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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 181, 31 July 1915, Page 8

LATEST WAR NEWS.

A CRITICAL JUNCTURE ON THE WEST FRONT. A DECISIVE BATTXE. AFPROACHING. GERMANS TO HOLD RUSSIANS IN EAST. WHILE THEY HURL HUGE ARMIES IN FRANCE. (liv fiililc —Press Association.— Copyright . I Received 2.43 p.m.) LONDON. July 30. Tin , "Daily Tclofrrnph's" Potrograd correspondent states thai Lite recent AustroGorman onslaughts have demonstrated Unit Russian strategy takes the broadest possible view nf the war. and is aetuuted liv the single purpose .if obtaining a ronv plete and crushing victory, It is prepared, therefore. Iα make nil nece»s«ry temporary sncriticpt". The Grand Duke Nicholas earlier indiratcd that lie would nut he hampered hy a sentimental desire to hold a particular town or district and imperil his armies, hence everybody is prepared for the evacuation nf Warsaw. I lie German* will only got a city inhnluted liv greybeard*, women ami children. Destruction nml removal has robbed the Germans of everything likely to he serviceable. The (ionnans have to thank their industry, not military science or valour, lor thi, success. Never was there a war in which man power, which is Russia s strongest factor, could do so little. The correspondent continues that Colonel Shiinwky (the Russian military writer! states tliai when the German's constructed thxec lines of fortifications on the west. guaranteed themsclve- against a general AngloFrench advance while carrying out their grandiose operations on tin- east j'ront. Hie position will now he reversed, tiic Aiistroficrmans guarding the \"i,mla. Xiemcn, and Bug.' while a special elTort is made on the. west front, but the essential difference is that while wo can tranquilly check the pressure, and fall back a* far as we like, the Anglo-French retreat lias itrf limit?, therefore, a critical juncture is arriving for tho Anglo-Frem-h, because the Germans will hurl themselves with freshlyassembled masses upon Kr&nce, forcing a decisive battle, which will settle the issue on tho west front, end simultaneously conclude the war. Other" experts declare that Kussia would imperil her final success if she accepted a flpht to a finish in present conditions. She will much abbreviate her front, rendering it eaeicr to withstand German assaults, till she herself is ready to assume the offensive. Tho enemy's" local superiority in number- is due to the network oi railways. This has not been the principal derruan advantage, but the enormous preponderance of gunpower. Russia is industrially the f least developed of the Allies, and it is small wonder thai she is unable to keep I pace Avith tho fearful wastage of } weapons. The nocnasary i-tops have now been taken to organise and supplement the output, and Russia hopes soon to beat Ucrmanv at her own game. 1