| Show FAMOUS CRITIC t r THINKS GERMANS SAFE Sees No Danger to Central Pow Pow- Powers ers ors in Allies' Allies Joint Offensive STILL HOLD THE INITIATIVE Big Push of English and French Not a Success Declares Declares- Russians Have No Definite Plan Offensive Against Verdun Is Unimpaired d. d Berlin The The Berlin publIshes publishes pub pub- I lishes a long review of ot the latest developments developments developments de de- de- de of the war by MaJ Ernest the most famous German Gernian military military mili mili- tary critic He lie sees sees' no danger for the central powers In the present situation situation situation situa situa- tion although he ho concedes that the efforts efforts efforts ef ef- ef- ef forts of the allies are aro ar more serious than thun ever before In part he says Our enemies are Jubilant over their offensive For the first time after many failures they have hav succeeded In reaching a certain unity of action but It Is an op open n question whether the British did not start their attempt at atan atan an nn advance too early and the Russians too late This question can only be answered an un- answered definitely when we learn to what extent the grouping of the Ge German German Ger Ger- man forces has been Influenced by bythe bythe the tIle strategy of the allies French and English military critics critics crit crit- ics are aro astonished by the fact that so far ver very few transfers of ot German troops have taken place Indirectly they admit that the Initiative still remains remains remains re re- re- re mains on our side in spite of the offensive often offen sive movements started against our lines on all fronts We are attacking before Verdun as we did before and andon andon andon on the thc rest of the western front our defense has Increased In strength since the allies struck their blow in Strategically It matters very little If It Ifa ifa a l few dents are knocked Into our long l line ne hero here and thereIn thereIn therein there In the toe East our defense also Is as powerful as ever The Russian offensive offen often sive sivo ha has not changed the strategic situation and It will in my estimation not succeed because It Is aimless No Definite Plan from Petrograd Petrograd Pe- Pe We are told In dispatches that Lemberg Is to be recon recon- to re establish the prestige of qt the Russian armies but the events of ot the tho last two months show plainly the general stair staff of the czar had no definite plan when wilen the Generals Brusiloff and received orders to strike The military expert of ot Budapest Lloyd sized up the Russian operations opera properly when he be remarked last lust week 14 II The colossus mechanically starts staff to move but the Russian general does not know which direction it will take tale That Is left to fate tate If It the steam roller seems seem to advance In the direction of ot Kovel the thc Russian strategists strategists strate strate- announce that they f Intend tend to Important railroad cen cen- capture this Lt ter tel but n as soon as they wey rind their Ulen way barred they decide that Lemberg the Ule capital capital- of Galicia really Is the object of their efforts There Thero is no doubt that the Russian offensive was Wl principally undertaken to bring relict relic to the French and ItalIans Italians Italians Ital Ital- ians am and to Influence Roumania The hope of or the the allies to bring the Houma- Houma will be nian army to their side again disappointed however because the comI comparatively arnth ly unimportant successes of ot General BrusHoff have o trade made but little Impression on oa the government In Bucharest The rhe Italians Italians- have nt at least temporarily tempo tempo- been saved by the Russian of offensive I against the Hungarian Austro front In eastern Galicia Gull ln and the thc Buko Buko- The Tune Austrians were compelled to withdraw troops from the Italian fE front nt to give Iye up their victorious a ad ad- vance between the and the tile Brenta and to fall back against their own frontier but Count Cadorna knows very well that the th sledge hammer hammer ham ham- mer blows against his forces will be renewed as so soon n as the Russian offensive of ot- stops Big Push Not Success The big push of the English and French on the the- western the western front has not proved the success our enemies expected expected expected ex ex- It to be Although the battles battleson on both sides of the Somme continue there Is now but little danger dang r that the allies will break through our front We hold the numerically superior forces of the enemy and antI give them a n chance to bleed themselves to death In vain attacks I The Tho small gains made by the British BritIsh British Brit Brit- ish and French troops have been very costly and wo we may well doubt whether er the allies are willing to continue their terrible sacrifices Indefinitely The liThe French have done the lions lion's share shore of the work In PI cardy They attacked with the greatest bravery as s they did In the Champagne a ago but the small strip of territory won by them Is nowhere more than four and a half miles wide and they d did d not succeed In reaching reaching Peronne In their dully dally official reports they have far more to ta say about the German German German Ger Ger- man counter-blows counter than about their own attacks They are already showing showIng showIng show- show Ing signs of exhaustion and looking anxiously toward their British allies who have been plainly told by the Echo Erho do Pall Parl Paris I And other French papers papers papers pa pa- pers that they will have to get a move on to use a slang expression Many of the French papers with the consent of the censor angrily I comment on the fact that the British Brit British ish are lagging behind and have accomplished ac nc- accomplished hed b but t little along their section section sec see tion of ot the battle front between the and the Somme To refute this thle reproach the English mysteriously hint that their main blow would be struck at another point This ma may maybe maybe be true but we await further developments developments developments devel devel- calmly The result of the battles fought since the first of July has convinced us that the numerically enormous British army Is not able ablo to drive us back to the Rhine In the meantime our offensive against Verdun continues unimpaired We are well able to beat back the desperate counter attacks ks of the French before the fortress and to advance advance advance ad ad- vance nearer our goal step by step The liThe neutral press discusses the li possible consequences of the fall o of Verdun We cannot Join this debate but we know lenow that the German general general gen gen- eral staff tra trained ned In the h spirit of ot Moltke does not make maIm large sacrifices to gain a temporary success of doubtful doubtful doubt doubt- ful tul value but always looks far ahead The liThe Russian offensive proves more durable than thun un anybody body expected Aft Aft- After After er a pause on the southeastern front It has started anew and at the same time General Kuropatkin began tremendous tremendous tremendous tre tre- attacks against the lines of ot ofField ofField Field Marshal von Hindenburg and Prince Leopold of Bavaria In the North Bitter Ritter battles were fought between between between be be- tween Riga and D along the on both sides of the Barano- Barano railroad and along the canal but everywhere our troops victoriously vie vic repelled the onslaught of the enemy Further south In General Gen Gen- era eral 1 von Linsingen has been compelled to fall back across the rl river er west of Lutsk the Russians have crossed the border at Brody the army of General von von had to retire from the Str pa to the thc the thc Russians have advanced a little west of and south of th Pruth the Hungarian Austro front has ims been pushed back to the Carpa Carpa- The successes of the Russians are of little practical value because our front has nowhere been broken Inthe In tho the General von faced Russian forces which were numerically six times stronger than his For Jor a time his army was In Ina Ina ina a dangerous position and threatened with annihilation but he skillfully withdrew toward the inflicting in In- meting heavy losses upon tho the Russians Rus Rus- In regular actions fictions His lines remained Intact and he was able to start a counter attack as soon as he recel received vetI re le ts How long the Russians will be able to continue their offensive cannot be estimated Grand Duke Nicholas again dominates the thc Russian general staff and bus has given orders that the German Austro-German lines must be broken regardless of ot the cost The present Russian methods are rire exactly exactly ex ex- ex the same as during the first year of the war The Russians will continue con con- con continue on their onslaughts ts until exhaustion tion stops them They may reach the wall of the but there they will wUl surely da dash h them themselves to pieces |
