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RUSSIAN RETIREMENT DELIBERATE.
It will be seen that the R?ussians fell back
considerably before accepting this great battle,
for earlier in the war we heard that troops
had been down the Vistula nearly to Thorn,
and had advanced through Galicia, beyond
Przemysl, toward Cracow. This retirement
was probably deliberate. In the first place it
would enable the advanced Russian armies to
concentrate with others'comneg up from the
interior, but its mostly important effect would
be that the Germans. would have to fight a
decisive battl e at a ditanc of 200 miles from
their own country.. This would cause great
difficulties as to supply, for the railways' mn
Russia are of a broader gauge than those in
Germany, expressly to prevent a German in
vader from malking use of his own. rolling
stock on them. It must. however, be noted
that there is one railway which runs through.
from Berlin to Warsaw without break of
gauge. Besides this, there are very few rail'
ways at all in the part of Poland overrun by
the Germans, so that supply would have to be
effected by the roads, which are none too
numerous either, in thatrather back'ward coun
try. It is apparent that the fighting was of
a desperate character, and the. Germans prob
ably recognised that their defeat in Poland,
and their being driven back 100 miles, is :a
very serious blow, to any hope of holding .the
Russian armies back. • -
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