The San Francisco call., 1904-04-12
Slavs Not to Strike
Until in the
Autumn.

! ST. PETERSBURG, April LEX
ceptionalIy reliable information regard
ing the Russian military plans confirms
the repeated announcements that these
plans will not mature until late in the
summer They are of far greater mag
nitude than is generally believed
abroad and take into account all pos
sible contingencies.
General Kuropatkin, remembering
war with Turkey, when the Russian
army placed in the field at the begin
ming had to be more than doubled, has
insisted that the men and guns to be
placed at his disposal shall cover the
extreme limit required to settle the fate
of the campaign.
The Russian plans are predicated
! upon Napoleon's dictum that God
fights on the side of the heaviest bat
talions, and they are being worked out
and timed so as to apply to superb
ority of numbers on land and sea SIM
ultaneously. The army is designed to
attain the enormous total of 100000
men at the time scheduled for the re-
fleet with the Baltic squadron The
Seventeenth and Tenth Army Corps,
now drafting, are expected to reach
Manchuria by the middle of June The
mobilization of four other corps, at
least two of which will be from the
Volga, will be announced by the middle
of next month and they will start east
ward month later, reaching their
destination at the end of August
Rear Admiral Rojestrensky will hoist
his flag as commander of the formid
able Baltic squadron early in July and
will sail Immediately for Port Arthur
with the following vessels: The battle
ships Slava, Borodino, Orel, Kniaz,
Souvaroff, Alexander III and Oslabya,
the last named being now en- route here
from Cherbourg; the cruisers Aurora,
Dmitri Donsko, SHETLAND, AlmaZ,
Jemtchug and Izumrud, and the trans
ports Kamtschatka and Ocean, each
carrying 1000 tons of coal The Tenn
perley conveyers ordered in the United
States are expected soon and they will
enable the squadron to coal at sea.
The last possible difficulty regarding
the passage of the Suez canal disap-
peared last week with the signing of
the Anglo-French colonial treaty, by
which Great Britain adheres to the
convention of 1888 concerning the free
passage of the canal.
PARIS, April 12.-The Echo de Paris
this morning publishes the following
dispatch from its st. Petersburg corre
spondent
THE First, Second. Third and Fourth
foly
in Manchuria and the Fifth Army
Corps is in Western Siberia, advancing
toward designated positions These.
with the Tenth and Seventeenth Army
Corps, the Cossacks actually in the Far
East and the Caucasian cavalry now
being mobilized, will bring the total
number of men in the army and at
the seat of war UP to 100000 by the end
of May.
General Kuropatkin intends to have
the Caucasian mountaineers operate in
Korea, which they will enter when it
is considered that the decisive moment
has arrived to drive out the japanese,
which will not be before August.
II learn that fifteen batteries of eight
guns each are now between Liaoyang
and Harbin. The engineers are doub-
ling the line between Kultuk and Duho.
"A large order for mountain batter
les has been given to Russian firms.
French ambassador Bombard, who
is now in Paris, on the pretext of
spending the Easter holidays with his
son, has really gone to consult Del
casse concerning the significance of the
British entente with reference to the
Russian alliance"