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 the south-west and of the south, which were the most important in the coming offensive, had been the least attacked. Their discipline and their confidence in their leaders were being re-established little by little. The offensive would show us, concluded Broussiloff, if the moral that we are trying to raise just now by an intense propaganda was sufficiently good to allow of our obtaining great strategical results. "As for myself," he added, "I shall do all that I can with the means at my disposal and hope for the best."

Broussiloff summed up the material situation at the front thus: The long period of inactivity that the Russian army had just passed through had allowed of the accumulation of a great quantity of war material and munitions. It is not the production that regulates the supply of it at the front; that depends upon the transport by rail and river navigation, for the means of transport that Russia has at its disposal does not allow of all the material produced or imported being delivered at the front within a fixed time. It is because of this that the temporary