Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-03-13
RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT
 IS NOW IN A DILEMMA
Talk of Raising Another Army Seems to Be Sparring for Position-Peace Party Grows Stronger and Says It Is Idle to Hope for Victory Newspapers In Some Cases Flay the Government.

SL ICttISUuTS, MATCH lHs I.-S Y. n' The announcement in the name of the government in the face of the overwhelming disaster suffered by General kurOpatkin that a fresh army would be raised and the war proceed and the naughty attitude assumed by the Japanese may after all be simply a sparring for position which is the prelude of peace. So far as the public here is concerned peace is the only thing talked of. the sentiment being that if diplomacy can now bring the warning powers into negotiation peace will follow. Many diplomatists believe that terms acceptable to both are only possible on. the basis not of ordinary peace but more in the nature of an al liance which would distinctly define and guarantee the position of the re- spective powers in the far east in the future. But it is certain that Russia as yet has made no move. Here con- fusion still reigns in the higher circles and the emperor has not yet decided that he must yield. Nevertheless the peace party has been greatly strength ened and is now taking the position that to attempt to continue the war will only court additional complica- tions and dangers at home with the chances of success for the Russian arms on the field of battle too remote to be worthy of consideration. But some of the emperor's advisers insist that the government is irrevOcably committed to the war, that it would be harder to stop than to go on and that if the war is indefinitely prolong- cd the financial resources of Japan are sure to be exhausted before Rus sia's, while Russia's prestige abroad is irreparably gone if she now bends the knee. The situation is not dissimilar to that which prevailed at the end of the Crimean war when Nicholas took a sudden decision to conclude peace on the best terms obtainable. The ef- feet on the internal situation of either alternative will probably govern the final decision.
 The practical difficulties not only in getting a new army to the front, but in actually mobilizing it, are fully appre- ciated even at the war office where many officers reluctantly declare it is idle to hope for victory under the present circumstances. Another gen. eral mobilization might set the coun- try in flames. At home the elements which are trying to force the emper- or's hand would employ either horn of the dilemma selected, whether peace or a continuation of the war. to press for the granting of real constitution. They declare that the government is now in corner from which there is no escape without the support of the people. There is reason to believe that some 0f the emperor's advisers share this opinion and are again advocating the bold stroke of summOhing veri- table constituent assembly. appealing to the patriotism of the people and all lowing them to decide the question of peace or war. Such a move. they ar que. would cOnfound Japan if the de. cisiOn was war. and if peace would re- lieve the government of responsibility and insure tranquility at home But of course it is realized that this would inevitably mean change in the form or government to constitutional monarchy. The newspapers with the exception of the N0vOe Vremya and q few others whose voice is always for war speak out straight for peace, at almost any price. declaring that all hopes of victory are now buried at Mukden. Some papers like the No. vosti. the Jewish organ, plainly de. nounce the whole far eastern policy as a senseless adventure which has cost thousands of lives and millions of money. declaring that for two hun. dred years the government has been extending the empire and that it is now time to stop and regenerate the people. The Gazetta. a popular paper goes farther affirming the justice of Japan's position and saying that op pOrtunity on the mainland is vital tC her whereas Russia's Manchurian ad venture is q colonial dream in which the people have no part.
 Nobody hut the government" the paper continues. 'knew why the wal was begun and the government is now beaten. Are there still idiots who he lieve it should he prolonged?''
 Such an extract as the above shows the feeling here.
 In Poland. whence it is announced another corps will he sent to the front the mobilization of the last corps or dered to the war had to he abandoned owing to the popular opposition to ths governments policy.
 STILL IN PURSUIT.
 Tokio. March 13 n1 a. m.)-Army