The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-18
Figures Showing Number of Troops
Now Concentrated in Western Poland.
Michael Davitt Confirms the Statement Made
by Mr.. Blunt Concerning Balfour's Threat
Wholesale Arrests of Nihilists.
PLENTY OF WAR TALK,
Russia Concentrating Immense Masses
Troops on Her Frontiers.

Russia Concentrating Immense Masses os
Troops Her Frontiers.
NEW YORK, Jan. ia London special to the
Times says This is the worst day of the new
year. so far as the prospects for peace are con-
cerned. The papers literally swarm with re-
ports of Russian movements of troops. 1t seems
to be undoubted that the Second Army Corps is
now under marching orders from the Caucasus
to the Roumanian frontier, while the bulk of
the Eleventh Corps is being moved forward,
one cavalry division and one rife brigade to the
Roumanian border, and cavalry division
and two infantry divisions toward the
Galician frontier. 1t is said that Prince
Lobanof, the Russian minister at Wen
ma, has admitted this to Count
Kalnoky, the Austrian Premier while still pro-
testing Russias peaceful intentions, and that
Count Kalnoky answered that Austra's inten-
tions were equally pacific; but how best TO show
that this was the case was not in his province,
but in that of the military authorities. We are
evidently in for period. whether short or long,
of sharp war scare, which, of course, will tend
TO send American securities up. Apparently,
Russia is going again to propose Peter Kar-
ageorgevics for the Bulgarian throne, and is
massing troops to give effect to her proposition
1t is practically certain that he will be rejected
by the powers. The question is, will Russia
fght2"
Another London dispatch says: '.Anxiety of
a very poignant nature continues to be felt with
regard to the prospects, and the latest items of
news are not calculated to dispel the uneasiness
With the report of the Cars messages of peace
to his congratulating subjects comes the
nouncement that train-load OF explosives has
arrived at Warsaw, and are ready to be sent to
the German and Austrian frontiers at a moments
notice. War preparations on an immense scale
are being carried on night and day. There
450, 900 troops in Russian Poland, and $780,
900 massed in the districts opposite to
Roumana and the more easterly partitions of the
Austro- Hungarian empire. These troops are
held in readiness for anything; for quiet forage
or sharp and active dashing across the frontier
lines to murder and plundsr. The navy
has not been forgotten. Two large new
iron clads and six corvettes have been
added to the Russian Black sea feet.
The irou-clads are of the most modern
type, and are superior to any possessed by Ger
many Austria. Against these two countries
they not likely to be of much use in an Of
fensive sense, but they are very likely, indeed,
to decide the part which Turkey will play in
of continental war; Turkeys naval
power is rapidly decaying, while Russia, their
ancient enemy, who all but powerless in
the Black sea, is now very strong, and growing
stronger. These facts have not escaped the at
tention Of the threatened powers
The Militar Wochenblatt, of Berlin, publishes.
with authority, reply to the Invalide Russes
late comparisons of frontier forces. It says au-
thentic estimates of the peace electives sta
toned in the frontier provinces of Austria,
Russia and Germany show that Russia has 3I5,-
500 men and 160 field guns; Germany, 9S, 200
men and 338 field guns. The Wochenblatt next
compares the military situation on the Russian
side of the frontier with that on the German
side, taking the forces within territories of about
equal area, which show that the Russians with
in 1891 square kilometres have 123 275
men. 24198 horses, and ALL guns
of all kinds, while the Germans, within
119,456 square kilometers, have only LIZA men,
"A, $40 horses and 23s guns. The garrison of
Warsaw, consisting of 10000 men, 5000 horses
and 30 field guns, is contrasted with the garri-
son of Konigsberg. consisting of 7,7OO men.
l 400 horses and 80 field guns, and the garrison
of Breslau, with 5000 men, 1,I6O hor ses and
80 field guns. Referring to the Invalide Russes
assertion that 1850 kilometers of railway had
been constructed in eastern Germany since
1873, the Wochenblatt states that the railway
extension since 1878 amounts to only ], 1,865 kilo-
moterS.