Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-08

WnOle campaigns, are cASiuooo' ot'PA1
because they do not present the
requisite ebb and flow of fortune.
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The nine phases in question are the
following:
The Marine U91H.
Tannenberg Q914.
Russian advance in Gallcia.
The Dunajec us15).
Brusiloff's offensive G9l6).
Bulgarias war record.
Turkeys war record.
Italy's war record.
The campaign of 1913 on the western
front.
In these are concentrated all the ele-
ments of dramatic change whlch nave
characterized this war. To begin WIN
the events that led up to the great
shift Of fortune:
Belgium had been violated. Tram
ping on her promises to respect Bel
gian neutrality, Germany had iiung
her cruel legioEs over the intls
Kingdoms border through wise ana
Liege and Louvain. burning and out
raging and killing. Brussels had
fallen. The forts of Namur had
crumbled before the fire of the in
vaders' monster guns. Heroic hlns
Albert and the remnant OF ms armies
had shut themselves up in Antwerp,
where Zeppelins rained bombs on the
palace where the royal wife and
children sheltered.
The French left wing had been de-
feated at Mons and the English had
been brushed aside at Chartered.
Through lie Cateau and Landrecles
and st Quentin the heroic men of
French and Haig and Smith-Dorrien
had retreated. contesting every inch,
dying like the brave Englishmen
they were. in futile attempts to
check the rush of Wilhelm's ruthless
armies.
TO their right the French were
also steadily falling back, blindly
obeying Joffre's order to give ground
and more ground and still more
ground Around Paris trees and
houses had been felled to clear the
way for the guns of her forts. The
French government had moved to
Bordeaux.
1t looked like 1870 all over again.
Burning. pillaging and Staying, the
Germans. with the nimble Won Kluclt
on the extreme right, were closing in.
II !:
Then came the miracle.
Joffre brusquely ordered his men
to retreat no farther. He called upon
them to turn their faces to the foe.
to die in their tracks if they must,
but not to yield another> inch.
French and British stood like
rocks against the impact of the Ger
mans.
eager Won Kluck. On the right
French regiments hurled themselves
upon the invaders and broke their
dense ranks. In the center, Foch, who
was to pass sentence OF death upon
German militarism four years later.
drove forward when any but super
man would have confessed defeat and.
cutting in between Won Kluck and
Won Bulow. he smashed Germany S
hopes of speedy victory with one
splendid blow.
Shaken and decimated: the German
the Aisne. There they dug them
selves in. to stay months and years
on the defenSive--they who had over
run Belgium and northern France in
four weeks.
The world gasped at such a reversal
of fortune. But others were in store
to be matched by the millions of on
lockers who, from the remotest cor
ners of the globe, breathlessly re-
garded the titanic spectacle.
For the next turn of fortunes vince
we must turn back to events on the
far-f1ung eastern front. where. FOL
so long. Russian. German and Aus.
trian armies fought back and fortl
across Poland ond other unfortunate
regions. leaving ruin. hunger. death
in their wake. The tickle nature o.
the goddess of battles was shown OF
this front in the very first month o
the war. $3.50,
Tt was in East Prussia. The bull
of the German armies had been hurried
against France. because the genera
STAFF at Berlin felt sure that Russi'
would ho so slow to mobj1i%e ne
armies that France could he disposed
of before Russia was ready. thu
making it POSSIBLE for the German
TO finish ,,p the cars hordes affe
paris had been canturch and tn
Fronch republic tumh'od into the dust
Pnt that general st"T had reckone
without it's host. Mobilizing wit
surnrising promntness Russia sue
ceeded in throwing into East Prnesi
two large nrnnies, one under Gel
Rcnncnli, mfr the other under Ger
Samsonoff. They broke THROUGH n
opposition on the frontier and ad
yanced unchecked STRAIGHT toward IN
heart OF Prussia. The German Te'
eral in chnr"e Of tho e"Gtern frontie
shut himself M in konigsherg, badl