The Elbert County tribune., 1918-11-22

than two months cut the enemy's line.
of communication from Metz and
threatened the capture of all his
forces left in Frn.ce.
when Russia's vnst man-power
gets Ato action Germany will be
crushed as under steam roller said
everyone in 1914, and for time this
prediction bsde fair to be realized
The Russians invaded East Prussia
and were making fine progress there
and in Poland. which was kept up,
with some reverses, until early in
1919. when Won Hindenburg admins
tered to them succession of terrific
defeats. These We're not due so much
10 the military supremacy of the Ger
mans ms to the shameful betrayal OF
the Russian armies by corrupt officials
who left them almost destitute of
arms and supplies. FroIn that time
on Russia's main successes were won
against the Austrians and We're tenn
pornry. Generalization steadily
spread through the cars dominion,
fostered by German agents. and the
outcome was the deposition of Mich
olas and his dynasty and the estab-
lishment of confused seubance OF
government by the soviets Of the sol
diers, workers and peasants-a condI-
tion that remains to be cleared up,
though the power of the bolsheviki is
rapidly waning,
Italy, Once Defeated, Triumphs.
Italy, declaring that the terms of
the Triple Alliance had been violated
by Austria, entered the war on the
side of the allies on May %, 1915.
Turkey had gone in with Germany be
fore the war was three months old,
and Bulgaria cast her lot with the
Teutons In October, 1918. The for
tunes of the Italians were spectacular.
They won over the Austrians for n
long time and invaded the regions of
Italia Irridenta along the Adriatic,
threatening Trieste. Then subtle
Teuton propaganda, coupled with de-
featist work at home, brought disaster
on them. Helped by German divisions,
the Austrians made tremendous
drive and forced the Italians back to
the Piave river line. There the CON
test stood for many months until the
middle OF June, 1918, when under Gen
eral Diaz, the Italians not only stop
ped another offensive, but turned 1t
into great defeat and rout which
eliminated in the surrender of Aus
trin This was hastened by the fall
ing TO pieces of the Austro- Hungarian
empire. the states of which were es-
tablishing their independence. follow
ing the lead Of the Czecho-Slovnks.
Turkey, with the aid of Germans
administered to Great Britain two set,
backs that were rather humiliattng.
The first was at the Dardanelles
which the British tried to force. first
with navy alone, then with land and
sea forces. Both attempts were disas-
trous failures. The other defeat by
the Turks was in Mesopotamia, where
General Townshend and his army
were captured at Kut-el-Amara. Both
these reverses were more than com
pensated for by the later conquest of
Mesopotamia and the Holy Land and
the consequent surrender of Turkey.
As for Bulgaria, she was beaten
largely by the regenerated Serbian
army, which had great assistance from
the French, Greeks and British. Ser
bia had been wholly overrun In the
first few months of the war, but her
spirit never died out and In the late
summer of 1918 she not only regained
her own, bus forced Bulgaria to her
knees.
Roumania kept out sof the conflict
for some time and then Joined the nj
lies, though they would have prefer
red that she remain neutral. She In
vaded Transylvania and at first
threatened TO give Austria great
deal of trouble, but Germany came TO
its ally's aid. Russia collapsed and
Roumania WIS forced to give up.
Warfare in the Air.
The most picturesque side of the
great conflict has been the war in the
air. Ii was quickly seen that the air
plane would play a big part in the
war. and every belligerent nation soon