GENERAL BRUSILOFF'S WORK

Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 146, 21 June 1916, Page 7

GENERAL BRUSILOFF'S WORK

APPLICATION.OP BITTER LESSONS

GIVEN MUNITIONS, HE W&L GO ON

LONDON, 20th June. General Brusiloff, interviewed, said : "Our sweeping successes are not the \ products either of chance or Austria's weakness, but the application of the lessons learnt in two years of bitter warfare. At the beginning of the war we lacked the preparations which the Germans had been making for fifty years. I am convinced that, given munitions, vve will do exactly what has been done during ihe past fortnight.

"The main element of success is due to co-ordination of all the armies involved. The attack on the entire front began at the same hour, and was pressed equally on all points, and it has been impossible for the enemy to shift his troops from one quarter to another. The most important fighting has been that at P»ovno, where we made the greatest advances, striking a serious blow at the strategy of the whole enemy's front. If we are able to take Kovel, I believe the whole of tho enemy's eastern front will be obliged to fall back, as Kovel affects the intercommunications between the xVustrians and Germans. The Germans realise this menace, and are rushing up all their available troops —some from tho west, and some from the northern fronts. The Russian infantry has proved itself superior in morale, and superior to their morals, of 1914." General Brusiloff explained that the great captures of prisoners were duo to the Russian tactics of taking deep trenches in rear or flank,, rendering escape impossible, from the elaborate system of networks, and also to the fact, that there was sufficient, ammunition, for the use of the curtain of fire to prevent the enemy's retirement. General Brusiloff thinks that it will bo impossible for Germany to send huge forces, as she has previously done, to support the Austrians. Ha hopes to press tho WB,r against them with increasing vigour. The general situation also ha-d been greitly improved, by the action of the British Fleet. .