A STRATEGICAL REVIEW.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4004, 10 August 1915, Page 5

A STRATEGICAL REVIEW.

PROBLEMS WHICH WILT* B3OSET THE lUJ.SSIANS. MENAGE OF GENERAL VOW BULOW’S ARMY. (Hi •VN'D DUKE SHOULD BEACH HIS NEW POSITION SAEELY. (Times and Sydney Sun Services). '(Received Angus: i 0, 0.15 p.m.) LOIS DON, August 0. Colonel Iteping.ton says the fortitude of the Russians in holding out so courageously round Warsaw after admitting that Ihe Vistula line could hot hold, wins them the deepest admiration. The Grand Duke elected to save his armies and lost; the fortresses. It would have taken the whole of his Army to hold the Vistula fortresses, which would probably, in the end,, have been forced to surrender. The Russians merely used the fortress works as rearguard positions, and it is clear that tlx*. Russians and in perfect order. - It will take the enemy some time to replace the railway ami the bridges, but it must be assumed that Prince Leopold’s Army in Warsaw and the Austrian Army at Ivangorod would cross the river at once and to complete the chain of armies which -will soon form an almost unbroken line from the Eng near Cholm to the Narcw. Although there are possibly six or seven Austro-German armies, comprising 28 Army Corps, pressing- hard on. the Russians’ heels, there is no feason that the Grand Duke should not reach his new lino in safety. Colonel Repington thinks the Germans wHI pursue the Russians with tireless energy, because the enenfy’s situation demands a decisive victory. He thinks General von Eulow will probably not take encrgcCc action until the other armies are in line ealfc of the Vistula and in contact with-the-Russian rearguards throughout the line.- The Grand Duke's business is to break clear from the armies ip contact with him, but the threat of von Bulow-s -forces, which is the most menacing of all, has hot yet been dealt with in any -Way,