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About The evening news. (Roseburg, Douglas County, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 1, 1916)
BIX TUB EYKXJNG NEWS. TUESDAY, Al'ttUST 1, 1016. IW this period, has been relieved of his duties and now awaits trial In the fortress of Peter and Paul, on an island In the Neva. When Grand Duke Nicholas was sent to the Caucasus, the czar him self took command of the Russian front proper. He now spends little time in Petrograd. For the last few months, the citi zen organizations of Russia have been backing up the army with vigor. So unified are these groups that there are today two armies fightlnr for Russia a soldier army and a citi HER FIRST FISH STORY. FOR SALE Hay baler, John Deere power press No. 2, S b. p. gasoline engine, com- plete, good condition, bar- gain for cash. E. C. Ben- son, room 4, Commercial Club building. ' 629-tf Implements! WELL EQUIPPED WIS HAVE I'L'llOHASIil) THIS STOCK OF IMPLEMENTS AND Is Twice As Big Today When War Started. As vehicles foiimeiily own :i nv citouui Giles, CON SISTING OF ItUGGIES, WAG DNS, FLOWS, DISC HARROWS CULTIVATORS, ETC zen one. Thus, after two years of war and many disasters, the Russian army believes its darkest days are over. BELIEVES II'S DARKEST DAYS ABE 6VES WHILE THIS STOCK LASTS WK WILL SKLL IT AT r Less Than Wholesale Cost IT WILL PAY YOU TO INVESTIGATE J. F. BARKER & CO. IMPLEMENT AXI) VEHICLES. Aim of (;eiin;uiy Was U Crush JtiLsKiit and Conclude a Separ ate Peace After the Fall of Wai'suw. Whoa you want the very best Remember "Diamond W" Canned Fruits & Vegetables Will satisfy. Omr stock of these Is very complete. Price and quality satisfy. THE CASH STORE UK SAVE YOU MONEY VJli CASS STUEET Hornbrook Whiskies May bo all llioy nro ndvortlso'1 to ho, hut a cup of our coffoo bents thom all. It (loos not require a government soul to denote quul II y. tho lualo will tell. Short orders from 5 a. tn. to 10 a. m. Dinner from 11a. in. to 8 p. in. Phone 81 THE CAFETERIA 122 Cass St wimim'HljMUMII Throw the Burden of Wash Day Ou Us! LET US QUOTH YOU THE PI1ICK FOIt THIS SERVICE WHICH INCLUDES Till.; FAMILY WASH UNFINISHED. READY TO 1UON Oil THK FAMILY WASH FIN SHED READY TO USE. PHONE 79 ROSEBURG STEAM LAUNDRY Our Autos Will Call I MMM""""t'"lnliM1 nlnWMfmiH"-'" 1IMI1II MIWI Mif-i 1 THE UNIVERSAL CAR Ford service for Ford owners is worth while. Fifty-one Ford branches; over 8,,r00 agents nil through tho country, each with a complete stock of Ford parts and supplies on hand. No de lays, no holding up for days to get parts, hut prompt, reliable service at a low, fixed cost. Uunabout !!!)(); Touring Car $110; Coupelct $:f)0; Town Car $ni0; Sedan $710. All prices f. o. b. Detroit. On sale at W.:A. BURR, Agent - Roscburg Terms to rvKtmlblo pari leu. II j- William Philip Simniu. PETROURAD, July 1. (Ey mall.) "The Russian army Is twice as hit; as it was when the war started, is better fed. equipped and munitioned. Militarily, we are able to carry our part of the load.'' It was President of the Duma .Mikhail Rod.Ianko who told nie thin, a leader known to RiiBsia as a frank, out-spoken man. This man knows something about armies. He begun life as an officer from a military academy. He is actively engaged on army problems now. Duma Member Serglus Shiillovsky, leader of tho progressive Dloc, con trolling lenient of tho assembly'. gave tno same answer, adding: "Tho army Is hotter than it hns ever been. Its spirit is porfect. In ........1 1 1. . ... niv uu,iuii.v me peopio are loo husy to bo pessimistic. Townspeople love to tell alarming tales which grow. At tho front with tho soldiers it is as another world. Everybody is cheer ful To some neutrals, the Russian nrmy has been a disappointment. Judging It by German standards of perfection. Judged otherwise, the niisslnns have accomplished heroic things. Ilussln stretches twice as far from east to west ns the United Stntes. Sho Is ns wide as from New York lo Snn Francisco. Her population Is thinly distributed over this tremend ous area 4 0 times that of Germany railways are few and, for a cam paign against Germany, Inconven iently laid. When war began, the Russian army was undergoing complete re organization. Mobilization caught It it the worst moment. Tho new un tried mobilization scheme was stop ped and the old one resorted to. Russia Is SO per cent peasant and reserves cannot bo notified quickly as In Germany. Once notified, many must walk groat distances to tho nearest settlement. From hero the first small group walks or rides to a village on n rallwav and from hern J to a city to bo equipped and despalch- ! ed to tho army, la Is a slow pro cess, hard to Improve upon until Rus sia has better transportation and communication. Quirk-mobilizing countries mobil l.e on the frontier. Russia, unable j lo throw millions of men on the eno I iny's boundary linn In time, concen ! tnitos' In the Interior. She cannot i hope to begin a war n tho offen i slvc but experts to commence hostill j ties In a clash Inside her own terri- lory ngalnst Invaders, j Russian then performed a heroic , thing when she threw herself across the border Into enstern Prussia five j days after the war began, unprepared 1 by nt least a month, though she knew herself to be. The world knows the disaster tot the Russians among the Mazurlnn marshes, of nonnoknmpf's detent at Osterode Into In August after he had thrown von lllndenburg back from-Insterhurg. Konlkshorg. Allen stein nnd Cluiuliinnen. This was j Russia's first sacrifice. j It Is only ISO miles from the nearest point on tho Russian frontier to llerlln. Looking nt tho map, j sidewalk strategists opined that Rus-I sla ought to make tho distance in 110 ! days. Hut even had Russia moblllz-j ed. struck via short line, sho would have reached Herlln only to receive' a mortal blow from north nnd south cutting off and dooming her invad ing army, ltoth eastern Prussia and Galleia had to be occupied before the Poaen route to Herlln could even be attempted. So Gallcln wan Invaded. Tarnopol was stormed and occupied, l.emberg ami Przeniysl taken by tho forces un der General Uusskl who mastered the country clear to the crests of the Carpnthlnns. Then time, dlst.ince. luck of rail way facilities, bad ro.nl s nnd other: ntnsU-.it bindranris outdid him -i thi-o and greatly reln'or.'.-d An. trinn annic fr.imed with Orrmnus and le, In part by German officers. The Russian retreat from Gallcia wns: the result. I Worked on the western front by; the French and Tlrltlsli, nnnbie to, advance an Inch there, the Germans' 11 S Blanche Sweet, Lasky Star, In Para, mount Pictures. r.lnnche Sweet, the beautiful Lnskj star, caught her first fish last week al Hear Lnke, v.'bile on locution for thtf exterior seniles of "Tho Storm," il Pnrumotmt I'lcturo which wns '!! , reeled by Frank Iteicher. Disinter' csted persons assert that It was no so much of a fish, but Miss Sweet U having It stuffed, and it will occupy g prominent poyltlon In her home, pnn vlded tile cat does not see It first. The fish was enticed from the watery while Miss Sweet tks out In a caivj with Thomas Mclgban. her leadlni) man. Aa soon ay the fish was oij'i tared, Miss Sweet Insisted upon immei dlatclj reUimlng to camp consequent' ly Mr. Sfelslmu was left Ashless. Spring and Summer Dress Goods masstimsssi In Dimities, Batistes, Voiles and Silk Mixtures 'perfected their trenches, barbed- wire entanglements and machine gun system from the channel to Switzerland, then threw her remain ing strength on Poland. Lodz was I captured, Plock taken and one by ! one, quickly the historic cities and fortresses of all Poland, Including, Warsaw, the capital, fell. j It Is said Germany aimed to crush j Russia and make a separate peace' after Warsaw. Hut Russia was not: crushed. Sho knows defensive fight-! log too well. She lost much, but her army Is stronger now than ever. A high French official said to mo: "Russia is unbeatable. She is too big. She can keep on retreating un til nt last the enemy will bo swal lowed up." In tho retreat from Polnnd the army had much to contend with i was badly munitioned. 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