Before we accept German stories of vast victory in Poland at face value, one or two points may be remembered. The first German re-Port of the evacuation of Lodz Have it to be understood that the Germans had driven the Russians out of Lodz in full rout. Subsequently, Petrograd explained that Lodz had been deliberately eva-enated, during a complete lull in the fighting. Now, forgetful of its first version, the latest German Headquarters report acquiesces in the Russian account. The Russians, it says, retired from Lodz "'stea'thily," and at first their absence was not noticed. Evidently, if the Russians found Lodz too expensive to hold, the Germans had found it 80 expensive to attack that they were in no condition to press hard, or the Russians could not have got out stealthily, unobserved. But why this discrepancy between the first and second German versions of the evacuation of Lodz? It is just these little things which make it so impossible to place any re-hance on German "victories." Meanwhile, there are certain other considerations which suggest that the Germans have, even yet, not grasped the principle of Russian strategy.
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