Show FRANCES FAITH SHAKEN belief in russia s prowess receives serious set back A paris dispatch says french con science in russian prowess Is much broken as a result of the recent developments concerning the weakness of general kuropatkin s land forces the early japanese successes were accepted as merely preliminary it being believed by the officials and pub lie here generally that kuropatkin was concentrating a vast force ap proximately men which even dually would annihilate the smaller japanese army |