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Show i WHAT HAS BEEN SHOWN BY SIX ; . ; . MONTHS UF WAR B 1 Six months after tho outbreak of B -' tliu world war tho outstanding fact B I . r wtxa that pcaco secmcil as distant, K almost more distant than It did In H J ; September. Yet If tho close of tho HBBt conflict remained still a subject for HBBV LiccuIatlon, It was now plain that H , i tho lestiu had been determined In B Scptombor ami that all that had hap- BB punod since tho Hattlo of tho Marno BBK hnd In fact been tho natural conso- BBS quenco of on0 mora doclslvu battle H of tho world. On tlo'ds and hills but BBS llttlo distant from tho plain wlicra BBS ltoman clvltlzutlou turned back At- BBS tlla, the Qorman bid for world sup. BBS remacy, tho ICulsor's chance to play BBS Napoleon wero abolished. BBS In tho opening month of tho war K i there was a ehance, a real chance BBS I ' that Qormany mlcht destroy Franca BBS i i before Russia was up, force Uussla pBBB ( to mako terms before England was B v ready and then, mastor of tho Contl- BBSt nent as the France of Napoleon, ro- H 1 1 now the duel with tho Urltlsh Km- BBBS pi re that Franca had abandoned pro- H I clsely a century beforo . Artor tho BBSt i Iinttlo of the Mnrno tho clianco had BBBj' anlslied. Week by weok, month Dy B month, Ilusslan, Urltlsh, French mil- HSBSK I Itary power developed, Increased, On BBBB , January 20, Germany hold loss of HBBB J Franco than on September 1; Instead I of a 100,000 Urltlsh troops, tho nd-nnce nd-nnce guard of a fresh million wero nlready In Flandi s: Fronch troops wero breaking out n Alsaco. In tho period between tho Hattlo of the JIarno and January, 191C, Qer-many Qer-many had mado thrco great cam-palgns. cam-palgns. On tho Ysor tho very flower of her troops had gone undor tho eyes of tho Kaiser In a frantic attempt at-tempt to gain tho French coast eltlos to grasp tho eastern shore of the Straits of Dover, to got within reach of tho hated Englishman's homo. A first attempt to solzo Warsaw, to crush KuRsla, Franco bolng Indestructible, Indestruc-tible, had failed beforo tho Polish capital. A second offensive Into Poland, Po-land, after great victories and tcrrl-bio tcrrl-bio losses had come to a halt beforo tho Bzura. Six months nftor war Imd begun Germany was Btlll faced by three great nations, their military force wholly unshaken, their armies still gaining In numbers, their deficiencies deficien-cies In nrtlllery, In machinery nil but mado good. Such advantage as nor preparedness had given hor, tho credit balance In her favor, was now oxhaustcd. In the same period hor Austrian ally had threo times been beaten almost al-most to her knees by Russian victories, vic-tories, was now facing an invasion across tho Carpathians Into Hungary. Twice, too, tho Hansburg Emperor had seen splendid armies Ignomln-ously Ignomln-ously routod, destroyed by tho hated Sorbs, who In tholr turn woro preparing pre-paring to flow over tho Danubo Into Hungary, Around tho world tho German hopos hnd equally proven vain. Tho Turk had suffered dlsastor, tho Holy War had fallen to empty nothing, the South African revolution had flickered flick-ered out ns an nbortlvo revolt, with no other permanent consequcuco than to Insure tho loss of German Southwest Africa. In, Asia hor colony col-ony had disappeared Into Japanese hands, In tho Pacific her Inland's woro lost Irrovlcnbly, In Africa her ro-mnlnlnc ro-mnlnlnc colonies wero belnc slowly but steadily consumed by ner enemies ene-mies ns one eats an artichoke, leaf by leaf. To balanco this, Germans could still point to eonquored lands and provinces. In Polnnd, In Flanders, In Clmmpagno her lines Iiolij, her countor attacks rogalned lost-French, es rcgu'nrly, In AIboco njopg tho Alsne, In Artols and Uolglura,f,Ans!o French attacks, ambitious ofTanslvo, wero speedily beaten down. East und west Germany was still a match for hor cnomlos, but caBt and wst the momont for victory had passed, Ir revocably passed, cast and west German operations moro and moro tended toward tho defensive What Gettysburg had been to, the South, tho Mnrno was now proving to have been to Germany, Nowhejp p J.qrt.u ary was there tho slightest sign, of now promise for Gorman lctory and wlmt was true In January had been true In tho earlier months. Half a year of war had given history his-tory one moro doclslvo battlo for Europo conceivably tho greatest In permanent meaning since Waterloo. In Uiat battle It had boon decided that Europo should still bo European and not Prussian. At tho Marne, France had saved Iiersolt and Europo; Eur-opo; after tho Marne the problem was how long it would take Europo to conquer Germany, and tn January It was unmlstakablo that as yet Europe Eu-rope had mado no progress Amor-Unn Amor-Unn Rovlow of Roviows. |