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Plainly the superiority in moral is shifting from the Germans

to the Russians throughout the Eastern front. The depression which has throughout history seized on fighters in the great plains of North-Eastern Europe—unless, like the Russians, they are born and bred to the influences of plains that stretch to the horizon, of wan waters and never-ending forest vistas, of quaking marshes, and of grey, reed-fringed lakes—appears already to be having its effect on the Germans. But if these things are done in October, what will happen in the months of snow and frost, varied by occasional mid-winter thaws, thaws which for four or five days together bring down the Polish plague of immeasurable mud P

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