Photograph by George H. Mewes 

 TYPICAL REFUGEES FROM THE BATTLE ZONE RELATING THEIR EXPERIENCES 



fensive on the southwestern front, which 

 continued without intermission for sev- 

 enty days. The capture, during the sum- 

 mer and early fall, of 456,000 prisoners 

 and nearly 500 guns so demoralized the 

 Austrians that whatever plan the Ger- 

 mans may have had for that summer had 

 to be abandoned and supports hurried to 

 Galicia and Volynia to save again the 

 dual monarchy from collapse. 



ANOTHER FRONT FOR THE GERMANS TO 

 FACE 



This tremendous diversion of troops 

 against the Russians last summer made 

 it possible for the British and the French 

 to commence their blows in the west on 

 the Somme, operations which are still in 

 progress. 



By September 1 Germany was again 

 beginning to accumulate a strategic re- 

 serve which might have made it possible 

 for her to strike either on the east or 

 west. At this moment Roumania, daz- 

 zled by Russian successes, entered the 

 war, and the Germans, again menaced on 

 the east, were obliged to send thirty divi- 

 sions to the Balkans to drive the Russians 

 out of Roumania. We see, then, that 

 ever since the beginning of the war the 

 pressure of the Russians, directly and in- 

 directly on the east, has robbed the Ger- 

 mans of their strategic opportunities on 

 the west. 



Prior to the entrance of Roumania into 

 the war the pro-German alliance in Petro- 

 grad had been viewing the situation with 

 the gravest fear. For the first time it was 



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