GERMANY'S HOPELESS TASK.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4005, 11 August 1915, Page 5

GERMANY'S HOPELESS TASK.

• } RUSSIAN AKMIES CANNOT BE SWAMPED. •WILL iUIXORABtY FORCE CERMANY TO HER KNEES. BHiTIKH iffIJTAKY OPINIONS. (Thousand Sydney . (Keoehou •■*"S a “ , LONDON, Auß'ust 10. , ,tj i i.... climates tliut up to. tlic end of Jltne Colob.iT lUi-JiyA 1 y-■ ■ ' . were still ill the west. He i Vo- thirds of tno ~ re> ■; . supplemented the three-!..-!h-v,.s that a opemUijt m the.oast: We quarters of. a miiu » s * YS ,.that the German reserves.are flopots in. the interior of being' iiseu AP a i -

Germany are still full of recruits, though of an inferior quality. The Germans’, advance in the east was hotly-pressed, but they were unable to break the order of the Russian retreat. ’ Mr Washburn, the war correspondent, says lie has travelled a thousand miles in Poland and Galicia and has visited eight active armies and met and talked with nearly a thousand officers. From the. first month the popularity of the war has grown steadily, until it has tho,. support of the entire Russian people. The Russians have come through their trial of fire and, with tlie exception of one army, now reconstituted, they have probably suffered far less in personnel than their enemies. I h eir spirits are good and their confidence unshaken. The task before Germany, he says, is to repeat the vxalician enterprise against an. army infinitely better than the one she broke. She may, if she can do this, have the same problem to meet on some other line and, in two months after that, another and another. She may do it once, and may do it twice, but there will come a time when she can do it no more —when Russia will slowly > surely., and inexorably come hack step by step until she has Germany on her knees