The Nevada County picayune., 1917-08-09

l less favorable than Ii did either one l year ago ar two years ago
 She has to her credit in the last twelNemonth the crushing of tli=pre- pared Kouuania and the conquest "f tVo-thifds of thdt nations territory.
 Bu. in the principal tteatcr ot war, the west. east ae Italian fronts. the entente allies havr shown, on the whole. 4 decided superiority te the central powers.
 In th, materials of war the nations fighting for democracy clearly hay" an increasing advantage over the katserS i legons They have dealt the enemy blow after blow which have told heaV- 1 fly In lives, if not in territory.
 Germany More Desperate.
 Germany's plight is rendered more desperate than il was on August l, 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 belligerent dreads another winter of war, but Germany most of all She lacks many things to face the rIgorS of a cold paign-not only shells and guns. but wool for warm clothing and sufficient conl to run her l rapidly deteriorating railroads and her factories and keep those at home col. .forGubly Warm not to speak of the famine ill the food fats so necessary to those facing zero weather.
 Looking back on the long truce of the spring on the eustcln from. ii Is hard te realize that The Russians just one year ago Were in The midst oi splendid offensive much like that which has surprised the world in the present month. Iu ghe 1916 drive Brus- silon pushed far within BukoWjna and GaIicia and crossed The borders of Hungary He took about 330,0oo pris- onere, mostly AuslrnnS, and forced the enemy te concentrate masSeS of felia- bic German troops, aided by few Turks. to check him,
 The real reason his drive came h malt. however we know now Nas lack of ammunition. failure of transport, treason within the cZar,s armies and Wretched bureaucratic inettciency. These hand,rapS seem to have been re- moved from The courageous Musco- vitcs, perhaps fer all time.
 Unfortunate Roumania.
 Rouman4a declared war on the leu tonic powers August - and immedi- atcly invaded Pennsylvania where the weak Austrian guards were easily pushed back and the important cities Of IlcrmauusJadt and kronstadt were soon in the invaders hands.
 The kaisrr sent Nou Falkcuhayn, splendid slrate2iet just displaced by Non IIiudeuhuFs as chiet of the great general stan. to command on this front Bile Nott Muckeftsen headed the Germans, EQeariaH- and Turks. Nho threw themselves aH Houmania from the ~ou,h
 The keuuamaa> pra4ea np match for the combination ot fors. SIdilfnl work hy German spies, or tho treaeH rr3 ui certain ueiahtrs u tueir=o8u aup. put tho ltoumaeaG, plans or campaign in tbt feutoas hands, il i, now dNu.sed Eucbure>l eu peeem ber 6. and teu a#zs later aa WaIaehla MA la-z- uH heseHhee K EHsz.aa Hoop~ faal.- etet= tHe.vhefe Eoumaaiau frou, aHa # fea= aaeIs tatar the feu- ton a1aaHrr 9az rae5aeH along Jdo tmc os z5s >yHsI6 and paHuhe rivers
 somme Battle Continues.
 In tte Ho~'. however Germany VII. faIr- tar .dln#cut problem from tA, roee.s uuated and trained Ron. #aufaH= =fea-attf~= =Whrtf f6e third wear of lhr 0f ppeued the battle of thr >~a'-'.te# e=t~ ~t4A eati.. en vigorously With the sr.u.a.aHd Hrlt~h. showing -eeu~.a#t44 -a,4AH- ~uFee+Ht}y over th" foe H#h} bHa aflroueh thc ~uamer and uaH#HH .ta afnmd aH~ VrehcIfrd ftem fi=-4z#s.-rH~ H4eu HHf he eomH@ of vir ~mulhered the a0rnsjNe "iu mud aunt hao1 enl Hgrrrljng to the British commander Sir Douglas Haig saved hI~ oUp"H#at> frH uu immedj- atc Grea eHlereed retirement.
 Ou September 22 it Nas announced that the French and Egidsh had hkeu 55Soo prisoners in tho Somme battle between IuIN and September iN- This total was later considerably increased
 French Win at Verdun.
 Al Nerdun too. The Germans sui ferrd The French in battles of the fall and winter won back most of the ground lost in the offensive of the spring of lalG and captured more than f500o prisoners with slight losses themselves
 The spring campaign in the west opened this war with the Germans falling back from the great salient >poarpont directed at Paris confeSs- ins thereby either their weakness pr their aversion to a further offensive, al- though at the time German writers ainteG darkly that Von IIindenburg had something up his sleeve"
 The strategic retirement" began .l..,,t NI,rsh 1- apb thn TputnDS fri