Not many weeks ago we published Kalisch, which is General von with which France has to contend in a long series of complaints from Hindenburg's base. The sus-the war with Germany is that of the subscribers in western and south-Picion is so strong as to amount: supply of horses for military pur-western China against the intolerable almost to certainty that the Ger-poses. In ordinary circumstances delays of the Chinese Post Office in man forces retreating on the her horse supply has been no easy delivering newspapers. At the time Strykow-Voznika line are the matter. The horse population of we were informed that certain alter-ones that were trying to envelop Franes is estimated at 2,900,000, in ations of system had been devised the Russian left, which probably addition to 200,000 in Algeria and which would work the necessary rests upon Lodz. Since the ad-35,000 in Tunis, which are her prin-improvement, Here, now, is ancipal horse possessions. Her war other complaint from Chengtu, vance through Poland began, the effective is some 600,000, the peace dated November 4 Russian forces operating between effective about 125,000; so that on the Warthe and the Vistula have! mobilization she had to find some one ace, far away in the' intere, the opbortuntio afonded ae of hee constituted a more or less dis-470,000 animals. The wastage has touch with the outer world,—especi tinct movement from those ad-already been great, and she is faced in such stirring times as rheae. vancing against the Austro-with the ever present possibility of therefore, very trying and disappointing German army further south bean epidemio—glanders has already to us to have of late gone tween Czenstochovo and Cracow. broken out in the German army. times, in the slow delivery of the "Herald." We get letters here from Hence, any advance by the France, however, hopes to procure Shanghai in three weeks, but my Inst large numbers of horses from Ameri-copy of the "Herald" came in a mans along the Strykow-Voznika ca, but of course they will not be and is of September 19, no leas than ax line would have turned the Russian position at Lodz. Convereeimmediately available for cavalry weeks and three days on the way! need not tall you how trying this is, T worl would not complain, if I did not know ly a retreat along that line re-that a better tom as worked well of being enveloped. But it seems lieves the Russians of the danger to'ecure a return to that better wage id T feel it sistent
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