Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-08-03
GERMAN WRITER
SEES VICTORY
FOR TEUT0NS
Allies Unable to Drive Enemy Out
OF Either France or
Belgium.
PREDICTS DESTRUCTION
OF RUSSIAN ARMY
Italy With Million Men Fails to
Pierce the Austrian De-
lenses.

xCllSSDs
Berlin, July 31.-Major Ernest
Moraht, the military correspondent
of the Berliner T%ageblatt, reviewing
the twelve months Of the war, for
The Associated Press, says:
"a year ago a coalition with Il
powerful numerical superiority de-
clared war on Austria-H Hungary and
Germany. The hostile countries
have a far larger population than
have the two central powers and
their combined armies originally out
numbered those of tle latter. The
central states, however, have known
how to improve this difficult situa-
ticn by alternately taking the often
sive and defensive o. the western
and eastern fronts.
Triumphant in West.
"In the west the German armies
in a rapid, triumphant advance car
ried their standards within SO miles
of Paris and have kept them flying
there since mld-September. Even
though the right and left wings OF
our "ide-flung battlefront in France
and Belgium have been sent back
since then because there "a no
other method for the time being OF
counteracting the numerical superb
GRITTY of the British, French and Bel
gians) still we hold the positions for
titled during the nine months, firmly
in our hands, so that almost all OF
partments of France have been &C.
cupied by the troops of Germany.
in the east the Austro-German ar
mics first held up the Russian mil.
lions on the Galician frontiers and
then we're forced to retire before a
manifold numerical superiority, to
i%ntrencn themselves on the crest OF
the 'Carpathians and to beat back un-
It. May list 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 conformity witt
Austrian troops Poland almost t.
the Vistula River and in the north
cast to carry the war into the Rus
sian provinces.
Positions in War.
"While the positions in the wal 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 re-
pulsed with awful losses TO u enc
mics, the German and Austro-Itun-
garian armies on May 1st launched
a great offensive against the Russian
main armies in Galicia.
Cleared of Russians.
"In 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 northwald.
1.-The west bank of the Vistula in
Poland has been cleared Of Russian
armies. The siege Of Warsaw is
about to begin and Field Marshal Won
Hindenburg in the northward has
pressed forward against Riga and
now has reached the vicinity Of the
city after numerous victories. The
success of the Germans have cost
the Russians many millions in dead,
wounded and prioners. The Russian
Empire possesses only fragments Of
it's mighty armiees and no longer can
supply these adequately with armes
and munition. Their fate will be de-
cided very shortly. The Russian
forces will be destroyed or forced to
flee deep into the interior to the
eastward.
Cut Deeply.
1.-THE battles in the west have cut
so deeply into the French strength
that now 1~S-year-old lads must bear
arms. Great Eritain's original army
has been destroyed and only enough
substitutes al be raised to hold a
44-mile front in Belgium. The Brit.
ish losses, particularly those Of Off.
GERS, have been very heavy. The ar
my of 100000 men which Lord
Kitchener promised six months ago
has not yet appeared and our oppo-
nents in the west again will
be able to raise superior forces to
eXpel the Germans from the country.
No Results.
The action in the Dardanelles
which has been in progress for
months against the Turks shows re-
suits for the Birth and French only
in great losses of men, Ships and
wal supplies of all kinds. The Turk
ish army steadily is improving in
numbers and quality. The Turkish
%fortications are quite as strong as
they we're at the outset. The pros
poets of the attackers reaching Con-
stantinople, therefore, have vanished
and since none Of Balkan States are
willing to enter. the AnglO.Frencl
service and since the Russian army
which should have participated from
Odessa has been destroyed in Galicia
it is difficult to see any chance for
France and Great Britain.
"Should Italy send an army to the
Dardanelles, it vii find a superior
Turkish army ready to receive .ler.
Italy, after conducting mobilization
secretly for nine months entered the
field against Austria-H Hungary at the
end of May. An italian army, 1,OO0.-
900 men strong, has been attempting
for two months to sweep over the
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