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no small amount of talk as to what France and Eng- 

 land are planning to do after the war by way of restor- 

 ing their trade and industry, and contesting with 

 Germany the foreign markets. Little is said of Russia 

 in this connection, save, in a general way, that she 

 has immense natural wealth, and will need vast 

 amounts of foreign equipment. The narrowness of 

 this common view seems plainly to show serious lack 

 of appreciation of the Russian side. 



That the Russian armies have ;< come back' 1 has 

 been evident and the subject of comment the world 

 over, since the heavy fighting on the eastern front 

 began. Stop to think what this means, along with 

 the facts of the Russian mobilization at the outbreak 

 of war. 



Mobilization of the Russian armies in a remarkably 

 short time was really the first surprise of the war. 

 That mobilization showed effective planning and 

 carrying out of an exceedingly complicated task of 

 supply and transportation. 



This year's movements of the rehabilitated Russian 

 armies showed capacity for performing an almost 

 infinitely greater task of the same kind as was involved 

 in the first mobilization. It is needless to cite in detail 

 all that is covered by the advance and supplying of 

 the two huge Russian armies in Europe and in Asia 

 Minor. It has been done, and with brilliant success. 



The first point of all this is that it proves the exist- 

 ence in official Russia of a very high order of organiz- 

 ing ability, such as had been popularly attributed 

 almost to Germany alone. 



