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Show RUSSIANS ASSERT JAPS HAVE MISSED CHANCE Declare That in the Spring Thcj Will Be Unable to ' Defeat the Czai's Forces. . against Napoleon. The Japanese cannot endure extreme cold like the Russians. They are not strong; enough to attempt to turn Mukden now, and will not be even if Port Arthur falls) and 50.000 reinforcements are sent up to Join Field Marshal Oyama. In the mean time Russian troops are piling up behind be-hind Mukden. In February, before the lort of Newchwans; is Ice free. Gen, Kuropatkln will have close upon half a million men disposed in three armies; amply sufficient to turn Oyama's position posi-tion at the Shakhe river and force the Japanese back Into Korea and the Llao Tung peninsula." X ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 14. The general rtaff apparently Is entirely satisfied sat-isfied with the military situation In Manchuria, being convinced that the Japanese have reached their high tide. A high officer said to the Associated Press correpondent today: "The Japanese army Is unique in military mil-itary history and probably the strongest in the world, combining strength of barbarism, bar-barism, with civilization, drawing from the former fanatical bravery and scorn of death, and from the latter the latest knowledge of the science of war. '"We have been fighting them under heavy handicaps, but have, at last definitely stopped them. They have missed the psychological moment. They fhould now Le at Harbin with Vladivostok and the eastern terminus literally cut off and de facto theirs, instead of wintering winter-ing where they are. "The cold la Russia's ally now, as It |