Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-30
NO REST FOR GERMANY
ANYWHERE IN WAR ZONE
Every One OF Allies Moves Forward
mt Same Time, and Every
One Succeeds.
PREVENTS SHIFTS OF TROOPS
Sir Gilbert Parker Makes Statement
on Wa'-Only Gains of Enemy ON
western Front Achieved in First
Few Weeks Of Conflict.

LONDON. July 29.-Tho Right Honor
aoie Sir Gilbert Parker Bart. NJ. p. h,.
ihhoe the following statement for tho
associated Press on the European war:
GU ask me to make n statement
upon the two years of war in which
England, with her allies. France. Rus
STA. italy. Belgium. Portugal, Serbia
ana Montenegro has been engaged.
Great Britain and France have
moved forward on their fronts and
with tremendous effect: also Russi,
has moved heavily upon tho troops OF
the central empire. and in the south
eastern corner OF the Russian front
mas driven In. league upon league, tho
Austrian troops; has captured sector
regions where Austria was dominant,
ana has made prisoners Of 1000 men.
over In Asia Minor ErZerum and
Erzingan have been captured and other
centers OF Turkish authorities have
been taken. Tho renowned Won Hin
denburg. up in the Riga district. has
been driving back mile upon mile, and
Russian prowcss has proved itself be-
You'd question.
1T Is remarkable thing that on tho
western front the only gains of Ger
many were achieved in the first few
weeks of the war.
Apparently. at the beginning of the
war everything was i'm their hands:
everything except one the British
navy. If Germany could have mastered
her rs she mastered Belgium and a
Soodly portion of Franco the war long
since would have been over.
REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENTS
OF TIE BRITISH NAVY
What the British navy did was to
sweep German merchant commerce
from the seas. prevent Germany from
trading with the rest OF the world, bot
tie up her fleet to uselessness, drive
her South Atlantic feet to the bottom
of the sea and throttled and choke
Gern.n export to an extent that great
cities like Hamburg have lost the hum
of their activity and. outside The Baltic
Sea, there is no stir Of German COM
mercc save In freakish enterprise
like that of the Deutschland
German foreign commcrce cannot
be rehabil!tated by the activities of sub |
marines. Since the battle of Jutland |
IT can be safely and surely said that
the seas are still controlled over
whelmingly by the British feet. Tho |
German fleet came gu, and then fed
to cover again after a stiff fight
But let us now take the field OF |
battle on the western front. For a |
whole year or more critics in the
United states whose only idea of war
fare was that Of constant action have (
asked why was II Great
Britain. who had recruited between
{. 100000 and 10000 oo OF men. should /
be doing nothing on the western front.
They mpIaincd that France was left ,
alone AT Nerdun and elsewhere. They .
did not realize that France knew she .
British troops which were holding |
their own line of the front and steadily !
over the whole Of her line, with France !
moving forward on the whole Of her .
line, they both could make good their |
successes. mile by mile, and steadily |
extending it. They did not remember |
that at the beginning Of the war Great !
Britain was armed on a basis Of 4 mere
handful of men; that all the machinery
of equipment was upon basis OF tho
handful, and that. having men--a mill
lion or two miilions-she still could
not equip, because She had not fac
tories or munitions except upon the
side of the handful
But what Is the condition of az
fairs to-day? There are enough mu-