Connecticut western news., 1916-12-28

tress of Dubno, also Czernowitz, and were marching upon Lutsk and Kovel But about the time that LlOyd-George voiced his optimism the Russians found themselves checked on the river Stok- hod and on the Dniester, south.
 Greatest of Naval Battles.
 Lloyd-George also had in mind the naval battle of Jutland, which took place on the last day of May. This has been called the greatest naval ac- tion in history. It was the greatest to date in this war. The British claimed a great victory, which amounts to q confession that the German navy is by no means a negligible factor. The GermaIS ventured to sea seeking bat tie. They overcame the advance Brit ish column and were not checked un- rived on the scene.
 Both sides lest heavily in battleships. cruisers, dcstroyers and men. In tactical sense the action was a draw, but it demonstrated that the German navy is not "bottled up."
 Early in the spring the Italians re- sumed activities on the line of the Isonzo, particularly at Goritz. In April the Austrians suddenly began an of fensive against Italian positions ill Trentino, which the latter had invad ed May, 1915. This move was a com plete surprise and forced the Italians into hurried retreat. At the end of May Austria reported S0,000 prisoners and POO cannon as the spells of two months operations. By the middle Of June the Italians had turned on their enemy, and the great offensive was checked.
 The Austrian movement was evi- dently timed to affect Italy's aggressive movements in the south, where the ob- jective of the Italians is Trieste. Goritz stood in the way of progress toward the coveted citadel. It fell Aug. g. Since the fall of Goritz the Italians have made slow progress fo- ward Trieste.
 Something was needed in the allied camps at midsummer to pull up wan ing hopes. hopes dashed by the aban- donment of the GallipoIi expedition 6dIly LII J duudIy, Luc SulISAucI Ol Nut el-Amara with 10000 British soldiers in April, the subjugation of Servia and Montenegro and the menacing situa- tion in Greece. The allies infantry from Gallipoli had been transferred to Saloniki with the evident purpose of marching nOrthward and taking the Bulgar forces in Servia and on their own borders in the rear.
 Serious Outlook For Germany. In some respects it seemed as though the allies had unloaded a dead weight by abandoning the direct attack upon Constantinople. The Russians almost l from the beginning of the war had been coming down into Asia Minor in a direction which would bring them into junction with the British column moving up the Tigris river toward Bag dad. Tn February Russia captured Er' Zerum, Mesopotamia, from the Turks This was followed two months late, by the capture of TrebiZond, on the Black sea. RuSSia's southward march from bases in her own home territory backed up by her fleet on the BlacE sea, really a strategic prOlOngatiOn Oi her line in Bukowina and Galicia, con stituted a menace to German ambitio! in the near east.
 The elimination of Scrvia as factor which was made certain in the WiHtC! of 1916, and the certainty that TUr!;c. could be relied upon for tro0rs an' supplies, coupled With titI apparent Gii fculty of the allies i'll launching ; stroke in the back of the Teutoni'