IS RUSSIA PREPARED FOR WAR.
"Kussia," says the Odessa correspondent of tke Daily News, '• it must be admitted is ndt very well prepared for war, She is at present masking her military weakness. Her millions of troops are a mere ' expression. Her reserves now be : ng mobilised are a horde of unkempt peasant youths who are practically ignorant of the use of rifled weapons, which some of them can scarcely tarry. Looking on- the other clay at the departure of some 500 of these troops for the Caspian, an English capiain, leaning over the rail of his qiurter-deck,remarked, 'They may have quantity, but they certainly haven't much quality. 1 This observation aptly describes the . general physique of the Russian reserves. It may be that the old roguish commissariat officialism denunda these poor boys of their proper equipment.' I iknow not, but their appearance is something worse than that of the convicts who periodically leave this port for Saghalien."
(special to united press association.); London, July 17. General Komaroff states that Ke was not aware that the consul's clerk who was flogged 'by the Bussians at Kesh was m the Britisn service.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 46, 22 July 1885, Page 4
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191IS RUSSIA. PREPARED FOR WAR. Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 46, 22 July 1885, Page 4
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