New Britain herald., 1916-07-29
Anxiety Shifts From Allies 70 Teut0nic AdpeTsa1ieS ReVleW ot Two Years of War Shows Triple Entente in Optimistic Mood, Despite Great Obstacles
 Offered During Early Months.

Paris, July 29.-"The second year of the war ends with anxiety shifting from the group of the entente powers to that of our adversaries who are now obliged to meet a genral com- blned offensive on every front" said Marquis de Cham brun, a member of the foreign affairs committee of the chamber of deputies in summarizing the military situation for the Asso- c1ated Press at the close of the wars second year.
 While French, British and Rus sian preparations become more com plete, a crisis of exhaustion is fast arising for the Austrians and Ger mans Our adversari,.s thought if would be impossible for us to prepare and certainly during the first year of the war there were difficulties that had to be overcome. We are proud to say that this was accomplished even while our valiant soldiers were resist ing the German invasion. Thanks to the patriotism of the country and the abnegatiOn shown by all classes in France and England; thanks also tO the campaign in both countries fo- more cannon and more ammunition, industrial action was everywhere mul- tiplied and General Joffre was able to say in an Order of the Day to thE army at Verdun, We have munitions in abundance.'
 '"The Austrians and Germans re- sorted to submarine warfare which 1 will not attempt to qualify. It may continue to work harm in a piratical form, but it will not open ports TOT further the commercial aims and of of fecttvely blockaded, nor will it restore to Germany her lost colonies.
 The Russians are continuing their work successfully on the eastern front. They have again invaded BukOWina and are pushing forward in the region of Lutsh and into the Carpathians, while Grand Duke Nicholas is ad vancing victoriously in the Caucasus.
 ''The closer one examines the situa- tion the more manifest becomes the anticipated ascendency of the allies, increasing as time goes on because of their unrestricted resources and unshaken confidence in victory.'
 Critics Views.
 From various critics and experts on military affairs expressions have been obtained from which the mili- tary situation, according to the French view, may be summarized as follows:
 The extent of the difficulties of the central empires does not even now ap- l pear from the state of the war as viewed from a geographical stand l point. but has shown itself in the l changed tactics in evidence and is be- ! coming obvious in the altered map. l The operations of the Franco-British | armies, outnumbered in men and guns l during the first six months, saved , France by sheer heroism, but could ] not end the war; could only prolong | it and gain time. The Russians pushed into East Prussia, conquered ! Bukowina, invaded Galicia, crossed the Carpathians and even threatened 1 Silesia but exhausted their anna ] ment in April, 1915, and lacked even the essentials for defense. The Ger mans knew it would be impossible for i Great Britain and France to nave caught up in nine months with the Germans forty-fve years prepara- tions and felt themselves free, deallng first with France, to turn upon the Russian armies. Nine divisions trans ported from the FrancO-Brltlsh front reinforced the Austrians, and the of fensive against the Austrians began in May. By the end of July Przemysi and Lem berg had been retaken and the Russians were considering the i abandonment of Warsaw and the line of the Vistula. Short even of rifles many of Emperor Nicholas troops de- tended themselves with clubs during the long retreat in which was ac- complished the second miracle of the war, the continuity of their line being everywhere maintained as well as the integrity of the Russian armies
 The battle of Arras in June, 1915, was considered to have proved the al lies man for man, able to ebat the Germans in the offensive, other things being equal, but the munitions and