The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-29
VITAL DEVELOPMENTS IN WAR
IMPENDING SEE. BAKER DECLARES
ALLIES ARE BROADENING SCOPE AND INTENSITY OF
WESTERN CAMPAICN-WINTER COMING TO AID OF
ITALY TOUCHES CONDITIONS IN MESOPO-
TAMIA AND EAST AFRICA.

des DANES as We'll a. 10 IRE directly
| through the valley towards the fortress
of Laon.
General Petain showed himself il past
master of strategy In being able 10
attain so decisive u victory in so brief
q period.
The time has apparently come FOR
another Strategic retreat of the eacmy.
1t means that the Germans must again
retire TO "a new. entrenched and care
fully prepared line II they intenG to re-
sst further in the west
ut must be admitted that the Ger.
man retreat as a result Of the battles
of the Somme last year was carried
through with consummate si,ilt. The
enemy retired destroying all cover and
taking up positions of marked tactical
and strategic strength.
But the battle Of the Somme has
but one wedge. Today We have the
wedge Of Flanders and that oi ,he
Aisne Is being outlined.
Bad weather continues 10 BE- the on.
emy's best protection. He Is relying
upon this factor to impede the allied
advance and by shrouding the hattie
area in slush rain and fog. give him
a respite until he can prepare hiriself
to meet fresh onslaught.
On the Italian Front.
News from the Italian front proves
that the Austrians were able to bring
sufficient pressure to bear in Berlin
In order to secure German assistance.
'As the result of the conceAtretion of
an imposing array Of artillery AMI mass
cd battaiions. the Austro-German forces
have succeeded in penetrating the ie-
Gently won Italian positions In the
Tdmino sector.
The broken. steep, mountainous char
acter of the terrain makes Il difficult
to hold intrenchments when once Ger
tain strategic objectives have beon at
tanned. These the Austrians have eL-
parently captured in this sector. which
may result in the abandonment b. the
Italians of the Bainsizza plateau which
they Won after SO valiant a struggle only
n few weeks ago.
ITALY is passing through a difficult
movement. We must remember how
ever that in May. 1916, the Austrians
attempted a similar onslaught Then
they had fine weather. a well chosen
terrain and above all. the superior fight
ing vigor of their armies TO rely iipon.
At that time the Austrians won decided
successes during the initial days of the
fighting and pressed on to the end Of
the Italian plain only to he stopped
and driven back.
Enemy's Russian Campaign.
In the east, German naval opera
tions in the vicinity of the GLANDS mt
fhe mouth oil the Finnish gulf were not
carried through with serious losses both
in men and material
The Russian resistance apparently
is consolidating.
THE Germans. using tho islands as
a base. have now gained footho,d on
the adjacent mainland.
The first landing on tine Werder
PENINSULA at the northern end Of the
Gulf OF Riga was successfully carried
out a further attempt at anothe. point
failed.
1T is not probable that tho ,;armaas )
will undertake for the time 5e,n. more
than strengthening OF the positions
now held in the Riga sector.
The retirement of the advanced en-
emy lines to q depth of fifteen miles
in the region of the Dyina Is reported
Engagements of Spne magnitude are
noted along the Rumanian and Mace
donian fronts where artillery duels and
raids are increasing in frequency. These
however. are not OF more than local
importance.
I'm Mesopotamia, the British are con-
tinuing and consolidating their advance,
driving enemy detachments out of i'm
portant tactical points on the flanks.
thus strengthening their whole line of
defense
Turks Continue Inactive
"Rumors of an important move by
the Turks. reinforced by certain picked
German and Austrian units under COM
mand of General F'alkenhayn. which
have repeatedly been reported through
out the near east. have as yet failed
to materialize.
''rhe training of our troops in France
steadily and favorably. Ger.
tain units have taken their places in
the front line trenches under actual
battle conditions"