Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-07-15
THE NEW RUSSIA.

report from the fighting forces of Rus
STA; there is no doubt that he reports
correctly what he sees, but we cannot
be sure that the view accepted where
Brussiloff commands is one that is
typical of Russia as whole. Gen
Scott says the Russian soldier is obed-
lent to discipline, understands the sit
uation and is fighting finely; would
this view be sustained upon an exam
iration of the whole front?
Gen. Brussiloff is propably the abb
est fighting man of the entente arm
les. Upon the declaration Of war he
asked for removal to the Galician
front; he saw that a movement upon
Germany from the north would be diff
fcult because of the Mazurian lakes;
an invasion from the center would be
delayed by the fortresses placed along
the route with admirable judgment; he
: has remained during the whole war
where we find him today and has made
himself continuing danger to both
Vienna and Berlin.
To save Paris Russia attacked pre-
maturely, having an insufficient stock
OF munitions and without waiting for
! the mobilization of her full strength.
! because Brussiloff had made his re-
quest for service on the southern end
of the line he and Ruzski advanced in
to Galicia. Samsonoff and Rennen-
kampf on the northern end invaded
East Prussia and the central attack
from Warsaw was made by Grand
Duke Nicholas and AleXeieff The
northern attack came to grief around
the Mazurian lakes; the central attack
dissipated its strength against the
fortresses of Konigsberg, Dantzig,
Posen and Glogau and Przemysl and
Cracow; the result is an old story, but
the moral is new. On the south Brus-
| sells and Ruzski struck hard and won
OUT into the Carpathians they plunged
and their calvary was squirting over
the plains OF Hungary when the re-
treat of their comrades exposed their
tanks; they brought back their armies
unbroken and unbeaten
The southern route gives the Rus
sian way through the country of the
Czechs and Slovake and Ruthenians,
their relatives and friends; the success
was repeated last year and again this
year. When the proclamations of the
republican regime left the armies with
out leadership Brussiloff only forbade
the agitatora entrance to his camps;
his armies only have preserved their
discipline intact. During the weeks of
doubt he allowed no correspondents
among his men; he kept his men isolat-
ed from the disorders in Petrograd
He went with the other generals to
demand the changes which resulted in
she leadership of Kerensky and he al
loved no determination with the Ger
mans.
1t is not surprising that the armies
of Brussiloff and the generals about
him are ready to strike hard they
have always been ready to advance ex-
cept when they lacked ammunition.
But for this reason we may be sur
prised if we assume with Gen. Scott
that other Russian armies possess the
: same spirit; they suffered from the
Generalization which never touched
the men of Brussiloff and Ruzski
These have the same leaders they have
known from the beginning of the war;
the leaders who are not only fighters
but fnanciers and statesmen enough to
keep them supplied with fighting ma
terial. We may suppose that the
French won the battle of the Marine
because the invading armies had been
drawn upon for the divisions that stop
ped the Russian advance; the Germans
retreated in France that they might
drive back the Russians. Perhaps the
Germans did not pass at Verdun be-
cause they found it necessary to stop