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SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1915

THE fall of Warsaw has been officially confirmed, and one of the ambitions of the Kafser has been realised. The great Polish city lies on the Western bank of the Vistula, which from the Russian point of view, was a source of weakness, but fts main railway static is in the suburb or Praga, on the Eastern side. This station is the key to the Russian railway system, for at this point lines diverge to all parts of Russia. The fall of Warsaw, however, must' bo regarded as merely an incident in the great struggle that is now raging in the Eastern Theatre, and although its capture will put fresh life into the Austro-German- hosts, it has had no effect on the indomiUble spin't of the Russian people, who are fighting wiith that stubborn gallantry that has won for them the admiraion even of their enemies. The Germans have found it necessary to alter their campafgn. They intended first of all to crush France and Britain and then turn and deal with the Russians at their leisure, but Sit John French's "contemptible L'ttle army" upset the first design. Their obvious intent' on is now to crush Russia and then concentrate upon France and England, but it does not seem tha Russia will be crushed. The resources of the Muscovite Empire are bound less, and although the Czar's hosts may meet with temporary reverses they will come again and- again, ard finally weigh down the opposition by their weight and persistence. Suppose that Germany did crush Russia. Would she even then be able to sweep back tht French armies that have lost none of their energies, and the English forces that are now immeasurably stronger than ever they were and that are growing stronger every day ? It seems hardly possible, in view of recent proofs that properly defended and parallel trenches aie practically impregnabe and if she cannot force the British and French what value is it merely to hold them? Germany hopes to win by October, says the Kafser. She hopes to win by Christmas, says one of his high Ministers. It is probably more correct to say that she has given up hope of winning at all for on the face of things as they are it is impossible logically to see how she can win at all. Time is on our side, and the simplest kind of arithmetic is suf-; ficjent to show that enduurance of <. rmies of a given strength under a drain of given dimensions. Neither \ German efficiency nor German traditions can create troops out of nothing. Even though the whole armies in the east were moved:over to the West there is no reason: to suppose that the Western line. can be broken; that is given that the Anglo-French -Belgian guns had a never ending supply of shells, as they will have soon, if they Have not gof them already. Appalling losses would continue daily on both sides. But while Germany could not replace hers, \the Allied countries could. That is the whole difference and that is why Germany cannot win. It is strange that we have heard nothing for some time past of new British units going to • the front. Visitors from England state that the whole country is simply overflowing with soldiers, and never before has England seen .-o much khaki as is to be seen to-day in the- streets of jts towns and villages. ,A story comes from an

has wor! Ed a grig-antic bluff. on the Germans, and that instead of an army of one million men Kitchener's army really consists of four million men fully trained :nd equipped. There seems to be a good deal of truth in this statement, but what we do not known is where this large force is" to be utilised. It is more than likely that the scope of Sir John French's command in the west will be enlarged and thousands on thousands rf Englishmen poured into France and Flanders to drive back the enemy from the main line. The Germans hope to get to Calais looks, (indeed, a very forlorn hope when the number of soldiers in England is fully ippreciated, and the livelier fighting in the Artods region of late points to bigger things than we have seen in the past to the north of Arras, bxg though they have been since France has "now reached the limit of her strength it would seem that the responsibility must rest more and mose upon England. If Germany could take hold of Calais and Dieppe it would be a big blow to England, but England has the men. She can replace every man lost by France and Russia. England alone can put as many men into the field as the whole of Germany's present army. She can bring great hosts from Canada, Australia and New Zealand. If the burden must move off the shoulders of France and Belgium to those of Great Britain it still can be borne.