The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-01-05
"Waichful Waiting" is Different There;
Munitions Flow From Factories
in Vast Quantities Since Double
Eagle Scored on Gar
BIG SLAV BEAR Is
NOT ALTERNATING
Fully Awake With No Intention Of Going
Into Winter Quarters; Will Put Five
Million Fresh Troops
in Field
BY United Press.

BY United Press.
PETROGRAD, Jan. 5.-Watchfu
waiting, that well known American
policy regarding Mexico some months
ago, sums up the war situation in
Russia today, but watchful waiting in
Russia has meaning all its own.
Whereas, Uncle Sam, after expert
encing a few pin-pricks in his pa
tience. remained passive, the great
Russian bear after sustaining a heal
thy, life-sized wallop on his tender
snout let out a roar that shook the
earth continents away. Reduced to
plain English, the roar was:
GIVE me munitions; I've got
enough men,"
That was several months ago.
Russia's greatest arsenal, near Petro-
grad had been blown to smithereens;
the armies OF Grand Duke Nicholas.
yielding to the Austro-German steam
roller, had been driven from the Car
pathians back into Russia and hal
lost Warsaw and the whole Of Poland; {;
there was political dissension in
Russia: alarming semi.revolutionary
outbreaks were occurring here and
there; the ever advancing enemy was
threatening even Moscow. and the
greatest seaport in the Baltic, Riga
appeared to be about TO fall.
in winter bears usually hibernate,
but all these things and more which
happened TO the Russian bear in the
summer and fnll of 1915 precluded
any idea Of his going into winter quar-
ters this year. Russia is today the
most active winter bear extant.
Russia has now modified her indus
tries and shells and other munitions
in great quantities have begun to flow
from the factories and shops in every
important Russian city; the Russian
cabinet has been reformed with par
ticular reference to a more active con
duct OF the war; the peasants who
used TO drink vodka have become used
TO a vodkaless Russia and are put
ting their profits from vodkalesA har'
vests-henee bigger haryests-into
the provincial banks; Grand Duke
Nicholas has been superseded by the
Czar as commander-in-chief and has
taken hold OF the important campaign
in the Caucasus. Stirred to renewed
yisor under its ruler. the army has
used the shells born OF the industrial
mobilization and repulsed the enemy
in the vicinity of Riga, besides putting
him on the defensive elsewhere.
These and many more things have
happened in Russia since the double
eagle whacked the bear on the snout.
The roar for munitions which the bear
let out soon reached Japan, England
and America. and for the last three
months rifles, shells and cannon have
been pouring into the Pacific and Arc
tic ports. Canadian ice breakers will
keep Arohangel open all winter for
munition-laden ships from America.
Heavily loaded trains are crawling
across the Siberian plains in almost
endless procession, stopping here and
there to deposit rifles and cartridges
for the men who have been training
with sticks and only lacked, the arms
wherewith to join the armies now pre-
pairing for Russia's future campaign.
With the beginning of the New
Year various estimates place the num-
her Of fresh-armed Russian troops at
five million. At least two million
more are being armed at the rate OF
over half million a month. An addi-
tional million of twenty-year-old
youths we're called up on December a.
These will take their places in the
ranks early in the year.
Russias veterans already holding
the battie-line from Riga to the BLACK
sea and operating in the Caucasus are
estimated to total at least 4,OOO,OOO
all hardy fighters making the total
OF Russian military strength in sigh'
In sipht annroximately twelve mill.0n