ILiND AND \EATER, 
July, 31, 1915. 
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upon their own part. They did not yet think that 
the line as a whole was menaced. 
(2) The crossings effected were but two in 
number out of four mentioned, and it may 
probably be deduced that efforts at crossing were 
being made all along the line in the hope that a 
Bufficient number would succeed to permit of a 
linking up of the bodies that managed to get 
across. 
(3) Probably the two places at which cross- 
ings were effected were, by the nature of the 
further bank, swamp, or what not, incapable of 
continuous defence, which means that crossing on 
a really broad front, including whole sections of 
firm ground, had either not been attempted or had 
not yet succeeded. .We further remark that there 
has not come (up to the last moment of the news 
received) any account of a crossing effected at a 
road or railhead. Again, we hear from the Rus- 
sian communique that the enemy has not carried 
any artillery to the southern bank as yet. Finally, 
we note that the deploymert upon the southern 
bank was as vet — on Sunday night — restricted to 
qviite insignincant fronts of a few miles. 
That is how the matter stood upon the Sun- 
day night, which is the end of our news 
in this country upon the Tuesday evening, 
when these lines are written, and it may 
be summed up by saying that the Germans 
are across the Narew, just as they were in 
February across the Niemen; that it is no good 
getting across unless the crossing is on a sufficient 
breadth- that the Russians do not yet regard it 
(at the moment of writing) as being a crossing 
sufficiently menacing to warrant their retirement 
above and below the points the Germans hold on 
the south bank; but that these local German suc- 
cesses two in number, have taken place under con- 
dition's very different from the abortive crossing 
of the Niemen last February, for there is now 
a much heavier disproportion between the 
munitionment in heavy shell of the enemy and of 
our Ally, to the continued disadvantage of the 
latter, this, in its turn, being due to the fact that 
the strict blockade of Russia by nature and the 
enemy during the winter and the undeveloped in- 
dustrial system of Russia forbade that accumula- 
tion of plant and munitions which the enemy and 
the Western Powers were able to effect during the 
same period. That handicap our Russian Ally, 
has not yet caught up by a very long way. 
