23rd March.
Foord's "Current Comment" in the Tue first paragraph of Mr. Jeho
February number of the above journal opens with the undeniable statement that "the men who provoked the war with Japan unquestionably counted on plucking from success in that enterprise increased security for the Russian autocracy against internal discontent, as well as ample gains for themselves. But the engineers have been hoist with their own petard, and the failure on which they did not reckon has so quickened the forces of revolution as to place the autocracy and the system which it sustains in imminent peril. The events of the past month have demonstrated that the most dangerous foes of Russia are those of her own household. In another sense that was true before the war begun, because the arrogance and corruption of the grand-ducal clique which really directs the affairs of Russia over the head of a weak and vacillating Emperor, were responsible for the naval and military incompetency which has cost Russia so dear." Mr. Foord goes on to show—and this
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