Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-07-29
Fortunes of World Conflict
 Now in Favor Entente Powers
Third Year of Great War Comes to Close Soon After En try of United States, Which Nation Is Consid-
 cred the Prime Deciding Factor

this fighting. Monchy- e- Preux was
 taken; and Vimy Ridge was captured
 after one of the worlds bloodiest bat ties. Canadians held the ridge against desperate counter attacks This sue
 cess east of Arras turned Hindenberg's
 northern pivot, and British critics re-
 garded it as the greatest in the history
 of British arms in the present war
 This offensive, continued, placed the
 British astride the Hindenberg line,
 and the Germans retired to positions a
 mile or two west of the Drocourt-
 Queant line. These they held as the
 third year closed.
 Germans Lose 100000.
 Meanwhile the battles of Champaign and the Aisne had been carried on by , the French, who h1 April captured Auberive. In the fia'st days of Cham-
 paign offensive, one of the greatest
 struggles of the war, the Germans sus-
 tained an estimated Joss of 100, 1000 kill ed. wounded and taken prisoners thru their desperate defensive operations.
 Fighting in these Iregions continues after three months, during which the French have advanced from one to five miles along fifty front. The present French line runs from north west of Soissons, thru Rheims to Au- berive
 In June 1917. the British began an attack on Messions and Wyschate in an effort to straighten out the Ypres salient. Again British flyers domi- mated the air. The British had spent an entire year mining the earth for this offensive, which was begun with an explosion so terrific that it was heard in London. Beyond Messines, for two miles east and northeast. the British won and consolidated ground, captured more than 7.4OO prisoners and great stores of artillery. Gaining every objective, they placed them-,' selves astride the Ypres- Confines ca nal, having advanced three miles on an eight-mile front. Portuguese and Belgian troops aided in this offensive. In recent days the fighting there had been confined to raiding operations.
 It is estimated that during April, May and June the Germans suffered 950,O00 casualties on the western front.
 The Russians, having in June of 1916, begun an offensive from the Pri- pet marshes to the Rumanian frontier, speedily captured Czernowitz and the rest of Bukovina, together with Brody m Galicia, and in August they entered Stanislau for the third time in the var. These operations forced the Au- stro- Germans to relinquish lines they lad held throughout the winter of [915-1916.
 The Halicz bridgehead fell in Sep ;ember, but the subsequent advance on 4emberg was not prosecuted because he plight of Rumania demanded the transfer of Russian troops to aid their Balkan ally.
 After the Russian revolution, the Russians made feint to advance on oinsk. to cover the actual operations esumed in July against Lemburg. This latter front extended IS 1-2| niles. Known as Regiments July 7irst," these troops, reinvigorated by he consciousness of political liberty, onfounded German military prophets " the magnitude and extent of their { ffensive.
 Russ Resume War. t
 Led by Alexander Kerensky, minis CT of war, and observed by American rmy officers, the Regiment July first" forced the Teutons to evacuate srzezany, and they captured many im- < 'ortnat positions, including terrain vest and south of Halicz town and { trongly- defended positions northwest f Stanislau. On July Il Halicz was aken, thus smashing the Austro- Ger nan front between Brzezany and the >
 This Russian operation broadened by nid-July, so that it extended from the fluff of Riga to the Rumanian front,
 distance of 800 miles. The Germans were reported to be rushing troops rom the Italian and French fronts. X enthusiasm was created hruout Russia. and the moral effect n the other entente powers was tre- { 1endous.
 Italy. declaring war against Ger ,any on August 28, began more viz } ous prosecution of her earlie offen- i've against Austia. \
 With dramatic swiftness the Third rmy, under the duke of Aosta, storm { d and captured Gorizia. hitherto con- ( ldered impregnable. By Jan. the ( talians had captured 1,2OO square ( liles.
 After a winter of artillery duels, { tally resumed her offensive on the
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