PETROGRAD'S PROSPECTS.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14545, 25 October 1917, Page 5

PETROGRAD'S PROSPECTS.

CONFLICTING VIEWS OF MILI-

TARY CHIEFS

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

(Received Oct. 24, 8 p.m.) Petrograd, Oct. 23

General Brusiloff, in an article in a Moscow newspaper, declares that there are no adequate grounds for alarm for Petrograd this autumn or }vinter. The enemy cannot have large reserves, and the mud, frost, and insufficient railways and want of food,will make sucr! an operation a hopeless enterprise, despite the inefficiency of the Russian army and navy. An advance on Petrograd through Finland is Improbable. Neimiflij commander of the Black Sea Fleet,, is . morev pessimistic. He believes that tie seizures of Riga and Oesel are stages of a calculated operation against Petrograd. The only thing in Russia's favour is< Germany's weakness. It is almost cer-

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tain that Germany will take Reval during the winter. ;;

General Dukhanin, the new Chief of Staff, interviewed, said tie Germans landed at Werder in order to prevent an attack on the islands. He did not expect serious land, operations before the spring. ; '