against Austria and Germany in the East, who surrounds Przemysl and
says, "Now, we can take it when we please, but we will not sacrifice
Russian troops to take it now; Cracow is more important. Lodz is not
important from a military standpoint. We will surround it later."

Evanoff orders his men to keep out of the valleys and engage the
Germans in the open plain, where their own numbers will count in
action; for in the valleys the German big guns have the advantage.

Russia has been at work steadily since the Japanese war reforming her
army within and without. More than one third of her officers were
dismissed after that war. The Russian officials now say that the
Japanese war was to Russia most providential. It showed the lines of
Russian weakness, inefficiency, and graft, which could flourish at a
distance from St. Petersburg but became exposed when war put the
Russian organization to the test. Steadily every year Russia has been
systematically and thoroughly routing out graft and inefficiency. When
Russia starts to do a thing she does it thoroughly.

It was because Russia was rebuilding, reorganizing, and was indulging
in criticism and putting its mind on the weak spots, that Russian
confidential papers stolen in the interest of Germany misled both
Berlin and Vienna as to the possibility of Russia going to war to
defend Servia in the year 1914.

War has united Russia as never before. The Czar now moves about
unattended, and the country is a unit behind him and the war and
unitedly against the Germans. From Warsaw to Siberia the German agents
and merchants have been arrested and impounded. Nobody in Germany can
yet realize how this war has destroyed her commercial relations and