The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-04-08
At The Dardane||es

In the whole progress Of the Great
War no month saw such a sudden
and dramatic change as March.
Week after week of weary winter
campaigning had held the gaze OF
the world fixed upon the plains OF
Flanders and Champagne, upon the
marshes of East Prussia, where bat
ties without more than local impor-
lance gave temporary advantage
first to the Allies and then to the
Germans. In the monotonous simili
tude of the official bulletins even
world war lost appeal and challenge
to an audience become surfeited with
the reports of indecisive engage
ments.
But with the opening of March
new horizon was suddenly lifted.
From the Straits OF Dover and the
banks of the Vistula the center OF
battle shifted TO the seagate Of Con
stantinople. At the Dardanelles the
guns of the greatest armada In the
history of the world awakened the
echoes of the hills behind the Troad
and the Anglo French fleet was fol
lowed by the transports, come to land
| troops on the Gallipoli peninsula
where in 1855 the Osmanli Turks un'
l hn ENnrnnn
the triumphal march that was to lead
TO the walls of Vienna over the ruins
of the Empire of the East and the
nascent Slav states of the Balkans
In October the AZ centimeter guns
of Germany had leveled the walls OF
Antwerp, crushed the gallant but i'm
potent Belgian state, and carried the
legend of Teutonic might to the
shores of the North Sea, to the very
gates of Calais and Boulogne. Now
1t was the Is inch guns OF the Queen
Elizabeth which took up the response
along the shores which had seen the
hosts and fleets of Xerxes pass for
ward on their great adventure, that
had witnesses the crossing Of Alex
ander the Great as he, carrying back
the conquering message OF the West
had set forth on his tremendous ex'
petition. In a single day, too, the
world turned from the contemplation
Of campaigns of the Twentieth Cen
fury TO one more combat in the lands
/ and waters forever memorable In
Homer's song.
Nor was the new phase less ap
pealing in immediate political signi
ficance than in historical challenge.
Russia. heavily beaten about the Ma
surian Lakes, thrown back upon the
defensive from the Baltic to the Ru
manian frontier, was proclaimed by
German reports to be on the point OF
giving up the conflict. She had sc
far borne the burden Of the worlc
conflict in q measure beyond the ex
pectations of the civilized world. Al
Tannenberg, at LODI, at the Masuri
an Lakes, she had sacrificed her hun
dreds of thousands, while Frennl
and British troops remained idly II
their trenches or failed in their 10
cal offensives.
But even as the German sorecas
was proclaimed, the guns of Admira
Gardens fleet at the Dardanelle
sounded the coming Of new day 10
Russian hope. The dream of Pete
the Great the enduring purpose G
, the Romanoffs, the deep and poten
emotion of every Orthodox Gree
; Catholic, all these were reused
| new life, not merely by a fresh a
tack upon STEAMBOAT, but by the e!
2 change Of assurances between Ru
5 STA and Britain across the intervel
4 ing distance -of a continent at wal
{ In Petrograd Sergius Sazonoif a
y nounced the approach of the da
I when Russia would realize her gre;
. ambition of an avenue to the ope
s sea. From London Sir Edward Gre
}, responded with the solemn assurant
" that England and Russia were at OF
II on the question of warm water ga
for the slav,
Thus, in a single hour the Eastel
a Question changed its whole appeG
Ie ance, Thus England at last and u
W mistakably. however, guarded 4
10 diplomatic phrase, renoun.ed I
N policy of Beaconsheld, the poi
e. which had provoked the Grimes
'e. War. and sent the British fleet to 4
tn Sea OF Marmora TO destroy the Urea
'e of San Stefano. In an hour Of RI
lie sian detection Germany had soug
81 to draw the great slav state aw
lr from her allies and those allies, tn
to England, had answered with t