Show JAPS WI WILL WILLBE LL BE SIMPLY CRUS CRUSHED HED HEDI Russians t to C Con Conquer I quer by Weight ot of Numbers cavy Will WillS S Not Occur for Weeks S 5 t four Army Corps 1 to Drive the Enemy Into S the Sea Seaf S f c j S do i larch arch 1 SI h alMOSt fOur week ha have Vt elapsed since the at ai tR ked Port Art W h it ij the war ivar i 11 Heavy ia ft sightIng upon wl which ch ute the fate ot of campaign depends depend is 18 not DOt much before the end Qt April By this time Russia Rumia will have fn ii the field p e pI elusive of the Jar large ge army of m mon n Te re I quIre to guard the railroads tour four army corps each with a cavalry division and an aD artillery brigade AlL Ali that ha ha hap happened p so ro far or is golA to hap happen until these forces are In ID the field is il d to the vie to be more than t the pro prologue l logue sue to the real drama dran Unfortunate Beginning The of the Port A t h ur fleet was unfortunate jn n that tha t it gave the command of Ue time see seu at a th the v very ry outset It Is however of small mall Importance from the standpoint of the main maln strate strategy y or of the war whether Port Arthur stands or falls But as long u as It holds out ant the fleet Is harbored there It will nill con conStitute on a potential mena e which wi will Ii restrict ct and hamper hampe r Japans Japan 8 operation the Russians UP are determined t lelnd Post Arthur 0 as heroically ItS a did Sebastopol No large garri gani song wilI be retained there nyu tare re as good as s 1 for e while e the moze re to feeL There ere there no noto now to last for Cor eight ht In addition t there will bs e a of With iI J u 1 IlK 1 10 the ng of the Japan toe I theta them if they succeed c d jn in tw the thy thyS thyOny f S Only Ony One Road Viceroy AI hl his head had headquarters quarters at through wh or 0 4 are pu passing ng day aJ y whick the te main armies will JU occupy The believe that Lot tor there Is only one road rORd over which the Japanese can elM from K r All JI t th troops landS land landed ed at I kp and must mut use uee the road the Ja at Ba Bay y I and the other places on the ea east t oa J I northern Korea alt nOt important the absence of roads pro venting these forc from combining with the main body bodT Cossacks in Front The mounted Infantry ud I Ight guns no now acre the Yalu r ri r rI I will serve sere to harass hanuM the enemy in pry evry I possible sible way as to hold bold hiM bit in until the main and mire re c and di dired dia I red Sharp fighting may ocCur bli blip p Ia ien en the advance but nothing of a character is dr The Russan plans contemplate talc tak in lug no eha chances neeson on the score o of In f riI numbers B By sheer weight of men and guns If nothing else tLe when the time arrives S Russia counts on over or the and rolling I them back through h Kore It is real realized that the of the lle theatre t tI I I war will m make the protection of tl tL I d the sole sofe means mean for the trall of troop and fro Europe ORe one of the most mt it es or of the Russian Rusian m military problem lem With the Japanese in command of the sea there is po ity of their landing small bodiEs of men in unexpected pla places to make Incursions Into the interior to cut the railroad and aid telegraph lines and blow up bridge but adequate measures I are re believed to have hAe been taken to guard against such suh Give saps Japs Pull Full Credit It is a mistake to suppose suppo e that the Russians underestimate the prowess t their On he contrary they admit the tine fine marksmanship or orthe t the Japanese and their marvelous abut abil it ity in determining ranges 5 ye the Rus Russians do not be e that the Japanese can suc fully face the legions of l the he czar On the sea the maritime life t the Japanese gives them a l ad advantage vantage but o on land and where belong all allI the traditions of the arm army the themen I men ot of the empire have perfect faith borne ot of their numerous experiences with ith pa n tribes and the fatalism ic herent in the Ru lan character They believe that cannot meet Eu Europeans Europeans In battle array army that a Thee race cannot triumph 0 a white or lIr over Christians General Kuropatkin who wIIo will leave Hi for the front froat March Marh t 12 is 18 expected to tobe tobe be on the ground before the real beal ant open He has purchased milk white all an of the 3 av aIry school to ride In the tar fr east thus following thE example 0 of the famon General he foUght at the stee of Cook Te SITUATION GLE G of a General War Now Considered Remote Londom Lond March iTh The i foreign offie records the week just JUS ended Sf a one in ii which much us has 1 been done to guarantee the conti continued ui of Europe The h Press s it authorized to say sa however that thE ruinous that Franc Great Greot Britain or an any other power pot r I Ic nt Gri of the tak takIng taking Ing of any steps wIth the idea ideo of t Ing the war are re quite f The frequent visits of M uh h French ambassador to Foreign Minis Minister ter Lansdowne ansdowne tl this s week ita have no ui OL wish the present war Tie treaty no on thE erge tt d f itu to eU 1 tween Gr Great at Britain awl France oneo on Co J M Cambon an and Lorl l Lansdowne plEnty plenty to do hout abut about te th far est estIn east eastIn In street treet I it Iv hi thought that would regard an any at 4 nt Lt intervention if d an act COncerning the attitude ot of toward Grot Greet i it was said at atthe the th tonight that the go gomont gov mont here here hal hai direct and Information which has proved pred that the gow govern r I le sincere In Is its to mair taIn Great ali ala I It Is recognized atthe at the how ver that certin certain cla caste of oC Russian opinion are much embittered t Great Britain more moreo 6 o oV n that the Ru an press et and tha that i it wi will be Bom iome little before beZore the ot of the RusIan aia pu rume resume their nor nors condition I mt The nb danger believed by the foreign to he be In sight Is Isa isa a possible continental protest against t the orar tret treaty Great 4 ha ben been ap approached by i on of the great powers wih with t the view of sustainIng RUBIas protest In Inthis thi this connection on a point of inter International national law L Lo d Lansdowne ho hoever bow ever wt will t tk k no action and amI It Is not notI I that oth other r will vU deem I It wise to complicate the bJ by b urging the Russian con contention that that Japans treaty treats wih with Korea oro th the rIght rights of other flOwer towers Baron the Japanese minis minister minister ter to Gr t Britain who keps keeps In close with diplomatic developments and on the continent no European complication Is like likely ly t to oc r and that the coure course ot of the theA war A Is not In the loam least to b be af rete iya y ani project of diplomacy now or in the near noar future |