The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-06
War DOpesters Turn More At.
tentiOn to the East
WHERE Gar AND KAISER FACE
London Now Realizes Need of
Russia's Victory There
To Draw Germany's Attentions
From Western Campaign.

LOnOOn, oct. 6.-The correspondent
of the Daily News at Copenhagen tel
egraphs the following:
Vivid accounts Of the fighting an
pear in the German newspapers ana
the writer's admit the situation il des.
perate.
The Nordeutsche Allgemeine Zei-
tung, describing the frontier fighting
In the Vosges regions. says:
The officers and men have been
nghting day and night for 81 DAYS and
the Germans are. facing a difflcult
strategic situation in the mountain
districts where they are rendering SUI
perhuman services. chiefly in water.
niled trenches and under almost in.
describable conditions.
The strain is said to be almost
uncomfortable. The French are forti-
neo In excellent positions on the
Vosses and 1t is impossible to see their
guns. No German troops have been
able to retire from the fighting line
for rest.
The army chaplains accompany
the troops right to the front and are
holding religious services and preach
ing sermons in the trenches.
weather is causing much
News Is COnteabaud.
LONDON. Oct. $50 far as London
Is concerned for the last IL hours
news has been contraband OF var
Wnen the embargo is lifted the public
expects tfdings of great moment and
there is a distinct tendency to optim-
ism regarding the nature of the revel-
ations.
The French ministry of war in ex-
planning the necessity for the official
communications being lacOnic, stateo
that 1t is useless to be more explicit IL
the battles in the valleys of the Aisne
authorities know that the conflict
will be tedious and prolonged before a
decisive result Is obtained.
Even the small relief afforded by
the news of great activity in the east
sent out yesterday has ceased TODAY
and the iron enclosure of the censor
ship has extended to the region where.
throughout the war, news Of the mill
tary operations have been more acces-
sible than in any other theater of the
warfare.
Victory for one side or the other
along the Russian frontier, is of su-
preme Importance and the tremendous
battle. impending there may mark the
climax Of the war.
Much Depends on East.
The military experts are beginning
to appreciate the fact that the attacks
now being made on either flank Of
the western army are not entirely
turning movements which depend for
their effectiveness on speed and sur
prise. Little evidence of either has
been shown on the allies left If,
however. the Russians win a great vic
tory in the east it will compel the Ger
mans to divert some of their western
armies in that direction and the flank
movement will become crushing at
tacks which will crumple up the de-
pleted German lines.
On the other hand If the Russians
are the victims of a severe reverse.
some Of the veteran German CORDS will
be released for service in the west
and the Germans may pierce the nu-
merically inferior allied line. Which
ever side can extend its line the fur
thest without weakening its front
ought. according to the experts, to
win the battle of the Aisne. Hence
the crucial importance of the battle
on the Russian border
The battle line along the Russian bor-
der is not continuous but the intervals
separating the various armies are COM
paratively small gaps and the whole
territory along the frontier from TIL
to Dukla Pass in the Carpathians
bristles with arms
No battle front extends beyond Dukla
Pass but small mobile Russian forces
are harrying the plains of Hungary.
The longest continuous Russian line ex-
tends from Dukla Pass to a point al
most on the Vistula river, a short dis
tance from Warsaw. This is Composed
OF the armies which swept over Galicia
5ected invasion of Silesia.