There seems to be general agreement that the armies under Marshal Timoshenko are succeeding in slowing down the German advance. That is claimed by Moscow, ates according to Havas, military experts consi that the operations along the seven-hundred~ mile front have reached a point where the offensive power of the Germans and the der fensive power of the Russians are al aking the front stretches e Valdai Hills thence the upper reaches c less than one Course of the ting across The roses that in yonder hedge appear Outdo our garden buds which bloom within; But since the hand may pluck them every day Unmarked they bud, bloom, drop and drift away.
Rather will it be possible tọ rhapsodize with Moore:—
Rose! thou art the sweetest flower That ever drank the amber shower; Rose thou art the fondest child> Of dimpled Spring, the wood-nymph child.
Added to that aesthetic appreciation an even greater beauty. peopl starvation, are forced Fepair' roads el eaters damaged bridges—
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