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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 29 September 1915, Page 4

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A DAILY MAIL ARGUMENT,

"The country," writes Mr Lovat Fraser in the London Daily Mail "ought to know the real significance o\ the Russian retreat in Gahcia. There has been far too much talk about magnificent withdrawals, and armies which saved themselves from destruction, and the urtmportance of Lemberg, and many other arguments with which the public have been bewildered and bemused.

"The one dominating fact <for us is that though Russia has fought bravely, and will undoubtedly hold her own, she can do nothing much more this summer owing to. lack of munitions and other causes, and unless the coming winter is far harder than the la-si her movements may be greatly restricted until next spring. We are told that is not a decision, but it serves Germany well enough for the time being. The Dardanelles is almost too painful a subject to write afcout. We must stick to it now, but we only win our way there by inches and under grave risks and to get through we may need diversions from other quarters which are not yet forthcoming. Italy has hardly begun, and the effect of her intervention upon the mam theatres of war cannot yet be estimated.

"We want neither optimists nor pessimists, but people who will look the tacte in the face. Facing the facts ought not to produce despondency, but should arouse the truest courage. Knowledge of the truth will only make the nation more resolute. If the country realised the truth we should have compulsory enlistment to-moiibw "