GERMANY'S EFFORT IN POLAND

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2370, 28 January 1915, Page 5

GERMANY'S EFFORT IN POLAND

SEVERITY OP THE FIGHTING.

Petrograd, December S. The newspapers here are beginning to print numerous fragmentary ' accounts derived from wounded of tho recent fighting in Poland. The general im« pression from all sides is that the Visuia~^al^a kghting has been incomparably more severo than anything experienced before during this war on any front. The Germans in the early conflict christened it the Imperial battle, for they. had been impressed by the highest authority that upon their success depended the whole future of the War, and as a reward 'or tteir success, wore promised that they would be disbanded to their homes. Then the character of the fighting also compelled the Germans to rely for once upon their manhood instead of their machinery, xet they still persist in their massed formations against riile, Maxim, or baylionet. • Their losses have Keen appalling beyond anything elsewhere experienced. Experts estimate that the Germans have lost two-thirds of their army in Poland ■The Emperor's sons, Oscar and Joachim', are reported to have escaped only by 1 taking flight in an aeroplane. If there was a point besides war machinery upon which the. Germans particularly prided themselves it was their marching powers. Yet evfin here the Russians have shown themselves immeasurably superior. The Grand Duke officially noted a while ago that some Russian corps had inarched and fought continuously for a month, taken fortified positions, and covered over six hundred miles. And the Russians do their marching flat foot, whereas tho Germanic records are made by means of motor traction. Over the Polish roads in the autumn season the Germans found their methods badly handicapped, whereas the Russians continuously improved thei- records as the men got moro and more hardened. One corps covered twenty miles one day and thirty-six the next, and went into the fight on their arrival with an ardour superior to that the ,sttacking Geririans, who- had the worst of it. "Morning Post."-