The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1914-11-27
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Grating on a battle line aggregating
hundreds OF miles, the Russian armies
have driven back an invading force
estimated at 100000 men, the re-
treat being forced at rate of four
teen miles day. 1T is in Poland
and Galicia," remarks a writer in the
New York Evening Post. that war has
retained its dramatic aspects-rapid
marches, heavy engagements, decisive
results, swift retreats, surprise at
-tacks, thanking movements, sharp rear
guard actions" CHANGING back over
the war this observer goes on to, say.
In East Prussia. in Poland, aud in
Galicia. the battlelines have swayed
back and forth, not hundreds OF yards
at time as in the west, but twenty
five, fifty. one hundred miles at a
time. The first phase In East Prus-
STA began with the Russians close to
Konigsberg and ended with the tre-
mendous slaughter at Tannenberg.
Two weeks later the Prussians we're
pressing deep into Russian territory
and hammering at the line OF the Me
man. Two weeks later the Russians
were surging back against the Prus-
sian frontier. In Galicia, by the
middle of September, the Russians had
crossed tho San and we're pressing for
ward on Krakow. Three weeks later
they were back Of the San and in full
retirement before the Austrians. To-
day they are once more across the
river and once more moving on Kra-
kow. The most dramatic change of
I'all has occurred in central Poland.
On October 20 the Russians we're battl-
ing to save Warsaw today the Ger
mans have retreated close to $50 miles
and the Russian vanguard is across
the Silesian frontier"
The same writer, who analyses each
days war news for the Evening Posts
readers, finds in this last result more
than fair justification for the exult-
ant Russian claim voiced in a tele-
gram from the Grand Duke Nicholas
to General Joffre that the Russians
have gained the greatest victory since
the beginning of the war" This claim
we are told, refers to the conflict
which began near Warsaw on October
Ia and ended, for the moment, with
the occupation of Jaroslov. We read
further:
During these three weeks of fight
ing the Russians have beaten at least
three great armies-the German host
which advanced through central Po-
land against Warsaw, the Austrian
army which advanced through south
ern Poland against Ivangorod and the
Austrian army or more than one ar
my, which had advanced in Galicia
against the River San, driven the Rus
slams from Jaraslov, virtually COM 1
PEELED the abandonment of the siege
of Przemysl, and at one time seemed
to threaten the evacuation of Lemberg
won by the Russians in the course of
the first month of the war The Aus
tro-German forces thus defeated must
have numbered a million men. Taking
the events of the last three weeks as
parts OF single operation, no such |
battle has been fought since the be- |
ginning of the war on either front |
Add to this the fact that on the East |
Prussian frontier the Russians have
been pressing forward till they are
now once more on German soil. and |
the completeness Of the victory is RI
vailed only by the full round of the
German successes In France and Bel
GUM during the third week of Au-
gust"
Now we are told that Russia pre-
sents an unbroken battle-line from the
Baltic to the Dniester, and for the
first time since the beginning of the
war, the way lies open to formidable
Russian thrust along the line" To
quote the Evening Posts expert once
more:
Taking the situation in Poland in
conjunction with the situation in the
west the fourteenth week of the war
closes ominously for the KAISER. At
the beginning of the war it was as
5umed that the Allies in the west must
play the anvil to the Russian ham
mer. Both functions have been re-
alized-the French and English by
holding stubbornly, the Russians by