisoners. The Russian empire
possesses only fragments of It's
mighty armies and no longer can
snnnly these adequately with arms
ana munitions. Their fate Will be
decided very shortly. The RUSSIAN
forces will be destroyed or forced
to flee deep into the interior 70 tne
eastward.
French Are Weakened.
.arhe battles In the West have cut
90 deeply into the French strength
that now 18-year-old lads must pear
arms. Great Britain's original army
has been destroyed and only enough
substitutes can be raised to hold
forty-four mile front in Belgium.
The British losses, particularly those
The army of 100000 men which
Lord Kitchener promised six months
ago has not yet appeared and our
OPPONENTS In the West never again
will be able to raise superior forces
to expel the Germans from the coun-
try.
which has been in progress Tor
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 numbers and quality. The Turk
ish Notifications are quite as strong
as they were at the outset. The
prospects of the attackers reaching
Constantinople, therefore, have van
ished and since none of the Balkan
staets are willing to enter the Anglo
French service and since the Rus
sian array which should have partt-
cipated from Odessa has been des-
troyed in Galicia. it is difficult to
see any chance for France and