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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 110, 19 November 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)

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FAILURE OF GERMjflft (By PROFESSOR PAR ("This article was writti in September, and later < ments justify and confistatements made by P Pares, who was the Britis representative with the I Army.)

In the last few uaye one f how that the tension of Rue tion, and, therefore of the w] cause, has slackened pi Everyone has become more at tlm is shown in the tone of written in the Press. For m have followed the military an position very closely, both and here, I will go so far as t the crisis is past. From the time when the i gan his great thrust in the i of Galioia I am quite certai was aiming simply at one t was trying to bring Russia t herself from the Allies. If net do that he could do n the eastern 6ide. The idea quest of Russia, or of forcing Russia, was always from th< diculous. Russia could neve pelled to make peace: she < be induced to desire it. Fc ject there was a perfectly gramme, of which every deta came apparent. Of course, 6ian army had to be beaten t back with as many losses as above all, Russia was to at that her Western Allies cffulS ing for her; Poland was t( and then a liberal peace was fered to Russia.

Th's was the lesson of pr perience. It is not melodra clear common sense for any i fear a too deep advance rat Napoleon spent infinite time ing his invasion, and was lo; so difficult a task could not b ed by organisation. He 81 late (in June), because thei grass for his horses to eat earl would be the prospects of ai of Russia proper beginnin month of September? As himself said: "Moscow is n tary position at all, it is on! cal position." You do not < sia to peace by taking Moe less if Moscow is burned, put all his money on this poli tion, and all the way back 1 prating to his companions t It ia only one step from tl to the ridiculous." As it was then so it is noi position in Russia is a poli l and not primarily military. I tion is how you can induce sians to make peaee, because not force them to. The h< of the military task is cleai German soldier. I found wl in Galicia that it was ew their crushing successes th< they for the first time sho l despondency. I remember officer whom we took at Sen was the spot on the map v> many could force Russia to i He answered that, of course, no such spot, and he more spoke of it as the catastrop country.

M. SAZONOFFS DECLffI This being so, Germany < hope to act on the temper o: sians and their rulers. Am subject on which the Empen has shown himself as ignon Emperor Napoleon. The Gen had their successes; they I their shot; they have failed, know it. The turning pot whole process, to my mind most important fact of the was the announcement ma< Sazonoff to all public men a in Petrograd. M. Sazonoff quiet man, and his simple s wardnese is one of the great* fo rthe immense confidence country places in him. His ment, which had ont a word be dispensed with, amounte That the German successes accompanied by repeated n< for peace, which Russia hj unconditionally; whenever 1 renewed, they would be refu But this meant the colli that Germany has been pi Military success was second arc approaching the time Russian roads will break country through which th« will have to advance is < marshy plain, and later on broken with innumerable cr in which the Grand Army of in spite of efforts of men a left practically all its con light field artillery. Mo* one of the gTories of the German army, will here be i is not only the heavy guns have to be left behind.

FINE RUSSIAN SPI

Meanwhile one thing is cl« with the retreating Russian the Carpathians to the Ifcii tier, and its moral was not' the very slightest hy the i deal of artillery fire to wh subjected day after day. duced to a tenth of the) showed the same, nay, a hj talin before. When dark; tenti to the unequal condi people faced about and shqM emy who Was master when ing odds were equal. The Germans, and still mo trians, were both worn ou strength and spirit duriilg minabie advance. The end pea'cej which is the one g that I have always aheard by every prisoner of the enC was to come because the 1 promised it. But it was g nised that'peace'could gqf Ruspia chpse to accept it; now had the test; it mea and any prospect of on enc towards the Tirol Mountains more terror into the advnn< than even the thought of a M. Sazonoff's words 1 clinched by the message of eign to the French people; now for the enemy to ask w do next.