The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-04-21
EXPECT Big BATTLE
FIVE MILLION SOLDIERS ARE In
THE CARPATHIANS
DEATH GRIP IS COMING
Russian Military Experts Declare In.
yasion OF Hungary is Preliminary
Step to the Direct March to Berlin
-Germanic Empires Shift Men on


A Petrograd dispatch to the Lon
don Morning Post says that the mill
tary experts Of the Russian press are
divided in their opinion regarding
the meaning Of the" present opera
tions. The official military organ,
Russky Invalid, for more than a
month past has declared that as the
Carpathian operations develop and
after Hungary has been invaded the
Russians will drive forward in an
irresistible force upon the direct road
to Berlin from Warsaw.
The Noyoe Vremya expert scouts
this idea and points out that the
Grand Dukes strategy has had one
consistent aim from the outset OF
the war-namel to reach Berlin by
way Of Vienna. This expert shows
that the combined. forces Of Aus
trians and Germans now arrayed
against Russia from the Baltic to the
frontiers Of Roumania are not under
100000 men.
Moreover, the disposition Of the
farces, he says, has changed in the
past couple Of months. Some Aus
trian troops were with the Germans
in the Nieuen-Vistula raid. Between
the lower Vistula and the Dunajec
tributary Of the upper Vistula the
Austrians are now in the majority,
and the Germans, mainly represented
by a large artillery force, are concen-
trated especially on the northern sec
tions Of this front, chiefly on the
Bzura and generally against War
-,o7, nn tho TornaThSan front the
further one looks the more numerous
become the German forces. A new
formation Of German troops, which
again have been Withdrawn from the
Franco-Belgian front, continues to
move through Hungary.
''It is evident says the expert,
"that Germany, commanding the en-
tire military resources OF both Ger
manic empires, is preparing for q
general attack along the whole STRAIT.
egic front. Where men are fewer, the
endeayor is to be made by means OF
guns to supply their place, but the
whole 700 or 500 miles will shortly
be afame from end to end.
'eThe Grand Dukes strategy aims
at the occupation OF the rich plains
Of Hungary, with the double object OF
waging war at the enemy's expense
and assisting to starve Germany
which has been deriving large sup
plies from Hungary, instead Of strik-
ing at the German frontiers, which
have been rendered as impregnable
as human knowledge can make them.
"The Russians are thus, little by
little, cutting away all Germanys
supports until the moment is reached
when Germany must stand bare and
alone. A final effort viii then bring
the Germans topping down. Rus
sian strategy has turned all the Ger
man plans for this war upside down.
"a decisive battle may be expected
very shortly. The German disposi-
tions are approaching completion in
Bukowina and on the Niemen. Dis
plays of energy and diversions OF bat
tie will shortly be opened Dy Ger
many.
"If this means anything beyond
supposition," the Posts. correspond
ent adds, cit means that the Germans
hope to save the situation by an over
whelming blow from the ,Czensto-
schowa-Craeow front. In any case,
the next few weeks must see the
greatest battle in the worlds history,
the numbers arrayed in arms against
one another totalling 100000 men,
extended over 900 to 500 miles as the
crow flies. but actually over 1000
miles. -