THE RUSSIAN ARMY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 128, 23 October 1914, Page 8

THE RUSSIAN ARMY.

« UC'CaSSFUL MOBILISATION.

I ENTHUSIASM OF PEOPLE. Writing to tiie liondsn Daily Telegraph, a correspondent says:— "An old friend of mine, a Frenchman, setled in Russia, arrived in l\ ir j., „f t (.- [ an extraordinary journey, 'having trav--1 i'l!'->I turougli .\.j„i Xo-'gurod, where incidentally, hj, l,.ft B Uusshm annec'th,* ■o. h.s ,:, 0..l ie,Jy, cntcriaining aw (> , ; m soldier* a day at he,- entate in lux- ' »".r- lie give, a remarkable d.isenr,tjoii 01 the enthusiasm f,. T war j„ i;,V *>;«. lie travelled, via Xijni Xuworod Moscow mil OJowy. iivervwhere tiie simplest Russian peanut i 8 (agCr >„ war pei.u.hore the Jeehng against Gennany i.i extraordinarily viole„|.. N t . t a (j,.,.. man shop will now be tolerated in Moscow- -wnero there used to be more German shops Hum anything e' ri e Thousands of families with German name' v" petitionm;? the Kmperor to change t;i4 into Russian ones. 'Popular c;i i-.,,---tor the war is extraordinary. "-dy lr:end told me li'lwt i;i b'lie :h"ec days he spent in Moscow it w;w illu!ost "npowblo to sit dow„ in a restaurant ci oale. llu, national hvmiH of IVancc Russia, cwid Kiigknd and Jhlgium sW erJ played incessantly, day and night, and one had .no stand up f or eac)l O!U ,_ Ki Ode-wa oiriliuaiasm. for the war tu filed Whe town in'.o sunwihing like a hu-- firaand Che whole population went" wild He travelled as one of 800 l'renelim>en «1 going to France to join their <. o !or-i h ranchmen of all kinds, dearer,, and a»M —a eaplain of «7, for instance, who ;has tor years been Mettled in Russia, ~ l a n>e partly of colonial infant! ym< n, ' several * ranchmen- dcstTtm going i( );l ek to serve.

"Mora remarkable still than the popular entlHUm.-uu iu Kussia, was tin extraordinary success of ,:Hie mobiiisaTion It was earned through with a smoothness and orderliness which absolutely amazed evuryone who Jui.,l known the old Russian . m <?thod ß of orgsuii'sation, ox ratflor, disorganisation. All the troops arrived with new ,uiiii fomw, complex rtjuipments, perfect eoimniasariat arTaHWiuenU, etc. What mar be caib-J hnnnciail mobilisation als„ workesl remarkably well. Kver.y trouper going tio the front is absolutely assured tha.t, his will not wamt w'hile he i* away. Moneiy 'has been given by the rich' famiKes with astounding munificence. The Oorvernment U also giving momsy without counting, and life Emi»iau liaiitj are

allowing the game generosity. Money has never been bo plentiful as it was a, week ago in Moscow and Southern Ru*

Ttw sinking tot alL_ party preferences -nag been equally remarkable. The Jews have put up public prayers in the synagogues for 4lheir Russian fatherland; ConserTativea and Revolutionaries fraternise; and «i-anairchist» aing the Russian Imperial Hymn; whilo Pole* are flocking to jtoin the Russian army as volunteers.

"My friend towelled from Moscow to Odessa with, a party of ten Russian officers of the Headquarter* Staff, who estimated uhafc then Russia had already oyer four million, men in tho Held. This number Iby now is probably six million. The Tomarkable thing, I repeal, is iflitut all have mobilised swiftly, all (have been well equipped, and the train service and various army services, etc., have worked without a hitch."