WHEN ENGLAND CROVELS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 87, 15 April 1915, Page 4

WHEN ENGLAND CROVELS.

No peace will Germany ever sign, crios the "Hamburger Fremdenblatt," till England grovels at her feet and appeals for mercy; in which case peace to lie a very long way ofi' :-■■■ "Xwtlior of our enemies is deserving of more or less magnanimity than the other. The English may have been the incendiaries of this world conflagration, but the French and the Russians showed themselves only too ready to obey the British orders to fall on the children of our people, armed and unarmed alike, with bloodthirsty eagernesvs. Before peace can come all those who have participated in this shameful, ruthless war must be made to groan and to weep tears of blood and anguish under the weight until, contorted with ngony, they grovel at our feet and entreat our pity. Then, and not till then, shall we allow peace to pass our way. As for what Europe and the earth may look like alter that, we shall leave to Cod, who has ever been on the side of the just, the brave, the strong in faith and devotion. We want no words, no counsel, no whisperings of Christian forbearance. We must have deeds and blows." All of which makes really funny reading.

HINDENEURC'S BIG EFFORT. | With regard to the actual strength of the German invasion of Russia across the East Prussian frontier, it is ofiidally stated that nine German army corps were concentrated on the Nieinen front at the end of February and live or six bet ween Augustovo audi Mlawa. In all von Hindenburg appears to have attempted his great flanking movement with no fewer than GOO.OOO men. Seeing that the esti-

mates of the total German strength on the eastern front assess it at little more than a million men—in addition to the Austrians. of course—it would seem that more than half the total German forces were employed in the flanking enterprise, one writer estimates. Incidentally it is worth mentioning that four German corps were said to have reinforced the Austrians in the Carpathians, and over 750,000 Germans are thus accountel for, leaving fewer than 500,000 to hold the lines in Poland. The numbers given for the northern German armies, have official Russian approval, and if they are correct they show the tremendous importance that von Hindenburg attached to the movement, and they also explain why the Grand Duke referred to the struggle that developed as a momentous one.