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Show 'roorfl HOW RUSSIAN ARMY 'CZJ& IS BEING MOBILIZED I J ST- PETERSBURG. April 9. The SH naval mobilization was gazetted today. Kut It refers only to officers and men of MrjW the reserve In European Asia, and not jFtsij to ships. The mobilization Is due to rlM'l e necessity fo'r providing full crews jfH for the Black sea and Baltic fleets, t yB i which will go Into commission at the ji opening of navigation, it Is an open (H necrot now that several thousand sai- lav iors belonging to these fleets which had n been laid up for the winter wero sent Nl 1 to Vladivostok or Port Arthur to sup- j3 I ply the places of time-expired men as M'cll as the places of those who were tB I wounded or otherwise incapacitated. ' The men now called out will also be 'H used to furnish an adequate reserve iVH when tho European ileets go Into com- t'H ' mission. |