7 AUGUST 1915, Page 2

The speeches delivered at the opening of the special session

of the Imperial Demo, called to consider the present crisis, show that Russia remains "unshaken, unseduced, unterrified." As the President finely put it in the closing words of his address : " So long as the struggle lasts, let us have only one party, the party of war to the end, and only one programme --victory! " The War Minister, after describing the enemy's enveloping movement directed against the territory and military district of Warsaw, stated that they might be obliged to yield a portion of this region, falling back on positions where the Army would prepare for the resumption of its offensive. They would perhaps to-day give up Warsaw; just as in 18.12 they gave up Moscow, in order to ensure final victory.