The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-04-12
Will Not Be Really Ready for
Fight in Manchuria' Before
the End of Summer.
KURoPATKIN IS CAUTIOUS.
Now Making Inspection Of Out
Posts Along the Yalu River
Baltic Fleet Will Sail in
July for Far East.

St Petersburg. April 11.-Exceptionail,
reliable information regarding the Russia,
military plans confirms the repeated an
nouncement made by the Associated Pres!
that these plans will not mature unit
late in the summer.
They are Of far greater magnitude thar
Is generally believed abroad and take intt
account all possible contingencies.
General Kuropatk!n. remembering the
experience Of Russia in her war with
Turkey. when the Russian Army OF 800. .Oot
placed in the field at the beginning hat
to be more than doubled. has insisted thai
the men and guns to be placed at his dis
posal shall cover the extreme limit re-
quired to settle the fate of the campaign
The Russian plans are predicated upor
Napoleon's dictum that God fights on the
side OF the heaviest battalions." and they
are being worked out and timed so as tc
apply to 4 superiority OF numbers on land
and sea simultaneously.
The army Is designed to attain the
enormous total OF half a million at ths
time scheduled for the reinforcement OF
Vice Admiral Makarofr's fleet with the
Baltic Squadron. The Seventeenth and
Tenth Army Corps, now drafting. are ex-
pected to arrive in Manchuria by the mid
die 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 will start east
ward a month later. reaching their des-
tination at the end Of August.
TO SAIL IN JULY.
Rear Admiral Rojestrensky will hoist
his flag as commander Of the formidable
Baltic Squadron early in July. and viii
sail Immediately for Port Arthur. with the
following vessels: The battleships Slava.
Borodino. Orel. Kniaz, Souvarofr, Alex
ander III and osliabia, the last named
being now en- route here from Cherbourg;
the cruisers Aurora, Dmitri Donsioi
svietland, Almaz. Jemtlehus and 1zum-
rud and the transports Kamtschatka and
Ocean. each carrying LOCO tons Of coal.
The 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 disappeared last
week with the signing Of the Anglo
French Colonial treaty. by which Great
Britain adheres to the convention OF 1855
concerning the free passage of the canal.
KEEP WATCH ON CHINA.
The reports that NJ. Lessar. the Russian
Minister at Pekin, had made strong rep
resentations to the Chinese Government
on the subject of the japanese military tn
structors in the, service Of China. and the
japanese officers with General Mas army.
demanding the issuance Of orders for their
dismissal. are confirmed here.
Russia regards their continued presence
where they are as being most serious
threat to her. It is pointed ont that. with
out the consent Of the Pekin Government.
the Japanese officers who are with Gen
eral Ma, who 10 now north Of the great
wall. easily can obtain dominant influ-
ence over the Chinese troops and use them
II the japanese operations demand the
creation Of diversion In General Kuro-
patkin's rear. possibly resulting in cutting
his communications.