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Those who have followed recent vents can feel no surprise that the Resian. Armies should again bo on the mos, and that the Allies should refuse to bit to German dictation of the iniative any longer

want for men during the summer cam- raigh, and wo are under 20 misconcep tion on this score. But the best element is the 1917 elaer, not yet engaged, and this class will not go far to make good losses in the approaching struggle, which may prove more costly to Germany than any which has preceded it.

THE ITALIAN FRONT.

WAR WEARINESS IN GERMANY

RUHLEBEN PRISONERS'

IMPRESSIONS."

NO SCARCITY OF SOLDIERS.

Fifteen Englishmen arrived from Ruhle ben in Holland on June 7th. Most of the 15 had been interned for 10 months and they all complained of the food supplied to them.

During the last few days the Austrian advanen from the Trentino has been checked There is every appearance that

Mr. Israel Colon, the Berlin corre the Antrian centre, which is suffering greatly from poor communications, has spondent of the Globe rand : Glasgow at length come up again positions ferald, and that fings were hoisted" at the camp after the naval battle. On the where General Cadorna has elected to stand, and by this time he should have first day the Germans said that the entire assembled a force adequate for bis pur-

British Flect had been destroyed and that Wo and Russia could very wellifford pose. The Italian wings hold firm in the they had only lost a few destroyers. On in a purely military scuse to wit for Adige and Brenta Valleya Coni Zugna, the second day some smaller cruisers were Monte Pasubio, and consequently the reported missing. On the third day the many months longer until all thị mil- Ilions of rifles and thousands ofguns important Vallarsa ronte, romain in British Fleet had partly escaped and the under construction should have be de Italian hands. Many assaults by the German losses were greater than had livered, and have been translated the enemy on the Posina-Asticu front and been expected at first. Now even the front by much larger armies mucbnt upon the Asiago plateau hase been hand-soldiers did not believe that there had ter equipped. But a great der has somely repulsed, and there is no word been a great German victory already been done. The British and yet that the Austrians have extended Russian Armies are much more nutrous their battle line boyund the front ori

The Austrians are and much better found in guns and uriginally attacked.

when they were at doubtless endeavouring to bring up to seriously engaged, and they know the centre a part of the formidable heavy they can count now, as they couldot artillery which served them so well be const before, upon a steady flow of n fore, and to concentrate their divisions and munitions to replace losses in ne from the reserve for a fresh effort. This field.

must be very difficult for them in the Fosina Fector, because, until Pasubio. falls and the Yallaran route is open for one man had cut some wires, but they got their own back, because on the follow communications, there is only the Bering day 3,700 prisoners appealed to the cola Col available, and this is a very

German canteens for food against the poor route for troops and guns. But the normal number of 1,300. The Germans Austrians farther cast are near to the were perplexed and in difficulties how to plains, notably in the Astico valley, while meet the inrush. along the Val d'Assa, leading to Asiago, they also have a carriageable road. The position is still not without its anxieties but we have every right to expect that the Italians will present insuperable obstacles to any further advance, and that, when he has assembled all his means, the Italian commander will give his enemy a lesson to remember.

England and Russia could have affid ed to wait, and might even have ferred to do so, but we cannot remain sansible to the fact that our French a Italian Allies are at the moment bang the main burden of the war on land, nd that it is only at Verdun and on a Trentino Iront that the campaign ise- ing seriously fought. Though neitor the French at Vordan nor the Italins on their northern frontiers are in ny. bad way, the mural effect of this on stant strain upon our faithful Alles cannot be left out of consideration. It 18 the manifest duty of England as Russia to afford what help they can, and at the very least to prevent the onene from withdrawing more men from or respective fronts for the profit of the Ve The Russian Southern Armies, choos dun and Trentino operations.

ing their own hour, broke up from the There are ways and manners of co cantonments on June 4th, and began a gen ducting an offensive under the presenteral attack upon the Austrian Armies in conditions of land warfare, and as have all had our lessons we shall pic- sumably not make the old mistakes again. We shall not give to our infan- try half a dozen or more distant objce tives which will tempt them, if succcis- ful at first, far beyond the aupporting range of our guns. We shall have plenty of reserves within easy reach. We shall be prepared for a methodical and con- tinuous offensive. We shall not expect to reach the Rhine and the Vistula ata

bound. We shall opt mass envalry to ride through gaps. But we shall use the powers of our new artillery and of our thousands of new machine-guns în a scientific manner, and get

THE RUSSIAN FRONT,

their front from the Pripet to the borders of Rumanis. On this front of 200 miles there stand five Austrian Armies. These Armies contained a few weeks ago 11 cavalry divisions and 44 of infantry, in- cluding four of German troops, but if the Verdun and Trentino operations have caused some of these divisions to be moved elsewhere, then a corresponding deduction must be made. We can allow these Austrian Armies, until we are bef ter informed, un aggregate effective of 1,200,000 men and a strength in rifles of about 600,000 in all. Thus General Brus task, and all the grouter is the credit to siloffs troops are undertaking a serions

them for having, in their first unset,

Mr. Alexander Boss, one of the pri sonors, said that the food question was serious. The prisoners received ning ounces of meat per pian per week, but this included fat and bone, and only four ouers of real meat. The parcels from London kept them alive, and many men lived solely on those and did not touch the German, food at all. Recently the whole camp was punished because

The men all complain about the Ger man thieving that went on. Everything had to be paid for, even tables and chairs. The lawn tennis court and cricket fields cost several thousand marks a year for rent. Postal money orders of £3 10s sent by the Dutch Post Office, amounting to 88 marks, were paid with 7) marks 35 pfennigs. On the journey to Holland the party saw 300 women waiting outside a batter shop at Charlot tenburg. A German woman told them that they were starving, but that the war would end in three months.org.

On arrival at Gravesend the party of released men, emphasized, in the strongest possible fashion, the urgent need of some- thing being done to help the prisonera still at Rulleben and to help to ex- pedite the release of the many old men and invalids there.

They agreed that the dearth of food has created a great weariness of the war 1 cannot tell you what the people generally feel,' said Mr. Tregaskis, back from Berlin. But I know what my landlady felt. Formerly she was bitter against the British, and full of tales ngainst them, Now she is full of blame for the Gorman authorities! I imagine that a sanie change of opinion has come over many others

The people feel that they have won the war, but that no one will recognize. They are than they were except in guns, while we The brunt of the first Russian attack flags up and holidays for the school aro much stronger in men and guns, and General von Pfaner Bakis, who was me, when he had a little drink, It is foll upon the 6th Austrian Army under | children, but as one German admitted to other ways. We must fight as one Army driven back for three miles near Okna, Deutschland über alles, but nothing to and not as four. The interests of the in and forced to occupy a more retired posi ent; you lose, but you have all you want. dividual Power must be subordinated to

tion. Here the weight of the Hussian

"Hence the common people-including the interests of the whole, and strategy artillery, by Austrian adaiission, fatten the soldiers want peace. They are wa -must-regard moral as well as materialed out the trenches, and the first evidence weary. They're reached the stage con when they would welcome peace however obtained. They would jump at some arrangement which ended the fighting, without either gain or loss for the This was weariness is the most marked passion, the fury of the crowds, has ex- Berlin to-day. The hausted itself. Of course, this does of mean that the rulers want peace ta is quite another question.

forers in its caleniations

THE WESTERN PRONT,

Our attention is naturally directed to

the various combats in the maîn ini-

tiated by the Germans, which have taken place on the British front during the inst fow weeks. German attacks have

from the Viry heights in the south to the region of Ypres in the north, and have resulted in several instances in the loss of trenches by us. The superior German positions which dominate ours, and the increasingly powerful German artillery, recount for these local, muc- cesses, which appear to have for their object the disturbance of our future plans, and have not been pressed beyond their first objectives. Similar attempts were made in April, 1915, by the Ger mans to disturb our plans which deve loped in the month following, but they failed to attain their object then, and it is not likely that their renewal will at tain their obrjet now.

The German attack on the Verdun front, having exhausted the 30 divi sions which firat took part in it, begin to attract to itself fresh forces from other froots, and as each fresh German force came up it was thrown remorselessly into the fight. Each time the fresh foren guined a little ground, but without alter- ing the general situation, and after a few

days each fresh force became dissipated

is given that the Russian gunners are able to compete with their enemy on equal terms. A second and important blow was dealt to the Ist Austrian Army the region of Olyka, and the Austrians ander General von Puhallo on Bilog feature around admit that they have been compelled to

fighting extends far northward, us far at oast as the Styr at Lolki, and at pre- 4th Army, which stands north of Kolki, sent the Archduke Joseph Ferdinand's has not been seriously assailed About Tarnopol it is von Bothmer's Army of the South which is involved, and with this Army there are probably the 3rd other German division. The advance Division of the Prussian Guard and an-

still in its early stages, and the Russians are proceeding methodically, using their gun well,

The man declared that there is no where as they passed they saw an abund scarcity of soldiers in the country. Every- ance of men.-'tutes.

USING UP VITALITY.

The straggle for existence usep up vitality at a greater rate than any other thing. In the long effort to make both ends meet we shorten life surely, though imperceptibly middle age, at forty or

Especially in

We do not know for certain what powers - Marshal von Hindenburg, possesses over the Austrian Armies south thereabouts, do we become impressed with of the Pripet, but the probability is that the necessity of having something in hand he exercises only general supervision, against bad times, and with that feeling and that the Austrian Main Head time comes worry nervous breadown, quarters at Lemberg are more or less in-neurasthenia. The entire system feels the dependent. Hindenburg, north of the result of the nervous strain, and then Pripet, rules as master, and he has

shows signals of distress answered the Russian attack in the south by a few attacks in the north. Then have hitherto been of a feeble character and have been easily repulsed. They have been probably of the nature of re

and unrecognizable from the general connaissances, and neither the Russiaos mass of exhausted enemics. It has always nor, the Germans, have yet shown their hitherto been the French who have end- bands on the northern section of the ed cach phase by an attack, and their Eastern theatre. What part the Russian hereia troops have gloriously resisted the Central and Northern Armies will play Gorman. Armies, and have done much to it this great drama is not yet known, wear them out. We need not expect that but it is conceivable that Hindenburg is the loss of Fort Vanz by the French will regretting his divisions which have left change the situation. They still hold him for the West, and that as he regards the heights and positions west and south his thin line of troops extended over a of the much-bombarded ruin, while befront of 460 miles from the Fripet to the hind again there are many lines to be Gulf of Riga he may be wondering how takon before the Germans can achieve he will fare in the campaign. It must their end. The work has to be recom- also, be a source of anxiety to the Aus menced, and meanwhile the Germans trian Command that some 38 of their must have the feeling that their losse divisions,hould bhavo bờn detached have been out of all proportion to their against Italy, and it remizing to be seen gains

whether the Austrians are strong enough

conduct successfully their two cam paigus at the same tamě

The French bave also suffered losses, but the German idea that the French re- serves have been exhausted is very far from the truth, while the British and Belgian reservos reingau intact The Germans have made a prolonged and a rallant effort to see and maintain the initiative, and to impose non us the lusion of their invincibility. They have got succeeded, even locally, in their aims while on the whole front they have thinned out their Forces, and must regard the Fature with some Apprehension The French calculate that their enemy has had 250,000 caualties beforal Verdun. The estimate may he too bich, but the loss has certainly been sensible and the usefulness of nearly a third of the Ger man forces on the Western front has seriously diminished Germany will not

THE TURKISH FRONTS, The Turkish reinforcements are now coming up, and Yudenitch has had to give up some ground. His tusk may be hard, but the war will not be decided in

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