By Francis McCullagh, Petrograd, Aug. 31.
Germany's misfortune in meeting with an unexpectedly stubborn Belgium in the west is matched by her misfortune in finding an impotent ally on the East. Berlin must today be cursing Vienna for its military disorganization and unread-mess. It calculated that, on the fifteenth day of the mobilization, Austria would have concentrated twelve corps and six cavalry divisions on the Russian frontier in making a total of 540,000 fes, 43,000 sabres and 1,380 guns. The Russians also expected this mobilization and were prepared for it. General Ivanoff at Kieff calculated that he could at least prevent the Austrians from _penetrating further than the Brest-Litovsk line. Both the Germans and Austrians thought, however, that this line would only be their first tape, and that they would reach Warsaw before the Russian mobilization had been completed.
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