Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 27, 1918, Page 6

8 EOE 2 roe ae ND BRATS ee ti: pe wi is er 1 t ; one s Fae Sie EES SA ma OO Fee RG Ota oS ee Samet ce ook ele SSR Rie re ead eee eee Ss . Italy was under way. PAGE SIX FOURTH YEAR OF WAR SEES MARCH BIG EVENTS IN FATE OF NATIONS (Continued from Page 1.) Soon after that date the move ment of troops was accelerated. Thousands were, despatched across the Atlantida, during the winter months,, but was not until the it exchanged. No progre with the negotiations ference was broken up on Ja 11. In the meantime, a new repu lic had great German offensive was started s late in March of 1918 that the mo ment began to assume really note- worthy proportions. The figures for the months from August 1, 1917, to July 1, 1918, follow: August, 18,323; September, 32,- 523; October, 38,25 November, 23,016; December, 48,84 nuary, 46,776; February 48, March, 83,811; April, 1 21 May, 244,- 345; June 276,382. On July 1, 1918, there were 14,- 644 American marines in France, bringing the total number of Ameri- can troops in that country and Italy up to 1,019,115. During the recent fighting in France the work of the American soldiers has compared favorably with that of other fighting men in the world. They have held sectors here and there along the front. They are in Alsace and northward in the Lor- raine sector. The famous St. Mihiel sector is held by Americans, who are posted also on the line along the heights of the Meuse. East of Rheims they took part in the fighting during the last phase of the German offen- sive, while in the Chateau-Thierry sector they held their line in a vital region against the utmost fury of the Teutonic onslaught. North of Cha- teau Thierry, Americans helped to stop the drive of the Germa in the early days of June; and in the Smome sector, at Cantigny and Grivesnes they have given proof of their sol- dierly qualitie: The Allies have been call led upon to face two great offensives during | the past year. The first of these came last October in Italy and the second, in France, began on March 21. The German drives in Fr: while separated by periods of a few days to several weeks, been considered as different ph of the same offen The abort Austrian attack against Italy in June also is looked upon as merely another attack against the western front and not a distinct military operation. But these offenses. perhaps never would have been begun had it not been for the collapse of Russia dur- ing the past winter. German and Austrian troops, réleased from the Russian front, were taken to France and Italy to swell the masses of men hurled against the Allies in the west- ern theater of operations. As long as Russia remained in the fight she held a great number of “Teutoni troops in the east, and her with- drawal from the war exercised a fun- damental influence on the course of its development. SITUATION A YEAR AGO The year opened with the fortunes of war apparently favoring the En- tente. The British had forced back the Germans to the famous Hinden- burg line. The French had estab lished themselves firmly along the Chemin des Dames north of the Aisne. The echoes of Verdun were still ring- ing the knell of German hopes in that sector of the battle area. The Ital- ians were holding their lines along the Isonzo. The rejuvenated Rus- sian “regiment of July 1” had car- ried the war far into the Austrian defenses in Bukowina and Galiciz Thru August and September, 1917, came rumors that Russia was e¢ hausted by the war, and quiet set- tled down along the lines from the gates of the Carpathians to the Bal- tic. Stories were heard of frater- nization of. German and Russian troops but assurances came from Pet- rograd that Russia would stand true to her allies. FALL OFFENSIVE IN ITALY The German and Austrian high commands had no illusions as to far- ther Russian belligerencyv. There came to the Allies reports that the Cen- tral empires were taking the pick of their force from the Russian front and oencentrating them for a drive against some part of the line of the western front. Then came- intima- tions that the blow was aimed against Ttalv. The storm broke at Caporetto on Oct. 26 and almost immediately the whole Italian line was thrown ‘into disorder. Pouring thru the passes, where in some instances disaffected Italian trops held positions, the Ger- mans and Austrins made progress which from the first was slarming. By wise generalship, the Italian line was withdrdwn from the Isonzo. It paused at the Taglinmento and then retired further until it rested on the Piave, aimost within sight of the domes of Venice. Here the Italian army reformed its columns. c dated its positions by withdr; from the Rhaetian mountains to the Asiago plateau, and assisted by the French reinforcements brot to that battlefront. stood at bay. RUSSIAN COLLAPSE Events in the meanwhile had been moving swiftly in Russ: On No- vember 1, while the offensive against Alexander F. Kerensky. then the Russian premier announced that Russia was worn out by the wer and that the Allies must shonlder the burden thenceforward. Seven davs later Kerensky was de- posed bv the Bolsheviki. The fall and flight of Kerensky was the sig- nal for Germany and Austria to en- ter into peace nezotiations with Rus- sia. On November 30 the Bolshe- viki announced that Russia was out of the war and proposed that all the Allies join in negotiations for an arm- istice. Russian and German representa- tives met at the Brest-Litovsk on De-| cember 22, and terms of peace were| » obliged to withdraw. At last, on M icia frontier from th ck seal y northward to Cholm, in ient Po- land. With this republic, the Central empires made peace late in January. The failure of the Bolsheviki au- thoriti © reach an~ 9. ent with the Germans resulted in the renew- al of hostilities on February 18, and the German armies moved forward once more. BREST-LITOVSK TREATY This brot about a renewal of the peace nd at Brest-Lit- sk the Bolsheviki were given to un- derstand that Germany would recog- nize the kindom of Poland, the re- public of Ukraine, the- independence the separate gov- ernmental status of Lithuania, Es- thonia and Livonia. Turkey, as an ally of the Central powers, was given great area to-the east of the Black a, including the regions of Batum, and Erivan. Ka appeal reached the tember 21. It expressed hope that further warfare could be ave: thru the good offices of the pope, but declined to enter into any en- gagement to meet what ’the Allies had lared to be their minimum we 2 s to secure a peace which would leave to Germany all te the fruits of her victory gained thru and with Belgium of France to be he council table, h the address of Count Czernin, then Austrian foreign min- ster, at Bre tovsk, in December,| gener: ce with annexations indemnities. anuary 8, President Wilson, ng congress ,said that the at t know for whom the Germa ers were speaking. The address was a complement to an address made on January 5 by David . the British premier. addresses reply was made} Chancellor Yon Hert-} W and On addres: United § nr The latter f torv in tone, while the former, al-j| Inding to “the good German sword,” howed he was spe: ng for the mili-| s of the Germanic powers. | FOUR PRINCIPLES” ENUNCIAT-} ED | To these renlies there was rejoiner| by President Wilson, who, on Febru- ary 11, n addressing congress, laid down what have come to be! known as the “Four Principles,” upon rted to be launched was known with eom- | of reaction and the Germans came to |stopped the Germans after they had vertised and the place where it was they reached the Marne at Chateau | Thierry, making a. penetration of parative certainty, jabout twenty-eight miles. At the On the morning of March 21, the| Marne they were checked and the im-| Germans began their attack from the| petus of the blow was broken. vicinity of Arras, on the north, to La With hardly a day’s pause for re- Fere, on the south, and centering | organization of their forces, the Ger- their heaviest columns against the|mans again attacked, choosing the Briish forces, under General Gough, | sector between Montdidier and Noyon at St. Quntin. on the southern side of the salient Staggering before the impact of) driven into the Allied line during the the blow, the British army fell back | March offensive, as the stage of their rapidly. For eight days the Germans| onslaught. This offensive ran for poured thru the old Allied line in an| five days and was stopped north of effort to crush the British and drive |Compeigne after losses which were a wedge between them and _ the| described as unprecedented had been French, who were holding the lines| inflicted upon the Germans. to the south. Then came the period; From June 14 until July 15 the Germans were engaged in shifting their forces and then they again struck. This time the line of attack | was from Chateau Thierry eastward, around to the north of Rheims and then down the Vesde river to Prunay and from that village eastward to Massiges. This attack at the close of the year developed into one of the most ambitious of the German strokes. ITALIANS STAND FIRM _ Qne June 15, the Austrans began a drive against Italy. It was a fail- ure. The Austrians crossed the Piave river, but on the west bank met with such stubborn resistance that progress was impossible. Slowly the Austrians were driven back to- ward the river, and then the Piave, swollen by rains in the mountains, completed the overthrow of Austria’s a stop. They had driven ahead for thirty-five miles along a front ex-| tending more than fifty miles before they were halted. Hardly had their legions been held | before Amiens than a new offensive was begun in Flanders on April 2. It swept the British back through Ar- mentieres, but did not break their} lines. The British, with the French | who were rushed up to the front, ached the hills southwest of Ypres. There, on April 9, the Germans suf- fered a terrible defeat that halted their offensive in that quarter, FOCH IN SUPREME COMMAND In the midst of the drive in the ctor toward Amiens the Allied na- tions took a vitally important step. They named General Ferdinand Foch : Aer own as the “! in ape. | who was hero of the first battle of | hopes. Aft i i fined theres of tHe. treaty between | Wet Bence can be based. Briefly,| the Marne, generalissimo of the Al-|the Acstsincal ccteaten to: tha atte the Bolsheviki and ~Germany, the Penent must be based | lied forces on the western front,|ern bank of the Piave from the Mon- Allies gave up hope that Russia 4, fugtioe! which includes all the line in Italy as! tello plateau to the Adriatic. would remain in the conflict, and at once they began to strengthen their s against the coming of the great an offensive by which Berlin and Vienna hoped to force the En- tente nations to make peace. RUMANIA CAPITULATES With the greater part of her ter- i occupied by the Germans, Aus- s and Bulg: s, with her gov- ernment driven Bucharest to and with the n Bolshe- ki openly hostile toward her, Ru- amnia found herself in a critical situation. Rumanian troops during Februarv and Marg@h advanced in:to Bessarabia, a part of the new re- public of Ukraine, but they, were hemmed in by the enemy forces and 6. Rumania s ed a treaty of peace with the Central powers. | By this treaty Rumania lost the province of Dobrudja, on the south side of the Danube, which she had received after the Balkan war, and agreed to rectifications of her west- ern frontier. Economic concessions also were made under pressure from the Teutonic Alliance. PEACE TENTATIVES The period between December 1, and March 1, 1918, may be the period of peace tentatives. true that before the cnd of is the s)mmer Pope Benedict made an appeal to the warring nations to enter into peace negotiations, the basis for pournarlors being the res- toration of Beleium and Serbia and the return to Germany of her lost colonies. This appeal. made on Aug- vet 13, was answered by President Wilson on August 29, when the presi- dent announced that the German gov- ernment as constituted could not be believed and that the United States was ready to enter into negotiations when the German people showed they desired peace. and when they spoke thru any authority which would be renresentative of them. Che «| The German answer to the pope’s TREES My Aster, Verbena, Pinks No. 1. Any of these in wood pots, ready to set out, 75c per dozen. Cabbage plants, $1.00 per 100. Tomatoes, $1.25 per 100 in bundles, otted 75c per matoes. well. WM. MOSTELLER TELEPHONES__557M and 1F3 Evenings fa err ETE ON AND AFTEK AUGUST iST, CUR DELIVERIES WILL BE MADE AS FOLLOWS: Deliveries for the north:side will be made in the forenoon and orders will be taken up to 9:30 o'clock. Deliveries for south side will be made in the afternoon and orders taken up to 3:00 o'clock. comprise Second Avenue, north, and all territo’ The north side will and Second Avenue west of railr South side comprises baiance y sk our pat their orders i is in accordance with the ministration, who ask us to make (Signed) THE RICHARDS & CUNNINGHAM CO., WEBEL COMMERCIAL CO., BLUE FRONT MARKET, CITIZENS’ EQUITY ASSN., WHITE GROCERY CO., CASPER CASH STORE, CASPER STORAGE GROCERY, CASPER MERCANTILE CO., SCHULTE HARDWARE CO., HOLMES HARDWAR ASTER PLANTS Celery, $1.00 per 100. Better order by mail, as our telephone line is not working CASPER CASH STORE. Peoples and provinces are not to be bartered about like chattels. Every territorial settlemerit must be for the benefit and in the in- terests of the populations concern- ed. | All well-defined national aspir- ations shall be met with the utmost | satisfaction consistent with the fut- ure peace. Pove Benedict in a pastoral letter| issued at ster, made another ap-| neal for concord among the peoples of the world, but it brot forth no} tangible r . At the pope’s be-| hest, pray for peace were offered in Catholic churches thruout the world on St. Peter’s day, June 28. In April there came revelations from Paris that Emperor Charles of Austrian had written letters to! Prince Sixtus of Bourbon, a relative, | In these communications the Aus- trian monarch conceded the clgim of France to Alsace and Lorraine nnd hinted that peace overtures) would be welcomed. As one result of this, Count Czer- nin, the Austrian foreign minister, | was removed from office. The most recent addresses on the the subject of peace have been de-| livered in the German reichstag, one} by Dr. Richard von Kuehlmann, the forcign minister, and the other by Imperial Chancellor von THertling. The former’s sensational admission that the sword by itself could not brine peace resulted in his resien tien, and von Hertlingg’s add voiced the sentiment that as long as| the Allies were intent upon “destroy- ing Germany” the war must go on. THE ENEMY OFFENSIVES. Last winter it became known the Germans were massing forces on the western front. Reports came that large units were training behind the; lines and that new and more terrible engines of war than had been known before were to be used in the Ger- man effort to break the Allied lines, crush their armies and force them to PLANTS and other flowering plants are dozen. Peppers same as to- territory beginning with y between the N. W. tracks oad crossing on Second Avenue. of city. rons to bear this in n time for delivery. wishes of The U. S. Food Ad- one delivery per day to a cus- mind and . E CO., well as in France. Even the Murman in northern Russia, has been | to be under his command. After a period of quiet, the Ger- mans attacked once more, this time MINOR OPERATIONS. Among the year’s operations of comparatively lesser importance were the British drives in Palestine and Mesopotamia; the Turkish advance in SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1918 1 : a bai ~~" tthe Caucasus: the Frer nd Italian;Cholera. His forces pu urthe: atican on Sep-'make peace. The drive was well ad-/ on the Aisne river, and in seven days fthe’Csucasus; the'French and Italian) €00'8 orees ‘pushed further t-| UP the Tigris until the intense heat of the summer terminated opera- tions. The Turks after the collapse of Russia took advantage of the ‘de- moralized condition of the Russian offensive in Albana; and the figh' ing in the German African colonies. | Jerusalem was captured by the British on December 10, and shortly afterward the fall of Jericho was an- nounced. 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