Emery County Progress | 1905-01-14 | Page 2 | Predicts Russian Success

PREDICTS RUSSIAN SUCCESS french military thinks port arthur helped out kuropatkin A french military who has returned from the far east in an interview in st petersburg e pressed the firmest confidence that despite the reverses suffered by ehg russians on land and sea they would prosecute the war to a successful aln ish the fall of port arthur ha added would change nothing the fortress had in reality somewhat em barr assed the plan of campaign but it had also served its purpose by hold ing out long enough to enable general kuropatkin to receive and prevent operations against cladi even with the men drawn from before port arthur the office said he believed that when the cam laign reopens in the spring genera Kuropat Mn will have a numerical su and will begin to roll bach the japanese