But the unexpected happened. Germany not only traversed this wild, boggy country, but traversed it with what was, in the circumstances, remarkable swiftness. It would have been deadly swiftness:
Czenstochovo an affair of three weeks instead of an affair of six days. And, to go further back, it must be admitted that the German change of front was conducted with a rapidity and a skill which hardly fell short of the marvellous. To send a fourth of their entire army irom the west to the east was in itself a feat, but to provide that army with bases, tapes, and all the other requirements of forced advancing in hostile country went very close to being miraculous. There is no use in our trying to explain it away or to shut our eyes to it, for it has to be taken into account in any forecast of the future.
To return, however, to Von Morgen's swoop. First of all, the German leader confirmed the Russians, by various feints, in their supposition that an attack would be made on Grodno. Early October there was a German ad vance on Suwalki and Augustovo, both of which places are in the Grodno district or, more properly speaking, between Grodno and the Prussian frontier. There was also an advance from Mlawa and other points on the southern frontier of East Prussia, in the direction of Warsaw. The Grand Duke Nicholas thought that the enemy meant to seize Kovno to obtain a REALLY FIRST-CLASS TOBACCO, sat Im anier to ment the demands of the discriminating
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