. Review of reviews and world's work. s gave the Russians their chance andthey took it with a suddenness that surprisedthe world. We have always known thatthere was an irreducible minimum of safetyin the matter of the number of men requiredto hold a trench line. Lee before Richmonddescribed his final disaster as due to the factthat his line had been stretched so thin itbroke. He meant that the extension of theUnion line to the West had compelled theConfederates to keep pace and they lackedthe numbers to do it. At last their wholeline was held by so few effectives that it wasbroken in several p
. Review of reviews and world's work. s gave the Russians their chance andthey took it with a suddenness that surprisedthe world. We have always known thatthere was an irreducible minimum of safetyin the matter of the number of men requiredto hold a trench line. Lee before Richmonddescribed his final disaster as due to the factthat his line had been stretched so thin itbroke. He meant that the extension of theUnion line to the West had compelled theConfederates to keep pace and they lackedthe numbers to do it. At last their wholeline was held by so few effectives that it wasbroken in several places at once. When Russia struck, she had before hera number of Austrians too small to hold theline, which was nearly two hundred mile^long. This Austrian host has been estimatedat 600,000; the Russian force has been setas high as 2,000,000. a figure which seemsto me excessive. But what is essential torecogni/e is that for the first time we seethe thing that the Allies have all along fore- RUSSIJ COMES BACK—A GREAT SLAT VICTORY 59. SCENE OF THE GREAT RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE (SEE NEXT PAGE) ^The liattle front last month extended from the Jripet Mnrshes. cast of Brcst-Litovsk, south to Czernowitz, the Kumanian frontier; cast, namely, a lack of men on the Austro-Gcrman side adequate to hold the extent oflines that they now occupied. To take Ver-dun and to hreak into \enetia the Aiistriansand Germans had weakened their easternlines he>ond the safety pcnnt. The restiltwas the first disaster to the Central Powerssince the LembcrK time, hut a disaster thatcame at an unhappy moment, for the Ger-mans were telling the world the war waswon, their lines were irrcfratjihle, and thatpeace was only prevented by the obstinacyof the defeated. IV. How It Up to the present time the various effortsof tlic rontrndinu armirs to pierce the trrnchline* of the ff>e have Inrn cr)nrme«l tf) narrowfronts. l*he Dunajrc movement, which»ucceedrd, wa* made on a front of less thantwenty mile*, that
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