The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-08-09

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w favorable than it did either one
oor ago or two years ago.
She has to her credit In the last
.-,oIvpmonth the crushing Of iu-pre-
rod Roumania and the conquest OF
p .o thirds of that nations territory.
prt in the principal theater of. war,
.no west east and Italian fronts, the
sntonte allies have shown, on the
,Tbole a decided superiority to the
central powers.
In the materials of war the nations
Aoht;ng for democracy clearly have an
increasing advantage over the kaiser's
Iocions, They have dealt the enemy
how after blow which have told heav-
Nv In lives, if not in territory.
Germany More Desperate.
Germany's plight is rendered more
desnerate than it was on August 1,
1o18 by the accession of the United
States and several minor peoples to
tho ranks of her enemies. Almost the
whole world is now lined up against
that nation.
Every belligerent breads another
winter Of war, but Germany most Of
all She lacks many things to face the
rigors Of cold campaign-nOt only
shells and guns, but wool for warm
clothing and sufficient coal to run her
rapidly deteriorating railroads and
her factories and keep those at home
comfortably warm, not to speak Of the
famine in the food fats so necessary
to those facing zero weather.
Looking back on the long truce Of
the spring on the eastern front, it IS
hard to realize that the Russians just
one year ago were in the midst of q
splendid offensive much like that
which has surprised the world in the
present month. In the 1916 drive Brus-
siloff pushed far within Bukowina and
Galcia and crossed the borders Of
Hungary. He took about $4,000 pris-
oners mostly Austrians, and forced the
enemy to concentrate masses of Felia-
Bile German troops, aided by a few
Turks, to check him.
The real reason his drive came to a
halt, however, we know now was lack
Of ammunition, failure Of transport,
treason within the cars armies and
wretched bureaucratic tneffciency.
These handicaps seem to have been re-
moved from the courageous Musco-
vires perhaps for all time.
Unfortunate Roumania.
Roumania declared war on the Teu
tonic powers August 81 and immedi
ately invaded Pennsylvania, where the
weak Austrian guards were easily
pushed back and the important cities
Of Hermannstadt and Kronstadt were
soon in the invaders hands.
The kaiser sent Won Falkenhayn, q
splendid strategist just displaced by
Won Hindenburg, as chief of the great
general staff, to command on this
front, while Won Mackensen headed
the Germans, Bulgar1ans and Turks,
who threw themselves on ROumania
from the south.
The ROumanians proved no match
Tor the combination of foes. Skillful
work by German spies, or the treach-
cry of certain members of their own
army, put the Roumanians' plans Of
campaign in the Teutons' hands, it is
Der g. and ten days later all Walachia
was lost. On December 18 Russian
troops took over the whole Roumanian
front, and few weeks later the leu
ton advance was checked along the
Inc OF the Sereth and Danube rivers.
somme Battle Continues.
In the west, however, Germany was
facing far different problem from
Tue poorly QUILTED and trained Rou-
"anlan peasants. When the third year
VI the war opened the battle of the
0olnme was still going on vigorously,
WIN the French and British showing
eonstantly growing superiority over the
Aoe' Bit by bit through the summer
anu autumn the ground was wrenched
from the kaiser's men until the coming
VI winter smothered the offensive Gin
muu and blood" and, according to the
o'lIlsh commander, Sir Douglas Haig,
0a'eu his opponents from an immedi-
"te great enforced retirement.
l, on September % it was announced
elat the French and British had taken
UO'oVO prisoners in the Somme battle
oelWeen July and September Is. This
wal was later considerably increased.
French Win at Verdun.
AT Ferdun, too, the Germans suf-
s1,' The French in battles Of the
LII una winter won back most Of the
elouhd lost in the offensive of the
IP,lng OF 1916 and captured more than
+ tp'ooo prisoners, with slight losses
themselves
on Inc spring campaign in the west
fa p1neu this war with the Germans
s Sung back from the great salient
iae e"lpolnt directed at confess
tbe, uiereOy either their weakness or
th helr aversion to further offensive, al
hi DteI at the time German writer's
m1 n'eu darkly that Won Hindenburg