Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-06-21
GERMAN SUCCESS IN THE EASTERN
CAMPAIGN.

GermaHy's victory Of strategy, energy an
sheer courage in the Gafician campaign shine
brighterday by day as the broken Russian arm
les are forced over the border upon their ow
soil and the collapse of their great invasio
becomes complete
Not since the great German drive throug
Belgiuniand into France that opened this wa
of giants has there been such victory as tina
of the Austro Germans in Galicia And thoug
Austria has supplied much Of the weight o
men nd.artiIlery. TO Germany goes the credit
for the Germans have turned an Austrian dis
asfer into an important victory for the Teutoni
Allies.
Four times now Grand Duke Nicolaievitch'
llordes Of Slavs and Mongols have been throw
back ilrJerrible defeat. HOW much longer cal
the Russians stand this horrible battering
How much longer will they continue to he
menace to Germany and Austria!
If the Russian soldier did not have re
markable powers of endurance, if the Russian
mass htpte under decorating. punishment a,
men less phlegmatic and stole break, Petrograt
would indeed be forced to recast the entire plar
of campaign and enter upon defense instead
Of an oifense But what Frederick the Great
learned in 1913, Wilhelm III is learning in 1915
that the characteristic of Russian troops is
their imperturbablity, their stubbofnness il
the face of disaster that would smash to flinders
the troops of any other European nation. Re
Gently Edward Foord, writing of Napoleon Is
Russian campaign, pointed out as a parallel for
the great Corsican' S experience. that in the bat
tie of Zondorf Frederick the Great bfoks 10th
wings Of the Russian defenders but the center
stood up and fought back through the day and
until night gave them chance to retire slowly
and in good order.
In tins quality Of the Russian lies not only
the hope of Russia today, but the hope of the
Allies for an fi6is the & al af
Russia caR~tuFn again. bring. M. reserves md
new armies and start another southern invas-
ion, the Austro- Germans cannot detach many
hundred Thousand from the east front 10 feg,el
The Italians soll Tire south, OF fd flfF6w Ak the
French, British and Belgian lines on the west
And speaking of the west, the May campaign
has been keen disappointment 70 the Allies.
II has failed to produce any great results. In
fact, the German slash at Ypres was the feature
OF the months fighting on the west. And de-
spatches last Friday indicated that the Ger
mans at Iabassee are sending their human bat
tering rams against the opposing lines with
such dauntless energy as TO dispel at once any
idea that the strain of the winter and spring
has exhausted them
As the first year Of the great war draws near
its close the Teutonic Allies have disproved
most of the theories that critics voiced when
von Kluck dash to the west was halted 30
miles FROM Paris, Thrown on hesdefensiye
nenaeed in East Prussia, in Galicia in the Car
pathians; their commerce .sexered; their raw
materials and supplies from abroad cut off;
their navy bottled 1p-the 'Teutonic Allies have
found within themselves remarkable strength
and devotedness that is not less Than eonsecra-
ton to the cause. Their organization; years
Of preparation; unity of national feeling, all
have given the Germans not only means and
Strength 10 hold the conquered territory to the
west but TO rebuild the Austrian armies and
Furnish military brains as well as several hun
bred thousand soldiers.
An illustration of German devotion to the
cause is the preparation OF the nation against
shortage IN food supplies, Al oyer the Father
land lawns and parks never before under cult
nation Lac been poughed and narrowed and
sowed with grains and planted with vegetables.
In the cities every vacant lot and many by
Sireets and alleys are being cultivated. With
PASSIONATE energy the Germans are turning to-
The soil to save them from,t the effects Of a sun
dered commerce As result, Germany s cereal
Yield may be doubled this year though two
million men have been withdrawn from agri-
cnlture. Women and children are .tilling the
6elds, oxen. COWS and even old men are drag
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