population is counted upon for service.

The story is told of a Russian who was asked in London why he did not
return for military duty. He replied, "Oh, I belong to the 14th
million, and it will be some time before the 18th million is called
out."

Russia has the greatest future of any country in Europe. She has the
largest unturned arable soil of any country in the world. Russia in
Europe is a great agricultural plain. To the east are her rich
oil-fields steadily expanding north in the Ural Mountains, and east
lies Siberia, endowed by nature as one of the richest countries in the
world, an area in which you could deposit the United States. From the
Siberian railroad other railroads are now projected; mineral wealth is
being uncovered; and English and French capital and American engineers
will in the future work wonders with the country.

What Russia has long sought is an outlet to the ocean. This war is
likely to give her benefits which she could never have asked and could
only have fought for. Germany, defeated, will lose the control or
monopoly of the Kiel Canal, and possibly the country around it which
she took from Denmark. The Kiel Canal under international control will
extend the Baltic Sea of the Russians and the Scandinavians most
directly to the North Sea and the English Channel.

To the south Russia will have something to say in Asia Minor and much
to say concerning Constantinople. Certainly her influence in the
Balkan States and on the Bosphorus will be as great as she could
desire. As long as the Turks remained loyal to England, Great Britain
was bound to maintain their integrity and hold upon Constantinople and