The news from Poland still gives ground for a good
deal of anxiety, though here we moist once more warn our readers against taking at their full value the German wireless boasts. The conceders of this "news service," though they are not so foolish as to use actual inventions, always contrive to offer a very roseate view of the situation from the German point of view. If we were to take the Berlin wireless at its face value, the Russians, French, British, and Belgians would by this time have been ground to powder. But yet the line holds. As far as we can judge by the latest telegrams, the Germans have got within something between twenty-five and thirty miles of Lemberg, and are still pushing on to that objective. They are bringing up large bodies of fresh troops, but they are still far from having carried out their object. Even if they cannot he checked, there is no reason to suppose that there will be a Russian &Ude there any more than there was at Przemysl. The Russians, if Lemberg were lost, would only fall back, after their usual disconcerting fashion. On the rest of the eastern front the Russians seem to have held their own, except in one place. Between the Dniester and the Froth, in the region of Czernowitz, they admit that they have been compelled to give ground.
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