RUSSIA'S VIGOROUS EFFORTS

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 250, 21 October 1915, Page 2

RUSSIA'S VIGOROUS EFFORTS

THE TSAR'S STRATEGY

LONDON, Oct. IS. T'ii- Iv\-eh:ui;:o Tolpprapli Company's <-))•!•. "jfoiulinit' at lVtroyrid_ statos lii;;t. there is ti'onientlons satisfaction j i'< -i I! <■(!;•!rt(M-.< at tlu> vi^or of tlio vu- j li:it:vo':;iiico tin* Tsar and General Alex;-fi bave taken over t!io cons-jn-i->'l. Tl'.o snecewsi gained nro re;:c^Ui;: favorably on l1i» spirits of the av'.v and civilians. !'•■turned wounded soldiers state 1 }■/■'■ Uie ti'fiops siro more con'ident -ami •■■•;■> ch(H>ri'rJ than sineo tho Anstro- /:• - m.s' spiinn offensive. liiissian c': ■■>'~r V , wliicli is the ti-r'i-et of he;in fh<> war, will heiicefovtli '.c | .<-•••-' ' •>' tlw> oiciny will >iet <■■;>'. !"'.,-e ) ~.,. . ... • . i.. t! , 1,., ;,. .i.'.^ f., {..!■;,. ''''.;.;

ful than,the losses of men and material resulting from continual retreat. Since the Tsar initiated the new strategy Russia has lost only a third of the number of prisoners wh6 have been lost in a similar period of the preceding months, has taken fivefold more, and has regained lest territory in three theatres. (