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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-29

Stability of the Central European Empires Still Unshaken
A Military Victory Still Possible if the United States
and Russia Play Their Parts-Prospects
of the Coming Year

and Bremen to the marches Of Jerusalem
and to the upper reaches of the Euphrates,
the German will prevails.
The campaign of 1916 was an effort
to break down the walls of the great Cen
trail European empire which Germany
and her allies had constructed. As such
it was a failure. AS such the campaigns
since have been failures. The edifce still
stands, and if the submarine threat, which
was to bring Britain to her knees in three
months, has failed too, one must at least
confess that the hope of starving Ger
many has again been postponed another
year, and whatever the extent Of the new
harvest Germany has at least lasted to it.
Possibilities Of the Future
There remains the question whether the
Germans will now content themselves to
evacuate the conquered lines-to return
to the conditions of 1914-or whether they
will insist upon preserving their Middle
Europe. With Germany in possession
of what Germany now holds the Allies
cannot make peace. Any peace would
be but a preparation for a world DONNA
ton by Germany. The military problem
of the campaign of 1918 is unmistak-
able. 1t must be to break in the dikes
erected about this Central European en-
pire. Failing this, it must be to apply
steadily and increasingly such pressure
on the outside that the demands for peace
within shall rise until they can no longer
be silenced. That Germany is war weary
no one can doubt. That Germany is so war
weary that she is prepared now to sur
render her conquered lands and that she
il also prepared to surrender Alsace-Lor-
raine, indemnify Belgium, give over Ger
man Poland seems to me unlikely in the
extreme.
Actually, the German General Staff set
forth for itself in July and August, 1916,
the task of holding through, and one is
obliged to recognize that, however terrible
the strain, on August /, 1917, the Ger
man is still holding through. Nor can
one mistake the gravity of the new sub
marine war. Germany has been wrong
in believing that after three months OF
unrestricted submarine warfare England
would be brought to her knees, but there
are few naval experts who believe that
if the submarine ravages continue unre-
stricted England can fight much after
October, 1918, or fail to make peace by
negotiation within a brief period after
that date.
For myself, am satisfied that we are
entering into the last year of the war;
We may have military decision between
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-29

a minor effort on the part of Sarralr
army from Salonica, which did, in fact,
reach and pass Monastir, but there 1t
stood and still stands. All hope and posi-
bility that the Balkans had held out for
the Allies in 1914 and 1915, and hnaliy
in 1916, when Rumania came in, mad
now vanished. Rumania and Serbia,
which had allied themselves with the enc
mics of Germany, were in ruins, Serbia
totally in the hands of the enemy, Ru-
mania for the greater part, and little Mon
tenegro shared the Serbian ruin. Bull
paria had decided for the Central Powers,
and her armies now occupied provinces
torn from her at Bucharest, and, in addi-
ton. lands long coveted. In Greece all
that the King could do was done for Ger
many. A Greek garrison surrendered
Greek cities and Greek provinces to the
Bulgar, and King Constantine contemplat-
ed a blow in the rear against Sarrails
army at Monastir.
It was at this time that Germany,
choosing her moment with supreme skill,
proposed that there should be peace, open
ing the way to an end of the conflict
which should not be improbable for her.
But this German offer was rejected. The
Allies returned to the war, having clearly
foreshadowed a determination to fight on
until the Mitteleuropa that Germany had
created from Berlin TO Bagdad and from
the Meuse TO the Dwna was destroyed.
Failing thus to achieve her end by ne
Rotiation, Germany had recourse to her
last remaining weapon, the submarine.
She was now outnumbered In Europe on
every front. She was outgunned in the
West. Her material resources were
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-29
Americas Responsibilities

believe a military victory must now
come to the Allies, if Russia and the
United States do their part. believe it
may come TO the Allies if the United States
measures up to her great task and her
obvious duty. But do not believe that
the element Of time is any longer an ally
Of the enemies of the Central Powers. |
believe that unless the submarine menace is
ended the Allies cannot go longer than the
end of next year. And | do not believe
that without great American reinforce
ments military decision will be had.
The German army is no longer the
army of 1914. German resources are
fading and falling. Yet during the war
of the Spanish Succession Louis XIV faced
the great coalition under equal disadvan-
tages and managed to avoid the partition
of his country and to achieve peace with
cut indemnity or annexation. II the Ger
mans can last until the snow flies next
autumn they may be able to do the same
thing. Whether they will be able to do
this or not depends very largely upon the
United States and Russia, and only blind
and foolish man, whatever his hopes. would
place great relisncs upon Russia.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-29

dearly purchased and, by comparison,
meagre gains of the preceding year.
And in June we had new British OIL
fensive about Ypres-a new and complete
success. retaking all the heights vital
70 the defence of the German lines as they
existed and necessary to the Allies as the
basis for a new offensive. Seven thousand
prisoners and many guns-a quick, smash
inc triumph accomplished with the accu-
racy of an engineering experiment. ms
was the third Battle of Ypres and this was
the final demonstration of British supe
riority over the German-a superiority no
longer questioned, but not yet sufficient
to overcome the advantages Of the defen-
sive in the endless lines of trenches and
the enormous amount Of machine guns
which the Germans had prepared.
On the French Front
Turning to the battle between the
French and the Germans, the picture Is
not the same. When the present war year
opened the French before Verdun were
standing almost in their last ditch. Vaux
had fallen in June, and the Germans had
reached the ditch of Souville. A little
further gain, and it seemed as if, after all,
Verdun would terminate in German
victory.
The Allied offensive at the Somme In
July prevented this, but it was not until
August that German pressure at Verdun
began to fall off, and in October and No
yember two French offensives retook
Douaumont and Vaux, cleared the circle
81 hills and regained the vital ground
lost in February and March Of 1916. De-
cember saw the finish of the Verdun cpl
sode. A great victory had been won.
In the two offensives about Verdun OF
October and November the French took
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-29
Tn Russia

After the revolution Russia long lin
gered in the throes of social agitation and
domestic disorder. 1t was not until July
that there was sudden righting, and a
Russian offensive, first north and then
south of the Dniester, revived part
but only a part-of the glory of 1916.
The Allies, who had expected nothing, re-
ioiced at a Russian victory, but even as
it perceived the greatness and the moral
value of the Russian offensive, the entire
opinion of the world recognized the diff
fculties in front of another sustained
effort. After taking nearly 10000 prison.
ers and vast store of material-after
reaching and passing the Austrian head
quarters at Kalusz-the Russian advance
was stopped at the Lomnica River in the
third week of July, where it remains
when these lines are written.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-29

now and the end of the campaigning sea-
son of next year. II We do net, do not
believe the war will be ended by mill
tary decision. We shall not have military
decision If Russia quits the battle line and
the United States fails to make prompt
and great effort, supplying in some part
the Russian detection.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-29
Copyright lS17-The Tribune Association

$4,000 prisoners and many guns, and the
victory brought the victor, General Nivelle,
to the attention of the world. Joffre was
visibly weary, and in due course of time
he took the role of Marshal of France,
and Nivelle succeeded him as commander
in chief. Nivelle's success at Nerdun
raised hopes that he would be able to ex-
pand this success on wider front
France, so long weary, looked forward
to the campaign of 1917 with much ex-
pectation.
This expectation was not realized. The
French offensive, beginning on the 10th
of April, was one of the most cruel dis
appointments of all to the French people.
Important ground was brilliantly taken.
Nearly 10000 prisoners, more than 100
guns of one sort or another, were captured.
But the casualties were terrific, and the
impossibility of sweeping advance was
soon recognized. Nivele and Mangin had
expected to enter Laon, but nine miles
from Laon their advance was checked.
lney nau pIailiieu W I"No DAhiohS' Wv
Brimont still holds out. They had planned
to disblock Rheims, but thousands of shells
are falling each week into the martyred
city.
The result was another staff change.
Petan came back to command the French
army. The French army passed from he
offensive to the defensive, and the French
people sat down grimly to endure another
disappointment and another winter Of
war. BY the first of July the French
dead numbered million; the dead and
those permanently eliminated from the
firing line passed two millions, and one
could say that upward of third OF the
man power of France had been used up.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-29

shrinking at home. Her future economic
prosperity was being doomed as one ma
ton after another entered the coalition
against her and became participants
equally in arrangements that would last
after the war. On February l Ger
many announced that she purposed to
sink all ships, with exceptions that were
only ilusory and, for the United States
humilating. The German decision meant
one thing. 1t meant that the Germans
believed that only by one method could
thew win the war. They could no longer
win it by military decisions, although
they might be able to hold their lines for
long months, perhaps for years. 1t meant
that, the power of the offensive on land
having passed away from them, they
would have recourse to an offensive on
the seas.
Hardly had the German decision been
made when Russia was temporarily elm
mated from the war by an internal revo-
luton which shook to the very bottom all
her social and military organizations, and
the entrance of the United States into
the war on April 6 could not seem to
the Germans to be counterpoise for the
retirement Of Russia.
German Hopes
In April of this year Germany could
again expect, if not the triumph looked
for at the beginning of the war, il not
the decision expected at Verdun, still
substantial victory following a separate
reace with Russia and preceding the time
when the United States could arrive with
new arms on the field of battle. And there
was throughout Germany Q profound OPP
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-29

timism, in the midst of misery, based up
on the hope held out by the submarine
programme and by the prospect of sepa-
rate peace with Russia.
What has happened since we all know.
AS the campaigning season approached
and the German army was forced to re-
tire from Arras to Scissors, giving over
the ground threatened by the British and
the French offensive at the Somme-
threatened primarily by the expansion Of
the British lines and by the never ending
intensity of British artillery pounding
we saw at last an actual and considerable
change on the Western front. Nearly
a thousand square miles of French terri
tory were evacuated, and there was
forward move of the Allies unequa.led
since the Marine.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-29
4 Severe Disappointment to the Allies
in Comparison With Early Expecta.
tions-Hopes Which Were Never
Well Founded
By'FRANK H. SlMONDS
Author of '"The Great War" "They Shall Not Pass"

French armies fought it out for moral su-
premacy. The new British army, green,
not yet trained in modern warfare or mod
crn weapons, passed through the furnace
rom July to November, from the bloody
repulse of Gommecourt to the triumphant
success of Beaumont Hame.
When the Battle Of the Somme was
over the British army felt itself more
than the master of the German army.
With the French it had taken $4,000 pris-
oners north and south of the Somme, and
the British share was the larger. 1t
had pushed the Germans back in places
six or seven miles, and in the following
spring the German retreat was to demon
strate that the Battle of the Somme had
imperilled German security from Arras
to Scissors. Had the weather been more
favorable probably the retreat would have
come last fall, but when it did come it
demonstrated the superiority of the new
British army over what was left of the
old German army-a superiority unmis-
taxable, but yet far from sufficient to in
sure a speedy decision.
While the Battle Of the Somme was at
its height Italy struck out toward Gorilla
in August, pushed forward across the
Isonzo River, climbed up onto the Carso
Plateau, took thousands of Austrian
prisoners, captured the city of Gorilla
and won the first great military battle in
the history of united Italy. Yet there was
no morrow to this success. On their rear
ward lines the Austrians checked the
Italians. Trench warfare was resumed.
Trieste was not captured, nor has it
fallen yet, although the spring has seen
new Italian offensive.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-29

The solid territory gained by the French and BRUSH
from the Germans beginning the Battle the Some the
Drent time The thin line shows the present 'front.' The single
German gain indicated by solid black patch just north OF Newport
front touches the North Sea- Southeat OF Ve'ou"
no change.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-29
A Propitious Outlook

While the Italian attack was being
kowina and Southern Galicia a new
Brusiloff stroke Pushing forward south
of the Dniester from Czernowitz to Stan
islau-over eighty-fve miles-the Rus
slams now threatened Lemberg from the
south as they had threatened it from
Iutsk and Brody on the north in June. In
ten days they captured more than $4,000
prisoners, bringing their total captures
for their Eastern offensive from June to
100000. Never in the course of the whole
war had the Allied outlook seemed so
propitious as it did in August and Sep
TENDER, 1916. And in this time came The
sudden and dramatic entrance of Rumania
into the battle line. What everybody had
long expected when it came surprised the
world. Suddenly Rumania declared war
and sent her armies across the Transyl-
vanian Alps into Hungarian territory.
For several weeks there followed brilliant
advances by the Rumanians. Cities and
towns fell; more than a third of Transyl-
vania-all that section which lies between
the outsptead arms of Moldavia and Wal
lachia-fell to the new belligerent.
But then came the heavy change. Sud-
denly a great Turco- Bulgar-German army
from the south of the Danube commanded
by the redoubtable Mackensen, who had
won the Dunajec the year before, began to
push forward into the Dobrudja, driving
before it the weak Rumanian guards, until
it passed the railroad line going from
Constanza to Bucharest, and occupied the
province of Dobrudja, which had long been
the object of Bulgarian ambition.
Worse was now to follow. Under Fall
lenhayn, who had been succeeded by Hin
denburg as chief of staff, great German
army pushed southwark, defeated the
Rumanian army in Transylvania heavily,
and then suddenly, almost without warn
ing. burst into the plains Of Rumania
through the Transylvania passes. Almost
before the world had realized what had
bappened, armies from the south and the
north we're encircling Bucharest and
routed Rumanian armies were fleeing
eastward toward Russia, while Ferdinand
himself a Hohenzollern, had taken the
road to exile followed by so many kings IN
this struggle.
A Great German Victory
There never was any more swift, sure
decisive victory in military history than
that Of the Germans over Kumania. IL
cane at q point when German prospects
seemed desperate. 1t was won by heavy
artillery against small guns. 1t was won
by veteran troops against ill-trained re-
cruit. II was won by great nation
which had been three years at war against
small nation which had hsd no war
training. But nothing could rob 1t OF its
moral effect. All over the world the fall
Of Bucharest was taken rs an authentic
sign. II not of German victory, at least
~ the fact that Germany could not be
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-29
British Progress

Yet the limits of this gain were clearly
indicated. By leaving a district from ten
to fifteen miles deep the Germans had
postponed any possible attack on this front
for many months. They had turned the
country into desert. They had destroyed
every means of communication, every vii
lage. They hacked down fruit trees and
destroyed the magnificent old trees along
the roads. The consequence of this was
that from the Aisne to the Cojeul, from
scissors almost to Arras, there had been
created before the new German line a
moat of desolation, which had first to De
passed by the builders of British rail-
roads before the army could arrive. New,
after four months, there has still been
no attack on this front, save only around
Arras.
Yet this Arras offensive, which famed
forth on April 8, demonstrated new
superiority Of British arms and British
weapons still unsupported. A gain of
five miles at the maximum on front of
fifteen, $4,000 prisoners and more than
200 guns, many of them heavy-these
were the fruits of the first British often
sive of 1917, compared with the far more
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1917-04-27
Pneumonia Takes One

Catherine l. Richardson, age 43,
died at her home in the Metro
pol tan rooming house Tuesday
April "a, of pneumonia. and the
remains were shipped to the former
home in Lexington. Neb., for in
terment, accompanied by the the
bereaved husband.
Mrs. Richardson was woman
of excellent qualities, devoted
wife and loving mother. Her
husband. c. Richardson. is the
proprietor of the Metropolitan
rooming house, having purchased
same from F. A. Miller a year ago.
Besides her husband she leaves a
daughter, Gladys, who is high
school pupil, and a son. Earl
Nafzinger.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1917-04-27
Legal Notice

The undersigned THE CONTINENTAL
TRUST COMPANY. Of its own motion. and
upon request in writing Of the holders OF one
fourth % in amount of all of the outstanding
bonds Of THE HOT SPRINGS HOTEL
COMPANY. Colorado corporation. secured by
mortgage to the undersigned Trustee, dated
July lst 1872 recorded in the Office of the County
Clerk and Recorder of Clear Creek county, on
August 7th 1912. on book ITS. at pages Cos to 634
inclusive, does hereby convene and call a meet
ing Of the bondholders secured by said mortgage,
for the purpose of considering and acting upon
the question Of giving the consent Of the owners,
or the owners of the majority in amount OF Series
A. Bonds outstanding provided for in said
mortgage, to the issuance and sale Of Series B
Bonds under said mortgage, not exceeding in
amount the principal sum of 100000, such con-
sent to be expressed in the manner provided for
in the said mortgage and the undersigned gives
notice that such meeting, for the purpose afore-
said will be held at the banking house of the
undersigned on the 10th day of May. A. D.. 1917,
at the hour OF 10 a. at which meeting each such
bondholder may attend and participate in man.
ner with the effect provided for in said mort
gage; and at such meeting such proceedings will
be had in the foregoing manner IS are provided
and contemplated by the terms Of said mortgage
Dated Denver. Colorado April q 1917
THE CONTINENTAL TRUST COMPANY.
By JOHN W. SPRINGER, President.
First publication April 10, 1917.
Last publication April q. 1917
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1917-04-27
School Election May 7

On Monday. NAY I. at the city
h u ballots will be cast for the
election of a school director to sue
{ d G. &. SUNNI, whose six-year
term will expire Petitions for
nomination have .lreadv been pre-
s-n ed bv d. J. Dnnn-lly a d W.
Il. Kelso. 1t was understood that
Z. |. Spessard and H. r. Machol
would also en- er the contest but
o editions have vet been filed
with the secretary, Mrs. Inez
James.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1917-04-27

The city council will meet next
Thursday, Nav 3, at which time.
among other things. they will
award the 500 offered as a reward
tor the ares and conviction of elk
slavers. The state fish and game
department has already paid
George Straub the 500 state
money for the same case.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1917-04-27

An eastern exchange sa that
something should be done to- dis
courage widows who marry for
the seventh time, because they are
carrying the second hand business
to an extreme.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1917-04-27

Faces and figures c. mpiled by
the Denver Tourist Bureau show
hat mere has been a tremendous
expansion in hotel and summer
cottae. facilities in Col"rado sin &C
the tour list rush OF las, year. De-
spite the enormous expected rush
Of ton lists ample facilities have
been p divided to care for all that
may come.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1917-04-27

Charles johnson. who has for
years been in the employ of the
United Hydro Electric company,
now the Colorado Power company,
is dangerously i'll of pneumonia.
Mrs. Elizabeth Preville has
moved her confectionery store and
ice cream parlor from her old
stand on Rose street to the building
one door east of Adolph Nelson S
store on Sixth street, where she
will gladly welcome her many
friends and patrons in her new
quarters.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1917-04-27

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles A. Wood
ward had as their guests Miss
Marie Egger and Allen Phelps of
Denver.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1917-04-27

Mrs. R. B. Brown came up from
Denver for visit with Mr.. and
Ms. w. A, Funk.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1917-04-27

Our office boy says the only
difference between a woman and
salad is-that both need plenty of
dressing.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1917-04-27
Dogs Must Be Tagged

The high cost of living does
not seem to have affected the
canine population of Id b o
Springs. There are perhaps more
dogs of the mongrel variety in
this city than in any other spot in
Colorado-or anywhere else for
that matter.
The law provides that a license
be paid for each dog, and the tax
is assessed against the one at
whose home the dog stays, and
disclaiming ownership does not
exempt a person from the tax.
The city is going to provide
license tags, and dogs without tags
will be done away with. The
dog nuisance in Idaho Springs
has become almost unbearable,
and a decrease in numbers equal
to about 80 percent would be a
benefit to the city and we would
still have enough dogs for all
practical purposes.
The Denver Tourist Bureau is
starting on the most extensive
cam paign yet devised in con-
nection with the purpose to at
tract tourists and travellers to
Colorado. The Bureau will dis
tribute in the United States and
seven foreign countries upwards
of 100000 pieces of literature.
Every scenic and amusement
center in the state is being ex.
plotted.