ers will count in
action; for in the valleys the German big guns have the advantage.

Russia has been at work steadily since the Japanese war reforming her
army within and without. More than one third of her officers were
dismissed after that war. The Russian officials now say that the
Japanese war was to Russia most providential. It showed the lines of
Russian weakness, inefficiency, and graft, which could flourish at a
distance from St. Petersburg but became exposed when war put the
Russian organization to the test. Steadily every year Russia has been
systematically and thoroughly routing out graft and inefficiency. When
Russia starts to do a thing she does it thoroughly.

It was because Russia was rebuilding, reorganizing, and was indulging
in criticism and putting its mind on the weak spots, that Russian
confidential papers stolen in the interest of Germany misled both
Berlin and Vienna as to the possibility of Russia going to war to
defend Servia in the year 1914.

War has united Russia as never before. The Czar now moves about
unattended, and the country is a unit behind him and the war and
unitedly against the Germans. From Warsaw to Siberia the German agents
and merchants have been arrested and impounded. Nobody in Germany can
yet realize how this war has destroyed her commercial relations and
commercial organizations throughout the world. Everywhere German
people are subjects of suspicion. You will even hear in all
seriousness that the Kaiser had an army of 150,000 reservists in the
United States with a partial equipment of arms ready to attack Canada;
and I have been told by supply agencies that these arms are now offered
for sale, as the uselessness of any German movement on the American
continent is apparent.

How far Germany is unable to measure the spirit of the English-speaking
people is shown by the fact that she cannot understand why the United
States does not take this opportunity to possess Canada.

I heard of a retired German-American of wealth, residing in Germany,
who was actually invited to go to America to stir up a raid on Canada.
Of course he obediently returned to the United States, and then he sat
down to wonder how he could effectively report back the foolishness of
such an idea without offense to Berlin.

Russia has been perfecting her military organization for ten years.
The expansion was to come in the next two years. At the opening of the
war she had only 2,500,000 avai