Neutrality? The crucifixion of public opinion . wayfurther and further into the awful swamps. The Sun was the only paper to print this description andthe readers of the other papers remained in ignorance of oneof the most terrible scenes of warfare in human history and aRussian disaster of unparalleled magnitude up to that , worse things came, but the very worst is yet to come. When the Russians occupied Lemberg our neutral Presscould not find adequate expression to glorify this victory ofRussian arms, which was really not a victory of arms, asLemberg was starved out. But when later
Neutrality? The crucifixion of public opinion . wayfurther and further into the awful swamps. The Sun was the only paper to print this description andthe readers of the other papers remained in ignorance of oneof the most terrible scenes of warfare in human history and aRussian disaster of unparalleled magnitude up to that , worse things came, but the very worst is yet to come. When the Russians occupied Lemberg our neutral Presscould not find adequate expression to glorify this victory ofRussian arms, which was really not a victory of arms, asLemberg was starved out. But when later the Russians werekicked out of Lemberg by the Austrian and German forces thesame New York papers sneeringly referred to the small im-portance of Lemberg as strategical importance in the EasternZone of the war. The New York Press, one of the Munsey publications, forinstance, had this to say editorially: While Lemberg fallingmore than half a year after it seemed to have come securelyinto possession of the Russians must be scored as a magnificent. WBBMBmBBMm GENERAL VON HINDENBURG. NEUTRALITY 63 feat of Germanys matchless military machine, it cannot bringthe Berlin War Party nearer the ultimate triumph, it cannoteven shake off that innumerable Russian mass from the flankof Prussia itself, not to forget the shattered Austria, now lesscapable of self-support than before the Czars vast armiesrolled into Galicia like the sweep of the measureless sea. The Kaiser cannot for-ever beat back the Russianswith his legions in the Eastand fight out this war in therest of Europe, where it mustbe fought out. He cannotleave the East to the guar-dianship of the helpless Aus-trians without having to per-form over again the task heis just now performing tri-umphantly in Galicia and onthe Czars frontier; for theinexhaustible Russians willcome back; they will alwayscome back. What must one think of this editorial Boob as a militaryexpert ? The editor of this paper makes his annual pilgrimage tothe won
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