El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-07-29
Niles Tightening the Ring
Around the BZockdded
German Nation.
MAY belfast YEAR
OF GREATEST WAR
Russia and Britain Say They
Are Only Beginning
To Fight.

-EW YORK, July 29.-Germany Is
N on the defensive The initiative
~ has passed to the entente allies.
This is the one great outstanding fact
OF the second year OF the great war.
Before, she aimed a plow where she
|t-sased and the allies parried it as best
| they might She seized most OF Bel
4siUm and q seventh Of France Twice
she overwhelmed the Russians, who
bad penetrated east Prussia
She smashed her way far into the
Hears dominions and crushed Servia
and Montenegro. She directed fear
fful battering ram of shells and human
/ bodies on Verdun. But with the present
ssmmer sweeping change came over
~ ASPECT of military affairs. Cooper
atin- through the allies war council
with Gen Joseph Joffre at its head. the
Italians beat back the Austrian col
amns in the Trentino. the Russians
! drove the Teutons before them in the
east with horrible destruction and the
British and French began a slow and
methodical bending of the long estab-
Nhed lines I'm the west
May lie Last Year Of War.
These are The movements which are
stil going on rs the war enters its
third. and according TO lord kitchener's
belpLic pI ed-CtiOn. final year " neither
the kaiser VIII retrieve himself. again
seize the initiative and enter on new
campaigns OF conquest cannot be lore
. told one thing is certain. the two
Areesr empires Of the earth, Russia and
Gfsat Britain. are at last fully organ
iZed for war against him.
e first anniversary OF the war,
August /. 1915. the Austro- German
sweep Of Poland was in full swing
Bublin fell that day; Cholm, august .;
Warsaw. August 6, IVanEorod, August
= Serock. August 2; LOmza, August
IL: Sicdles and Sokolow, August u;
KoVno. August 70; NOvo GeOrgievsl1,
August 81 OssOwiec- August "a kOvel,
August .. Brest-LitOvsk. August .;
Olita, August IS; Lutsk, September ,;
BrOCy. September 9: GrOdnO, september
j. Dubno. September 10. F'insk. Septem-
Der i. and Wilma. September 20
Relieved Invaders Chose Ground
9 1t seemed 10 neutral Observers moth
iisg could stop the Teutcns in the east
and ii was generally believed the in
Vaders had themselves chosen the line
extending from just west Of Riga near
y straight south TO Eoumania on
which they spent the winter
Even when on September the car
took command OF all his armies in per
son. won n victory near Tarnopol Sep
TENDER 10. and recaptured Lutsk Sep
TENDER 70 and Czartorysk October 20,
few believed the Russians would revive.
,L4lsk was soon lost again and on Oc-
tober % the Germans stormed UIluxt.
Then things settled down for the win
ter and almost every neutral critic
thought the spring would see a resump-
ton Of the TeutOn drive.
Servians AnnIhiIated in Month.
On October 8 the TeutOns crossed the
SerVian border at many points and five
days later the BulgarIans. newcom-
ers IN the war, invaded from the east
Fighting desperately. but hopelessly,
} 1le Servians were pressed back by tor
rents of heavy shells to which they
could not reply. and on November %
the German general staff was able
proudly TO announce that the operations
against Serbia had ended in complete
success. while Austria at the same time
; &s finished off Montenegro.
> Allies Resolve to RedOubIe Efforts
But unsuccessful as the year 1915 had
been to the allies in the field. their VIII
10 conquer did not waver- At the mo
ment early in December when the Ger
man imperial chancellor was making
a clear offer of peace in a speech to
the reichstag. the representatives OF
Germany's enemies were meeting in
new war council at Paris, resolved to
redouble their herculanean efforts and
i ger compromise.
1 -4)n December p, David Lloyd George.
III strongest man in England declared
4Great Britain faced defeat unless
greater efforts were made; and just a
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