IN NAPOLEON'S FOOTSTEPS

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 38, 13 August 1915, Page 7

IN NAPOLEON'S FOOTSTEPS

HIS DEFEAT BEGAN AT WARSAW. THE ABANDONED CITY. (HUES AND SIDNEY SUN SERVICES.) LONDON, 12th August. Mr. Stanley Washburn, the war correspondent, states that the capture of Warsaw undoubtedly represents the greatest German achievement of the war, •but it would be unfair to magnify its importance. The city was not lost through defective generalship, or inferiority of troops, but through the inability of the Russian Empire to convert quickly its vast resourceA to war piuposes. "I have been in and out of Warsaw constantly since the evacuation started. There has not been the slightest confusion or panic. The troops were neither demoralised nor discouraged, though they were bitterly disappointed. . No one wanted peace, all saying that they must retake Warsaw and beat the Germans. "If the enemy fonnd anything valuable in the city, all will be greatly surprised. The army practically vacated the city on Wednesday night, thus blocking the German hopes of causing a disaster. The Allies can have the satisfaction of knowing that the Russians played the game to practically the last minute and the last round of shrapnel, and then retired in perfectly good order, leaving the Germans an undefended city. "The Russian armies, throughout the movement, acted on a symmetrical plan, following a time-table in conjunction with the whole front, taking the maximum toll of the enemy, and then escaping intact. If the Germans consider that by capturing Warsaw they have struck a decisive blow at Russia, they should recollect that after a year's warfare they stand to-day practically at the same point where Napoleon commenced his disastrous campaign. "The Russians will gladly fight on indefinitely. I feel a greater admiration for them than ever. In their Galician successes they were fine. In to-day's Jjaal Jhas. jure, timaib."-