Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1916-01-08

| in popular esteem.
In the last days of the month, 1t
| joined forces with the allies agai
Austria-Hungary.
Fall Of Warsaw.
The campaign in the West
strangely quiescent. The allies
to their trenches and the outside
wondered Up to June Is there
claim of progress by the allies.
Teutonic claim that it's side wa
engaged in successful warfare
fronts was not disputed. The spl
resistance interposed by the dii
tied Turks came as a surprise t
world. Russia was unable to rail-
badly demoralized forces to me-
winning defense of Lemberg.
that point had fallen, Warsaw be
the main objective. 1t was not
August 8 that German troops
their triumphal entry into va
capital of Russian Poland.
September marked a decided oh
in the Teutonic campaign il the
wilma fell on September 8, but ii
diately afterward the Russians "
series of successes over the Austr
| capturing 10000 prisoners. The es
of the Russian armies from the
planned by the German strate
was complete. The great Teui
| drive was brought to a halt, and il
cember the Germans withdrew 81
ly and intrenched- for the winter.
The month Of October marked
cided revival of military activity
all fronts. After a long feriod of ,
parative quiet in the West, a des
ate offensive movement was mad,
the allies. The French drive in CT
payne was one of the bloodiest
tempts yet made to pierce the Ger
lines After three weeks of inces
gunfre, the French troops left
trenches. September rs, and rus
the whole of the first German
Nearly 10000 German prisoners v
captured. and upward of a hume
| field guns, thus far the greatest sill
capture by the French during the '
But the Germans were not compe
to relinquish any great amount of
ritory. In Artois the allies did not {
coed in breaking through the Gerr
lines, but secured some coveted p
tions at an appalling cost,
This brief period of allied succ
was followed by an unexpected t
of political affairs in the Balkans.
n second time the Greek king shoy
his lack Of sympathy with the all
In the spring he had prevented VI
zelos. his premier. an avowed S
porter of the allies, from send
troops to the Dardanelles- Now, wi
the allies were depending upon
Greeks to hold the Bulgarians in che
Constantine declined again to act.
Serbia Is OVerrun.
Bulgaria announced her intention
cast her lot with the central pow
and the latter opened a campaign b
ing Turkish relief for its apparent
jective. On October 10 the Germ
crossed the Danube and proceeded
advance southwark, every step cont
ed furiously by the outnumbe
Serbs. France, England and Italy
elared war on Bulgaria. All at o
the center of military activity '
transferred to tho Balkans.
In November both the long-expec
allied offensive in the West and
Teutonic drive in the East came pr
tically to an end. The allies failed
break the stubborn German lines 1
only achieved a possible moder
success in Champagne and Artcis
tremendous cost. BY the middle of
month military operations in Rus
were practically at standstill,
Germans having failed TO accompl
the object of their campaign. At I
time the big German drive to the G,
en- Horn began to monopolize the
tention of the public. The prelimin
invasion of Serbia by the Teutcnic
lies-now including Bulgaria-was
gun with notable promptness. In {;
as early as October 81. the invad
armies met in the northeastern part
the kingdom. by November l Kra
yevatz, the chief Serbian arsenal.
fallen, and by November s the Bul
rians were in Nish. Serbia's pr
sional capital and railroad center.
November 10 1t was announced t
the invading armies held four-tiftLs
Serbia, and toward the close OF
month Germany declared semioficir
that the campaign was over. By
middle Of December the Franco-BrH
forces had been driven out of Ser
They fell back TO Saloniki. which. W
the consent OF Greece. they prepa
to defend.
Since May "a. when the Italian ar
crossed the Austrian frontier, the fig
ing has been continuous, especis
along the IsonEo front. The stron
fortified and stuhboTuly defended to
OF Goritz was the Italian objective
weeks. In October the Austrian az
planes dropped bombs upon Ven
destroying art specimens and dam