But there is a strong resentment in Russia to-day because the Polish Jews misled the Russian army in the marshy grounds of East Prussia in the early campaigns of the war.
Russian military plans had to be changed and the field of war set farther south.

Here Russia hopes to drive the five million people of Silesia back toward Berlin.

This will awaken the Junkers of East Prussia and bring home to the people of Germany what the Prussian military machine really invites when it attempts a world-conquest.
Russia lacks military railroads and scientific means of communication.
But just as America was surprised ten years ago to find the Japs, as the ally of England, giving, as the English predicted, "a good account of themselves," so the Russians as the allies of Great Britain may be found giving a very good account of themselves in this war.

Russia is certainly unconquerable from either the Austrian or the German standpoint, and the smashing of Austria between Russia, Roumania, Servia, and Italy may be the real military campaign of this most Audacious War.
American engineers and diplomats familiar with Russia declare that, properly led, the Russian soldier is the greatest fighter in the world; and he is getting that leadership now.
The Russians expect the war will be over before next autumn, but Kitchener does not plan to end it then.

He means to do this job thoroughly, and his plans are most comprehensive..