From ‘News of the Week’, The Spectator, 3 July 1915:
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James Walton
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During the week the Russians have been falling back in Poland and Galicia, and the Germans have been thrusting forward. The papers speak, indeed, of two million Germans invading Russia under Marshal von Mackensen. The Russian retreat, however, whether to the east or to the north, has been perfectly orderly, and the Germans have not made any material advance towards their main object, which, of course, is to destroy the Russian field armies. Indeed, the incidental fighting has in many places been favourable to the Russians. The hostile army on the Dniester, which has lately been reinforced by fresh troops, made a specially desperate effort to throw the Russian retirement towards the Gnila Lipa into confusion; but it not only failed to accomplish this, but suffered enormous losses.
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