GERMANS CANNOT REACH PETROGRAD
RAINS WILL STOP THEIR ADVANCE
(AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION-)
LDNDON, 4th September. Colonel Shumsky, war expert writer for the Bourse Gazette, interviewed in London, eaid that the German rush on Riga could not seriously menace Petipgrad this year. "An offensive over four hundred vensts (about 270 miles) will require at least two months. The Germans Have started too late. Within, two or*three'weeks they will meet the rainy season, and bad roads. Moreover, the well-fortified lake system of the Pekoff region protects Petrograd. The British and French attacks have drawn 160 German divisions westward, and there are insufficient forces left, on the Russian front to defeat even the disyganised Russian Arjny, which is eupported by excellent. artillery and an isormous quantity of ammunition."
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 58, 6 September 1917, Page 7
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