Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-08-03
CzAR'S COUNCIL
STRONG FOR WAR
WITH GER MANY
Autocrat Listens Only to Advisers
Who Urge War as Means to
Quiet Peasantry.
WAR COUNCIL HOLDS SESSION
ALI Other Bodies Ignored After Gar
Has Decided to Face European
War as Expedient.
CONDITION OF RUSSIAN ARMY
Infantry In Good Condition, out
Artillery Doubtful Because Of
Recent Graft Scandals.
EXPRESS ANGER AT ENGLAND
War Party Doesn't Like Position Of
British Allies.
CzAR CONFIDENT OF VICTORY
Hears Only the Accounts Given Him
by His BelIicOEc Advisers and
sees only Further Tri-
umphs Ahead.
EXPRESS ANGER AT ENGLAND
War Party Doesn't Like Position Of
British Allies.
CzAR CONFIDENT OF VICTORY
Hears only the Accounts Given Him
by His BeIIicOHe Advisers and
Sees only Further Trt-
umphs Ahead.
Copyright. 1914. by Press Publishing Coz
UNCENsORED DISPATCH.

UNCENsORED DESPATCH.
ST. PETERSBURG, July a.
delayed in Transmission. )-( (Spe-
cial Cablegram to New York World
and Omaha ee.)--The moment
Russia decided TO face European
war. all previous agreements we're
brushed aside. neither the speaker
of the Duma. nor the committees on
foreign relations, finance or army
were consulted. The only body that
shared in the decision OF the cars
personal advisers was the war coun-
Gil, over which Grand Duke Nicholas
presides. He is addicted to econom-
ieal parades of the Imperial guards
and his influence has been against
the capable men who tried to reOr-
ganize the army.
Artillery IL UntrustwOrtny.
The infantry is believed to be
good, but there are misgivings about
the artillery. The titular head of
the artillery is Grand Duke Sergius
Michaelovitch, and his department
is said to be notoriously weak. 1t
was TO procure contracts for the Rus
sian artillery that the scandal in
volving magnificent presents to an
imperial ballet dancer was devel-
oped. Finally the war minister,
General Roodiger, was dismissed for
allowing Duma Leader Alexander
Goutchkoff to make a public attack
on corruption over artillery con-
tracts.
To Divert Peasantry.
The Department of Interior came
out strongly for risklng war. The
reason was the same as that given
by former Minister of Interior
Plehve, ten years ago. for the Japa-
nese war. that the situation de-
manded war. Internal unrest would
not abate before police repression
and the only means left Of diverting
the ferment, seeing that reform in a
liberal direction was not to be
granted. was to strike out for mill
tary glory. The anger OF democracy
is greater now than ten years ago,
but against this the Department OF
the interior puts the fact that.
whereas, the Russians were wholly
Indifferent as regards the japanese,
there is really a deeper racial antip-
athy between the slav and the Ger
man races.
Crisis Ia Imminent.
The ministers of finance and
agriculture were the only two per-
sons who declared against a war pol
icy, Kriviochein. who is responsible
for the vast new agrarian system
now being set up in Russia, warned
the council of the risk OF an enor-
nous peasant crisis il the real
strength OF the army reserve were
taken from the land for a long time
and money for land purchase
stopped.
Angry at England.
The war party. as this is written,
is angry over the equivocal attitude
of England. The proposal made By
their foreign minister, Muravieff.
duringi England's worst period in
the Boer war is heard again; that a
good way for obtaining peace would