The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, August 06, 1915, Page SIX, Image 6

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First Year ( War of Nations, in Which L( Billions, Has Been Produci Changes in Mei The second year of the European war opened last Sunday. On August 1, 1914, Germany declared war against Russia and the last chance vanished of localizing the Austro-Servian war, declared tf-ree days previously by Aus tria-Hungary. All the grea.t powers of Europe war# drawn into a struggle, the like of which history has not heretofore recorded. Eleven nations are at war and almost all lands are effected, directly or indirectly. Millions of men have "been killed wounded or carried into captivity in hostile countries. Billions of dollars have been expended. Thousands of square miles of territory have been devastated and hundreds of cities and towns laid waste. Half t'ie world is in mourning for the dead. And although the war has been in progress with unexampled fury for a year, the result may be summarized in one brief sentence: Xo decisive results have been achieved and the end is not in sight. Determination to pursue the war to o Aar>icivo an flinp' had hPf>n PXDrfSSftd by fcigh officials of all the belligerent nations, preparations are being made for next winter's campaign, and, in fact, indications from Europe are that ii is more likely to increase in size rather than decrease. It is still an rvrnnofctirm -a-HAthpr Riile^aria. Rou mania or Greece will be drawn in. In view of the immensity of the struggle, previous stan lards count for little in considering the price the world is paying. The figures involved are so vast as to convey little meaning. I The nations at war have poured out j their treasures of men and gold without limit. The usual standards of life have been subordinated or disregarded, <H2<2 111 SUlLie UctStib suciai, uiuusuiai and political activities ha;ve been virtually reorganized on a militaristic basis to make all contribute to the supreme necessities of war. It is impossible to obtain accurate oto+icH/>e of +('-?> numW nf mpn pti gaged, the casualties and the cost. For obvious reasons the size of tiie various armies is kept secret. Most of the nations do not consider it expedient to reveal the number of casualties; in fact, Great Britain is the only one w-ich has given out official totals. As to the money expended ar? avniiAhlp ortlv nartial sta tistics. Half of World at War. Wore than half the population of the world lives in the countries at war. The population of the warring countries is estimated roughly at 947,000,000, and of the countries at peace at 779,000,000. The population of the entente nations is perhaps live times as great as that of their opponents. The number of men under arms has been estimated ivariously, usually in the neighborhood of 20,000,000. William Michaelis, writing recently in a Berlin magazine, put the number of soldiers at war at 21,770,000?for the allies, 12,820,000; for Germany, Austria-Hungary and Turkey, 8,950,000. No previous war has approached the present one in wholesale destruction of life. This is due not only, to the number of men involved but to the terrible efficiency 'of modern weapons Trench warfare on a great scale with its deadly charges, mining operations and extensive use of artillery and | hand grenades contributed to this end. Whereas in the past it has been calculated t':at the proportion of killed to total casualties runs 1 to 8 or 1 to 10, the proportion in trench warfare, as indicated by official British statistics, is about 1 to 5. The battles on the plains of Flanders, on the Warsaw front, in the Aus ** ^ - J ?? iro-u-erman <iuva.xict; Lixivugu Uauvtw | .and in the Carpathians were attended iby frightful slaughter. Russian losses in the Carpathians alone were estimated unofficially at 500,000. Along the battlefields from Arras, in northwestern France, to the Belgian coast whole ' iritVi nrvrnco5 fields nave deeu iuvcicu ?, and at the time of the German attempt to reach the English channel the Ypser canal was choked with the dead. According to official British statistics, the British army alone foas been aosing of late in killed, wounded and missing 2,000 a day. On June 9 Pre?. ? or?n/-knn/?ar? that British lilltrr !ais-4 uiuii quuvumvvu - casualties since the beginning of tfte war (excluding naval losses of IS,549 up to May 31) amounted to 258,069, of which the total amount of killed was 50,342. Others Suffer More. The losses of Germany, France and Russia, by reason of their larger armies, have been far greater. The Heer und Politik of. Berlin early in ______ ^ 4 T " ' ' Conflict Sees No D< osses of Men Have Run Into A live of No Crushing Defeat fo thods Mark Modern Struggle / I J une estimated that more than 5,000,-t 000 soldiers of the countries at war ! wit:: Germany and her allies have been I killed, wounded or captured. Hailaire | Belloc, the English military writer, said Germany's potential manhood for j actual fighting probably had dimin ished from all causes by nearly onehalf in the first year of the war, and asserted a conservative estimate was that Germany had much nearer 4,000,000 titan 3,000,000 men permanently out of the field. Estimates of the total casualties run from 6,000,000 to 8,000,000 with the former figure probably conservative. The cost in money runs to a similar iv nuge loiai. ureai; eruain is now spending about ?15,000,000 a day on the war, according to Premier Asquith. Albert Metin, general budget reporter of the French chamber of deputies, calculates the war is costing France $10,000 a minute, or $14,000,000 a day. William Michaelic recently estimated f ^ a /^rkilTF aaf f + rv of ^ Q fill A 11IC uailj tuot LLf \J?d lli.a.JLlJ CL L <jJU,-'JV,VUV, saying 40 days of this war cost as much as the whole Franco-Prussian war of 1S70-1. In March Dr. Karl Helfferich, secretary of the imperial treasury of Germany, said the war I _ _ _ 11 1. .11* ?- AAA was costing ail oeingerenis $6o,vvu,000 a week. On the basis of Dr. Helfferich's estimate, the first year of ti-e war cost the stupendous sum of $11,500,000,000. Mr. Michaelis puts the figure at 15 billions of dollars, not including Italy's expenditures, a sum .more than 50 per cent, greater than the gold production of the world during the last 500 years. Other estimates run still higher, to 20 billion dollars or more. In addition to t';e money expended directly on the war, the loss in de I sirucuon or property on iana ana sea has run high into the millions. Great losses are being occasioned by the cessation or curtailment of many forms of productive industry. The energies of the world have been largely diverted to making war. Factories of all crvrtc hstvo hppn tnrnpri mrPr tn thp making of war munitions, men taken i from mill and field, to be replaced by women, old men and children. Economists assert that for generations to come the world will feel the effect of tie huge losses, in the burden of taxation and otherwise, and sociologists make conflicting predictions as to its moral, physical and psychological effect oil generations living and to come. >'eutrals Also Affected. Neutrals as well as belligerents have been affected. The financial stringency which followed the outbreak of war was worldwide. Tne united states, m common with other neutrals, has been confronted with the threatened 1 abridgement of its rights, particularly at sea, and has sent notes of remonstance to England and Germany, the complications with ti':e latter country following the sinking of the Lusitania giving especial concern. The war has been attended with many unexpected features, one of which is its protraction. It has been believed that such a struggle would be of comparatively short duration, on account of the cost and loss of life it would entail. At the outset it was commonly said that within less than a year the nations in\Tvlvpd would Ha compelled to seek peace through financial exhaustion, if for no other reason. While each side has won its victories, no final 1 results have been reached in any of the 1 campaigns, with a few minor exceptions of the lesser operations in distant colonies. Over the greater part of thp Franco-Belgian front the oppos ing millions are facing each other in the same positions as last September. . Movements on the eastern front have been wider, but with no signs of an i approaching decision. The German, plan is generally as- j sumed to have been to deal first with < France, in the early weeks of the war before the Russian army, slower to mobilize, was able to present a serious ; menace; and then to turn on Russia. The fierce resistance of Belgium and < the unexpectedly quick mobilization of ; both the French and Russian armies presented the full fruition of this plan. Nevertheless Germany Ifcas been able to ,j hold her own on both the eastern and < western fronts. < Separate Wars Waged. i In reality the struggle of the 11 na- i tions is divided into a number of sep- ' arate wars, related to eacfo' other in i only a general way. The whole field of military operations may be sum- < marized as follows: < tr? nvcn/ia onr? "Rp.J?Tiim n-ermanv is i JLJJ. I' iuuvo i*uu ? battling with Great Britain, France ] and Belgium. In August Germany in- ] vaaed Belgium anti France, pushing < hi* ^*4+/S SC IdlUll 1 VCU/ i iillions and of Property Into r Any Belligerent?Great or Supremacy. southward almost to the gates of Paris. Following the battle of the Marne, perhaps the most important contest of the war thus far, t)':e Germans were compelled to retreat and haive since held an entrenched line from the Belgian coast to Alsace, retaining possession of northeastern France and most of Belgium. In this I theater the war has been so even that tf:e capture of a group of houses or a few yards of trenches has been considered a ivictory worthy of mention in the official reports. The German attempt to break through to the English channel, the British victory at 'Xeuve Ciapelle, the German triumph at Soissons, while calling forth supreme efforts, did not materially change the relative pasitions of the antagonists along the front of nearly 300 miles. On the eastern front Russia faces Germany and Austria-Hungary. Russian armies invaded Galicia and Buko wina, capturing most of the former province, but lost the greater part of this territory as a result of Field Marshal von Mackenzen's great drive from Cracow. The Germans invaded Russian Poland, and ti':eir attempts to capture Warsaw led to some of the deadliest fighting of the war. In time ^ 1- - -J. 1- 1 - i.11 ^ J J ~ 4. ^ tue siruggie nere seiueu uuwu iu trench warfare, much as in the west, with Germany retaining a large part of Russian Poland. Russian invasions of East Prussia resulted in disastrous defeats. Further north, the Germans swept in tJ-e Baltic provinces of Russia, capturing Libau, on the sea. The nnnrenerienteri extension of battle lines I which this war has witnessed reached its most remarkable exemplification in this campaign, in which the front has been drawn out more than 600 miles from the Baltic to Bukowina. Italy, after ten months of uncertainty, began war with Austria-Hungary, in May, and has occupied a fringe of Austrian territory m me moumamuus region to the north. Trent and Trieste are the objectives of the Italian campaign. Owing to the difficult nature of the ground neither of ti':e antagonists has made much headway. In Moslem Regions. On the Gallipoli peninsula, in the Dardanelles and in the Bosphorus, Turkey, aided by her Teutonic allies, is at war with France, Great Britain and Russia, with possession of Constantinople as t)-e great stake. Following the failure of the naval asault on the Dardanelles by an Anglo-French fleet, troops were landed on the peninsula. Few details of this campaign are available, and lit.tle is known beyond the fact that the fighting has been particularly severe, and that t?e allies have occupied and retained the tip of the peninsula. ) Servia and Montenegro, the former assisted by British troops, are at war with Austria-Hungary. The Austrian invasion of Servia ended in failure. Hn fVici "VTnn ton ^crrin .frrvnt thprp been only desultory fighting. Boti3 Servia and Montenegro have recently invaded Albania, with the object of obtaining ports on the sea. On Asiatic soil Russia is at war with Turkey in the Black sea region. Neither side has employed a large number of troops in this campaign. T"hprf> has heem fi 21'; tine in the Cau-1 casus and Persia, with no great accomplishments. Further south, in Mesopotamia, there has been sporadic fighting between Turkish and British troops. Turkey sent an army to attack the Suez canal, but tice main body of troops failed to reach its ob iective. In Africa French and British troops anAnnioH and narf of thp Kamerun, German possessions. A British attack on German East Africa was defeated. 1 ne lliouiai yuascoaiuiio ui *jrciiiiauj' in the Pacific were captured by Great Britain and Japan. Tsing-tau, the German fortress in China, was captured by the Japanese, aided by a British contingent. No Great Sea Battles. On tfce seas there have been no ?reat battles. Great Britain's supremacy, owing to the overwhelming size yf. her fleet, has not been disputed to the ultimate issue, the main German fleet having remained in home waters, rwo German cruisers which were in the Mediterranean when war began went to tlbe Dardanelles, and were acquired by Turkey. A few German jruisers and converted merchantmen, including the famous Emden, and the Karlsruhe, Kronprinz iWilhelm and Prinz Eitel Friedrich, raided shipping )f the allies for a time, but were event-J ually sunk or forced to intern in neutral ports. The Austro-Hungarian fleet has remained in the Adriatic and the Turkis. fleet has been kept from the Aegean. Germany's merchant marine has oeen swept from the seas. There have been several naval battles of importance, however. In the first month of the war Rear Admiral Beatty's squadron dashed into Helgoland Bight, near the great German naval station, and sank tr.ree German cruisers and two torpedo boat destroyers. In January occurred a battle in tf;e North Sea between British warships and a German squadron which presumably was attempting a raid 011 the English coast. In this battle the German cruiser Bleucher was sunk. TTia fiprman Far F!a<5t cnnartrrm rta feated Vice Admiral Cradock's Britisu squadron off the Chilean coast on November 1, sinking the Good Hope and Monmouth. The British obtained their revenge in December when, off the Falkland Islands, a powerful Britishsquadron defeated the Germans, sinking the Sc^arnhorst, Gneisenau, Leip zig and Xuernberg. German squadrons nave twice attacked the English coast, causing somo loss of life and damage to property. English towns, including London, have also been attacked by German aircraft, which made several successful trips | across the North Sea, raiding points | An f 7i.o oocf ct Chancres in ^Tetliods. Metf'ods of fighting have been altered radically in consequence of the lessons learned in the first year of j the war. It has been pre-eminently a | war of machines. The resources af-j forded by modern scientific develop- j ment have been taxed to devise new instruments of death and destruction J more potent than ever had been employed. It has been also a war of surprises. New problems have arisen necessitating reconstruction of tfce theory of war. Plans and methods heretofore approved by authorities on military affairs were discarded, and the staffs of the various armies were comDell^d to srraDole with sit uations far which there was no precedent. Ti e first great surprise of the war! was the German 42-centimeter (16 1-2 inch) gun, which hurls for some 15 miles a shell weighing almost a ton. The great fortifications which were the pride of Belgium, and be- j lieved to be almost impregnable, were' battered into ruins by these guns in j a comparatively short time. Two of j tJhese guns, stationed 10 miles fromj Antwerp, wrecked its elaborate defense work. Leige and Narnur fell similarly. The use of artillery and machine guns, in fact, has been one of the principle features of the war. Great execution was done by the new Krupp 11-inrh howitzer, weishine nearlv 40 tons, with a six-mile radius. The' Austrian 12-inch howitzer also Las, proved exceptionally efficient. T.he French 75-millimeter gun is regarded as one of the most effective field j pieces. On all the European battlefields ar-; tillery has been the main reliance of the various armies. Trenches bristle I with marhinA o-iins whin'".- militarv i ^nen say bid fair to relegate tiie rifle: to a secondary place. It was with ar- j ti.llery that the Austro-German* forces j blasted their way across Galicia a few j weeks ago, making what #as said to j be tUe greatest concentration of heavy and light field pieces ever seen. Witu artillery the British won at Xeuve Chapelle, the Germans at Soissons. j Every considerable movement of infantry is preceded by a heavy artillery bombardment, and frequently the infantry has little more to do than occu- i py the position of the enemy made untenable by artillery fire. Dig? Themselves In. The deadliness of mad:ine guns necessitated recourse to trenches, for no troops in exposed positions could live within the range of the rapid firers. Consequently trench warfare has developed to an extent never be fore seen. Whole armies moved into underground quarters, with elaborate labyrinths of passages and subterranean living and sleeping quarters. The result of machine warfare was the use of ammunition on a scale for wlhich the world was unprepared. England recognized it as her greatest problem, and made Dajvid Lloyd-George minister of munitions, with power to mobilize the nation's workers for the production of war munitions on a colossal scale. France took similar measures. Italy, which had 10 months to * J prepare iui" war, iuu^u n, uctcasai / after two months of fighting to appoint by royal decree a supreme committee to increase the production of munitions. The battle of Neuve Chapelle alone is said to f:ave cost the British the expenditure 01 more powuer man the entire Boer war. One result of the development of this form of warfare is the eclipse of cavalry as one of the principal arms 1 of service. Cavalry is still used to a small extent on the eastern front, but its employment in France virtually iias been abandoned. The cavalrymen 1 have been dismounted and placed in the trenches. Almost as conspicuous is the de- j velcpment or' submarine warfare. The. remarkable exploits of submarines j Vi.o.va nrrvvpH rbpir pffirMPnr1 v !a fhr*r_ I oughly that already the supremacy of! i battleships has been challenged. Germany, compelled to rely chiefly on these crai't for her marine activities, i as gained the greatest success with | them. T.eir first large achievement: was the torpedoing and sinking by j one submarine witnin an nour or ine British cruisers Cressy, Aboukir and Hogue in the North Sea in September. Since that time hundreds of vessels, warships and merchantmen, have been sent to the bottom in the North Sea, the Baltic, the Englaish channel, the Adriatic and at the Dardanelles. From all causes more than 500 vessels ihflvp hppn ripstrnvpri. F!nerlflnH !h?s been tfce greatest sufferer, by reason of her preponderance of shipping and I also on account of the German government's attempt to blockade that country following the declaration of a war zone around the British Isles j last February. Improvements Notable. In size, speed and cruising radius the new type of submarines tar exceeds the earlier small vessels, designed primarily for coast defense. Germany's new submarines are as long as a good sized cruiser. C? pt. Otto Hersing took the U-51 about 4,000 miles from Wilhelmshaven, past Gibraltar, 4-V* - ? J ? AT- ? luiuugu mc .ucuiici i aneciu tuiu it> Liie Dardanelles, where it torpedoed the British battleships Triumph and Majestic, and proceeded to Constantinople. The "voyage from Wilhelmshaven to the Dardanelles required one month. The aeroplane, almost an unknown Quantity at the hesinnirt? of tlhp war so far as its military value was concerned, has proved its practicability so thoroughly that it must be rated with the submarine and the heavy gun as one of the great features of the war. In fact, it has exercised a dominating influence over land operations, and to its use perhaps more tf:an any other single factor may be ascribed the deadlock month after month in the principal field of battle. It has rendered princeless service in reconnoitering, taking the place of cavalry. It has caused a revision of the tactics and strategy of war. Aerial observers, flying over the opposing lines, are able to discover movements of any large bodies of troops, rendering mat form of strategy based on surprise Stacks or quick movements in force impossible. Aeroplanes also have been of' great value in locating enemy posi-1 tions, enabling the artillery to get tfte range and fire accurately on the unseen foe. Dirigible balloons also are employed, but to a much less extent; although Germany still is constructing Zeppe lins and has used them effectively fori long distance raids they are generally regarded as less valuable than tne aeroplanes. Automobiles are used to an enormous extent, all private machines being requisitioned in some of the countries at war. In some instances great numbers of automobiles f:ave been utilized for rapid transportation of troops. Their main service, however, is in the handling of food supplies and ammunition. Armored automobiles, armed with machine guns 01 light field pieces, also have been utilized. >'ew War Weapons. Many new weapons of war have been tested with varying degrees of sue-1 f cess. Poisonous gases, projected from tanks in the trenches, are reported to have enabled tJ':eir users to capture opposing positions in several minor engagements. Steel darts and incendiary bombs dropped from aeroplanes, and new types of hand grenades also have been employed, while in France hnt'h sirfpe: atp said to ihavp niadA n<s.p of apparatus for spraying burning oil. The political effects of the war, tremendous as they must be, can not yet be gauged. The principal result thus far is the definite rupture of the traditional alignment wuich divided Eu rope for years into two alliances with a theoretical balance of power: Great Britain, France ana Russia forming the Triple Entente, and Germany, AusTT J Ti.i ? iria-nuusai axiu iuuy c^iisuiuuug the Triple Alliance. From the day Austria-Hungary became involved in serious difficulties with Servia there was little doubt Germany would support her ally in case Russia adhered to her traditional policy of defending her Slavic kinsmen in the Balkans. The entrance in tl.e war of France followed as a natural sequence to her alliance with Russia and Great Britain joined in after Germany's invasion of Belgium. Italy was thus the only one of the six nations concerned in the two alliances which was not involved at the outset. Proclaiming ner neutrality, she utilized the opportunity to seek from Austria the territory to tfoe north of her border which she has long de sirec!. Failing to ooiain run satisfaction of her demands she denounced the Triple Alliance and joined the al \ lies. The Triple Entente was thus j converted into the Quadruple Entente, as it is sometimes called now. ? Germany and Austria-Hungary were strength ened by the adhesion of nr,~ , in .-i.i. iuiacj iu me luiorm^i auiance wiuu Germany which had sprung up in recent years and in November Turkey entered the war. Montenegro took up arms with the Serbs, and Belgium, on being invaded, joined the allies. Japan, Great Britain's ally in the East, opened 1 war on Germany, following Berlin's refusal to surrender Tsing-Tau. There are thus 11 nations now at war, of wtiirt'r oiorhf fnrm a-Viat ara UnAwn aa *.v? kAl " U?v. V ?l u M?kJ ^ the allies. Sot Reto.1 Canse. Historians are agreed that the as- y sassination of the Austrian archduke., Francis Ferdinand, in Sarajevo, Bos* nia, on June 28, 1914, while the immediate cause of the war, was not the determining influence. Europe had been on the edge of the precipice for a decaae. fer:aps tne cnier underlying factor was the development of the national idea, demanding that po- I litical divisions should be made to ' correspond with the territory inhabited by the various people of Europe; that each people, wifc'.i common language and customs, should have political independence and a "place in the sun." The struggle to attain this nnlUinn1 + n CIIU ivcyt CiUIUpC 111 tUIiilVil. France aspired for Alsace and Lorraine, Italy for Trieste and tne Treatino; populated largely by Italians; Servia for Bosnia. Roumania for Transylvania and Bessarabia. Austrfk Hungary, within whose boundary is a complexity of races with varying claims and aspirations, was particularly menaced by the growth of tiMs idea, and it was one phase of this agio ^ tation?Servia's desire for Bosnia^which brought on the crisis. The same motive brought in Montenegro and Italy and influenced Russia ani France to go to war. The growth of the national idea was attended by ft. e growth of militarism as a means for securing these desires. ** The greatest standing armies in history were built up, compulsory military ~ A ~ ^ i A rv r? r* A ATI/NT* SCfVltC UCCCLUit; n tau, auu tuvi mous navies were constructed. Out of it all, with the mutual suspicion engendered, grew the situation, which kept Europe in fear of war. Armed to excess, the nations awaited the war which finally came. Barbecues Barbecue at Pomaria August 13. ??* - ? xi n rne tnree cnurcnes 01 tue oruau River circuit will gire a barbecue at Pomaria on August 13 for the benefit of tlie Methodist parsonage. Speeches suitable for the occasion will be made. Dinner 35 cents and 40 cents. J. L. Graham, M. H. Kinard, Managers. We will give a first class Barbecut at the Newberry Fill, near B. M. Suber's, August 14. Come one and all and spend a pleasant day. Dinner 35 and 45 cents. B. M. Suber. 7-9-td 0. A, Felker. REGISTRATION NOTICE. The board of registration for Newherrv pountv will be at Wnitmire on August 10, 1915, &nd at Prosperity on. August 13, 1915, for the purpose of registering voters. And at the office in Newberry on the first Monday in August, which is the last day for reg istering for the general election la September. Board of Registration for Newberry County. >OTICE. A meeting of the stockholders jot The Farmers' Bank, Silverstreet, S. C., will be held in ti':e bank building at Silverstreet, S. C., on Tuesday, the j 101- ?+ A r?V>1/\^lr OJLSL Uciv ai "x v viwu p. m., at which meeting the matter of liquidating, winding up the affairs and dissolving the said bank, a corporation under the law of the State of South rnrrvlina. will cosidered and -voted on. Stockholders may attend in person or by proxy. This meeting is ordered by the terms of a resolution of the board of directors of said bank. H. 0. Long, President of The Farmers' Bank, <3 r OllVClOUCVWf -w. u. POLICY HOLDERS' SHEETING. The policy holders of the Farmers' Mutual Insurance iAssociation of New berry Comity will meet in annual session at the Court House on the Ttflu da j of August, 1915, at 11 o'clock A. M. A full attendance is desired. R. T. C. Hunter, President, L. I. Bp-ting, Secretary.