Judsonia weekly advance., 1916-03-15
THE EUROPEAN WAR

The year 1915 has been so distinc- five from historymaking viewpoint thaN in all the ages to come it will stanA apart from those that have pre- ceded it and from those which are to follow. During it's entire length, the greater nations of the European continent have abandoned themselves to a policy of bloodshed which has fallen nIle short of delirium. To the neuxra1 onlooker it has been re- yival a{ huge scale of the irration- ai and Aurderous activity which char acterizedAt the earlier ages of mankind. It has been the complete overthrow of all the pacific theories which had ap- parently gained so strong a foothold at the time of the firing of the first gun in the present conflict.
 At the beginning of the year, it was evident that it was to be a struggle to the death. It was plain that the Teutonic plan to force a speedy set lement by dint of superior armed preparedness had failed Six months had elapsed and the Teutonic allies were still faced by three great na- tions, their strength unbroken and their determination infexible. Aus tria had been driven repeatedly by her Russian invaders and twice the Serbs had routed Austrian armies sent against them. On other fields, also, Teutonic efforts had been futile. Thus far Turkey had been of little assist ance and the holy war had failed to come into being. German Southwest Africa had been lost and German in fiuence in Asia had been smothered by the Japanese.
 As an offset, the Germans still held practically all the conquered territory which had fallen into their hands. Their lines still held firmly in Po- land, in Flanders and in France. It was apparent that as yet the Teutonic combination showed no sign of weak ening, and war of attrition seemed inevitable Both in the east and in the west the military operations of the early part of the year were practically without decisive result. The fighting in Poland had resolved itself into complete deadlock. In January, the French English combine made three attempts to break the autenic hold on French territory but -plished little. The German un- lccessful drive. at Warsaw and the rout of tie Austrians in Galicia left a slight balance in the January fighting in favor of the allies.
 From strictly military viewpoint, February was promising month for the Teutenic allies. By the middle of the month, German troops were ad- vancing all along the front from the Vistula to the Niemen, and thus, seven months after the breaking out of the war, German soil was practi- ieally cleared of it's Russian invaders The deadlock on the western front was still unbroken.
 Scene Shifts to Dardaneles.-
 With the advent of March, there came a sudden and dramatic change in the war situation. The scene of military activity was shifted to the Dardanelles. By the third week of the month, Rome, Athens, Sofia and / Bucharest were centers of great pc litical activity. The surrender of Przemysl, March P, was the most stirring victory for the allies since the battle of the Marne The German assertion that the military power of R3dssia had dwindled into insignifi- cd was disproyed at once and the
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 In April the French made bold offensive stroke against the German position between the Mouse and the Moselle--the famous St. Mihiel wedge -which resulted in tremendous loss of men on both sides, with small ad- vantage for either. Nowhere had the allies made aippreciable gain in ter Fltyry The invader held his own 'oornlv-s with success. About
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