Parowan Times | 1916-01-12 | Page 3 | Review of the Great War and other Notable Events of the Year 1915

OF THE GREAT WAR AND OTHER NOTABLE EVENTS OF THE IDEM YEAR 1915 european COnf conflict IlOt develops into a struggle to the death with deadlock on eastern and western fronts serbia overrun by and bulgarians Bulga rians trying period for the united states general carranza recognized as president of mexico THE EUROPEAN WAR the year 1915 be has beta been a BO dI distine BUrto ta tive from hist hi story malting viewpoint t that bat la in al all 1 t the a ages age oryo aking to come it will tand land apart from tro th those as that at have bar p arti preceded it and from those which we are to follow during its entire length the 10 greater nations of ons ot of the european cart continent ment ha ham abandoned themselves to a policy of 0 bloodshed which he has fallen little short ot of dahri delirium to the neutral tai onlooker mime it he has been ban a re 1 vival 11 1 1 on B a huge scale ot of the Ir ration al and mard murderous activity t Y which the char ct iad abi the earlier fag ages e bor of mankind it has been the complete overthrow ot of all at the a pacific theories vi which both had ap P patently parent or t ly 7 gained so a strong a foothold at the time ot of the tiring firing or of the first go eun I 1 in the pre present crit conflict at the beginning ot of the year it was evident that it was s to be a struggle to the death it was plain that the teutonic plan to force a speedy got bet lenient by dint of superior armed preparedness had failed six months had elapsed and the teutonic allies alliea were still raced faced by three great ne na tiona their strength unbroken and their determination inflexible aua ann trio had been driven repeatedly by her R us 81 inventors invaders and twice taice the serba bad routed austrian armies sent against them on other fields also too teutonic ante efforts had been futile thus far Turkey had been of little assist once ance and the holy war had failed to come a into being german southwest africa I 1 had been lost last and german in fluence finance in asia had b been smothered by the japanese a As an offset the germans still held practically I 1 BY all the conquered territory which had fallen into their head bands their lines imes till still held bell firmly in pa fo lead land in 11 flandera der and ad in france it was apparent fir that a as yet the teutonic combination showed no sign of weak ming ening and ad a war ot of attrition seemed tre inevitable amble buth both in the east cast and in the west the military operations of 0 the early part of the year war were pro practically ati cally without decisive result th the fighting in poland had bad resolved itself into a complete deadlock in january the french english combine made three hirce attempts to break the teutonic hold on french territory but accod accomplished little the german un an successful drive at vi araan and ad the its rout rat of the Aust lustriana austrians Au rians in galicia left B a fight alight balance in the january fighting ta in favor of the allies 1 lies prom from I 1 ft strictly military viewpoint february was a promising month tor for the micah teutonic allies by the middle of the ho month german troops were ad van avancing at ing all along the front from the vistula to the and thus seven months after th the breaking out at of the war GO german soil bell za was s cally clear cleared d of its so russian i invaders n the deadlock on an I 1 the he western a front was still an unbroken roden seen scene shifts to dardanelles Darda nelles with the advent of march there came a sudden and dramatic change zinc in the war situation the scene of rail military aitery activity was shifted to the 1 dardanelles Darda nelles by the third week walk of t the he mouth month rome athens sofia and bucharest 13 h eat were wera centers cent era of great po pe buical activity th tho surrender of march 22 we was the most it stirring g victory for the allies since the rho battle of the marne th the german assertion on flon that the military power of R russia 1 had dwindled into insign insignia ift conce cance was disproved at 1 once I and ad the allied I led cause gained instant strength in 1 all f th the neutral capitals do one of at the greatest strongholds strong holds in europe had PC been taken by the russians th the disaster aster t to a the allied fleet at the tha idi dardanelles Darda rife nelles calles w which aich I 1 occurred dur day ing the third week of march put an end ad to the expectation of if turning forcing the aral B by naval I 1 means adem face alone gru ger advanced perceptibly man an prestige and the tha difficulty of the task under do taken by the allied fleet was now un on derstin der stood it in this month also the british won the battle of neuve beuve chap chapelle lie after a bloody fight apra real didde a held bold 1 in april the french offensive treks stroke against the german between a if the an and 11 the position fu F moselle which u abl resulted the an famous come in a st tremendous michlel wedge toss lose of men on an both sides ides with small ad vantage rings tor ter either had bad the aleles ills made appreciable a gain in ter the invader held his bis own stubbornly and ad with success about Us the middle of 0 the month zeppelina zeppelins Zepp elins made their appearance over r english towns inspiring great h interest n t I 1 er eat and not apprehension b but I 1 t d doing cg corn little a small d damage about this ively amatively arat p time also the at attempted eOL am t submarine brim rim t om blockade d cade of the british 7 coast at proved ineffective in the I 1 closing a 1 9 dy days t to a be of the mouth month another great T teutonic e u won off offensive iv g swept I 1 against kate I 1 the allied line alnea up the tha enemy my back ir thrusting E in 1 13 ig ana with great loss of life tm ou ypres cypres upon pa b both III of do a their h air b best eat in may the he G germans sent d I 1 if tha aid id of the b be hard rd to true troops pa Idd lia of i th the middle addlia dressed ada austrians Aust astri rians a no by ke P month the they had bad worked a ter the illation pra arze is in the change th the cons cam so biyal yet nasr WM retaken re taken is paten paig in galicia was shattered erid and the mar czar a B armies were soon back where they start it out in the previous september russia ruia had suffered buffered the greatest grandest disaster in a the war r A new garam germany y military he hero 1 had ad been beem re eld in the person ot of mackensen who was now held with hindenburg le la pat popular r esteem t in the last days day ot if the mouth month italy joined forces with the allies against austria hungary heuga fall of war warsaw the campaign in the west was strangely strange y quiescent th the allies e kept to their trenches and the outside world wondered up to june 15 there we was no claim of progress by the all allies be the teutonic claim that its side i its was still engaged in successful warfare on III all fronts front was not at disputed the splendid it resistance interposed by the rod cited turks came as ba a surprise to the world russia was unable to rally her badly demoralized forces to make a winning defense of lemberg once the that point had fallen V N arsaw became the main ob objective jan tile it we was a not it until august 6 that german tr troops made ads their triumphal entry lot into vi barsaw arsaw capitol capital of flue russian ein poland september marked a decided change in the teutonic campaign 1 in the tha east vilna tell fell on september 8 9 but t imme after afterward oard the russians won a series of successes Bucce esea over the Aust nans imis capturing 40 prisoners the escape of the russian armies from the net P planned by the german strategists was complete the great teutonic daiv drive was brought to a halt and in de was cember the G germans no withdrew withdraw light blight ly and ditc in trenched chod for far the winter the month of october marked a de aided revival of military activity on an alt all fronts front after long period of corn com para tive quiet in the abet a desper mt ate offers offensive iv movement at was made mada by the allies th the french drive in cham chain pages was one of the bloodiest at tempts taming yet made mad to pierce the german lines line after three wee weeks of incessant gunfire the french troops left their trenches september 25 and rushed the whole of the first german line nearly 20 go goon german on prisoners were captured and upward of a hundred amundred field guna gala thus than ter far the tha greatest single ca capture iture by the french during the war R jut but the germans were war not at compelled pulled to relinquish any great amount of ter atory in artois the allies did not sun sue cecil in breaking through the german lines but secured some coveted post tile eions at an appalling cost this brief period of allied success bocce was followed by an unexpected turn of political affairs affair in the balkans for a second time the greek king showed his lack of sympathy with the allies 1 in the spring he be had prevented verd vent zelos bells his premier an avowed sup BIP porter of the allies from sending troops to the dardanelles Darda nelles tow now when the be allies 11 were or dep depending n ding upon the gre greeks it to hold held tim the bulgarians Bulga rians 1 in check constantine declined again to act ab serbia 10 Is overrun bulgaria announced her intention to cast baert her lot with the central powers a and ad I 1 the he I 1 latter after opened a campaign he nav ing turkish relief tor for it its apparent ob ejective on october 10 the germans german crossed the D danube in balm and proceeded to advance southward every step contest ed ad furiously by the outnumbered serbs gerbs france england and italy de dared war on an bulgaria all at once mm the center of milici military ory activity was transferred to the balkans in november both the long expected allied offensive 1 in the west and the teutonic drive in the east came plan ti to ily to 0 an end the allies failed to break block the stubborn german lines and only achieved a possible moderate success in champagne and artois at tremendous cost cast by the middle of the month amoth military operations PC tons in russia brasil were practically at a standstill ten daill the germans having failed to accomplish the object of at their campaign at that time the big german drive to the gold en an horn hom began to monopolize the it at of the public the preliminary invasion of serbia by the teutonic al lies illa now mia including bulgaria was m be im gun with notable PrIm promptness pta 1 in fall fact as early as october 27 the invading armies met in the northe northeastern tern part of the kingdom by november 1 krage levata the chief serbian sebin arsenal had fallen and by november 6 aba bulga BOIS Norm berar genth riana were war in ill N nish S serbia 8 provi atonal capital and railroad center by november 19 it ws was announced that the invading armies s held tour four fifths fifth of serbia and ad tow toward d the it close of the month th germ germany declared send officially any that th the campaign was over by the th middle of december the franco british forces areas had d been driven drive out of serbia ha they f tell Is back k to select k w which wilh the con consent ant of greet greece they pr prepared to defend bince may 24 when the tha italian ermy army or crossed ad the austrian frontier the ash ing has been Con continue timma MS e a along the isonzo isonio front the str orely 1 fortified I 1 load and ad stubbornly defended defend td jovn of guilds goritz was the italian objective for far we weeks in october bar the austrian be aero drop peto PI planes dropped ad bombs upon venice destroying art and doyag ing a church hall h th the italian liner 1111 A an cona bound for far new Y york it we waa sunk oak by submarine flying the austrian flag on november 9 more MI than a bt nun dred P passengers as were killed ile including ju ding several Americ americana ns the united stites made a vigorous demand on austria to disavow the act and it punish perish the corn care mander of th the submarine a on D december er 15 the british war of fice fi announced that gen sir douglas haig had bad superseded field marshal superseded sir john french as british commander I 1 in france fearm and ad floods flanders WAR AND THE UNITED STATES strictly neut neutral ral as 88 has been the pol pat icy elected by this I country the government has been 1 b caught brought face to tace face with many berm serious problems problem which have arisen from the conduct condo of the bi european war one ot of these was the he seizure and detention by great britain ot of vessels carrying american goods to neutral ports in europe A protest was made and by washington and on jai jan nary 10 great britain replied by a ot forms re reasonable his redress for any mis take mite of that nature early in february great britain decided to size seize grain and ad hour flour shipments to germany even if intended tor for non combatants d and two days later B w germany y declared declare the w waters I 1 around 14 great rest britain and ireland to be a war zone and rd a announced her purpose to d destroy set every Y enemy my merchant v vessel al discovered therein hect neutrals lo were warned ot of the danger sure to follow on february 6 the atlantic liner ume L lual li i to tania B made do the passage from I 1 new thea york to liverpool flying drug the american rl a oatle nag be as a protection against g iet hostile jum submarines marmes on abru february ary 10 the united states sent notes to germany and great britain concerning amerl can am shipping in the war zone get ger many was warned against CIt committing tig I a breach aab of the rules of naval warfare and great britain was waa reminded that armm I 1 consequences m might gh t follow the nse of the A american flag as by british vessels on february 16 germany of fored to withdraw from her crusade against british merchant ships it if the british would permit the sending of food to the civilian population of ger gar trany many 0 on the same day the british b government seized the american ship Wilh elmma brand bound for far a german port part with wheat for civilian consumption the german note in reply to the american protest against the tire rine blockade disclaimed all response Gral billy great britain affirmed its in to send fiend the Wilholm ina to a prize count 1 in replica spite to inquiries from from the tt ashington ash inato n government neither germany nor great britain showed any disposition to recede from the positions already announced on april 11 the german ambassador protested to the state department against the attitude of the united states toward the shipment of war materials and british treatment of american trade with germany german on may I 1 the american oil carrier Gulf fight was oak bunk off the stilly islands by a ger man submarine destruction tim of the LI litael tarl on may 7 the big ila transatlantic liner lusitania was sunk ilk by a german sub but marine off air the coast of ireland with a loss losa of nearly 1200 lives including upwards of a hundred americans on may 13 the united states state protested against again t the german submarine policy and declared its intention of main the rights of american catl aitt zens an on may 25 the american america steam to a er nebraskan was ties seriously damaged by a torpedo off the south curb coast of ireland on may 28 the german reply to the united states note ot of protest protest in regard to the submarine policy in the so called a war or zone was received ad final statement of the german post past tire tion was waa rose reserved ed will until a common be ba sis ate ot of fe tact at as to the status of the lust tanta male should be established on may 31 germany garrulity made ads offic official kad anno announce ment that the Gulf Gul flight