MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 23 September 1914, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

Writing on the movements of the Russians in Austria arid Prussia, the Wellington Post: says: "Unfortunately, Russian correspondents have not been' content with presenting the true and; creditable record of the progress of the: army. They .have made claims to the sensational; land the reality, though) solid enough, has been minimised by imaginative extrayiagance. There- hasbeen no confirmation of the evacuation;" '

of Preinsyl and; Cracow, and the' 1 'imminent' fall of Breslau, capital of German Silesia. If Cracow and Przemsyl were in Russian hands, , the Austrian: power in GaUcia would practically cease and, a road into Germany; through Silesia would ibe opened to the whole military might of Russia. Such an achievement was, as we remarked at the time, 'too good to be true.'^S It is now cabled that various sections of the Austro-German forces are falling back on Przemsyl and Cracow; and the latter fortress, at any rate, is not likely to be surrendered without another great battle. . If the claim 3 made on behalf of Russia's demonstration in East Prussia and her conquests in Galicia are discounted by 50 per cent, the net iei suit is still a very good one. But it is a pity to depreciate an "achievement bj ' imaginatively doubling the dose.'' '