The Prescott daily news., 1916-08-12
FAMOUS CRITIC
 THINKS GERMANS SAFE

Ilnue thelf terrible sacrifices lndeiin- itely.
 "The French have done the lions share of the work in Picardy. They attacked with the greatest bravery, as they did in the Champagne year ago, but the small strip of territory won by them is nowhere more than 1 l-2 miles wide and they did not sue Iceed in reaching Peronne.
 In their daily official reports they have far more to say about the Ger man counter blows than about their town attacks. They are already show ing signs of exhaustion and looking IanXiously toward their British allies, who have been plainly told by the Echo de Paris and other French pap CTS that they will have to get a move on,' to use slang expression.
 Many of the French papers, with the consent of the censor, angrily com Iment on the fact that the British are tagging behind and have accomplish ed but little along their section of the battle front between the Ancre and the Somme. To refute this re- proach the English mysteriously hint that their main blow would be struck at another point. This may be true, but We await further developments calmly. The result of the battles fought since the first of July has con- IVinced us that the numerically enor- nous British army is not able to drive us back to the Rhine.
 "In the meantime our offensive a. gainst Verdun continues unimpaired. We are well able to beat back all the desperate counter attacks of the French before the fortress and to ad- vance nearer our goal step by step.
 "The neutral press discusses the possible consequences of the fall of Verdun. We connot join this debate, but we know that the German general staff, trained in the spirit of Moltke, does not make large sacrifices to gain temporary success of doubtful value, but always looks far ahead.
 The Russian offensive proves more durable than anybody expected. Aft CT pause on the southeastern front lit has started anew and at tn same time General Kuropatkin~began tre- mendous attack against the lines of Field Marshal von Hindenburg and Prince Leopold of Bavaria in the
 North. Bitter battles were fought between Riga and Dvinsk along the Shtchara, on both sides of the Barano- Iwitchi railroad and along the Oginski canal, but everywhere our troops vic toriously repelled the onslaughts of the enemy.
 Further south, in Volhynia, Gen eral von Linsingen has been compell- ed to fall back across the Stokhod riv CT. west of Lutsk the Russians have crossed the Galician border at Brody, the army of General von Brothmer | had to retire from the Strypa to the Koropiec, the Russians have advanced | q little west of Kolemea and south Of the Pruth the Austro- Hungarian front has been pushed back to the Carpath- ians.
 "These successes of the Russians are of little practical value, because our front has nowhere been broken In the the Bukowina General von Ptlan- ger Baltin faced Russian forces which were numerically six times stronger his. For a time his army was in dangerous position and threatened with annihilation, but he skillfully withdrew toward the Carpathians, in- flicting heavy losses upon the Russians in the rearguard actions. Ills hnes remained intact and he was able to start a counter attack as soon as ne received endorsements.
 Flaw long the Russians will be able to continue their efforts connot be es- t;mated. Grand Duke Nicholas agaln dominates the Russian general stan and has given orders that the Austro- German lines must be broken regard less of the cost. The present Russian strategical methods are exactly the same as during the first year of the war. The Russian borders will con time their onslaughts until exhaust ion stops them. They may reach the wall of the Carpathians, but there III ....l,. dnch them selves to