THE WEAK RAILWAY.
• The trouble with tho Trans-S»K>rin,n railway is a. repetition of what, occurred with a much slighter demand mt-itlo upon it at the time of the Boxer outbreak! in China in tho summer of IDA ft. The disclosures as to the failure of Russian organisation are said to have been a revelation to the Czar und the Russian Ministers. .Similar disclosures have been moide lately, both as to the state of the railway, the inability of the Russian, forces made to face tho hard campaign, and worst of all tho serious deficiencies thnt have been discovered in army stores, unmim-ent, ammunition and hospital equipments. All this was made known nt about the time when tho cable informed us that the Czar was suffering from nervous tension, and thia stwte of things has since been confirmed by the news from Port Arthur as to the frn.ids discovered in army contracts. Russia's weakness for tho impending trouble is ovory day being mude more manifest, and the difllculty of forecasting any movement on the basis of numbers is intcm-si- j i lied. A small army well supplied is a j much more useful war machine than a Ifti-gv one ever facing the struggle for existence.
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Southland Times, Issue 19304, 17 March 1904, Page 2
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204THE WEAK RAILWAY. Southland Times, Issue 19304, 17 March 1904, Page 2
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