The sun., 1904-11-13
HATRED OF THE WAR GROWS.
pUSsJAN POPULAR FEELING RE-
WIVES TALK OF REVOLUTION.
However, the Resistance Is Really Only
Passiye-Outbreaks by the ReserNists
Partly Due to rodka-Minister OF
the Interior Promises Reforms.
ys,,eta, Gable Despatch TO THE sun.

s,.et1l Gable Despatch 10 THE sun.
1oNroS, Nov. ia distinct Grange
has taken place In Fnglish public opinion
during the Fast wee k and 1t 10 a change Tor
the b, tt.r. TIE dange ro' anger aro, 8
bv djs.r7 81. both OF it's OWN and the ~ g.
.,an Gov, rnme nt las give lace to the
~, ditohle calm with wi ich the first news
NJ the North Sc incide mt was re O. ived.
II cannot be said that any grnt con-
6dence in R, ssa las Suddenly 6. rung
rn IN Englis, br, as.s but VIA is more Inn
,,or,ant. confidt nee in it's own Cove rnmt mt
Ia h,en r. store d. II is 10 grt atty due to
Jord Iarsiownt sTttch at the LORD
Mavor's banquet, but even before dat
public or inion lad begun more widely 70
r.oognize the inciden as "a dtPlorable
tlnnder." to U.s. Lord LaIsiowne 6 words.
end the poorle min6s we're r,ady to re-
c.ive is s.atem, mt.
The Govern meet is now convinced that
Prussia in good faith believed the e%traor-
dirary tale which she urged In her defence
and which made an international COM
mission the only possible solution. There
ia little doubt that the Foreign Minister'S
audience welcomed most warmly his state
,neot that the Government had teen as
sured that the officers left at Vigo were
those actually implicated, and that they
and any Others concerned would be ade-
ouatelv punished IL found guilty.
Meantime, while news from Port Arthur
4. eagerly awaited. attention Is increas-
ingly centred on the internal conditions
Of Russia. The effects of the war are being &
severely felt by the poorer classes rae.
torv after factory has teea shut down ana
the railway system is so DISTURBED mat
vans and trucks, containing over mhliioh
tons of grain. are blocked and will remain
an till sprirg, until which time the cultl-
gators will lie deprived OF the price OF their
nroduce, Eut most important OF all is the
misery OF the reservists, who have Teen
called out for an unpopular war, and the
conseouent disturbances which we're re-
ferred TO in this mornings cable dispatches
This has given fresh impetus TO the talk
Of a revolution.
The ST. Petersburg correspondent OF
Tuy SrS deals with this subject in letter
received to-day, in which he says NUS
sias mobilization machinery is once again
moving 20 slowly that for considerable
periods it is absolutely at standstill. AS
the calls on the reservists extend further
among the peasantry and artisans popular
hatred of the war grows, yet this same
resistance Of inertia, which has left divisions
which should have been completed in June
searching still among the people for half
their numbers, has its significance. which is
overlooked by observers, who MAINTAIN
that the winter cannot pass without q
revolutionary movement on vast scale.
The inertia which refuses to so to Man.
ch,.rla has many ingredients OF an inertia
which cannot undertake sustained attack
on positions nearer home. The poverty
and the disgust with the Government,
which are the motives for the refusal OF the
masses to regard the war as patriotic
ENTERPRISE, are not fred by any idea from
which could spring an alternative regime,
as in France century ago. The students
who raraded the main street Of St Peters
burg this week, half OF them singing Rus
risn revolutionary words to the air Of the
'Marseillaise.' and the other half consisting
of the relatives Of Government officials,
singing tie national hymn. did not display
any passions which suggested that they
might soon be fighting to a finish.
In serious movements in the provinces
as when the Kazan reservists were detrain'
Ing at the mobilization platform near Mos
cow they fought the conscriHts. the ele
rent of vodka played a considerable part
A conscript when first called to the army
is from nmemorial custom allowed large
liberty 10 carouse. The reservists who
we're called back to the army demanded
the same license. Their anger at the re-
fusal to allow them to do 81 would have
been appeased by the wrecking and clos
ing Of the drinking shops II the more last
inz feeling that their war mission was hate
full hadn't steeled them to fight agains,
sInshot till their comrades fell, killed and
wounded. around them.
III the face OF all this black mass OF popu'
lar anger the self-appointed committee
which is ruling for the Car blunders
sons without hAeding any storm signals
Admiral Aexief has returned, possibly
stronger than when he was Niceroy OF
Manchuria. and will ect as personal arbiteI
Of all lratters afi"rtine the ca"nai~n.
"Thi5 means that il Port Arthur fa'ls he
car say that if his advice bad been followed
4 could have been relieved six months
ego and on that contention he can again
thwart Gen kuropatkin. The Niceroy''
military abe:tor, Gen. Zillinsky. comes
- control the military star, where, as
man of undoubted energy, he can find daily
opportunities, for advising, correcting AMI
rcpr handing the chief Of the army in Man
cburia
One thing which would aSsuredly wreck
Che entire court cabal would be for Ger
Europatkin openly to set them at defiance
aud appeal to the army to support Lin
In his Independence. Events have moved
to point that the man whom the army vii
follow il master OF the situation and master
OF the Car
J4PS TUNNEL UNDER FORTS.