RUSSIA AND THE WAR.

Evening Post, Volume LXIX, Issue 51, 2 March 1905, Page 4

RUSSIA AND THE WAR.

We do not henr anything furthor todny of tho Tsnr's alleged programme of reform, but tho revolutionaries nro in evidonce. Twenty-six political nssnssinntions in Warsaw in a singlo week, nnd tho declaration of tho strikers that thoy menu to kill nn official for every citizen killed by tho troops in the roccnt disturbances, may woll givo pnuso to tho authorities in their work of violent repression. Owing to tho strikes, and dnmngo to tho railways, no train has started for tho front for a week. If tho sorvicoMs thus paralysed at tho point of departure at tho heart of Russin, thoro must Do groat congestion of supplies along tho thousands of miles of tho rnilwiiy, and thero is but littlo standing room for rolling-stock. Tho strikes may well havo dono moro to interrupt Kuropat kin's singlo lino of communication than an army in the field, and if Khnrbin bo not well supplied with stores his grunt nnny may soon fool tho pinch of hunger. In fact, if tho Japanese succeed in getting rtstrido tho railway north of Mukden, they might well slarvo him to surronder. 'lliougli thoro is good reason to beliovo thnt a groat battlo continues to be waged on tho Slitiho, both skies aro to-day silent as to its real i progress, though tho gonornl trend of tho news is adverse to tho Russians. Tho Sinlsintin mentioned 10-dny — which wo yesterday confounded with Sinminfing_ — wo cannot locate, but apparently it is a Btrongly fortified position on Kuronatkin's right, and it is significant that do is expected to abitndnn his whole lino on tho bliaho if it bo taken. Tho statement that Mukden is boing bombnnkd by tho Jnpaneso with llm guns is not crcdiWo, for at a modest computation, assuming that tho plans nt our disposal are drawn to scnle, they cannot bo within fifteen miles of tho city. Besides, tho Japanese would desiro to Hparo the capital in tho intcrcsls of tho Chines*,