RUSSIA AND THE WAR.

Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 16, 19 July 1905, Page 4

RUSSIA AND THE WAR.

The reformers of Eussia who would save the country from anarchy by constitutional and peaceful methods will hold a series of meetings this week in Moscow that may well be fraught with the highest consequences to the welfare of the country. These meetings will represent the struggle between the Liberals una the reactionaries over the admittedly necessary amendments of the Constitution, and if the Liberals prevail all may yet be well ; but there art: signs that the Tsar will be induced to adopt the Court sckeino of M. Boulyguine, in which case we may look for a great <£nd immediate accession to the ranks of tho revolutionaries. The example of the Kniaz Potemkin has apparently been followed in the Baltic, where the 6hip's company of a large battleship has mutinied and put to Koa without officers. If this be true Russia for the time being may be said to have ceased to be a naval power. In Manchuria* — it is reported from Tokio — Linevitch now commands 400,000 men, but whether these are a*l in hi& fighting line is not stated. It may be safely assumed that in any case he is outnumbered by his opponents, for the latest mail advices tell of an endless (stream ol r^iniorcements moving from Japan ever since the fall of Multden. Meanwhile Russia calk for 475, 246, men for military Rorvice for ISOS. The question is how will the eaJ l be answered. The revolutionaries continue active