WAR---ONE YEAR AGO
WAR---ONE YEAR AGO IT WAS a year ago in July that the announcement came of the landing of American troops in France. Since then in continually increasing numbers our boys have been going across so...
...And indeed for many days it seemed that the Germans would pound their way through France shutting the English up in the channel ports, then smashing into Paris and dictating terms of peace...
...In the fight they carry on with glorious abandon of self and give all to service of country...
...To the American soldiers and sailors great credit is to be given for the success of Allied arms...
...But it is known that machines are now being manufactured in large numbers and the program is definitely under way with prospects of this branch of the service keeping pace with others...
...For the first time for more than a year the Allies seemed to have the-Advantage...
...17,000,555 St Paul...................., 16,205,000 Omaha.....................-....13,264,140 Wichita...
...In every department of war, millions upon millions are being spent to make effective war upon the enemy...
...The Allies realized the danger of this situation but seemed helpless to meet it without American aid...
...It is fighting for our ideal,—to relieve the world from the fear of autocratic rule and the surrender of free governments to such rule...
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...But as they found the Russian people disposed to revolt against the Bolsheviki rule they organized and took control of much of the Siberian Railroad and many cities along it...
...By July 15 the Germans were again ready for their onward rush...
...The tide has turned for the first time since March and Foch, quick to see the advantage of striking while the Germans were disorganized, struck on a wider front to the west and north and immediately won a substantial victory...
...As a result the German ambassador to Russia was assassinated as well as some other German high officials...
...They have now demonstrated the finest soldierly qualities on the field of battle...
...It is doing its great work competently and with favorable results which may not become history for some time...
...There is yet the Russian situation which must be discouraging to the Germans...
...The ship building program is now so far established that more tonnage is being built by our yards alone than is being destroyed by submarines...
...These men arc both physically and spiritually fit to fight hard and sacrifice much for a principle...
...They are fighting Bide by side with the war weary men of the French and English...
...9,807,741 New Orleans .............»« 7,646,540 Louisville .................^ 6,704,106 Berkeley...
...On July 1 the total amount of mortgage loans placed since the establishment of the Federal land banks was $109,517,308, covering 48,29...
...8,851,595...
...Definite information as to our aviation forces have not been given out...
...The Federal land bank of Spokane leads in amount of loans closed $1,262,800...
...They are no longer untried...
...Loans To Farmers DURING the month of June $8,343,420 was lent to farmers of the United States by the Federal land...
...The Allies have entered into an arrangement to foster this rebellion against the German-Russian peace and Japan is to take an active part...
...By July our forces were definitely holding quite a large part of the line in Al9ace and at other points along the French front...
...They had got their fighting legs and were enthusiastic for the fray...
...However, it was well understood that the Germans had not given up their places but were merely reforming their lines, bringing up fresh divisions and supplies for another drive upon Paris and the channel ports...
...The Allies seized their advantage and in the course of many days of fierce and continued battle drove the Germans back all along the front out of the Marne salient and Soissons 12 miles farther from Paris...
...12,292,700 Houston...
...They are tested and true...
...Here too the press reports would indicate that the Russian people are in revolt against the Bolsheviki government so far as German influence goes and have welcomed the Allies...
...The trouble with the air service has not been because of lack of brave aviators volunteering for the service...
...It is fresh and fit to fight...
...During June 1,196 aplications were received asking for $5,127,011, and 2,516 loans were approved, amounting to $6,793,527...
...Their healthy enthusiasm and determination to win have given new courage and vim to the tired men of four years' desperate struggle...
...She met with immediate and continued success until the best military men became fearful that French and English troops would be separated and destroyed in detail before America could be of sufficient aid to turn the tide...
...The German-Russian peace released great numbers of German and Austrian soldiers from the east front for service on the west front and elsewhere...
...There has been difficulty in the production of airplanes...
...The Allies will hasten her retreats...
...If not, and the Allies are united in putting forth their best efforts in 1919, it would seem that the Germans will not be able to much longer withstand the tremendous strain put upon them and must yield...
...The American army and navy are made up of the finest type of American citizenship...
...Since then in continually increasing numbers our boys have been going across so that on the last of August this year it is officially given out that 1,300,000 troops are in France or were on the way to the fighting front...
...They have the food, the clothing and other supplies to keep the army in fighting trim...
...The fighting on both fronts is going steadily on in favor of the Allies at this writing...
...To these men must come the credit of victory and the honors of peace...
...Peace may come before another year's campaign begins...
...So it was by July this year it could be said that America was definitely in the war as a fighting factor...
...They had the offensive, the morale and the financial and moral backing that looks to an eventual victory...
...Going along with our army men, or preceding them, have been civilian organizations to look after the spiritual, moral and sanitary conditions which has added very greatly to the actual numbers of American men and women at the west front engaged in war activities...
...Whatever may become of the movement in the end there is no doubt but it will give Germany serious concern on its eastern front and result in retaining there considerable German forces...
...The Red Cross, the Y. M. C. A. and K. C.'s have raised vast sums of money and are carrying on their beneficent work with large forces extending throughout this country and spreading along all the war area and clear up to the battle fronts...
...Our confidence in the navy we think is not misplaced...
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...During the fighting of the Russians against Austria great numbers of American Czech-Slovaks had surrendered to the Russians with whom they were more in sympathy...
...7,172,172 Columbia ..................: 4,746,513...
...Its teeth were fairly set and the country is surely destined to become the deciding factor of a war which began in causes well beyond our ken and in territory in which we had heretofore kept strictly out of following the suggestions of Washington and commanding statesmen from his day till 1917...
...Again the Allies have landed forces at Archangel, Northern-most Russia, and have seized the railroad terminals at the open port, together with many munitions of war which we had sold to Russia while she was an ally in the war...
...Germany has turned the corner and is going back...
...This again may call for German aid and help to relieve the French front to that extent...
...of young men of education, high ideals and of lofty aspirations...
...The Navy has augmented its forces until now it has in round numbers 500,000 men in service all recruited by voluntary enlistment...
...Already in several encounters American troops had given a good account of themselves...
...August 1st closed four years of the world's greatest war...
...After the Russian peace these prisoners were released but they did not return to Austria but chose to enter the service of France and sought an outlet along the Siberian railroad to the Pacific...
...After their peace treaty with Russia, humiliating as it was to Russia, the Prussian military group imposed their autocratic sway in the internal affairs of Russia and created intense dissatisfaction among the Russian people...
...Appropriations by Congress have been lavishly made to meet every suggestion of the president and his official advisors...
...Then came a race on our part to get in in time to help save the day...
...loans, distributed as follows: Spokane...
...4,140,500 Springfield...
...All the allied troops had been put under the supreme command of the French Commander Foch...
...In the meantime the Allies had drawn courage from the failure of the Austrian drive against the Italians and from minor successes of the French and Italians on the Albanian front...
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...But the French and English finally by the most stubborn kind of fighting held the line tho they had suffered great losses in prisoners, guns, munitions and territory...
...In March they struck quick and powerful blows in rapid succession on the French front...
...6,698,400 St...
...Now a new army meets the Germans that does not know defeat...
...The organizations have accomplished much and have won completely the hearts of the soldiers...
...To them, while they serve us in battle and as they return to their peaceful pursuits, the American people pledge a full measure of loyal devotion and the support that will carry them successfully through...
...Germany was quick to see the advantage of striking before we could come strongly to the relief of the Allies...
...They struck along the Rheims-Marne-Soissons front, drove across the Marne for considerable gains for the first couple of days when the Allies counter attacked with such good effect that the Germans were driven back and lost the offensive...
Vol. 10 • August 1918 • No. 8
