The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-07-30
In Considerable Detail to a Cor
respondent of the ASSOCi-
ated Press in London.
Sr ASSOCIATED vRrss,

LONDON, July 29-The Right
Honorable Sir Gilbert Parker, Bart.
NJ. P, whose services to the British
cause have been notable in the field
of publicity in the United States, has
made the following statement to the
Associated Press on the European
war:
you ask me to make statement
upon the two years Of war in which
England and its allies, France, Rus
STA, Italy, Belgium, Portugal, Serbia
and Montenegro, has been engaged.
"Three months ago the task would
have been far more difficult than 1t
is today. Since then Great Britain
and France have moved forward on
their fronts, and with tremendous ef-
fect-but Of that later. Also, dur
ing that time, Russia has moved
heavily upon the troops of the Cen
trail empire, and, in the southeastern
corner of the Russian front, has
driven in, league upon league, the
Austrian troops, has captured sector
upon sector, city upon city in the
regions where Austria was dominant,
and has made prisoners of 100000
men.
Field is Enlarged.
lover in Asia Minor the field OF
conquest has been enlarged and de-
Veloped. Erzerum and Erzingan
have been captured and other cen
ters of Turkish authority have been
taken. The renowned Won linden
burg, up in the Riga district, has
been driven back mile upon mile and
SUSAN prowess has proved itself be-
yond question. Russian generals
like Burssiloffe and Grand Duke
Nicholas, have re-established the
Russian prowess has proved itself be,
beginning of the war through lack
of munitions.
Looking back, one is forced tc
wonder how Germany was stayed in
It's march of conquest. According
10 every rule she should have beer
in Paris at the time she herself ap
pointed, early in the autumn Of
1914. She came near it. What stop
ped her?
Germany had left out of its cal
culations the strategiCal skill which
belongs by nature to the French
army, the new French army from be
hind Paris and the contemplate lit
lie British army
On Western Front.
at Is a remarkable thing that OF
The western front the only gains o
Germany were achieved in the frs
few weeks of the war. Those gain
we're of immense strategical value Il
1t. They include the mining and in
dustrial districts Of France an
nearly the whole of Belgium, iron
which 1t has steadily drawn practiC
al support and advantage and sup
plies. The wonder is, not that tn
Allies have done so we'll, but that
with all its preparations and its per
feet armament. Germany and its ODE
dent colleagues, Austria and Turke
and Bulgaria, have done so badly,
Apparently at the beginning 0
the war everything was in thei
hands, everything except one-th
British navy. If Germany could hay
mastered it as she mastered Belgium
and q goodly portion of France tn
war would long since have been owe
France would have been a third rat
power under practical German cor
troll; Russian would have been drive
back into its steppes and plains, ono
more the slave Of German infuenc
and control, and the British emplr
as we know 1t have become thin
Of the past.
British Sweep Seas.
"What the British navy did wa
10 sweep German merchant commerc
from the seas prevent Germany frol
trading with the rest of the worlc
except by crooked methods, bottI
up It's fleet to uselessness, drive II
South Atlantic sea fleet to the DO
tom Of the sea and throttle and chok
German export to an extent thu
great cities like Hamburg have loi
tha hum Of their activity, and, og