MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1915. THE WAR.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 82, 13 September 1915, Page 2

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1915. THE WAR.

The long lista ol casualties that have been arriving of late bring home to us with painful sadness tbe terrible nature of the warfare in which our boys are engaged. They are proving their valour and their worth as warriors, but the price *:f victory is high, for it mußt mean the loss of the lives of many of our best, whom the race can ill afford to loss. The news is sad, and it will be impossible to relieve the aching hearts of the bereaved, but they ought lo find some consolatiou in the fact that their beloved ones died in a righteous causa and acquitted themselves as nobly as any of the heroes ever did m any of the great struggles recorded in history. And their fate, instead ot daunting others, ought ti inspire every capable man with a desire to do his part, not only to win victory, but to avenge their death. An outstanding feature of last week's cables was the Russian victory at Tarnopol in Southeastern Galicia, For some little time now the Russians have beein withstanding the Herman onslaught in this area of conllict. The object is, of course, to keep the enemy out of the Russian province of Bessarabia, and to prevent him from getting into touch with tbe frontier of Koumania. Some little time ago the Russian military writer, General ShumsKy, calculated that there were 600,000 German tioops in Galicia. This latest success seems to prove that the Russians have the position well in hand. So far as the other portions of the Eastern ftont are concerned, it is quite clear that the Germans arc making a tremendous effort to deal the Russians so severe a blow before the winter comes that they vill not be able to pull themselves together even by the spring. But it is also clear that the Germans have abandoned any hope they may have had of either crushing Russia absolutely before the winter or of persuading her to make a separate peace. Russia has been very bady hit, and so far it seems to have been utterly impossible for her even to make a stand, much less to swing forward again and help bring the war nearer to its end. But there is some consolation in the fact that her retreat haß never shown the slightest sign of degenerating into a rout. It has been conducted all through as calmly and deliberately as it it had been part of Eome peace-time manoeuvres.