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CAR CALLS OUT RESERVES
Russia Resolved to Reconquer Man.
churia by Weight Of Numbers.
THE JAPANESE MAY ADVANCE

Eopsternatl0n among Nusslan ieopie
Caused by Announcement That 100000
More Men Must Go to Far East
Cossack Raid Into Manchuria-FlyinG
Column Crosses the Yalu.
st. Petersburg.-The Russian war
plans having resulted in laundering
and defeat the Car has determined to
crush the Japanese by overwhelming
| weight of numbers. He has called the
reserves to the colors in the Moscow
and Kharkoff provinces. and the
Tenth and Seventeenth army corps are
being placed on a war footing with all
possible speed. This means that 1OO,-
900 fresh troops are to be rushed to the
Far East as rapidly as possible. AS
soon as this great body of soldiers can
be entrained reserves will be called
from other provinces. Four more army
corps will be modified, and 100000
more men will be sent to the front.
The Cars army. on a war footing. con-
sists of over 100000 men. more than
ten times the war strength of Japan.
CONSERVATION has been caused
throughout the provinces which have
been called upon for reserves, but Rus
STA has entered upon a struggle in
which the cost Of lives is not to be
counted. The sentiment Of the author
tiles here is that however long and ex-
pensive the war may be, it must be
won, and that if Kuropatkin needs a
million men or more to meet less than
half that number Of Japanese he must
have them.
The Japanese are to be allowed to
overrun Manchuria. KurOpatkin will,
perhaps, make a stand at Liaoyang or
Mukden, but, unless he shall be unex-
pectedly successful against the Japan
csc he will eventually withdraw with
all his forces to the vicinity of Harbin,
to which place the japanese will hard
~ follow him. There, according to the
present Russian expectation, he will
settle down to wait until his present
army is doubled in size, and will then
start to r%econquer Manchuria, to drive
the Japanese into the sea, and. If neces-
sary, to invade Japan in order to crush
forever the power Of the Island EN-
pire and to dictate peace terms which
will include the payment Of the great
est war indemnity ever wrested from a
vanquished people. This is the Rus
sian plan.
By the departure of the troops now
destined for the Far East the Russian
European army will lose six out of
thirty-one army corps. The previous
drafts of troops from European Russia
has been formed into Siberian rifle bat
talions, without changing the organi-
zation of the Emperor's force on this
side Of the UralS. The present units
will be transferred bodily to Manchu-
ria, retaining their present officers and
staffs.
Viceroy Alexief, who barely escaped
from Port Arthur before the japanese
invested that stronghold, and who pro-
ceeded first to Liaoyang and then to
Mukden, telegraphed to the Emperor
that he had moved his headquarters to
Hardin. Here he will be practically
outside the zone of operations for some
time to come. General Kuropatkin re-
mains at Liaoyang. He will remain
there at least until the evacuation of
Newchwang a be completed and will
probably then order the evacuation of
Haichen. The Russians still have q
small force at Newchwang which will
remain there as long as possible in Or
der to prevent a raid by bandits. When
forced to leave by the approach of the
Japanese it will damage the fortifca-
tons as much as possible, and will
blow up the Russian gunboat Sivoutch.