FLAUNTING AN EMPTY TRIUMPH.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4003, 9 August 1915, Page 5

FLAUNTING AN EMPTY TRIUMPH.

/ RUSSIAN ARM Y STILL UNRESTIR > Y El). ORCBE OF FLAG-WAVING CONTINUES IN GERMANY AMD AUSTRIA. RETT HR-INFORM El) PEG REE lER IT A TED. (Received August S, 0.10 p.m.) AMSTERDAM. August b. In Berlin there G u continued orgie of flag waving. Revelling crowds in Vienna paraded efligios oi the Ring oi Italy inscribed “He brought his enemies luck and Ins friends circles realise that the people are flaunting an emptv triumph. This is irritating, because they expected Warsaw’s fall a week ago. and it is known that the Hermans missed their real aim—the destruction of the Russian armies. The “Vossisclie Zeitung” says: Ave have now reached the result of a long-prepared Aostro-German plan for a great offensive on Loth hanks of the Vistula, rolling up the Russian front. From the military viewpoint it was important to shorten the front and we are now able to form several strong lines in the rear and secure the east front against all,.Russian attempts, freeing important troops for action elsewhere. The “Cologne Gazette” .says the Russians left m lvangorod considerable stocks of flour. Radmo was undamaged, and tbe factories immediately recommenced work. Novo Alexandria was seriously damaged by fire. . .... The “Vossisclie Zeitung” deprecates excessive rejoicing over Warsaw and points out that the principal object of the campaign was the destruction of the Rusian armies not the capture of L’olish cities. A Lisbon telegram states thirty-seven detained German ves- , sols hoisted their flags in honor of Warsaw.