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Show MUCH DISAPPOINTED Great Russian Drive Bring Realization of Big Bear's Power. ERRORS ARE EVIDENT Monarchy May Be Compelled Com-pelled to Implore for Separate Peace. Special Cable to The Tribune. 1 LONDON, July. 8. A Hungarian correspondent cor-respondent of the Dally News describes , conditions In Francis Joseph's empire as j very bad and says the recent Russian advance ad-vance haa dispirited the population ex- j ceedlngly, coming when everyone had been , led by the authorities to oelieve the czar crushed. The letter reads: The piercing of the Austro-Hun-garian line by the forces of General Brussiloff and In general the offensive offen-sive movement on a line of 300 miles came as the most unexpected shock the Austro-Hungarlan army has ever , sustained. They knew of the Russian intentions on the last week of May, judging from the reports of the correspondents, cor-respondents, but all they expected was another half-hearted three days' attack at-tack like the one early this year. Their Immense fortifications and the thirteen months' experience on the Russian front taught tne general staff and the people of the monarchy to regard any Russian rally with a fatherly fa-therly kind of smile. This qufte unwarranted feeling was due to the constant allusion in the AustroHungarian official communiques com-muniques and in the papers of the monarchy to "the defeated hosts of the czar." Mistake Is Evident. It Is evident now how greatly they were mistaken. It is also clear that had the Austro-Hungarlan general , staff believed that the Russians were In such strength as to afford an offensive of-fensive on a line of 300 miles in length they would not have undertaken an offensive apalnst the Italians only two weeks before, but would have concentrated con-centrated against the Russians. The greatest miscalculation, nevertheless, never-theless, lay in the confidence they showed In the spirit of the Austro-Hungarian Austro-Hungarian forces on tho Russian front. This spirit was not the same as It proved to be last May, when the break through at Gorllce and Tarnow was accomplished. Since then many things have happened, and thousands of letters written home by these men show that they are not all satisfied satis-fied with the position. Taking into account only those letters which appeared ap-peared in the newspapers, one can deduce de-duce that It was not their condition In the trenches which affected them most. What made life unbearable was the fact that they were constantly con-stantly haunted by the knowledge that their people at home, their wives and children, were suffering practically from starvation, and that they did not see when the war would ever come to an end. Promises Unfulfilled. These people have In most cases been at the front for more than eighteen eight-een months and many of them ever elnco the mobilization began. They were promised a dozen times that the war would be over if they took Ijem-berg Ijem-berg back. If they advanced Into Rus- 1 sian territory. If they got as far as Brest-Li towsk, if they took Lutsk, etc., and yet when they have done ail they were wanted to do the war Is still going on, and there is no hope of peace within another year. Meanwhile the families at homo wrote dally more and more despairing letters. At first they sent parcels of food to the soldiers. Now they beg the soldiers to send them bread and tinned meat, for they cannot get any at home. There are cases where the soldier father went home on leave, and, although he had fourteen days to while away at home, he only remained re-mained two or three, for he could not see the suffering of the family and because "he wanted to relieve them of an additional mouth. May Ask for Peace. The effects of the Russian successes will first of all show in Hungary, where they have begun to rebuild the ruined villages in the Carpathians. It will not be at all surprising if the Hungarian parliament seeing that the whole game begins all over again and that the hosts of the monarchy are not powerful enough to slop the onslaught on-slaught of the Russians should order the government to put forth peace proposals and ask for an armistice for the period of the preliminaries. The people would not stand the strain of another winter like that of iniB. But, above all, the most important factor in this great drama is from the point of view of the monarchy the losses It sustained and will yet have to sustain. There Is little douht, even in Vienna, that the losses have ben h great as stated in the Petrograd reports, for these have not been denied. |