Judsonia weekly advance., 1916-03-15
.n OF TIE GREAT WAR AND OTHER
 NOTABLE EVENTS IF TIE YEAR 1915
European Conflict Develops Into Struggle to the Death With Dead lock Eastern and Western Fronts-Sebia Overrun by TeTtonS and Bugarians-Tying Period for the
 United States-Genera Carranza Rec
 ognized as President of Mexico.

| SAAO NASt3 Q clA l1lCo NCAO SOOh DSSOAA where they started out in the previous September. Russia had suffered the 1 greatest disaster in the war. A new Germany military hero had been re- vealed in the person of Mackensen, who was now held with Hindenburg | in popular esteem
 In the last days of the month, Italy l joined forces with the allies against | Austria-Hungary.
 Fall of Warsaw.
 The campaign in the West was strangely quiescent. The allies kept to their trenches and the outside world wondered Up to June 15 there was no claim of progress by the allies. The 1 Teutonic claim that it's side was still l engaged in successful warfare on all l fronts was not disputed. The splendid resistance interposed by the discred- tied Turks came as a surprise to the world. Russia was unable to rally her badly demoralized forces to make Q winning defense of Lemberg. Once that point had fallen, Warsaw became the main objective. It was not until August that German troops made their triumphal entry into Warsaw, capital of Russian Poland
 September marked decided change in the Teutonie campaign in the East. Wilma fell on September 9, but imme- diately afterward the Russians won a series of successes over the Austrians, capturing 40,000 prisoners. The escape of the Russian armies from the net planned by the German strategists was complete. The great Teutonic drive was brought to a halt, and in De- cember the Germans withdrew slight ly and intrenched for the winter.
 The month of October marked de- cided revival of military activity on all fronts. After long period of com parative quiet in the West, desper ate offensive movement was made by the allies. The French drive in Cham pagne was one of the bloodiest at tempts yet made to pierce the German lines. After three weeks of incessant gunfire, the French troops left their trenches, September g, and rushed the whole of the first German line. Nearly 20,000 German prisoners were captured, and upward of a hundred field guns. thus far the greatest single capture by the French during the war. But the Germans were not compelled to relinquish any great amount of ter ritory. In Artois the allies did not sue ceed in breaking through the German lines, but secured some coveted posi- tions at an appalling cost.
 This brief period of allied success was followed by an unexpected turn of political affairs in the Balkans. For a second time the Greek king showed his lack of sympathy with the allies. In the spring he had prevented Veni- zelos, his premier, an avowed sup porter of the allies, from sending troops to the Dardanelles. Now, when the allies were depending upon the Greeks to hold the Bulgarians in check, Constantine declined again to act.
 Serbia Is Overrun.
 Bulgaria announced her intention to cast her lot with the central powers and the latter opened campaign hay ing Turkish relief for it's apparent ob- jective On October 10 the Germans crossed the Danube and proceeded to advance southward, every step contest ed furiously by the outnumbered Serbs. France, England and Italy de- clared war on Bulgaria. All at once the center of military activity was transferred to the Balkans.
 In November both the long-expected allied offensive in the West and the Teutonic drive in the East came prae- tically to an end. The allies failed to break the stubborn German lines and only achieved possible moderate success in Champagne and Artois at tremendous cost. By the middle of the month military operations in Russia were practically at a standstill, the | Germans having failed to accomplish the object of their campaign. At that time the big German drive to the Gold en Horn began to monopolize the at tention of the public. The preliminary | invasion of Serbia by the Teutonic al lies-now including Bulgaria-was f'a- gun with notable promptness. In fact, as early as October 27 the invading armies met in the northeastern part of the kingdom by November 1 Kragu- yevatz, the chief Serbian arsenal, had fallen, and by November the Bulga- rians were in ssNish, Serbia's provi- siona1 capital and railroad center. By November 19 it was announced that the invading armies held four-fifths of Serbia, and toward the close of the month Germany declared semiofhcially 1 that the campaign was oyer By the middle of December the Franco-British | forces had been driven out of Serbia | They fell back to Saloniki, which, with the consent of Greece, they prepared to defend.
 Since May "A, when the Italian army crossed the Austrian frontier, the fight ing has been continudus, especially along the Isonzo front. The strongly fortified and stubbornly defended town of Goritz was the Italian objective for weeks. In October the Austrian aero