Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-06-06
RUSSIA'S GREAT ARMY.
Nicholas Commands the Largest Army Force
In The World.
No Fear Felt In NJ. Petersburg OF Its
Being Enable 20 Defend rIanchU.
ria IL II IL Called Upon.

Special Correspondence,
st. Petersburg, May lj-The Manchw-
ian war cloud If such thing exists, is
causing no CONSERVATION in this capital,
so confident are the Russian people Of the
ability Of the magnificent army Of the
car to maintain and defend whatever
Russian diplomacy has acquired in the
orient There ~ no fear here Of general
coalition Of The powers to fight Russia
over Manchuria, and the opinion prevails
that no one Of them single handed would
be a match for Russia, least OF an Japan,
which Is the nation which has most to
fear from Russian aggression IN northern
Asia, Uncle Sam, whose only interests In
Manchuria are commercial would have
no sufficient casus bclll and would enter
no entangling alliance. military or other
wise, SO II is up to- Japan alone and
even this cocky little nation would not
dare to enter the lists against Russia
unasslstcd.
However the Russian military authors
ties are taking nothing for granted AMI
are getting ready for any eventually
The ear Of Russia commands the larg-
est armed force In the world, Ills army
has 5Jj battalions Of infantry, 1885
squadron8 OF cavalry ANA 31S batteries
Of artillery France could add 20 This
force IL needed lG more battalons OF iu-
fantry. Gov squadruns of cavalry and ans
cannon. The triple alliance could muster
against this from Us threc constituent
armies 2N06 battaliOus Of infantry. loss
sQuadrons of cavalry and c. ijN cannon,
Russlas standing army in time OF peace
numbers over 100000 men, CONSUMPTION
has been general since the time of Alex
anIer II. Every Russian between the
ages Of Is and a IS liable 10 military SER
vice IN time Of war
The ordinary term OF active service Oh
Eve years. The Cossacks. however form
special class serving Us years. in rec
turn for which they are exempted from
taxation
About 100000 Russians become eligible
for service every year. but only 2iUQN ace
needed to bring the standing army up tc
lls peace footing. only those recruits
who are In fine physical condition are
taken while the rest pass into the re-
serve. which contains. In round numbers.
2slj00l. thus giving Russia a var footing
OF nearly 100000.
The Russian army Is heterogeneous IN
It's composition. Every race overland from
Europe 10 China Is represented, Since thu
recent troubles IN emma large numbers vi
Manchurlans have been taken into the
artillery being subsequently given Rus
sian names aud received into the Orth0-
dON church.
The cossacks comprise the most lntar-
Cstnr feature ~ the military organize
ton. Sixteen thousand of them enter the
army every year At the ago OF ~ The
C0ssack boy takes up arms and after
three years NJ training Joins the front bri-
g1de 90 serve there II years The car
has e particular f0ndncss Tor those wild
picturesque horsemcn. and they tre al
ways well represented in hts b0dyguard
Each man provides and maintains his
own horses, clothing and equipment
Ab0u, ~ per cent VI the recruits are
unable 90 read or write. This they are
taught TO do after having Joined the col
ors Some are so Ignorant that they do
not know their left feet from their right
and the office Of drill sergeant Is no Sine
cure.
In The matter NJ equipment the Russian
army Is up 90 date In every particular
II has a special balloon department "a
cycle corps and even dogs are pressed In
90 service. Great stress De- being laid lust
now upon the cycle corps Each man
carries a certain amount OF baggage on
bis machine. consisting Of q copper drink
ing cup and cooking vessel "a small came
teen and as much ammunition as the or
binary iniautNman Nicholas at the last
| review had Che bicycle corps pass before
| him twice, $50 ETcat Was his interest In TO-.