White Pine News Weekly Mining Review

Russia's Vast Resources to Supply Soldiers.

A dispatch to the Post from St. Petersburg comments on the excellence of the Russian army and the inexhaustible supply of men to draw upon. It says further:

'Russia will have no difficulty in finding 20,000,000 men to complete the work begun by its trained fighting forces. Moreover, this is the first time in the memory of men that the Russian army has taken the field with adequate equipment and a sufficiency of supplies, under officers trained in the hard lesson so thoroughly learned in the Japanese campaign.

The history of that campaign showed what Russian soldiers accomplished when badly fed and equipped but under the conditions of today and fighting in a cause they understand there is little wonder that the Russian soldier has proved himself a match for the German.

The German opposition to the Russian advance is broken and demoralized. Koenigsberg, where three German army corps have taken refuge, is so situated it can easily be retained by an adequate force while the rest of the Russian army passes on into the interior of Germany and it is doubtful whether Germany has sufficient organized forces to oppose the Russians.'