Show Russia is a pretty big country The Chemnltz Tageblatt tells of some of its resources Russia has SGH100 square miles or about pneseventh of the solid earth Its waters cover 203018 square miles Its population is 133000000 I has 11000000 men able to bear arms I can send 1255000 men into the field in C few days and a million more a few days later Its total number of disciplined dis-ciplined fighting force Is 2500000 and 500000 horses Its fleet comprises 23 battleships 1 coast defenders 16 cruisers 23 cannon boats and 9C torpedo tor-pedo boats The Government owns 16 CTil miles of railroad and private parties par-ties own SOOO miles more European Russia has 210000000 horses and cattle HIG5000 sheep and about 10000000 hogs I cultivates 109S5077SO acres of land It is opening mines opening draining marshes clearing forests putting nor lands under cultivation in its own domains do-mains It Is pushing its railroad lines lnes through northern Asia and Is prepar hug to run n railroad south through Persic to the Persian gulf |