lable troops. For two years she has
been building factories to manufacture ammunition and arms, and these
are now being rushed to completion. People who have offered her
contracts for arms and munitions have been told that Russian factories
shortly to be completed will make their weapons more quickly than they
can now be ordered and received from other countries.

With arms and equipment Russia can draw 17,000,000 men to her
German-Austrian frontier just as readily as Germany can draw 7,000,000
men to both her frontiers. In both calculations only one in ten of the
population is counted upon for service.

The story is told of a Russian who was asked in London why he did not
return for military duty. He replied, "Oh, I belong to the 14th
million, and it will be some time before the 18th million is called
out."

Russia has the greatest future of any country in Europe. She has the
largest unturned arable soil of any country in the world. Russia in
Europe is a great agricultural plain. To the east are her rich
oil-fields steadily expanding north in the Ural Mountains, and east
lies Siberia, endowed by nature as one of the richest countries in the
world, an area in which you could deposit the United States. From the
Siberian railroad other railroads are now projected; mineral wealth is
being uncovered; and English and French capital and American engineers
will in the future work wonders with the country.

What Russia has long sought is an outlet to the ocean. This war is
likely to give her benefits which she could never have asked and could
only have fought for. Germany, defeated, will lose the control or
monopoly of the Kiel Canal, and possibly the country around it which
she took from Denmark. The Kiel Canal under international control will
extend the Baltic Sea of the Russians and the Scandinavians most
directly to the North Sea and the English Channel.

To the south Russia will have something to say in Asia Minor and much
to say concerning Constantinople. Certainly her influence in the
Balkan States and on the Bosphorus will be as great as she could
desire. As long as the Turks remained loyal to England, Great Britain
was bound to maintain their integrity and hold upon Constantinople and
the Bosphorus. With the passing of the Turk Constantinople is in the
hands of the Allies when they are victorious. Its final disposition is
not yet clear, but the English people can see compensation in Egypt,
Asia Min