The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 1915. WARSAW.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 79, 2 August 1915, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 1915. WARSAW.

Though it is impossible to minimise th 0 importance of Warsaw as a fortress and a valuable centre of communications to Russia, it is an admit- j ted fact that should the Germans occupy Warsaw without a decisive battle with the Russian Army, as it now seems most probable, the Grand Duke’s strategy will permit, the Huns will have failed in their great purpose if they cannot prevent the Russians falling back without becoming disorganised. There can he no doubt but that so long as the Russian armies are unbroken the occupation of Warsaw or of Poland has little more thanj political significance, and though the capture of Warsaw might soothe i Gorman pride or stimulate German self-confidence, it would not mean chat the Russians were beaten. While the Russian line is intact, we are told

that it does not matter, in reason, how far it pushed back. For every mile that the Russians fall back so much are the difficulties of tbe enemy increased. We are sorry that Warsaw should have to fall, hut flic Russians may bo saloly loit to exact a grim retribution on the dastard initiators of tliis war of aggression. It is now over a year since Germany lit the (orc'h of destruction, and in a week’s Lime the Reichstag will meet, and enormous new credits will be asked for to enable the war to lie prosecuted. Something like a military success, at any cost, is what Germany wants before this date, so that a glorified account of what the army has done—with a eiri'lnl omission ol the cost m human lives —may be dangled >erore the,anxious and overwrought linauei il magnates.