To complete the balance it must be added that: 

1.  The German offensive in Poland was checked a month ago.

2.  The Russian offensive continues in Galicia and the Carpathians.

3.  A large part of the Turkish Caucasian army has been annihilated.

4.  Germany has exhausted her resources of officers, (there are now on an average twelve officers to a regiment,) and henceforth will only be able to develop her resources in men to the detriment of the existing units.

5.  The allied armies, on the contrary, possess the power of reinforcing themselves in a very considerable degree.

It may, therefore, be declared that in order to obtain complete success it is sufficient for France and her allies to know how to wait and to prepare victory with indefatigable patience.

The German offensive is broken.

The German defensive will be broken in its turn.

[It is evident from the report that the numbered German army corps are Prussian corps unless otherwise specified.]

THE FRENCH ARMY AS IT IS.

LONDON, March 18, (Correspondence of The Associated Press.)—­All of Part II., of the historical review of the war, emanating from French official sources, and purely from the French viewpoint, has been received by The Associated Press.  Part II, deals with the conditions in the French Army, furnishing a most interesting chapter on this subject under the title, “The French Army as it Is."

The compiler of the report, beginning this part of his review on Feb. 1, says that the condition of the French Army is excellent and appreciably superior to what it was at the beginning of the war from the three points of view of numbers, quality, and equipment.  Continuing, he says:

In the higher command important changes have been made.  It has, in fact, been rejuvenated by the promotion of young commanders of proved quality to high rank.  All the old Generals, who at the beginning of August were at the head of large commands, have been gradually eliminated, some as the result of the physical strain of war and others by appointment to territorial commands.  This rejuvenation of the higher ranks of the army has been carried out in a far-reaching manner, and it may be said that it has embraced all the grades of the military hierarchy from commanders of brigades to commanders of armies.  The result has been to lower the average age of general officers by ten years.  Today more than three-fourths of the officers commanding armies and army corps are less than 60 years of age.  Some are considerably younger.  A number of the army corps commanders are from 46 to 54 years of age, and the brigade commanders are usually under 50.  There are, in fact, at the front extremely few general officers over 60, and these are men who are in full possession of their physical and intellectual powers.