The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1915. TIME-AND RUSSIA.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 10, 10 September 1915, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1915. TIME-AND RUSSIA.

There is certainly cause for fchankful- ; ness to-day in the ne/ws that the annouueement of the Czar's* personal command of his gallant soldiers lias been further <m«d«ed- >*hjw*a fgreat yicI tory, mid that the Huns' have been | routed, lit v |iu, Gulic-ia, { with : enormous''s«Le.s>'Td those Who' have followed the trend of events closely, .the news is- riot-altogether surprising. The tide must turn in Russia's favour, and wo'believe; : a's I'SiVilisiition hopes, that the inhuman Hun invaders of the Czar's dominions will meet annihilation.. Winter is at hand, and Macken sen's hordes are two months behind the date of Napoleon's march. to Moscow: the enemy has gained Kovno. but it is yet a long way to the capital. As in the past, the German has brought the sword to Russia, and the Russians have applied the torch. Again, the Emperor Alexander would not negotiate with Napoleon, and neither will Czar; Nicholas negotiate with the perfidious German; It was towards the end of October that Napoleon's grand army commenced it> retreat- and that was the beginning of the end. Dealing with the general outlook to-day. the Otago • Daily Times holds that ail answer to l be question wiiy tlie forward move we are looking for has not been made by the Allies in the western theatre is probablv to be found iii the immeli.se stretches of Russian territory, For the time being that nation is bearing the brunl of the struggle. Kor weeks past, until the great reverse of Tarnapol, German forces have been maintaining an apparently evervictorious march. Warsaw and Kovno were abandoned, and Novo Georgievsk was reduced. Then Ossowiec was blown up, Brost-Litovsk fell, and > what dynamite had failed to destroy lire consumed. Recalling that historical military disaster of over a I ■ hundred years ago to which allusion I is already made above, the Times says; Napoleon struck at Moscow, and his success in reaching i*. was his undoing. On the 2-lfcli June, 1812, that great general crossed the Niemen at Kovno with an army of (540,000 men ; on the '27th November 25,000 men fought their way over the Berezina on their return journey al| that was left of thai force. The I'Yeneh losse.s were brought aUnit by sanguis ai'y rearguard actions, .Muscovite devastation of the territory through which the invaders marched, and the Russian climate, The same tactics are being pursued by Itussh to-day as were oili'sued then, and there is the fact to remember that while Napoleon had the misfortune to en-1 counter an early winter, Kield-marshal vmi Hindenhurg and General von Mackensen were two months later in sturtimj from Kovno. The attack upon the Gulf pf Riga, which was to supply a base Tor coastal operations, signally Failed, and I ho road to Pel rograd has not yet been evened. Every step forward that the Austro-German forces lake renders more difficult the I

work ol maintaining their supplies, both ol provisions and munitions, ami every engagement that is fought reduces the effective strength ol the invaders, whose task of bringing up reinforcements becomes iijacrensingly great in ;i land noted for having the "worst roads in Kurope." 'l'lio Russiaiis. too, are iii their own country. so tliat their bases for supplies are within comparatively oa.sC distance of them, ami they arc proving themselves adepts in taking their lull toll ol the enemy in every engagement that occurs. The naval bailie of Riga was the Germans' fij.'st cheek in the present campaign; to how great an extent it has interfered with their plans has yet to appear. There has been a comparative lull in the fighting in North-eastern Poland, and every stoppage lessens the enemy's prospects of ultimate success. Now. as irl| through the titanic war. except in the Dardanelles, where an early success would he of immense value, time lights for the Allies and against the enemy, and nowhere is this so true as in Russia ; for every day 'brings winter nearer.