Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-05-14
Startling Instances Of IncOmpe-
tency Have Greatly Troubled
The Gar.
COMPARISONS WITH JAPAN.
Men of Latter Country Plead to Get In.
to the Army but Those of Russia
Want to Keep 0ut.
Special Correspondence.

NptNiul correspondence
- TPETERSBURG Aprl T.--It Is an
open secret here that The situation
in the far east has Inspired the
car the imperial family and the
members Of the government with grave
fears for the future Of TN Russian em-
pire Neither the czar nor his advisers
expected that Japan would push mat
ters to extremes, and the events since
the rupture Of diplomatic relations have
developed, their first alarm into panic,
pure and simple. There have been
bmnders big and small in all depart
ments Of the army and navy, and there
have been manifestations OF opposl-
ton to the war among the Russian peo-
pie themselves which must M the
hearts If the powers.that. be with dis
may.
The violently unpatriotic attitude of
considerable sections OF the Russian ma
tion has been the severest blow to the
car, who has been plunged into despair
by the discovery that so many of his
subjects detest him and his govern
ment No sooner was war declared
than there was n rush of young men
liable to compulsory military service at
the front to escape from the country
ana thus eyade their obligations to the
fatherland.
The car felt this all the more keen
ly because IL offered such a striking
contrast to the patriotism shown in ia
pan In one case where a young Jap
anose soldier was exempted from ac-
tive service at the front on the ground
that he was the sole support of his Wild
owed mother the mother committed
suicide I'm order that her boy might be
free to take the field against the ma
tons enemy ana with her last breath
handed him the dagger with which she
had stabbed herself 20 the heart com
handing him TO plunge II into az many
Russian bodies MS possible. Wealthy
japanese who We're not required 10 per-
form active military service sacrificed
brilliant professional and commercial
careers TO enlist as common soldiers,
and young Jaus who were not allowed
TO go to the front on account of physical
undmcss committed suicide because
they We're ashamed to be thus debarred
from risking their lives for the sake Of
the fatherIand.
DODGlNG MILITARY SERVICE,
Many Instances of the extraordinary
patriotism Of the Japanese became
known here and caused intelligent Rus.
SLAMS, from the car downward, to re-
feet ON the reasons of the marked Glf,
ference between Japan and Russia I'm
this respect The young Russians who
desired 20 eyade military services prac-
tlsgd all sorts OF cunning devices TO
achieve their object After the out
break OF war the Russian authorities
refused all applications from Russian
men for passes permitting them 10
leave the country, so that fugitiyes
from military service had TO cross the
frontier under various DISCUSSES and
with false passports,
Large numbers who had not the
means to adopt these methods attempt
ed to walk across the boundaries TO
Prussia and Austria under the cover
OF darkness, trusting to luck to evade
the vigilance Of the Russian frontier
guards, German newspapers issued IN
the eastern provinces Of Prussia and
Austria have published accounts Of
many encounters between fugitiyes and
Russian frontier guards, and In most
cases the Russian troops shot down
those who We're trying to reach German
or Austrian territory In one instance,
a large party Of fugitlves from military
service were on the point OF crossing
the Russo German frontier near VII
hemsbrueck, together with their wives
and families, when the Russian guards
perceived them Being too much IN the
rear to ovcrtuke them, the guards fred
Unfortunately into the group, Ten
men, twelve women and six children
were killed. The remainder surrender
ed 20 escape the same fate.
Much trouble has been caused by the
refusal Of the adherents OF many re-
llgious scots In different parts OF Rus
STA TO perform the military service
which the law Of Russia requires VI