Show RUSSIA PREPARES PREPARES' l FOR A NEW NEY VARr WAR VAR r i S Plans to Rehabilitate the Navy and Strengthen Railroads Before the he Duma j MILITARY BECOMES ACTIVE ACTIVES f k j S Labor Invasion of Manchuria S Fast W Wiping ping Out the the Czars Czar's Subjects liy nr CIl L LUNG LONG G Rep Republican Special Calc Cable St. St Petersburg Feb Fob 15 The Tho presence pies pres ence enec otan American fleet In the tile Pacific ocean and Japans Japan's apparent pct determination then lion to fix lix a quarrel quartel on China hae have liae TO- TO suited In Ina a 0 a marked etl Increase alc In diplomatic diplomatic diplo diplo- matic and military activity here Since tho time peace ce of f Portsmouth nu sla sia has lIfts completely ceased all attempts to re establish her former prestige In InEa Ea East t Asia nut But now the thc a quarrel between J Japan P and China Chino or or between Japan ash and the time United States Slates have navo revived le time the tile hopes of the time very small re patty party wl whose r puta 1 I I and pockets were Injured by tho lie late lato war Ivan I Pa lo rO minister of oC finance nance who has just re returned rc- rc no- no v- v turned from an n official tour in the time the Far i East Is reported etI t to tc ha have glen given tho the foreign office a very vcr Illuminating account account ac ac- ac- ac t count of the tho pr predominance of Japan In t l Manchuria und and tIme thc aggressions of her subjects subjects' In the tIme maritime province of Si SI- SI beria belia His Ills view rs lb that Russian tu tra trade with v Manchuria is C completely killed and amI that the exclusionist measures of 5 I Japan which have ha killed It U. U TV will nl soon i ihne have hn the tIle same flame effect upon all a foreign j N commerce The Russian official attitude is friendliness to Japan for the tue reason that Russia standing lan alone l is I absolutely absolutely thc real Russian policy Is to create a new defense I sl system S 'S tem emIt as rapidly as possible Two mesa mesa- the arcs tho recreation of ot the tho foot noet an anthe and ana the tho doubling o of th tho Siberian railroad raIlroad- S arc already decided 1 on f 1 The Tho proposals to V h begIn gln with an nn cx- cx of ot upon uon battleships battleships battle battle- ships and S on the tiaC railroad ra A are nrc already r before Uio Uma USIa tot 7 l S for tho darns darns- Mai ilmi no real of f to oppose any ony The rime doublIng of lie tho Hl wU malta co r t f mitt mUl- t tery wor t power In h itAlIn An AH Ait n Hh anil I what If Is mor practically all ob observers observer r b lIbo tip Trao waa a within In lui IU tica ace c of ot r tir r poal- poal t f J tion loll In tho tIm war 1 w with h Japan All lJ r recent V evidence nc Is to tho the effect that even on witha with witha a L single JIngle railroad and a a. revolution at hone home she alme would have havo beaten ten Japan on onland onland onland land if ff peace hall had not been boon signed at Portsmouth The single railroad was s' s the tile only factor which prevented Ire her hor In 1905 concentrating half halt a million ad ad- addItional additional ad- ad men in Manchuria 1 According to General who commanded at t. the time time a u double ra railroad rail road roia would have put at his disposal men arid and when dou double le railroad exists that flint he says S will bo be boRussia's Russia's approximate war wn- strength In fn Inthe the time Far East Tho contingency of or Ru Russia siu becoming a third party part In Jim Japans Japan's next war Is Isby isby by no means remote Tile The Portsmouth peace was agreed to by the cZar merely merely mere mere- ly h because of the time threat Imminent at of or a n revolutionary re overthrow and not bo- bo cause of the hopelessness of or the mili mill- military tary situation S |