It is impossible as yet to discover what the German
loss hue been It has been estimated as high as forty-five thousand killed, but this figure must be largely conjectural. In any ease, if dead, wounded, and prisoners are taken into account, the German loss must have been very heavy—heavy enough to paralyse von Hindenburg's offensive at the centre for some time to come. Whether, as the Times Military Correspondent, writing in Friday's paper, predicts, this "is perhaps the final effort to reach Warsaw," or whether yet another effort will be made, remains to be seen. In any case, it is not likely to accomplish anything. When once a failure has been con- spicuous and complete it is practically impossible to get troops to believe that they will succeed where their comrades have failed. Under such conditions an army is beaten before it begins to fight. Soldiers who think they are going to win are often conquered, bat there is hardly an example in history of soldiers winning who believed that they would fail.
