Arizona republican., 1916-07-30

city in the regions where Austria held forth and has made prisoners of 300,- 000 men.
 "Over in Asia Minor the field of con- quest has been enlarged and developed. Erzerum and Ergzinfan have been cap tured and other centers of Turkish authority have been taken. The re- renowned von Hindenhure. up in the Riga district, has been driven back. mile after mile, and Russian prowess has proved itself beyond question Russian generals like Brussiloff and Grand Duke Nicholas have improved Russia's offensive, weak at the be- ginning of the war
 According Co every rule Germany should have been in Paris at the time she herself appointed early in the au- tumn of 1914. She came very near it. What stopped her?
 She had left out of her calculations the strategetical skill which belongs by nature to the French army. the new French army from behind Paris and the cOntenptible little British army
 Tt is a remarkable thing that on the western front the only gains of Ger many were achieved in the first few weeks of the wa. Those gains were of immense strategical value to her. They ! included the mining and industrial i districts of France and nearly the whole of Belgium from which she has steadily drawn practical support and again and again supplies. The wonder is not that the allies have done SC well, but that, with all her prepara- tiUns and her perfect armament, Ger many and her obedient colleagues Austria and Turkey and Bulgaria have done so badly.
 i Apparently at the beginning of the 1 war everything was in their hands everything except one-the British navy. If Germany could have mas tered her as she mastered Belgium and a gOodly portion of France, the wal long since would have been over; France would have been a third rate power under practical German control, Russia would have bean driven back into her Steppes and plains. once nor, the slave of Germans control, anC the British empire as We know il would have become a thing of the past
 What the British navy did was tS sweep German merchant commerce from the seas, prevent Germany iron trading with the rest of the world, ex
 ccpt by crooked methods, bottle up he
 fleet 10 uselessness, drive her soutl
 Atlantic fleet to the bottom of the SC; and throttle and choke German eXpOr
 to an extent that great cities lik
 Hamburg have lost the hum of thei activity. and outside the Baltic sea there is stir of German commerce say in a freakish enterprise like that of tn Deutschland. Those. however wh count the work of the Deutschland 3 extraordinary should remember that is not original since a considerabl number of British submarines hay
 crossed the Atlantic during the las
 year safely and surely. It is no
 strange that the Deutschland accom-
 plished it's feat It will be yer
 strange, however, if that feat is re
 peated by many sister submarines German foreign commerce canno
 be rehabilitated by the activities ( submarines. Since the battle ot , Jutland it can be safely and surel
 said that the seas are still controlle . overwhelmingly by the British flee The German fleet came out and the } fled to cover again after a stiff figh But now let us take the field of hat
 tie on the western front For a who . year or more critics in the Unite
 States whose. only idea of warfai . was that of constant action, hay : continuously asked why was il Gres
 Britain had recruited between 5000, ,6l s and 4,000.0c0 men and should be dt 7. ing nothing on the western iron [ They complained that France was le '. alone at Nerdun and elsewhere. The