Show THE RUSSIAN NAVY A vienna letter writer says A gentleman yesterday gave me some interesting te information respecting the fornia formation tion p of the crews of theltus thellus the russian sian ships of war on 01 an average one third of each crew is composed of jews those persecuted people do all in their power to avoid the conscription bua but they are seized and put on board ship because they cannot so easily desert from born the navy as they can from the army my informant also observed that the inside of a 11 russian manof man of war was exactly like ilke an english prison or hospital ship except in regard to cleanliness the men said he hang ang their heads and look discontented and as it if they were on short commons days in the year |