Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-01-01

voaled In the person or MackenSeA' 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. .sv 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 15 there was no claim of progress by the allies. The Teutonic claim that it's side was still engaged in successful warfare on all fronts was not disputed. The splendid resistance interposed by the discred- fled Turks came as surprise to the world. Russia was unable to rally her badly demoralized forces to make a winning defense of Lemberg. Once that point had fallen, Warsaw became the main objective. It was not until August that German troops made their triumphal entry into Warsaw, capital of Russian Poland.
 September marked decided change in the Teutonic campaign in the East. Wilma fell on September 9, but imme- diately afterward tho Russians won 8 series of successes over the Austrians, capturing 10000 prisoners, The escape of the Russian armies from the net planned by the German strategists was complete, The great Teutonic drive was brought to halt, and in De- cember the Germans withdrew slight ly and intrenched for the winter.
 The month of October marked de cided revival of military activity on all fronts. After a long period of com parative quiet in the West, desper- ate offensive movement was made by the allies. The French drive in Cham pagne was one of the hoodiest 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 were captured, and upward of g hundred field guns, thus far the greatest single capture by the French during the war. But the Germans were not compelled to relinQuish any great amount or ter ritory. In Artois the allies did not suc- ceed in breaking through the German lines, but secured some coveted posi- tions at an appalling cost.
 This brief period of allied success was 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 to cast her lot with the central powers and the latter opened campaign hav- ing Turkish relief for it's apparent ob- jective. On October 10 the Germans crossed the Danube and proceeded to advance southward, every step contest ed furiousiy by the outnumbered Serbs. France, England and Italy de- clared war on Bulgaria. All at once the center of military activity was transferred to the Balkans.
 In November both the long-expected allied offensive in the West and the Teutonic drive in the East came prac- tically to an end. The allies failed to break the stubborn German lines and only achieved a possible moderate success in Champagne and Artois at tremendous cost. By the middle of the month military operations in Russia were practically at a standstill, the Germans having failed to accomplish the object of their campaign. At that time the big German drive to the Gold en Horn began to monopolize the at tention of the public. The preliminary invasion of Serbia by the Teutonic al- lies-now including Bulgaria-was be. gun with notable promptness. In fact, as early as October 27, the invading armies met in the northeastern part of the kingdom, by November l Kragu- yeyatz, the chief Serbian arsenal, had fallen. and by November the Bulga' rians were in Nish, Serbia's provi- eional capital and railroad center. By November 19 it was announced that the invading armies held four-ffths of Serbia, and toward the close of the kmonth Germany declared semiofhcially 1 that the campaign was over. By the middle of December the Franco British l forces had been driven out of Serbia. They fell back to Saloniki (which. with the consent of Greece. they prepared
 to defend.
 ! Since May 24. when the Italian army crossed the Austrian frontier. the fight ing has been continuous, especially
 along the Isonzo front. The strongly l fortified and stuhbornly defended town kpf Goritz was the Italian objective fol Eweeks. In October the Austrian aero I planes dropped bombs upon Venice | destroying art specimens and damag {1.>~N .5s&s nr.sa.H