A great drawback to Russia is her weak strategic position in Europe. She is going to spend millions of pounds on a strategic railway in the Far East while there is a glaring want of strategic railways in Poland. She is troubled sbout the Japanese taking Kamehatks, but she pays no attention to the fact (told her s few ago by the " Vovoe Vremya") that, ifa war broke out with Germany, the Germans would take St. Pgtersburg in three days. Moreover, her own factories
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