of our military and naval experts have made
clear that the defensive forces of the country are inadequate for the
proper protection of our coasts and to enable our Government to
maintain its accepted policies and to fulfill its obligations to other
States, and to exert in the adjustment of international questions the
influence in which the Republic is entitled;

Therefore, be it Resolved

That we appeal to the President, if consistent with the public
interest, to call the early attention of Congress to the pressing need
of prompt and efficient action so that the resources of our great
country can be utilized for the proper defense of the Republic;

And, Resolved, That the National Security League, under whose auspices
this Peace and Preparation Conference has been held, be urged to
continue the work which it has already undertaken, of bringing the
American people to a full realization of our deplorable state of
unpreparedness and of the necessity of action by Congress.

Przemysl and Lemberg

German Reports of Mackensen's Victorious Thrust in Galicia

Przemysl fell to the German arms on June 3, 1915, ten weeks
after the Russians had captured the fortress and its
Austrian garrison following a six months' investment. The
campaign which meant as its first result the recapture of
this great fortress of nineteen modern forts and sixteen
field fortifications, with innumerable trenches, was
continued by the renewal of the "thrust" of General von
Mackensen toward Lemberg, the capital of Galicia.
Semi-official figures published in Berlin estimated the
Russian losses from May 1 to June 18, when the victorious
German armies were approaching the gates of Lemberg, at
400,000 dead and wounded and 300,000 prisoners, besides
100,000 lost before Field Marshal von Hindenburg's forces in
Poland and Courland. On June 22 Berlin reported five
Austro-German armies shelling the last lines of the Russian
defenses before Lemberg, which fell on June 23.

The admitted weakness of Russia in this campaign was the
exhaustion of her ammunition supplies. The intent of the
German thrust was to drive the Russians far back and
establish easily defended positions from which the Germans
might detach forces for operations against Italy and the
Allies in the west. Political consequences, also, were
expected from German success in G