The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-03-13
GEAR IS DETERMINED
 TO CONTINUE THE WAR
TWO NEW ARMY CORPS TO GO
 TO FRONT.


 Forces There to be Reorganized and Kuropatkin RecaIIed-AdmiraI Ro= jestvensky to be Dispatched to Try Conclusions With Togo-Russia Only
 Willing to Listen to Tender of Many Arrests Follow Explosion. Peace Under Moderate Terms. St. Petersburg, March 13-2:10 ann The immediate. answer of the Russian government to the defeat at Mukden is the announcement that a new army will be raised and the forces in the Far East reorganized; that Vice Admiral Rojestvensky will be ordered to sail on and try conclusions with Togo, and that the war will be prosecuted to the bitter end.
 This is the present temper of Elm peror Nicholas and his dominant ad- visers voiced in a firm official an nouncement that the position of Russia l is unchanged and the initiative for peace can only come from Japan. Should the island empire choose to ten- der moderate terms and recognize it's adversary as the power in the Far East, peace could be easily arranged; but the voice of her diplomacy in yari- ous parts of the world indicates that she is not ready to do this, and the Russian government, with the full magnitude of the disaster at Mukden still undetermined, but with the 1905 campaign seemingly already hopelessly | compromised, retreat to Harbin inev- ] itable and Vladivostok practically lost, l declares that the time has not yet come when Russia can be forced to humble l herself
 ' It is reported that the dispatch of two new army corps, including the Fourteenth from Poland, and several smaller units, has already been deter mined upon, and that plans for further mobilization are under discussion. l But while this is the official attitude, ' nothing but peace talk is heard in St ' Petersburg The difficulties of another mobilization on large scale will be enormous; in fact it is stated in some quarters that it will be impossible. Nevertheless, it might be accomplished. The real hope, however, for anything like a successful termination of the war is admitted to rest upon the prospects of the financial exhaustion of Japan Russian resources it is figured, can stand the drain better than those of
 TonaY, ord a ,.. ,,4 f,,c, n, ', Q if 1 is hoped, will bring about Japan's financial ruin. Financial Minister Ko- kovsoff, at the conclusion of the con ference on the, national finances few days ago, is said to have tapped the ta- ble before him and exclaimed: We can 1 win the war at this desk.
 The Russian capital is still in ignor- ance of the nature and extent of the reverse in Manchuria. The only in-4 formation of its magnitude is that which has been derived from the Tokio telegrams that have been allowed to be published here. To the censor at Tie
 Pass the word prisoner does not ex- ist, and not the slightest intimation of what. if any, units and organizations have been cut off and captured has -ISdCnCus lHlS Clly ClttlCt III NICllClcl IAlt- ropatkin's official dispatches or in re- ports from correspondents at the front.
 Aside from the reports given out by the war office, there is practically no further information of the progress of events, the newspaper dispatches re- ceived yesterday being principally those filed before the retreat began and transported tc, Tie Pass among the pa- pers of the telegraph office. It is de- clared that at the moment that General Kuroki's wedge, aided by the dust
 storm and taking advantage of the failure of small Russian organizations
 to occupy appointed positions, drove it. self deep into the Russrian flank it dis arranged all the plans of General Ku- ropatkin, who was on the point of launching a momentous counter-stroke;
 but where or how it was to be accom- Iplished is not stated.
 General Kuropatkin has telegraphed
 to Emperor Nicholas assuming himself
 all the responsibility for his defeat, making no excuses except that the strength of the Japanese was r1iscalcu- lated, and refusing to place any of the
 blame upon the council of generals up- on whose advices he determined to give battle. This manly course and the gen. erals personal exertions in directing
 the retreat will, however, hardly save him. His reputation as an offensive strategist is gone, and though the enl- peroEs military advisers know not
 where to look for a better general, his
 resignation will be accepted. It will be
 difficult to find a capable successor, but it is said now that it probably will be II General FGrodekoff, governor of the
 Amur, although in casting, about for another commander in-c chief some mili- tary officials are turning to General
 Dragomiroff, who is considered to be
 Russia's greatest strategist, but he is a. feeble old man, suffering with a heart
 affection, and it is highly improbable
 that he would be able even to make the
 long trip to Manchuria.
 In losing General Kuropatkin the army will lose the idol of the private
 soldiers, an officer who, in spite of the intrigues of his generals and his failure
 to win battle, has won their confi- dence and affection.
 | STAND AT FIFE PASS.