The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1914-11-27
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that Russian reports Of great victor7
les all along the line coincide the re-
ports from the western field Of large
German reenforcements to press the
attack in Flanders" 1t goes on to
suggest that probably 'the sweeping
Russian victory is simply successful
advance against a line somewhat
weakened and retiring in reasonably
good order to prepared defensive po-
sition, as after the battle of the
Marne.' The Springfield paper adds,
however, that while the German force
opposing Russia appears to be some
what weakened, the Russian armies
will hardly reach their maximum be-
fore January" The Brooklyn Eagle is
convinced that Berlin and Vienna are
In no immediate danger" According
to one theory, said to be of official
German origin, the German retreat
In Poland was part of a deep-laid
scheme on the part of General Won
Hindenberg to draw the Russians away
from their base. Berlin dispatches
quote Major Moran, military CORES
pondent Of the Tageblatt, as denying
the possibility of an effective Russian
invasian. THE German forces In the
East" he declares, ARE more than
strong enough to prevent the Rus
slams from gaining foothold on Ger
man territory. In Copenhagen
dispatch to the London Times we read
1T lis asserted in Berlin that Ger
many and Austria-Hungary now have
concentrated about 3,O0O,0O soldiers
on the line from Thorn to Krakow,
and this is, considered sufficient to
crush the Russian forces"
A Petrograd correspondent adds the
information that Germans have been
digging trenches and erecting barb
wire entanglements along the whole
Russian-German frontiel.," although
their main plan is to retire on the
fortresses of Konigsberg, Loethers,
Grandenz, Bromberg, Posen, Glogau,
Breslau and Niesse."
Bloody and terrible checks agrees
the edition of the New York Evening
Sun, are the natural thing to expect
now that Russia is on the margin of
Germany herself" But glancing at
the results of hundred days of war,
he goes on to say:
In the east it is no longer to be
doubted that there is real, efficient,
powerful Russian army, well equipped
effectively led. The Russia that the
Kaiser has to deal with is comparable
not with the Slav State which lost Port
Arthur, or even which faltered be-
fore Pleyna and failed at Sebastopol.
Rather it is the Russia that fought
Napoleon at Borodino and Frederick
At Aorndorf, Russia bound to give,
capable of enduring terrific blows"
Peculiarly ominous for Austria, ac-
cording to the same authority, are the
recent Russian successes. ut is per-
'ectly plain" he says, that Austrian
after brief amelioration,
lave again become well nigh desper-
ite.' And in proof of this he cites an
official statement from Vienna conced-
ng the return of Russian troops to
and Western Galicia. We |
'ead:
This admission means that two
Austrian provinces have been for a
second time almost completely evacu-
tied. Save for the invested fortress
II Przemysl, the passes of the Car
'athlans, and the immediate environs
II Krakow Galicia and Bukovina are
low In the hands of the Car.
This conquest is in itself consid-
rable. The combined area of Galicia
nd Bukovina is $4,000 square miles.
T three times that of Belgium. the
ggregate population 100000 against
100000 for Belgium, and perhaps
100000 for the districts in France
ow occupied by the Germans.
But neither population nor terri
Dry measures the extent of that dis
ster to Francis Joseph incident to
ne conquest of his Eastern provinces.
n the various operations his armies
ave three times suffered terrible de-
eat. at Lemborg in the oneninp dave
nd at Rawaruska, Jaraslov, Tomazov h
4 the later days, and now finally be-
ore Ivangorod and along the San. =
Moreover, at the end of four months