The Russian Advance

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HOW THE WAR BEGAN By W. L. COURTNEY, LL.D., and J. M. KENNEDY THE FLEETS AT WAR By ARCHIBALD HURD THE CAMPAIGN OF SEDAN By GEORGE HOOPER THE CAMPAIGN ROUND LIEGE By J. M. KENNEDY IN THE FIRING LINE Battle Stories told by British Soldiers at the Front. By A. ST. JOHN ADCOCK GREAT BATTLES OF THE WORLD By STEPHEN CRANE Author of “The Red Badge of Courage.” BRITISH REGIMENTS AT THE FRONT The glorious story of their Battle Honours. THE RED CROSS IN WAR By M. F. BILLINGTON FORTY YEARS AFTER The Story of the Franco-German War. By H. C. BAILEY. With an Introduction by W. L. COURTNEY, LL.D. A SCRAP OF PAPER The Inner History of German Diplomacy. By E. J. DILLON HOW THE NATIONS WAGED WAR A companion volume to “How the War Began,” telling how the world faced Armageddon and how the British Army answered the call to arms. By J. M. KENNEDY AIR-CRAFT IN WAR By ERIC STUART BRUCE HACKING THROUGH BELGIUM By EDMUND DANE FAMOUS FIGHTS OF INDIAN NATIVE REGIMENTS By REGINALD HODDER THE RETREAT TO PARIS By ROGER INGPEN THE RUSSIAN ADVANCE By MARR MURRAY THE SUBMARINE IN WAR By C. W. DOMVILLE-FIFE MOTOR TRANSPORTS IN WAR By HORACE WYATT THE SLAV NATIONS
THE RUSSIAN ADVANCE
BY MARR MURRAY
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War between Russia and Austria has been inevitable since the latter first cast her eyes eastwards and decided that Salonika was to be the object of her expansion. To reach a port on the east the Teuton must crush the Slav. Fundamentally, it is a battle of races. Hitherto the Teuton has managed to avoid actual conflict; by means of carefully designed coups at opportune moments, or, to put it more bluntly, by the methods of a common thief, he has made very good progress during the last few years without risking his own skin. But on the present occasion circumstances were not so favourable as they appeared to be; and instead of catching Slavdom at a disadvantage, he caught it ready to fight for its existence—a serious miscalculation which bids fair to have the most far-reaching results.