Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-07-30
Third YEAR Of
Big WAR FINDS
RUSSIA Strong
Cars Armies Better Equip
ped, and Fighting Harder
Than Ever.


Petrograd, July 29.-The present
stratcgic situation gives ground Tor
| the conviction that complete victory
| in the European war will be won by
the Entente Allies, declares General
| ID. S. Chouviaff, the minister OF war,
in statement made to the Associated
Press OIL the military situation at the
close of the second year of the struG-
, gle.
"Uninterruptedly preparing during
| forty years for an attack upon neigh
boring countries, the Austro-Herlnans
in the first period of the war" said
General Chouviaeff, "wcre naturally
superior to their opponent in the guam
| tyty of the means of warfare prcpar-
ed by them. But a desire to break the
enemy created great spirit OF enthu-
siasm among the people Of the coun-
tries of the anti-German group, which
people, ardently taking Up the work of
providing their armies with the neces-
sary supplies. built up within short
time new military industrial enter
prises many times increasing the
former production.
"The end of the second year of the
war marked by the results of this pa
triotic upheaval the Allies which
found expression in a successful
adoption of the offensive by their arm
les, now abundantly supplied with war
material and powerful artillery.
"In complete unity with all the AL
lies, the Russian army a month and
half ago dealt a destructive blow from
it's flank. and from that time has unin-
~. ooy+fruoI hIour oftpr
another against the Austro Hunga-
rians. In the same way. our Cauca-
sus troops are persisting in driving
the Turks from supposedly impregna-
BILE heights in Asia Minor
"Thus at the beginning of the third
year of the war, strategic conditions
which now become favorable for the
Allies on all the fronts, more than
ever give ground for the conviction,
that complete victory will be gained
over the enemy"
Petrograd, July 29.-The beginning
of the third year of the war finds
Russia on the offensive along large
part Of her western front. In the
Caucasus Russian forces are pushing
westward well beyond Erzerum and
southwark toward the Mesopotamian
border. Her armies have been reor-
ganized and strengthened and the
shortage of ammunition, which was
responsible for one of the most
spectacular and at the same time one
of the most successfully conducted
retreats in history, has been rem
edied.f Today she has shells, cannon
and Small arms in abundance. Hel
tmunition factories have been improved
and enlarged and are putting out largo
quantities of war materials In add
ton to the enormous shipments ar
irving from abroad. The personnel Of
the troops is as high, if not higher
than it was a year ago. The presen
financial needs have been adjusted
through loans placed in England
France and America.
The outlook today presents a strik
contrast ITO that of last August which
,, saw the fall of Warsaw and the con
ltinuation of the retirement OF tn
Russian armies, with the Germans arc
: Austrians, buoyed up with a long sue
cession of victories, still fiercely e, en-
gaging in rear guard attacks. IN!
turning point came early in the fall
On September the Russians stopped
the Austrians at Tarnopol. The Ger
, man wave of invasion continued to rol
t onward but in the latter day of Sep
, TENDER it had spent its force. Ih
) Russian armies turned upon the enem.
along the line of the Dwina, Berezlna
Shara, Styr and Sereth rivers an
! checked them there. Desperate re
ipeated efforts Of the Germans to cap
, ture Riga and Dvinsk, in which the
hoped to establish winter bases, falleo
They attacked again and agal
i throughout the winter bu the Russia
line held-and still holds.
Gar Stays at Front.
Emperor Nicholas took persona
command of the armies early in SEP
: tember and since then has been con
= tinuously at general staff headQual
I tiers here and there along the from
d ,counselling officers, cheering and er
= couraging the men. He appointe
S General M. V. Alexeieff, who was tn
: right hand man of General Vanof
t during the latter's brilliant campaig
a in Galicia during the fall and winte
of 1914, to be chief of staff, and Gran
Duke Nicholas, hitherto commander
Iin-chef was assigned to command /
the Caucasus.
\ The winter saw offensives an
counter offensives locally in variou
sections of the western front but n
!, definite advance was undertaken unit
January when the Russians move
!. forward slightly along the 200 mil
i line from Czartorysk to the Rumania
: frontier-the scene of General BruS