Northern Review Volume 2-3 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ...continue to rurt full time and with full force. America is sowing and it will reap. The prophecy has been made by a German authority who ought to know, supposed to be Field Marshall Mackensen (not Mackenzie, as the Scotch would like to call him), that "the German lines will hold until the enemy is sick and tired of attempting to break them." German authorities are not given to idle boasting, but rather conserve their energy for the real tasks before them. When they speak, however, their words command attention. The fate of Verdun, some think, was sealed when "Dead man's hill," "Hill 304" and Ft. Vaux fell to the Germans. The Crown Prince is, Germanlike, making progress slow but sure. On the Western Front the repeated drives of the Russians could not move Hindenburg's army. In the south Koval is not yet reached and Russians are being decoyed again into the Carpathian mountains. The Drive of the Italians has expended itself, so the Serbians in the Balkans. The Central Powers are gaining victories in Armenia, Persia, Mesopotamia, at the Suez Canal and on the North Sea and in the Mediterranean. Stockholm "Aftonbladet" on Rumania "The biggest victory which the Central Powers won was the ratification of the commercial treaty with Rumania. Along the Danube and the railroad tracks the precious grain is being conveyed to the Central Powers. On the other hand, all the machinery and implements needed by a modern State are exported to Rumania. A Bulgar-Rumanian agreement is said to have been concluded to facilitate the transit. One railroad line running from Berlin to Constantinople is insufficient for the traffic between the Central Powers and the Levant. The Rumanian roads are to help here. "When is Germany's exhausti...