THE GREAT WAR TO COME.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1297, 7 January 1887, Page 3

THE GREAT WAR TO COME.

A wnvk entitled ‘•From Vistulatn tin IJfiiioiii-r,” just piiMialnd in Haas over, is crouting consi leruliln sensation on the* Coiitinent. The author—who signs himself “'arm it ions.” nnd is Bin'll to Im a distinguished officer in the German stuff—sti ts from tlie P'intbf view that Kiiss'nn Ohanvitiism is an invndi g elomeit which tluvatens ('emnnv in panii.uihir, ih-t svur between the two IVter.s is ine'itdde s lOiit-r nr latter, and that in cous qnoncu tne g re.- I test vig Imca is n«o-'Surv on the pai t of th« G.n insus oud their allies, the Anst.iifis. Tl.“ writer I logins by do-ci ibing tint ddlicnltios tlie Germ in «-uny woul 1 hj vo r.o on- onntnr on Rn— ims >il, and (he m-u uivs to hn token to overcotntt i hem. Ile gives a detailed nee -lint of ihn fin-tifioit.ions with which linssin husstiM g'lieued her frontiers during the 1 mst few years. Go says tli.it

.’ii sin, nc■r>r |iug to offi hul stiuis'ic.s pi soi-fs nt th . pi-e-ent moni' iit about OOO.dO!) lighting men. out, this formidable forts , admitting it exis s, is ei.cumbered by tniim-rmis def ets, not ibly want <f mo >i:isuti m. He thinks iU it Gorn aUi' woo d Ik; uhle to ooncentrate herat'acking forces in one I ho d of tin; time required by Kus-ia. However, in spite <d their Ml peri r oigaiii-e.iti.iii, he confesses that tlie Germans would not be certain if victory widiont the assistance of Austria, The He'd of Inn tie would probably Iks confined to I i hnniii.u. on 'he Lower Meiu«p; Poland, iiutwee . tlie Vistula and tin; Bug; and Volhyniu on the Upper Bug. The author does not 'olieve that tit; Uus-sioi-i nonll abandoii Pnan-i and withdraw to the inter! -r, as they dil in 1&I2. 'I his plan c>st them so dcvlv then that it would be fdly to repeat it now The ultimate aim ot the i voders should not be • t. Petersb irgh, Inn, Moscow. St Peteriliurgli iyttu artiticiul c eati n; it is not the real cipital nt the Liu pi re. Moscow, on iho contrary, is the heart of Hus si.u ; in u tdit-i m the route to it is nine faviindile than the r-nite to St. Peter - Imrgti. As to ill.; ditraii p of a war, it is probable a year would nor suffice, but everything would depend Oil the Season and the re,sis mice offered by tip* Russians. Germany, however, slion d not shrink from the immensity of the tusk. The difficulties would not l e wlut they were in IS. 2 The conditics ate no longer tho same. Tlie piincipal diffi.uibics encountered by Napoleon the First—nuuielr, the defective cmnmunic.tuons between tlie army and his base of operations have bo ii cousiderab’y <lecreasiJ by the railways. The '-erinau urmy,\oo is armed mid equipped in a manner very ililTorent from that of la grand?, armee. Respecting the tactics of ilu; Kusniaus, ho repudiates the iduv of their again burning thou towns, which would lie less to their advantage than to the'r invaders. The Germans, well provisioned, with the base of their opeiutious eecuro, could cou«

template calmly the burning of Mos« cow, winch would do them no harm. The Russians, on the contrary, would thereby destroy their resources and inflict Immense loss on tho country Sava “ Sarnuticus," in conclusion : “The Germans have no reason to desire war with Russia, because, supposing them victorious, it would eutail on them great and lasting evils ; but should it be forced on Germany by the influence of Panslavist agitators, we could take up the glove in tall and entire confidence as to the result ”