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Show xpert sees no hue fob the ;ermans to win lonel Repington, Military Vdviser of the London Times, Writes of Campaign Cam-paign in Russia. t,t CaMt i"T VfiaiMMi lih London niiy at! ta4 International Nawa Sarvlca. AYNTON Sept. 10 Lionel Repington, tary expert for the London Times, es In the midst of desolation and at e oremns of the bad season the rmans fi) have to decide what ey will do next. It U true that the mparstive proximity of the German s$ and the German methods fiive e present enemy advantaicee which Napoleon never possessed in Russia. V1 it armfea n winter must be ettfred or perish. Th iiyatematle destruction of towns, liases ni farms ami the withdrawal all local supplies will certain?! at-d at-d tbe German operations moat In- S . rtousl-. As in 112 Napoleon mJo understood character of the esar ani the nsuno cf the RussUn ieople. so day '5 the oM misunderstanding re- j oduced. In order to Intimidate neu-ils neu-ils and perhaixs Hy a basis for an i 1 i elusive ponVy, the Germans boast they have viestroyed the Russian I mie. This boast is not true. ivy Losses Certain. t On the parallel fronts, so hateful the Germans, and against succes-T-,and ell-defendel positions, the User's troops will now have to pene-tte pene-tte Russia at the cost of more losses at a season when his army will iste rapidly by exposure and dfs-se. dfs-se. a The Russians have a habit of wtn-f wtn-f r campaigning and will not leave v e e enemv in peace. Great masses f i Cossacks are for;ning. and, when U,e snow freeses. will begin to worry e Germans. St HI war?t will be the owal in the eyes of the world or j e failure of the German enterprise d possiMv'of the Gerauin strategy attain '.he aims of the German 1 licy. In Russ'a vast hosta are preparing 1 ' renew the war. In every allied I d neutral country all available faeries fae-ries are working day end night to pply the munitions that Russia eds. The effect of these pre pa rams ra-ms is already becoming manifest in e finner countenance ef the Rjs-u Rjs-u rear guards and in the offensive I , vexations which have been under-U under-U lien at several points. ess Impossible. &-en If during the winter a million ' i tnnans could be transferred from i a east to the west to join the I a.00 Germans now in the west, I J,y would find themselves faced by I ieater numbers of French, British d Belgians to say nothing of the id of Flanders and after immense es. such as they assuredly would ffer. they would be unable to rsue their campaign either east or at with any hope of success. Vo matter what the German de-- de-- flon. the allies can regard It wlta . ' t. uammky. Hiere is the question not only of tat the enemy proposes to do next, t what we and our allies propose do. This, time will show. |