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Show NO PROSPECT OF GERMAN ATTACK Spring Tnaw on Riga Front Prevents Offensive Against . Russians. DEFENSIVE ATTITUDE Hope to Quiet Russ Apprehension Apprehen-sion and Foster Their Internal In-ternal Dissensions. COPENHAGEN, via London, April 4, 6:45 a. m. A "personage particularly well informed politically and militarily," militar-ily," who is easily recognizable as Colonel Col-onel von Haefton of tho general staff In charge of the military department of the foreign office, has informed tho Politiken that 'there is no prospect of a Gorman offensive on tho Riga fronL The colonel says: "Tho spring thaw that is now setting In Is enough in Itself to deprive an offensive of any chance of success. Even if the Germans succeeded in taking tak-ing the Russian positions, it would be impossible for them to move artillery and supplies forward for an advance on Petrograd. They would bo hopelessly hope-lessly bogged." Defensive In East. Colonel von Haeften also doubts whether Field Marshal von Illnden-burg Illnden-burg contemplates an offensive on the Sereth front Jn Rumania, but thinks ho will adopt a defenslvo attitude on tho east front generally. The Politiken continues: "The statements of the German general gen-eral staff, which have certain inherent probabilities, are another example of the German determination to quiet Russian apprehension In every possible way. The belief Is cherished that tho Russians, If left to themselves, will inevitably continue to quarrel over internal in-ternal questions, whereas the menace of a strong German offensive would wold all Russian parties together In defense of their national existence." |