South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-08-06

ON To MOSCOW? MI.
The fall OF Warsaw. former capital
OF Poland. has been too long antici-
pated TO be much Of a surprise. per-
haps, even 10 the Russians The Ger
nlaa-American cry. however. OF ION
TO Moscow. and then to Petrograd,
sounds 10 US very much like a small
boy hollering in an empty rain barrel.
Germany viii scarcely be foolish
enough TO undertake this Napoleonic
failure. She may have learned from
the Corsican's experience that fighting
Russia's winter winds and Russian
soldiers are two different matters.
Besides fighting the Russians beyond
Warsaw. with better equipment OF the
Russian element and fighting this
side with the Russian equipment at a
minimum. are two different PROPOSE
tions. 1t must not be forgotten that
from America across the Pacific and
the Bering sea, speeding across Asiatc
Russia toward PetrOgrad and Moscow,
is such a supply OF ammunition and
arms. cannon and shell. as the Rus
slams have never before had at their
command. and. despite the fall Of
Warsaw. Russia still has plenty of
men. our guess is that Germany will
not attempt to move much farther into
the interior OF Russia but will spike
her guns and stay pretty near where
she is. defying the Russians to come
back"
This has been the German system on
the western frontier and it may be
also. on the eastern. She is barring
her enemies from her soil and firmly
entrenched. fights on the defensive
sa.sded 20 play the waiting game
T7ais reserves Germany with all her
material resources for the production
OF army supplies Starving out Ger
many with her farms and factories
and genius intact Will be a most diff
eult matter The allies-except Eng
land.-fghting on their own soil, and
unable to forge very much ahead.
stand pretty nearly as much chance Of
being orn out.
closer trade relations between the
United States and Russia, incident to
tho war, is but a natural consequence,
and has opened for US a market from
which Germany will suffer even long
after the war is over despite her self
preservation now. our ships crossing
the Atlantic to Archangel and the Pa
oifc TO Vladivostock. carrying NUM-
tions and other manufactures to Rus
STA. want cargoes for their return trip.
And we need Russia's sugar beet seed,
fertilizer, hides. skins and mineral oils.
The Russian government has lifted
its embargo on the export of mer-
chandise to this country, which was
never intended as a discrimination
against us but as precautiOn against
the exports reaching her enemies by
reshipment That danger is disposed
OF by an arrangement by which our
federal department of commerce will
be sponsor for the legitimate cOnsump-
ton of Russian goods which will be
consigned TO it.
We have never had any trade with
Russia worth speaking of. our total
imports from Russia and Siberia in
the year before the war were only
$4,000. zoo. and our exports to those
countries S31.OOO.OOO The chief rea-
son is that heretofore we have dealt
with Russia through Germany. Since
the war began. our manufacturers
have received orders for hundreds Of
millions of dollars worth Of railroad
cars, steel rails. arms, ammunition.
etc. The trade. in both directions, is
sure TO expand enormously. covering
a much wider range of goods. 1t will
be long before Russia resumes her old
trade relations with Germany. She
is eager tC do business with us, and is
urging us to enter her market. Never
was there a great. promising, COM
mercial held 20 be won with less eff
fort.