The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1915. THE RUSSIAN ARMY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 35, 11 June 1915, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1915. THE RUSSIAN ARMY.

Though not greatly talked about, the Russian Navy is to-day by no means the negligible quantity some people appear to think. Certainly the Czar’s ships have done line work in their own waters of late and Russian sub-' mersihles are beginning to emulate the most daring deeds of other nations’ submarine craft. Prior to the war Germany was fond of speaking of the Russian Navy as though it were non-existent and the development made within the past year must be. therefore, of peculiar and disquieting interest to the Teuton crew. Some few'weeks ago an official German organ commented on the interesting fact that the Russian battleships Gangnt and Petropavlovsk had been completed at Petrograd. These are 2.‘1,UU0-ton ships, with a main battery of twelve 12in. guns and a speed of twenty-three knots. The sister ships Poltava and Sevastopol were launched in 1911, in the same year as the first two, so that they also must be practically ready for service. Hence the Russian Baltic licet will very shortly, if it does not already, possess four Dreadnoughts individually superior in armament to the latest German Capital ships, in addition to the two formidable vessels of the Imperator Paul class, each mounting four 12in. guns and fourteen Sin. guns, two older battleships carrying a 12in. main battery, and a squadron of heavy-armoured cruisers, with at least sixty destroyers and fifteen submarines. With the most recent acquisitions to her Baltic Elect Russia may suon.be able to give the Germans something to remember.