New Britain herald., 1915-07-31
GERMANY PREPARED
 TO CONTINUE VAR
Major MOraht Gives Review of
 First Year of Struggle

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 Berlin. July s1.-Major Ernest Moraht. the miliaary correspondent of the Berliner Tageblatt, reviewing the l twelve months of the war, for the As-
 sociated Press, says:
 l "A year ago a coalition with a pow 1! erful numerical superiority declared war on Austro-Hungary and Ger many The hostile countries have a far larger population than have the two Central powers and their com 1 bined armies originally outnum bered those of the latter. The Central states, however, have Known how to improve this difficult situation by al- ternately taking the offensive and de- fensive on the western and eastern fronts. 4sa as fs
 Germans Nenr Paris
 "In the west the German armies in a rapid, triumphant advance car ried their standards within 50 miles of Paris and have kept them flying there since nlid-September. Even though the right ands left wings of our wide- flung battlefront in France and Bel gium have been bent back since then e(because there was no other method for the time being of counteracting the numerical superiority of the British, French and Belgians) still We hold the positions fortified during the nine months, firmly in our hands, so that almost all of Belgium and the northwestern departments of France have been occupied by the troops of Germany K
 In the east the Austro- German armies first held up the Russian mill lions on the Galician frontiers and then Were forced to retire before a manifold numerical superiority to entrench themselves on the crest of the Carpathians and to beat back un- til May Russian assaults with heavy losses. Meanwhile Field Marshal von Hindenburg in East Prussia was able to destroy several large Russian armies and free East Prussia to oc- cupy conjointly with Austrian troops Poland almost to the Vistula river. and in the northeast to carry the war into the Russian provinces
 Offensive in Galicia.
 While the positions in the war In the west continue to surge to 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 and Austro-Hungarian ar mics on May 1 launched a great of fensive against the Russian main armies in Galicia.
 Tn a series of battles and under constant pursuit the Russians were hunted out of 43,47O square miles of Galicia, their principal force was sev- cred at several places and they were driven eastward and northward.
 Cleared of Russians.
 ''The west bank of the Vistula in | Poland has been cleared of Russian armies. The siege of Warsaw is about l to begin and Field Marshal von Hin- denburg in the northWard has pressed 1 forward against Riga and now has reached the vicinity of the city after | numerous victories. The successes of the Germans have cost the Rus~ian army many millions in dead, wound 1 ed and prisoners The Russian em- pire possesses only fragments of it's mighty armies and no longer can sup ply 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 in the west have cut so deeply into the French strength that now 1S-year-old lads must bear arms Great Britain's original army has been destroyed and not only enough substitutes can be raised to hold a 44-mile front in Belgium. The British losses, particularly those of officers, have been very heavy. The army of 3.000,0o0 r1en which Lord Kitchener organised SIX months ago has not yet appeared and our oppon- 5ents in the west never again will be able to raise superior forces to expel the Germans from the country.
 The action in the Dardanelles which has been Tn 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 Notifications are quite as strong as they were at the outset. The prospects of the attackers reaching Constants nople, therefore, have vanished and since none of the Balkan states are willing to enter the Anglo-F'rench service and since the Russian army which should have participated from Odessa has been destroyed in Galicia, it Is difficult to see any chances for France and Great Britain.
 Should Italy send an army to the Dardanelles, 1t will find a superior Turkish army ready to receive her. Italy, after conducting mobilization