RUSSIA'S HALT
AND GERMANY'S DILEMMA. London 'Times' and Sydney 'Sun' Service*. LONDON, September 12. Colonel Repington writes in ' The Times':— "It is the supreme merit of the Grand Duke Nicholas and his officers that they remained deaf to all threats and entreaties, which, might have prevented weaker men from acting as they did, and withdrew their unbeaten armies, declining decisive battle. The Russian armies are now out of danger, with, secure lines of retreat. Within, a few weeks tho bad season -will be at hand, and with a wasted country behind them the Germans must decide whether their armies must be sheltered during the winteT or perish. "In 1812 Napoleon minunderstood the Russians, and Germany to-day is reproducing that misunderstanding. Tho armies are now on parallel fronts, so hateful to the Germans, and who are faced by successive well-defended positions. The perplexing problem, before the Germans is whether to halt till spring or embark on a winter campaign, in an attempt to capture Petrograd and Kieff."
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Evening Star, Issue 15907, 13 September 1915, Page 6
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166RUSSIA'S HALT Evening Star, Issue 15907, 13 September 1915, Page 6
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