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5TH ANIjT O STREETS.
Mysterious
Movements of
Russian Navy
PETROGRAD, Aug. 28. (By Mail).
—“Where is the Russian navy?”
For several days I have been ask
ing this question of statesmen, jour
nalists, diplomats, writers, Duma
members and others. For reply, a
flock of question marks seems to arise
in the air after the fashion cartoon
ists and comic supplement artists
have inaugurated.
Nobody seems able to tell us.
“What has the Russian navy done
in the last two years?” I have de
manded time and time again. The
response is more question marks.
The British fleet is an open book
compared to the Russian navy. Ev
erybody knows the English warships
aer “somewhere in the North Sea.”
One can look at a map and tell pretty
much just whereabouts in this sea
they must be. But no such precis
ion is possible regarding the Russian
men o’ war.
“Why so much secrecy about the
navy?” I asked a member of the
Duma.
“It is the navy’s way,” he answer
ed, shrugging his shoulders. “The
navy is different from the army. We
get a daily communique based on the
army’s activities, but the navy is in
a rage every time it is mentioned.
It wishes to operate utterly and ab
solutely in secret and discourages
any sort of publicity.”
The navy has had at least one
brush with the Germans during
which two of the large German ships
were sunk, together with about three
destroyers. In Petrograd, a rumor
spread exaggerating the victory and
same mention was made of it in the
Duma.
The naval authorities were furi
ous. They wanted the entire affair
to pass without a line in the papers
and without the public knowing any
thing about it. As the news had
leaked out it became necessary to
explain just what had happened and
this the navy considered prejudicial
to its plan of campaign.
“Everything depends on absolute
secrecy so far as the Russian navy is
concerned,” an official told me. And
that is as far as he could go.
This much, however, is known of
the Russian fleet: It played a very
important part in checking the Ger
man left wing advancing through
Courland on Riga and undoubtedly
did its share in preventing the cap
ture of that port. It played havoc
among the kaiser’s legions operating
along the Baltic coast and the shores
of the Gulf of Riga.
It has operated in conjunction with
the British in the Baltic, had kept
the Gulf of Finland and Gulf of Riga
secure, two exceedingly important
tasks. In the Black sea the Black sea
fleet aided Grand Duke Nicholas’ ad
vance from the Caucasus into Asia
Minor against the Turks. In the tak
ing of Trebizond, it was officially ad
mitted that the fleet did important
work.
At the outset of the European war,
Russia, of all the great powers, was
least prepared for effective sea fight
ing. In the first place she had met
with naval disaster during the Russo
Japanese war and was just beginning
to recover her poise when the pres
ent upheaval caught her. Still, con
sidering her start, she has done won
ders accumulating naval units.
England virtually has adimtted in
principle that Russia should have the
Dardanelles in the final reckoning.
This means that Russia must become
one of the great sea powers especial
ly iii the Mediterranean, as she must
at all times be prepared to keep her
straits open. This is vital. The
closing of the Dardanelles for any
reason is like a grip at one’s throat
—the protracted tightening of which
means death.
Russia must ship her grain by sea,
especially by the Black sea, Marma,
the Dardanelles, Aegean and Medi
terranean. The great rivers of the
empire bring it down to the sea,
whence it goes by ship through three
tortuous passages to the outside
world. It will not stand railway
shipment, long overland hauls. It is
the sea route or none with Russia so
she. must increase her high sea fleet
tonnage in order to keep this open to
her freighters.
The present fleet is far smaller
than Russia would have if her wishes
could have been translated into war
ships. She is not a ship-building coun
try herself and accumulating a fleet
by purchase from foreign countries
is rather a slow job. All things con
sidered, Russia has done well to col
lect as many units as she has and
with these units to accomplish what
she has in the present war.
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LABOR LEADER IS IN
DANGER IN SEATTLE
SEATTLE, Sept. 14.—Menaced by a
mob of 250 longshoremen as he was
leaving the Central Labor council An
drew Furuseth, president of the Inter
national Seamen’s union, had to be es
corted to safety last night by police
men. The demonstration was the re
sult of a speech in which he expressed
sympathy for the San Francisco
branch and praised them for settling
the strike against the opposition of
some of the unions in the north. In
►iVr -speech hadHjggesWk that-.,lHar\g^
shoremen should use their heads in
stead of their feet" in settling the dif
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