Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-11-11

miles of that city before the nearness
OF the invaders was discovered. Gem
eral Won Morgan had completely sur
prised the Russians. Had he attacked
the night of his arrival before the city,
instead of waiting until the following
morning. the coveted prize would have
fallen into his hands with scarcely no
resistance. it is said.
The Austrians have not been able to
cross the San I'M Russia seems safe
enough from that quarter for the pres
ent at least and in the meantime Rus
sian troops are arriving at the front in
units of hundreds of thousands.
While the Russians doubtless will not
make good the czar's boast that he
would eat his Christmas dinner in Ber-
lin. the results in the eastern theater
OF war have. up to the present time,
been favorable to the Russian arms.
Their successes lave not been easy
ones. They have paid dearly with blood
for every foot of ground gained and
defended. The losses they have in
flicted upon the Germans have been
less severe than the punishment dealt
their Austrian enemy.
The battle line along the Russo
German frontier now is strung out
like that of the Aisne in France and
Belgium and the Russians appear to
be attempting o%utf1anking movements
just as the allies did in France.
While the Russian army has dis
playe much better g%eneralship and
better discipline and morale than in
the late war with Japan, it is by it's
numerical superiority hat in the end
1T will be able to inflict the heaviest
damage. According to latest accounts,
100000 men under arms and in the
held-the majority of them at the
front. No nation on earth could mus
ter a force equal to 1t in so short q
time.
German Naval Feats.
But all the damage Inflicted by he
belligerents Upon each other has not
been confined to land fighting. The
navies have not been idle. There have
been several minor clashes at sea and a
series of submarine raids by the Ger
mans that have startled the world for
their daring and c~leverness. German
commerce has been badly crippled by
British sea scouts, while British,
French, Japanese and Russian com
merce has not entirely escaped the
prowess OF the German cruisers set to
watch the paths Of ocean traffic. In
fact. numbers considered, the Ger
mans have given a better account Of
themselves than has the Wanted naval
strength of the allies.
This war. which has shaken civiliza-
ton to its very foundation, Is by no
means q From the opening of
hostilities the Germans have fought
an offensive fight. No government
ever sen SO formidable an army to
the front Is that which swept through
Belgium n was only halted at the
gates of Paris. True. the Germans
have been forced back both on the
east and on the west, but they have
not yet. assumed a strictly defensive
attitude. If the Germans are COM
PEELED in the end to fall back to their
own soil and conduct a strictly deren-
sive campaign. they will make it lust
as hard for the allies to penetrate Ger
man territory al the allies have made
1t for them in their attempts to con-
quer France.
The entrance Of Turkey into the gen.
eral conflict. has not been unexpected
and had been discounted and prepared
for by b allies. Turkeys action, how
ever. may be the torch that will set off
the smouldering Dire in the Balkans