The Cordova daily times., 1918-08-13
ASQUITH POINTS HOW ALLIES ARE
 WINNING WAR

| LONDON, Aug. 13.-tOnNlCtlOn ! that the balance of war now tends to the side of the entente allies was eI- ] pressed today in a statement by for mer Premier Herbert II. AsQuith re | viewing the four years of Great Brit aims participation in the war. dating from August 1. 1914. The beginning of the fifth year. MT Asquith pointed out. reveals Germany still impenit"nt and in full pursuit of a policy of ter rtoral and economic aggrandize- ment with which he said, we can make no terms"
 Declaring that America promised to 1 become q predominating factor in the war. Mir Asauth said tn" allied ma, tions of western Europe owe to her double debt of gratitude" Mir. As quiths statement follows:
 The fourth year of the war has witnessed the renewal on the largest scale of the enemy's cfcnsivc. The disintegration of Russia enabled the central powers to concentrate all their | strength on a supreme effort to de stroy the armed power Of the western allies. Last October. at Caporetto, l they sprung a surpris" upon Italy and succeeded in forcing back her troop. ] from the frontier to the line of the Piave. On March 21 of this year they opened an attack upon the aller ar mics in France with the object of driving q wedge between them and ultimately occupying the channel ports and the French capital
 Thanks to their temporary super iority both in numbers and in posi- tiOns. they won al the outset con l sricuous successes. But as the spring and ummer advanced the "ncmy's 1 progress alike on the road to AmicnS. at the Iys and at the gate oI the l Ois" was stayed by the woll-dircctcd l lalor of th" allied troops In Juur 1 the Austrians attacked in Italy on a l front of nearly a hundred miles. only to be driven back with heavy losses to their original line.
 "In July. after long pause for preparation, the German crown prince was let loose to capture Rheims and to turn the flank of the defenses of | Paris. We are still witnessing the developments of this ill-managed ad venture. and, without undue optimism, We may say the balance now leans toI the side of the allies. who have mas tered the new German methods and whose strength, owing to the partici- patton of American troops. is daily and steadily increasing.
 From q military point of view 1t would seem that Germany has. in her campaign on the west, staked every thing upon the combined success of this series of operations on land and of the submarine war at sea. She 1 V 'IH III biillStti bN ifl IlSlI NOIl llldlu a complete and final victory before the summer was over, provided her people would consent to a large fur ther expenditure of human life The toll has been paid and perhaps cN- ceeded. but it is now manifest that the promise has not been and can not be made good,
 The struggle is not only in the field. The allies, in virtue of their prcdominancc, control the overseas trade routes of the world and all tn" worlds chief supply grounds Ot raw materials. The German fleet is sealed | up in practical impotence and the cm- pire's naval effort, after twenty years of ambitious and costly preparation, ie confined to the sporadic activity of its submarines
 The decisive weapon in war has often been found and is likely to be l found again in economic pressure. ! this was made effective by the defeat of their armies. the occupation of their territory and the consequent paralysis of their national life. To. 'day, under the new conditions in the modern world. the allied blockade is working toward the same paralysis.
 The aim of the allies from the first day of the war has been to destroy Germany's power for evil. They were defeating and discrediting those ele ments in her government and society which have been responsible for her outrages on civilization. Unhappily, these sinister forces still have the up. | per band. The resolution of the reichstag in July, 1917, and the lip service to liberty and democracy in which for short time German states