Judsonia weekly advance., 1917-08-08
THIRD YEAR OF WAR SEES SITUATION
 OF THE ALLIES GREATLY IMPROVED
Germays Position Less Favorable Than One Year Ago Two Years Ago-In Principal Theaer of War, the West East and Italian Fronts, the Entente Allies Have Shown
 Decided Superiority

New York.-Germany's situation at the end of three years of war appears less favorable than it did either one year ago or two years ago.
 She has to her credit in the last twelvemonth the crushing of ill-pre- psred Reunania and the conquest of two-thi of that nations territory.
 But in the principal theater of war, the west, east and Italian fronts, the entente allies have shown, on the whole, n decided superiority to the central powers.
 In the materials of war the nations fighting for democracy clearly have an increasing advantage over the kaiser's leeIons. They hnye dealt the enemy blow after blow which have told heaV- fly in lives, if not in territory.
 Germany More Desperate.
 Germany's plight Is rendered more desperate than 1t was on August l, 1916 by the accession of the United States and several minor peoples to the ranks of her enemies. Almost the whole world is now lined up against that nation.
 Every belligcrent dreads another wiut"r of war, but Germany most of nil. She lacks many things to face the rigors of Il 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, 1t is hard to realize that the Russians just one year ago were In the midst of a 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 Galicia and crossed the borders of Hungary. He took about 350,000 pris- oners, mostly Austrlans, and forced the enemy to concentrate masses of reiia- ble German troops, aided by few Turks, to check him.
 The real reason his drive came to halt, however, we know now was lack of ammunition, failure of transport, treason within the czar's armies and wretehed bureaucratic inefficiency. These handicaps seem to have been re- moved from the courageous Musco- yites, perhaps for all time.
 Unfortunate Roumania.
 Roumania declared war on the Teu- tonic powers August 2 and immedi- ateIy 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 Von Falkenhayn, a splendid strategist just displaced by Von Hindenburg, as chief of the great general staff, to command on this front, while Won Mackensen headed the Germans, Bulgarians and Turks. who threw themselves on Roumania from the south.
 The Roumanians proved no match for 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 now divulged. Bucharest fell Decem- Der 6, and ten days later all Walachia was lost. On December IS Russian troops took over the whole Roumanian front, and few weeks later the leu ton advance was checked along the line of the Sereth and Danube rivers.
 Somme Battle Continues.
 In the west. however, Germany was facing a far different problem from