The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1915. THE CONFLICT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 91, 18 August 1915, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1915. THE CONFLICT.

The most significant message from the battlegrounds to-day is undoubtedly a statement appearing in the Lokal Anzeiger which almost official | 'organ of German bureaucracy admits that a retardation of the Austro-Ger-man advance in Russia may he expected. This means undoubtedly that the .Gormans arc held up, and that ( the (fraud Duke’s strategy : s working! out well. It was deeply grieving to all the Allies that Warsaw, had to .fall., hut the falling of that famous • Polish city .merely emphasised a lesson the Allies cannot now disregard. The forty years’ preparation for a war of world conquest which Germany has undergone has resulted in the 1 creation of a colossal Power that.

with one foot in France and the other in Russia, mow straddles Continental ICurope, from which the work of dislodging it has not yet really begun. And to finish that work successfully every resource of all the Allies will have to he drawn upon. Half measures will not do. It is only lately that this fact appears to have dawned upon the Hritish people, and their clear perception of it now is the explanation of the practical standstill in the Flanders fighting line, where the advance of the Allies i s being delayed until sufficient preparation has been made’ to cope with the position, We mayexpect shortly that the Allies’ drive in the West will start for men and munitions are now ready, and it is such ruthless, reckless, sacrifice of life as lately the wretched ini beetle Crown Prince has made of German troops, that will materially aid us. We , must be neither impatient nor pessimistic, but fully determined to put all our strength into the great work for humanity which has fallen to our let.