RUSSIA'S VAST CAMPAIGN.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 216, 16 October 1914, Page 7

RUSSIA'S VAST CAMPAIGN.

OUTLINE OF OPERATIONS. PLANS SIMILAR TO THE FRENCH. PETROGRAD, October 10. >. The Grand Duke Nicholas announces that the battlefront of the main (Russian and German forces extends from Przeiriysr to Warsaw, with the Vistula and the San dividing the two lines. ■■ Elsewhere" it is stated that the Russian, right r,ests in the fortress of NovoG'eorgi, ten miles north-west of Warsaw; Already planes are throwing bombs in Warsaw, and the sound of cannon can be heard i"n the city. The indications are that Germany has four armies. The first is operating from Thorn and Guesen, the second under General Ttindenberg, concentrated at Kalaeiy and now on the front of ' Mezconow-Skiesniewice Growce, the third, under the King of Bavaria, operating -.-: from Kielce, while an AustroGerman army, based on Cracow, Under General Jj.anke, has advanced along the Vistula to : Opatow and Sandomierz. The forward'; German movement began on September 27, and the strategic deployment was .concluded on October 3, when the Germans occupied the front, Kielec-Petrokow;Lodz with the Thorn army at I*loch, covering the left wing. ; The Thorn army apparently contemplates aii enveloping movement on the. right bank of the Vistula, despite the fact that the marshy banks of the Bug and the Narew are serious obstacles to the attempt. The Russian plan bears a general resemblance to General Joffre "s, inasmuch as it compels the Germans to fight at a distance from their own highly developed network of railways, which, with the efficiency of the motor transport, would increase the enemy's mobility to a degree equivalent,to a great multiplication of forces.