The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-09-15
IVAN WANOVITCH AND PART HE
IS PLAYING IN GREAT WAR
His Name is Legion and His Abiding Places Constitute
> One-Sixth of the Habitable Earth-SlavA Against the
TeutOn.

,,an Ivanovitch. Did you ever
ar Of him?. His name is legion,
"a his abiding place constitutes one
ai,th of the habitable earth. Now
80 - marching to war, and all Of
ne tbern Europe rings with the tramp
- his myriad feet, says Lawrence
ystick In the Philadelphia Record.
1ohn Bull and Jacques BOnhomme
md shoulder to shoulder on the Dor
ar land of France, grimly striving to
""hstrnct the ponderous advance Of TT,
great German fighting machine. They
Are waiting and praying for the COM
ING of Ivan ~1vanovltch. For the
Craat war happens to marshal the
sIav against the Teuton, and it is Ivan.
,ba embodiment of eight millions
1f aehting men, who may we'll be eX-
nacted to perform the most stirring
pport from now on in the great in
ternational war drama. Already has
he made his entrance into East Prus-
sia. and day by day varying rumors of
mis- performance there are coming to
.ur neutral but intensely interested
western world from ST. Petersburg and
BerIin. To the allies any --ews Of
ivan I~yanovitch is welcome news,
whether ii be of defeat or victory. 1t
n,nans that at least the advance guard
IF his vast horde Of many millions
has begun to create the diversion
which they hope will force Germany
ana Austria to with draw their best
regiments from the wal zone in cen
tral Europe for the defense of their
fatherlands against the Russian in
vader.
Russian r,nInuSIasIn.
Hitherto the Great War has found
Germany and Austria squarely aligned
against France and England, with the
odds manifestly in favor of the Wa
ga-d. From now on Russia must be
reckoned with, both as the strongest
numerically of all the embroiled ma
lions, and as the most enthusiastically
In favor of the present war. France is
lighting grimly to repair her nationa
honor. shattered in the F~rancO-PruS.
sian war Of 1870. and to regain hel
,ost province Of Alsac, Lorraine
england, with a much smaller ant
force than either her friends or foes
Is pluckily and stubbornly fulfilling
her treaty obligations. Russia, self
constituted protector Of all the Sla'
nations, is going into a war which he
statesmen have foreseen for years, am
for which they LAY been preparin;
even since the Great Bean Of tn
North recovered from the disastrou
struggle with Japan. ndeed Il o
the reasons assigned by tXpertS 70
the defeats sustained by Russia in tn
Manchurian campaign was the rae
that 1t was not even then considere
safe TO send the best Russian troop
to he Far East. because Of the eve
present possibility Of trouble with Ger
many and Austria.
Russia is something Of q mystery
the western world. Her vast terri
tory, stretching over nearly nine mil
lions of square miles, her tremendOu
population. at present almost tW
hundred millions, and her might
natural resources which 40 war ca
exhaust make her a portentous figur'
Her comparatively loW-grade {
civilization, in which obedience IS sui
stituted for intelligence, Toe M
lower but rather increases her fightin
efficiency. Her tremendous army
more efficient than ever in her histor
The Russo-Jap wal taught her a LEI
son, by which all accounts say she h;
P'ofited to the full. Her millions
soldiers are we'll armed. we'll drille
end we'll Offered.
In the Manchurian campaign tt
russian soldiers fought like lions. B
Wey We're badly equipped, n
many instances their officers wei
poorly trained and Of low mental al
moral calibre. The same brave al
ohysicaliy powerful soldiery is goiI
~ NHe present Wart on an eQu
.9otng as regards officers and m
niuohs Of war with other Europes
hSuons. The execution that 5000, o.
soiulers we'll armed and we'll led c;
so Is almost inconceivable. Their
.ore the world, and Germany a,
austria no less than other nations,
"alching the war cloud that loor
Wer northern Austria and East Pru
Sa. Ii should grow bigger day
nay as tho Russians succeed in moi
linz and transporting to the 'front.'
tielF millions Of men collected all ov
ne empire.
nusSlas position in the present W
raf be made clear without sol
rrriehce to the status OF the Slav
nm"uhtoope. After the Balkan war [
EFuollclSts Of Europe foretold a genel
wnVpean conflict in which the Sla
Of ~ pe a compelling factor. Ma
blood He balkan peoples are Of 81
ton IL was to defend a Slav r
bro ii %Servia, that Russia became e.
precJni with Austria-Hungary a
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