GENERAL BRUSSILOFF INTERVIEWED.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 144, 21 June 1916, Page 5

GENERAL BRUSSILOFF INTERVIEWED.

RUSSIAN VICTORY NOT DUE TO CHANCE. •I* “ ”1 THE RESULT OF EXPEB3ENOE AND PREPARATION. 1 Received 7-25 p.m., June 20. PETROGRAD, June 20. General Brussiloff. interviewed, said the sweeping successes were not the products of chance or Austrian weakness but the application of lessons learnt in two years’ bitter warfare. “At the beginning of the war we lacked the preparations which tlu> Germans had been making for fifty years. I am convinced that, given munitions, we will do exactly what wv. have done in the past fortnight. The main element of success Is duo to the co-ordination of all the armies involved. The attack on the entire front began at the same hour, ami was pressed equally at all points. It was impossible for the enemy to shift troops from one quarter to another. The most important fighting w r as at Rovno. where; we made tho greatest advances, striking seriously a x. the strategy of the whole enemv front. If we are able to take Kovel I believe the whole eastern front will be obliged to fall back, as Kovel affects the German and Austrian communications. The Germans realise the menace and are rushing up all available troops, some from the west, some from northern points. The Russian infantry proved itself superior in morale and superior to 19.1 a, ** General Brussiloff explained that the great capture of prisoners was due to taking deep trenches in the rear or on the flank, rendering escape Impossible from the elaborate networks, also to sufficient ammunition to use a curtain of fire and prevent the enemy’s retirement. General Brussiloff thinks it impossible that Germany will send huge forces as previously to support the Austrians. He hopes to press the war against them increasingly. The general situation has been greatly improved by the British fleetV action.