Bisbee daily review., 1915-08-08
TIE FATE OF WARSAW.

The FAVE Or WARSAW
It is nothing new for Warsaw to be captured. That
has been her fate over and again for centuries
It is the price she pays for being the capital Of buffer
state between great powers The City Of the Broken
Heart" her children call her Always lies in the path
of trampling armies
once she was the Berlin of Europe-the capital Of
proud strong and warkc people From Warsaw John
sovesky rode forth back the saracen hordes
at Vienna and saved Western Europe Turkish rule
But the very independence Of Poles proved their
-uin They quarreled among themselves much that
a strong central government impossible.
In 1855 the swedes, under Charles Gusavus invaded
Poland and captured Warsaw and Cracow. That mis-
ortune drove the Poles into unity they and swept
ut the invader But the swedes again in 1902,
under Charles XII and he captured though they
failed to subdue the entire kingdom.
I From that time Poland was doomed Catherine Of
Russia plotted its ruin and the kingdom paroned
among Russia Prussia and Austria In 1894 Koscnsko
headed revolt Warsaw and drove out the Russians
but they returned under General suvaro and put down
the instruction with incredible cruelty.
Napoleon captured Warsaw in 1906, and re-esablshed
ancient Poland as the autonomous Duchy Of Warsaw,
which crumbled to pieces after he beaten Water
loo Revolts broke again in 1880 and in 1862 and
during the recent RussoJapanese war but always with
out success
Now this ancient Polish capital. the commercial and
manufacturing center Of Europe seat of racial
art and culture is passing under the yoke of new
master And just as Poland slips Of Russa's hands
Russia promises the Pees to their ancient king
DOM granting them autonomy under the Russian crown
Can Russia fulfill her promise? Has trampled and
bleeding Poland, with her abebodied men slaughtered
by hundreds of thousands in hostile armies, with her
women and children starving ugitives with her cities
and villages smoldcrng ruins and her fertile lands made
barren desolaon anything hope for as recompense
for suherngs greater than Belgiums?
It is too soon to answer that question It should be
observed, however that the of Warsaw is not SC
serious as it might seem In fact Russian military plans
prepared years ago contemplated the defense Of
Poland in the early stages Of the war
Poland makes salient" bordered by hostile territory
on the north west and south and is correspondingb
hard to protect Russia intended in Of strong
German invasion, to fall back line of defense fa
to the cast of Warsaw thereby Strengthening her from
tier Then as she gathered her full military resources
she would sweep westward and clear he from the
country
The German plan was first to sweep westward crush
ing Belgium and France by quick drive taking Paris il
six weeks, then to turn and crush Russia In tire
months they figured they would have Warsaw.
AS matters stand Germany, besides having failed ii
her strategic object in the western theatre of war ha
taken four times as she expected to Denetrat
Russia as far as she has.
.. That the Russians have been driven of Poland
all seems due to their own fatal lack Of guns and an
e munition and the overwhelming superiority Of Germa
3, numbers and equipment in this last campaign.
L. Three previous attempts have failed First the Au
TRANS drove toward Warsaw from the southwest, an
h were outhanked and forced to retire Then after d.
T. fcang Russian army in East Prussia, the German
IS made frontal drive toward the Polish capital. whic
was repulsed with terrific Again after crushn
b. another Russian army among Mazurian lakes, tn
st Germans attacked Warsaw from the northwest witho
Re success Finally they adopted the tactics Of
re vast aankng movement, sweeping the Russians out
Gacia and then closing in Poland from the north al
south simultaneously pivotng Warsaw and trying
catch the Russian armies them in vast militia
a. ,nutcracker. They nearly succeeded but the brllia
TT Grand Duke cxtrcated his armies
And so the Russians are stiIl unbeaten-ther army
OF mains intact
en- Territory lost matters little in modern warfare esT
he cally in Russia Napoleon took Moscow and the wor
knows the fate of Napoleon's Russian campaign wi
u devastated behind them ana with constantly mu
in plying enemies them who will have vast
he Inducements and ample ammunition the German iny'
lot ers may be driven in within few months
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NEUTRALITY