The Cordova daily times., 1917-01-19

tress Of DuDnO, also CZeTnOwitZ, anl were marching upon Lutsk and KOyel. But about tbe time that Lloyd-Georle voiced his optimism the Russians fouui themselves checked on the river Sto1- hOd and on the Dniester, south.
 Greatest of Naval Battles.
 Lloyd d-George also had in mind the naval battle of Jutland. which took place on the last duy Of May. This has been called the greatest naval ao- tlon in history. It was the greatest to date in this war. The British claimed a great victory, which amounts to a confession that the German navy is by no means negligible factor The Germans ventured to sen seeking bat tie. They Oyercame the advance Brit ish column and were not checked un- til the heavy British battleshlps ar rived on the scene.
 Both sides lost heavily in battleshIps, cruisers, destrOyers and men. Tn a tactical sense the action was a draw. but 1t demonstrated that the German navy Is not bottled up"
 Early in the spring the Italians re- sumed activities on the line of the Isonzo, particularly at Goritz. In April the AustrIans suddenly began Hn of fensive against Italian positions in TrentinO, which the latter had invad- ed May, 1915 This move was q com plete surprise and forced the Italians Into hurried retreat. At the end of May Austria reported 5000 prisoners and 2O0 cannon as the spells of two months operations By the middle of June the Italians had turned on their enemy, and the great offensive was checked.
 The Austrian movement WAS eyl- deutiy timed 10 affect Italy's aggressive movements in the south, where the 0b- jeCtive of the Italians ls Trieste. Goritz stood in the way of progress toward the coveted citadel It fell Aug. 9. Since the fall of GOritz the Italians have made slow progress to- ward Trieste.
 Something was needed in the allied camps at midsummer to pull up wan tng hopes, hopes dashed by the aban- donment of the G8llipon expedition early in January, the surrender of Kut- el-Amara with 10000 British soldiers in April, the subjugatiOn of Servia and Montenegro and the menaCing situa- tiOn in Greece. The allies infantry from Gallip0ll had been transferred to Salonlki with the evident purpose of marching nOrthward and taking the Bulgar forces fin SerYia and on their own borders in the rear.
 Serious Outlook For Germany.
 In some respects 1t seemed as though the allies had unloaded a dead weight by abandoning the direct attack upon -Constantinople. The Russians almost from the beginning of the war had been coming down into Asia Minor Iii a direction which would bring them into junction with the British column moving up theTigris river toward Bag dad. In February Russia captured Err zerum, MesOpOtamia, from the Turks. This was followed two months later by the capture of Trcbizond, on the Black sea. Russia's sOuthward march from bases in her own home territory. backed up by her fleet on the Black sea, really strategic prolongation of her line in Bukowlma and Gallcia. con. stituted a menace to German ambition in the near east
 The elimination of Seryia as & factor. which was made certain in the winter of 1916, and the certainty that Turkey could be relied upon for troops and supplies, coupled with the apparent diff hculty of the allies in launching a stroke fin the back of the Teutonic