The Lamar register., 1918-01-02
REVjEW Of THE WORLD WAR AND OTHER
HISTORY MAKING EVENTS OF YEAR 1877
Entrance United States Into Conflict Outstanding Development OF
Past Twelve Months-Poitcal Upheava in Russia Affects
StruggIe-Brtish and French Smash Teuton Lines
on West Front-Austro- Germans Launch
Drive Against Italy,
BY DONALD r. BIGGS.
THE WORLD WAR.

Af.or ,braa and a half veors of the
most songrinnrv fghting in history.
tho ,,r.ot n,tione or tho world togeth-
ar Win ,,nnv Of tho smaller ones. are
sin o+ 1a,th grins with less nrospect
Of an eorIv neoce than yos thought TO
ex;rt a ycor arc
Irndorl,todlv tho greotest develop-
mont az tho veor was tho entrance of
tbe limited States Of America into the
conflict Tho throwing of the ire
mondou. resources and man mower of
the American repubIic into the balance
nm tho side of tho entente Miles I'm the
onirion Of military exnerts. has more
tbon onr-Set the odvontores rnIned by
Germany and ber allies during the past
twelve montbs and has made possible
tho continuance of the conflict until n
tina whom n definite military decision
can bo obtained
Tbnre have been n half dozen or
more outstopding events In the mast
veor some ~ ,bese have been OF
purely niIItorv sIgnificonce and Others
b,ve hecr oc,rrrencas Of n nolitIcol m.
,prc which have Md a for.reochinp eff.
foot mon ,ha ,I,onic con1,ct
nf hA
of the veor ,yas tbe RussIon reyolutIon
which ro-,,I,od In ,ho oyor,hro,y al
chr NIchoIos and culminated during
tho cIosin, ,,ontbs Of tho veor i'm a
countor.ray'oIntion which nrorticolIy
el,min,tod Prussia from tho ranks nj
tbe not,ons onnosed 10 tho central now
ers Tror, a military stondnoInt III,
chief events NJ tho veor have beer
tbo 1,,,,,oI,In,, % ,ra corr,on rutbles.
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rni,ad g. ia,o ,ho ,vor. tha prit,
,sh orronsi,.as on ,ha r,.as, ,ron, ers,
In tho Arr.s sector later in FIonder,
,,d s,,iI 80 -, ,,,., -,,iIo fro,, no
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Co., Iera,,,-,,.l, ,,,,t,,,'. Aug,ria fro,,
Toi,,,,,, 20 a., sdriott,. ond Tho suh.
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,n ~, ,,,.,,.-,,,,,,i,,,, 90 ,or,har, ItoIx
nv tho TeutonIc allies
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