RUSSIA'S HUGE RESERVES.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 217, 13 October 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)

RUSSIA'S HUGE RESERVES.

THE NATION MOBILISED. Tins time there can be no mistake (writes a Russian military correspondent.) Germany's hist hours are :itr:king. I was always opposed to the overcsu'ination of BrussilniT's offensve. When it begun I did not know how far the Russian bureaucratic routine would 1)0 able to hamper the production of munitions. And everything was depend.'lit upon tins. Russia has shown ove" and over again that she lias splendid infantry. Tluvr dash and self-sacrifice have become proverb':il. They are more than a match for the Germans, as has been shown time after time when other conditions were equal !i seems now that the public bodies, which have undertaken the task of supplying llie army, have performed this task, ,ind therein lies Germany's (loom. Russia has ample reserves. Moreover, having after the last year's retreat from Galieia renPsod that tin- war can only be won if it really becomes a war of the whole int'on, Russia has mobilised her womenfolk. Women replaced the men in most Government services; there arc women station-masters, women in groat masses went to work in factories and then, as a supreme measure, the only sons of tho families, who were always exempt from the compulsory mil-

itary service, were called to the colours. In that way Russia could gather lour or five million recruits. The iniostton remained only of their equipment 'Jlrs problem ha.; been solved bv the joint effort of the British and .Japune-v Allies. The Norddeutsche Allgenicinu /eitung, in its last issue, speaks of the Russian Army being "rejuvenated and provided with every form of militarv equipment." 7his i>, quite right. Jhrword rejuvenated is of special import"-'III-re is still another reason why 1 do not hesitate to say that Germanv': last hour is striking. Tt is most proti. able that Germany's strategic reserves •are .either entirely exhausted or at any rate nearing oxhauston. Russia, oil the other hand, besides those four to five million reserves called to the colours, has other reserves.. especially in the Caucasus and Turkestan", of which there arc hundreds of thousands who have hnidly been touched -ret