THE GRAND DUKE NICHOLAS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 65, 19 March 1915, Page 4

THE GRAND DUKE NICHOLAS.

Writing on the situation on January 14th, the military correspondent of the London Daily News refers as follows to the splendid work of the Russian Army: Sometimes we hear expressions of impatience because the Russians have not already reached Berlin. They will reach it in due course, but we must give them time. This is a war of nations, not of armies, and the struggle must be long and severe. Hitherto the Russians have been acting on the defensive, and the Germans are making untiring efforts at enormous sacrifice of life to prevent the Grand Duke turning the defensive into the offensive for the purpose of invading German territory. When we come to sum up results, we shall find thm, trie Russians have done as much as their Allies have, for they have occupied a large slice of East Prussia, and practically the whole of the Austrian province of Galicia, and are engaging the attentions of very lame German forces, which would otherwise he availamu for transfer to the West. Of the strategy of the Grand Duke Nicholas it is impossible to write in too high terms. He has never once allowed his hands to lie forced, nor has he taken a single false stop. All his movements have been dictated by the constantly changing necessities of the military situation, and he has never hesitated to take the right course at the right time, even when hy doing so, as in the recent instance of his contracting his battle front, his movements may have given tho appearance of failure. Opposed to him is Germany’s “only General,” tho redoubtable Field-Marshal, who is a commander of great resource and boundless energy; but in his different way the Grand Duke has proved himself to he a match for his adversary, who has tried hard to heat him, hut always failed. The operations in the campaign in the East arc in as capable hands as is the campaign in tho West, and we may look confidently forward to the spring, when Russian numerical superiority will begin to toll, and when in his turn Marshal Von Hindenburg will have to stand on the defensive.