Semi-weekly herald., 1917-08-13
GENERAL WAR SUMMARY.
(By Perry Arnold)
United Press Foreign Editor,

years and 13 days ago today dou-
BILE murder in Sarajjevo split a bl 1t
of blood on Europe that has since
tha' time spread to engulf in its red
floFd seven-eights of all the world.
Iae civilized nations which re-
main neutral in all the world strife
ma now be counted on the fingers
and toes. From the Balkans the war
flame spread to nearly all of Europe; I;
then to the Orient; to Ashland fin
ally to the American hemisphere. To-
day not a continent of the world ex-
lists that does not hold a nation either
at war OF not on speaking terms
with some other nation.
American, on April sixth threw all
the weight of her titanic resources
in wealth, raw materials and men on
the scales to swing the balance
toward democracy and against Ger
man autocracy and brutality. Her
action heartened the new democracy
in Russia, revived Frances exhaust
ed warriors, and stimulated Eng
lands weary soldiers and workmen.
Moreover, Americas entrance result
ed in enunciation of the first clear
cut issue of the war-that the allies
are fighting for democracy and will
not cease until that democracy is
achieved and the democracy of the
rest OF the world forever made safe
The past year saw many notable
changes in the war. Two monarchs
the last but one of all the absolutisi
Divine Right kings, were swept into
oblivion.
A new nation appeared after the
most bloodless revolution in history
Germany reached the climax of her
terrorism and brutality in inaugura-
ton of unbridled submarine warfare
on the seas, and of slavery of the
Belgian civilian population. 1t was
this arrogance of supposed might
that brought Germany and her allies
such powerful enemies as the United
States, Brazil, Cuba, China. Panama
Bolivia, Guatemala, Liberia, Hondur.
as, Nicaragua, San Domingo, Siam
In one year likewise Germany has
been forced to chronicle her first re.
treat since the Marne. 1t was a mat.
ter of strategy" according TO her
military chiefs, but it released thou
sands of acres of desolated, black.
ened land to France and when thu
allies struck in following up that
"stragetic retreat" the enemy yielded
still more.
1t was a year in which twice ever,
power of the German war machine
was trice concentrated-and unavail
ingly. Verdun survived despite al
Germany could do. So did Chemin.
des-Dames. France bore both thes,
shocks.
The year has likewise witnessed
practical abandonment Of one of the
weapons which three years ago Ger
many boasted would win her the
war-the Zeppelin dirigible. In hel
"baby killing" expeditions over Eng
land now, Germany uses aeroplanes
The Zeppelins proved too unwieldly
In the year just past, hunger wa,
enlisted as a war weapon on botf
sides. 1t was to stare England ou'
that Germany invoked the submarine
piracy. 1t was to draw closer thu
blockade around the central power
that America soon after her entrance
into the strife, adopted stringen
plans to prevent her foodstuffs from
reaching the enemy.
In the year to come It will b.
America whose horde Of money vii
be poured into the war machine, an,
American ingenuity on which the de
mocracies of the world will rely TO
solution of the submarine problem
Americas vast industrial machin
win be expected to produce vas
quantities of munitions, Of aeroplane
and of guns. And Americas ricl
lands will be relied upon to furnis
the food which in large part will fee
her allies.
America has already begun her Il
tanic task. Some Of her soldiers ar
in France. At home, the nation ha
started raising her selective draf
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