6 OCTOBER 1917, Page 1

On the Russian front nothing new has happened. The Germans

are presumably not yet ready to move upon Dvinsk. From the Russian headquarters it is announced that, despite all the mis- fortunes of the past summer, the Russian armies are capable of continuing the struggle. The enemy, according to the Russian estimate, has four divisions more on the Eastern Front than he hall in March. Since May the Germans have reinforced their armies soil ho fifteen divisions, while some Austrians and Turks have been withdrawn. If this estimate be cerreet, tho Russian armies are still rendering an important service to the Allied mama in drawing no many German divisions away from the IVoetern Front. More than that we cannot expect at present.