The news from Russia is better than it has been
for many weeks. The Russian armies have all made good their retreat and occupy a defensible line. As for the Germans, they .have to decide what to do next. If they decide to continue the advance, they will find themselves before long involved in vile weather; the going will be bad, and they will need continual reinforcements to keep the line of their supplies open. If they decide to stay where they are, they will have a line of more than six hundred miles to defend during the winter. The Russians have no distaste for winter operations, and will worry their enemy all the time. Already it is proved that the notion that large forces could be transferred to the West, while the Russians. were held by a comparatively weak line well entrenched, was only soothing syrup for the German crowd.
