Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-01-28 | Page 9 | Indignation in the Army

' INDIGNATION SN THE ARMY Russian Officers Peel Depressed. Denounce Agitators for Trying Try-ing toyFoment Trouble During War. Thinks Time to Sottlo Internal Problems Prob-lems Is After Foreign Foo 1 Has Been Vanquished. RUSSIAN HEADQUARTERS, HUAN MOUNTAIN, Manchuria, Jan. 27. While the news of tho strike disorders and shooting at St. Petersburg and other oth-er cities has not permeated tho bulk of the rank nnd file of the army It has produced among tho f higher officers a feeling of depression and indignation that the agitators should seize a moment mo-ment when the country is plunged In a foreign war and when the army Is about to enter on a dcclslvo campaign to precipitate disorder, and above all endanger en-danger the supply of munitions by strikes nt the arsenals and outfitting works. The time to settlo family quarrels and Internal problems, It Is believed here, Is after the war clouds havo cleared away and not when the army needs the united support of thu country behind It. A stirring editorial in the Manchurlnn Army Messenger, the offlcal journal, calls on tho army to perform Its appointed ap-pointed task regardless of occurrences at homo and thus shame the malcontents mal-contents into patriotism. "We face the news as warriors. However grievous It may be, our conscience la not clouded. cloud-ed. The spirit with which the soldiers learn of ills shows that they look on rnatters rightly and with unceasing fortitude and manliness. The atay-at-homes should understand, tnat events now happening In St. Petersburg and Moscow only show that agitators have banded with tho intention of causing more trouble by exciting workmen to disturbances. "These same people not long ago said Russia should end the war and beg for pence. Further than this they drive tho workmen to strike In order to hamper the manufacture of munitions of war. They err greatly, for oven If they hinder and delay the delivery of supplies, the Russian army of half a million in the far East with tho means on hand will accomplish the given task. Neither machinations ma-chinations nor uprisings will stay our work. More than at any time victory now Is necessary to Russia and victory shall corn no matter what It costs."