RUSSIA'S WAR STAFF
- HEAD OFFICE OF A GREJJT ■;■ .BUSINESS ENTERPRISE. • By Telegraph—Frew Association—OopyrtEht ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) (Reo. November 3, 3.15 p.m.) , . London, November 2. A-correspondent, describing the Russian Headquarters Staff, says that.there is no romance about'modern war. "No galloping aides, vibrating with excitement; war is now a huge business enterprise. 'The Russian Headquarters is situated in a secluded sDot in Western Russia, a number of switches connecting the spot with the main railway line. Here, in cars, living quietly, and peacefully, is a group of a hundred men, composing, the General Staff; A few panting automobiles, dashing here and there, two thousand Cossacks beyond, and hundreds of miles from this scene of tranquillity extends the enormous chain of the Russian front;' every point of which is connected by telegraphs.' In : these, cars here, free from the hurlyburly, are the brains of the army, able to command a. perspective of the whole theatre of the war." ' . ■
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2298, 4 November 1914, Page 5
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157RUSSIA'S WAR STAFF Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2298, 4 November 1914, Page 5
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