The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-10-22
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BY MJsIG0VlTEs
Fight This as Hard as They DO
the Teutons, Says Min
lister to Greece.

lister to Greece.
ATHENS oct. 81 That Russia Is
warning quite as much against mil
itarism in Russia Itself as in Germany
is the declaration of Prince Demidoff
the duke of San Donate, who Is i'm
perial Russian minister 10; Greece. In
a frank summary of the present sit
uation IN sRiissia, ! Prince Demidoff
told the Associated Press correspond
ent that he Gould not Ste upon what
the German Chains to victory over
Russia were based, and he developed q ]
view OF MS owntot the situation which
left the central empires In perilous
rather than q satisfa ctory position,
following their successful drive on
the imperial forces OF Russia
Prince Denidoff's family is popu-
1arly supposed to be the richest in
Russia, ITS foundations having been
laid in the time of Peter the Great by
Mkita Demidoh. who opened up some
immensely productive mines at New
iansky, In the Ewaterin enbourg dis
trict Of the empire in 1888, The first
OF the DemidoGs became the KruppI
Of this day, having been entrusted by
PeterIth Great with the manufacture,
Of cannon for the imperial armies. \
German Drive Fails.
From every. standpoint said
Prince Demidoff, ':the German drive !
on Russia seems to have been as much
OF a failure as the German drive on
Paris a year ago. It had two deti-
mite objects--to crush the Russian
army in q great pincers, and to force
Russia to sue for separate peace.
1.-THE first has patiently failed. The
Germans have given It UP. They are
digging themselves in, as they did In !
France. and are preparing to trans
fer part OF their troops elsewhere. 1t,
was mad thing to attempt, anyhow
you might as well call 1t a. drive on
Irkutsk as anything else, for all the
definite object 1t may be said to have
had. Pounding at. an immense Rus
sian force. withdrawing with admire
able order across the Russian steppes,I
is like chasing q will o. the wisp
through a swamp.-the farther you 20 |
the worse 1t gets, and the less chance
you have to get out safe and sound. |
Russia is like pillow-you can make I
IA hollow in it by punching 1t with |
your fist; but when You take your
fist away, slowly, inevitably, 1t comes
back"
"But suppose the fist ID kept there ?"
Germans Pay Price.
How long do you suppose the Ger
mans can do that? It's simply a prob
lem in mathematics. Remember one
thing: the farther an. army extends
its line, the more men are required /
to hold the line; and the farther the
line is from its base. the more men
are required to feed and clothe and
supply 1t with munitions. And the
increase is In geometrfc, not aritn-
metfc progression; while at the same
time the process Of extending the line
in the face of series Of daily rear-E
guard actions. itself reduces the ell
fectiye with which the movement %
made. For there is no advance with
out its price in men-dead. perna-
nently disabled, and those taken pris-
oner-as well as in the freshness or
the troops engaged,
Now with the Austrians and Ger
mans there is a definite known, maxi
imum number of men available. It
may be as great as you please, but 1t
is fixed. Every German killed, .peryna-
nently disabled or taken prisoner Is
one available German less. That Is
the key of the whole situation; It is
a problem I'd subtraction. So long as
the Austrians and Germans have not
succeeded in crushing Russia the
process of subtraction goes on indef-
nitely. Extending their line only hast
ems the inevitable end, because 1t in
creases the number OF, men essential
merely to hold, the line,
So, on the German side, you have
two cardinal elements of the situa-
ton neither OF which is an element
of victory; price paid in men and
strength without definite, concrete re-
suit: and an ever increasing price to n
pay in the necessity for supplying and II
rictualizfng an immensely extended
line. On the Russian side you have II
two predominant elements. neither of n
which is an element of defeat: an I'M
broken, undiscoufaged. determined
force and an, as yet, scarcely serious I:
ly touched reservoir of fresh troops.
Unlimited Security. |,
"Ihc same analogy holds true Of
the financial situation Of the central
empires in relation. to the allied pow 1
ers, and especially to Russia. Our re.
sources, our borrowing capacity, II you
please, Is virtually unlimited, because
the securities weshave to offer are I'M |,
limited. The resources of the central
empires are very limited indeed. and
do not become less SO with time.
at is In the knowledge OF this that
we are serene in our conviction OF
final and complete victory.
1.-The second purpose OF the Ger
man drive on Russia was to force
Russia to conclude q separate peace.