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Show RUSSIA'S NEW ARMY. General Bruslloff speaks of "an extraordinary superiority of men," both In quantity nnd quality, as ono of tho coming factors In tho war. Wo can easily chock his figures. Experience Experi-ence hns shown thnt, for each country, coun-try, there Is a maximum total of men, a point at which gains by recruitment nro just equaled by losses at tho other end. through ago, sickness, death; and that this maximum la about equal to one-sixth ot tho wholo population. In the enso of Germany, this gives ten millions, nnd tho prfa- H clplo Is greatly strengthened by Uus Jfl fact that, In 1913, Germnn war tU- mB tlstlcs computed hlr possible strengtir Ml In men, trained nnd untrained, at 1$H just ten millions. Germany has Iocfc. 'All four millions; sho has about two nc' &JM a half million men on tho western: front, probably closo on two millions E5 an tho eastern front, and, therafocfv SHkJS' a probablo rescrvo of from a millfim w and a half to two million, which era- Hfel not bo Increased. But Russln, wirfci !H a population thrlco that of Cennaur,. !H has a maximum total thrice n erat; HJ or thirty millions. If we cBtfnftito Usr H losses hitherto as doublo those o H Germany probably much in excess HJ of tho fact this would learo her- HJ with moro than twenty million meat HJ still to draw on; nnd tho number oL' HJ young men coming to military a&v HJ , each year In Russia is throe times Ussa HJ , number of tho snmo clasj in tfer- HJ many, or nbout n million imrt it quxr- HJ ter. So that General IlrnsUoff'tr e- HJ tlmnto scorns amply borne out by Vtor H figures. Russln's difficulty htn nwiT- HJ been to find men, but rather to rrafo HJ 'nnd equip them. And In both- tfivMr directions sho has mado very gra H progress each year slnco tho wnr rt- H gnn. From "Tho Situation Inr Rov- Dj sin," by Chnrles Johnston-, fn tlitv HJ American Revlow of Reviews fast March, 1017. H |