The Prescott daily news., 1916-08-12
FAMOUS CRITIC
 THINKS GERMANS SAFE
Says French and British Offen- sive Will not Hurt Germans. Russians Must Stop at the Carpathians.
By International News Service

Berlin, Aug. l2.-The Berlin "Tage- blatt' publishes a long interview of the latest developments of the war by Major Ernest Morahat, the most famous German military critic. He sees no danger for the Central Powers in the present situation, although he comedies that the efforts of the Allies are more serious than ever before.
 In part he says:
 Our enemies are jubilant over their joint offensive. For the first time, after many failures, they have sue ceeded in reaching a certain unity of action, but it is an open question whether the British did not start their attempts at an advance too early and the Russians too late. This question can only be answered definitely when we learn to what extent the grouping of the German forces has been infuen- ced by the strategy of the Allies.
 French and English military critics are astonished by the fact that so far very few transfers of German troops have taken place. Indirectly they admit that the initiative still re- mains on our side in spite of the offen- sive movements started against our lines on all fronts. We are attacking before Verdun as We did before, and on the rest of the western front our defense has increased in strength since the Allies struck their blow in Picardy. Strategical!y it matters very little if a few dents are knocked into our long line here and there.
 Tn the East our defense also is as powerful as ever. The Russian offen- sive has not changed the strategic situation and it will, in my estimation not succeed, because it is aimless.
 We are told in dispatches from Petrograd that Lemberg is to be re- conquered to reestablish the prestige of the Russian Armies, but the events ol the last two months show plainly the general staff of the Czar had no definite plan when the Generals Brus- ilotf and Kuropatkin received orders to strike The military expert of Bud . apest, Lloyd" sized up the Russian operations properly when he remark cd last week.
 "'The colossus mechanically starts , to move, but the Russian general staff does not know which direction it will take. That is left to fate. If the , steam roller seems to advance in the , direction of Kovel the Russian strate- gists announce that they intend to capture this important railroad center, but as soon as they find their way barred they decide that Lemberg, the capital of Galicia, really is the ob- feet of their efforts
 There is no doubt that the Russ ian offensive was principally under taken to bring relief to the French and Italians and to influence Rou- mania. The hope of the Allies to bring the Roumanian army to their side will again be disappointed, however, be- cause the comparatively unimportant successes of General Brusiloff have made but little impress on the govern ment at Bucharest.
 "The Italians have at least tempor- arilv been saved by the Russian offen- sive against the Austro-Hungarian front in Eastern Galicia and the Bulk owina. The Austrains were compell- ed to withdraw troops from the Italian front. Co give up their victorious ad- vance between the Adige and the Brenta and to fall back against their own frontier but Count Cadorna knows very well that the sledge ham, mer blows against his forces will be renewed as soon as the Russian of fensive stops.
 "The big push of the English and French on the western front has not proyed the success our enemies expect ed it to be. Although the battle on both sides of the Somme continues there is now but little danger that the Allies will break through our front We hold numerically superior forces of the enemy and give them a chance to bleed themselves to death in vain attacks.
 "The small gains made by the British and French troops have beer very costly and we may well doubt