Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1904 — RUSSIA'S GREAT ARMY. [ARTICLE]

RUSSIA'S GREAT ARMY.

Horde of 550,000 Muscovites to Swoop Down Upon the Japs. It is officially announced in St. Petersburg that the" mobilization of Russia’s army in Manchuria will be complete by May 25 and that on that date Gen. Kouropatkin will have a field force of 550,000 infantry, daval’ry ifnd artillery at his disposal. It is stated further, and' by official sanction, that Russia will not begin the serious land campaign until June, and that a decisive battle need not be expected before August. Not since the Turko-Russian war of IS7B-9 has any European power sent so large an army into the field. France fought Prussia in 1871 with 300,000 men. Russia sent scarcely GOO,OOO men agaipst Turkey'tn 1878. England fought the recent Boer war with 200,000. No power in Europe ever transported an army of 550,000 men so great a distance as Russia is doing in the present conflict with Japan. Tho transportation obstacles are enormous. -