The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1918-11-20


tempt e force q y, way q !, stto Paris by||
the Verdun route in Il DIG, the Ger
mans never gave their plans to
take the French capitol and in the
spring Of 1918, with recent rcements
released from the eastern front By
the collapse Of Russia, they began a
powerful drive in northern France.
IN the first stage Of this they reach
ed the Somme, and in the second
they got to the Marine again. only S.
miles from Paris. '.==5 !. e: > IS.
IS Yankees to the Rescue.
The Yankees, who were getting
their final training behind the lines,
had not yet seen very much action,
but in this crisis their. commander,
General Pershing, offered their inn
mediate services to the British and
French. Brigaded with the allies,
they went into battle with, a rush
that inspired the tired Tommies and
Poilus, and the advance of the Huns
was checked. General Foch, Frances
master strategist, was made sup
RENE commander of the allies in the
west, and he at once began deliver
ing the series of terrific strokes that
ultimately forced the Germans back
to their own borders. Fighting with
the French, the Americans had big
part in clearing out the Marine sal
| lent; fighting with the British they
gave great help in the allied victor
les further north. Then the First
American field army was organized,
placed on the extreme west of the
line and there wiped out the St. Mi
hiel salient and started on the oper-
ations that in less than two monhs
cut the enemy's lines of communica-
ton from Metz and threatened the
capture of all his forces left in
France.
"When Russia's vast man-power
gets into action Germany will be
crushed as under steam roller"
said everyone in 1914, and for time
this prediction babe fak to be re-
allied. The Russians invaded East
Prussia, and were making fine prog
ress there and in Poland which was
kept up, with some reverses, until
[early>in 1915, when Won Hindenburg
administered to them succession of
terrific defeats. These were not due
so much to the military supremacy
of the Germans as to the shameful
betrayal of the Russian armies by
corrupt officials who left them al
most destitute of arms and supplies.
| From that time on Russia's main
successes were won against the Aus
! TRANS and were temporary. Demon.
| alization steadily spread through the
cars dominion, fostered by German
agents, and the outcome was the de-
position of Nicholas and his dynasty
and the establishment of a confused
semblance of government by the SOW
lets of the soldiers, workers and
peasants-a condition that remains
l 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
before the war was three months old
and Bulgaria cast her lot with the
Teutons in October, 1915. The for.
tunes of the Italians were spectacu
lar. They won over the Austrians
for long time and invaded the re.
gionS of Italia Irridenta along the
Adriatic threatening Trieste. Their
subtle Teuton propaganda, coupled
with defeatist work at home
brought disaster on them. Helped
by German divisions the Austrians
made a tremendous drive and forced
the Italians back to the Piave rive,
line. There the contest stood fol-
many months, until the middle OF
June 1913, when under General Diaz
the Italians not only stopped anoth
err offensive, but turned it into
7 great defeat and rout which culmin
ated in the surrender Of Austria
This was fastened by the falling tx
pieces of the Austro-Hungarian EN-
! pire, the states of which were estab
5 fishing their independence, following
5 the lead of the Czecho- Slovaks.
Y Turkey with the aid of Germans
2 administered to Great Britain twt
> setbacks that were rather humiliat
5 ing. The first was at the Dardenelle!
: which the British tried to force
= first with navy alone, then with lant
f and sea forces. Both attempts wer.
! disastrous failures. The other defeat
! by the Turks was in Mesopotamia
: where General Townshend and hi!
5 army were cap tured at Kut-el-Am
ara Roth fhoco x.yo,.o 1890.