RUSSIA'S HUMAN RESOURCES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1429, 27 July 1915, Page 2

RUSSIA'S HUMAN RESOURCES.

Tin-; conditions of the Russians are infinitely better than at any time since the war started, asserts a London Times correspondent at Warsaw, writing while the Russians were retreating in Galicia. Their 1915 levies which are just coming into the field now in great blocks are about the finest raw material that one can find in Kurope —great strapping, healthy, good natured lads who look as though they had never had a day’s sickness in their life, “I think I do not exaggerate when I say that I have seen nearly 50,000 of these new levies, and I have yet to see a battalion that did not exude high spirits and enthusiasm. They come swinging through Warsaw, laughing and singing with a confidence and optimism which it is hard to believe possible when one considers that we are in the tenth mouth of the war. Surely If the Germans who are straining every effort now to raise new troops could see these men that Russia is pouting into the field they would have a genuine qualm as to the future. And these are but a drop in the bucket to what is available in great Russia that lies at the back of us. Over here there will never be any lack of men, and the Tsar can keep putting troops just like these into the field for as many more months or years as the war may last. After nearly a year on this side of the war one just begins to appreciate the enormous human resources which Russia has at her command in this great conflict.”