RUSSIA'S NEW TROOPS.

Taranaki Daily News, 31 August 1916, Page 7

RUSSIA'S NEW TROOPS.

'THE BEST AND KEENEST." WHERE BRITAIN HAS 'HELPED. Germany appears to be getting nowadays into the position occupied by England at tli# beginning of the war, in the sense that she is now compelled to send forward troops by Irililets to threatened points, write the Petrograd correspondent of the. London Morning Post. Partly this /proves a. shortage in men, but partly also, it must be explained, by the ieterioration in quality. Indeed, the latest classes summoned to the colors, whose, training is now proceeding, are probably the best material Russia has bad, and certainly seem the keenest. • it must be remembered that the Russians r.re somewhat late in recognising where exactly their weak points lay, namely, in a shortage of arms, and dependence upon England for the machinery to make them. England, with all her vast manufacturing resources, and all her noted organising capacity, knows well how difficult it has been to equip her five millions for field service. Russia's resources are undeveloped, and her capacity untrained by comparison. The men arc- there, and of a quality unsurpassed nny.whero in the world. Much as Russia is doing to strengthen her weak points, and eager (is the whole nation is to work for this end, England still has a long start in resources and organisation. It is in the machine shops of' England that this war will be largely won. It would ba well for England's toiling masses to realise now what was impossible to make public earlier, namely, that with their redoubled efforts the Russian millions will sweep like a resistless wave over the Gorman dykes which even now are breached and yielding at more than one point.