The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1916-01-08
'RHNEK0F THE GREAT WAR AND OTHER
i NOTABLE EVENTS Of THE YEAR 1915
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European Conflict Develops Into Struggle to the DEATH With Dead
|lock Eastern and Western Fronts-serba overrn by
T Teutons and MISUNDERSTANDING Period for the
-. United States-GeneraI Carranza Rec
ognzed as President of Mexico.

paign in Galicia was shattered ana
the cars armies were soon back
where they started out in the previous
September. Russia had suffered the
greatest disaster in the war. A new
Germany military hero had been re-
vealed in the person OF Mackensen,
who was now held with Hindenburg
in popular esteem.
In the last days of the month, Italy
Joined forces with the allies against
Austria-Hungary.
Fall of Warsaw.
The campaign in the West was
strangely quiescent. The allies kept
to their trenches and the outside world
wondered. Up to June 10 there was no
claim of progress by the allies. The
Teutonic claim that its side was still
engaged in successful warfare on all
fronts was not disputed. The splendid
resistance interposed by the discred-
tied Turks came as surprise to the
world. Russia was unable to rally her
badly demoralized forces to make
winning defense of Lemberg. Once
that point had fallen, Warsaw became
the main objective. 1t was not until
August that German troops made
their triumphal entry into Warsaw,
CAPITAL of Russian Poland.
September marked a decided change
in the Teutonic campaign in the East.
wilma fell OH September 8, but imme-
diately afterward the Russians won
series of successes over the Austrlans,
capturing 10000 prisoners. The escape
of the Russian armies from the net
planned by the German strategists
was complete. The great Teutonlc
drive was brought to a halt, and In De-
| cember the Germans withdrew slight
ly and intrenched for the winter.
The month of October marked a de-
cided revival of military activity on
all fronts. After long period of com
| narrative quiet in the West, a desper-
ate offensive movement was made by
the allies. The French drive in Cham
| payne was one of the bloodiest at
tempts yet made to pierce the German
| lines. After three weeks of incessant
| gunfire, the French troops left their
trenches, September 25, and rushed
the whole of the first German line
Nearly 10000 German prisoners wee
| CAPTURED, and upward of a hupdred
field guns, thus far the greatest single
| capture by the French during the war.
But the Germans were not compelled
to relinquish any great einount of ter
ritory. In Artois the allies did not sue
coed in breaking through the German
lines, but secured some coveted posi-
tons at an appalling cost.
This brief Period of allied success
1rzSas FOLLOWED by an unexpected turn
of political affairs in the Balkans. For
a second time the Greek king showed
his lack Of sympathy with the allies
In the spring he had prevented Veni'
zelos, his premier. an avowed sup
porter of the allies, from sending
troops to the Dardanelles. Now, when
the allies were depending upon the
Greeks to hold the Bulgarians In check
Constantine declined again to act.
Serbia Is Overrun.
Bulgaria announced her intention tC
cast her lot with the central powers
and the latter opened campaign hav
ing Turkish relief for its apparent OBJ
jective. On October 10 the Germans
crossed the Danube and proceeded t.
advance southwark, every step contest
ed furiously by the outnumberet
Serbs. France, England and Italy de
clared war on Bulgaria. All at once
the center of military activity wal
transferred to the Balkans.
In November both the long-expectet
allied offensive in the West and thu
Teutonic drive in the East came prac
tically to an end. The allies failed t.
break the stubborn German lines ant
only achieved a possible moderate
success in Champagne and Artois a
tremendous cost. By the middle of tn
month military operations in Russi
were practically at a standstill, tn
Germans having failed to accomplish
the object of their campaign. At tina
time the big German drive to the Colo
en- Horn began to monopolize the al
tention Of the public The preliminar
invasion of Serbia by the Teutonic a
lies-now including Bulgaria-was b.
, gun with notable promptness. In fac
, as early as October q. the invadin
, armies met in the northeastern part c
: the kingdom, by November / Kragl
, yevatz, the chief Serbian arsenal, ha
: fallen, and by November the Bulg;
i rians were in Nish, Serbia's prov
sional capital and railroad center. B
, November 10 1t was announced tina
l the invading armies held four-fifths {
/ Serbia, and toward the close OF tn
: month Germany declared semiofficiall
) that the campaign was over. By til
, middle of December the Franco-Britis
forces had been driven out Of Serbs
5 They fell back to Saloniki, which, wit
c the consent of Greece, they prepare
5 to defend.
( Since May "a, when the Italian arm
] crossed the Austrian frontier, the figh
ing has been continuous, especial
I along the Isonzo front. The strcng
: fortified and stubbornly defended tow
( Of Goritz was the Italian objective II
: weeks. In October the Austrian aer
: planes dropped bombs upon venic
+ destroying art specimens and dana
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