ian front was inconclusive. Oct. 10-Nov. 10. THE RACE FOR THE SEA. Germans try to outflank the Allies in the West; this failed. By the end of 1914 the western front had become fairly well fixed and the war had settled into trench warfare. The Search for Alternatives1915STALEMATE ON THE WESTERN FRONT. The first French attack in CHAMPAGNE (Feb. 16-Mar. 30) produced insignificant results. British attack at Neue Chapell was a limited success. In the fall Joffre at-tacked on a front between Rheims and the Argonne (Sept. 22-Nov. 6). The Germans, however, held their own; after many weeks of desperate fighting Joffre had little to show. The battles of YPRES (Apr. 22-May 25) and ARTOIS (May 9-June 18) and (Sept. 25-Oct. 15) ended in stalemate with terrible loss of lives. German first use of gas (chlorine) on Apr. 22 is noteworthy. 1915 left the situation in the west substantially where it was a year previous. STALEMATE ON THE EASTERN FRONT. Winter battle in Masuria and East Prussia produced mixed results. Division in the German high command between "Westerners" and "Easterners" compromised the efforts in both areas. Austrians, with the aid of a German South Army (Gen. Linsingen), drove the Russians back from the Carpathians (Apr. 2-25). On May 2, the beginning of the great Austro-German offensive in Galicia, checked the Russians. The Russians, already suffering severely from lack of rifles artillery, ammunition, and clothing, gave way at once (battle of Gorlice-Tarnow). By the end of June the Austro-German forces had advanced almost 100 miles, had liberated Galicia and Bukovina, and had taken huge numbers of prisoners. The Russian armies on this front were completely demoralized. In the summer, the German-Austrian of-fensives pushed the Russians further and further east. When the German advance came to a stop in September the Russians had lost all of Poland, Lithuania, and Courland, along with almost a million men. The Grand Duke Nicholas Nicola...
