. The Russian army and the Japanese war, being historical and critical comments on the military policy and power of Russia and on the campaign in the Far East . ays. If these lines had been more efficient,we could have brought up our troops morerapidly, and, as things turned out, 150,000 menconcentrated at first would have been of farmore value to us than the 300,000 who weregradually assembled during nine months, only tobe sacrificed in detail. In my report upon theWar Ministry in 1900 (before Japan had com-pleted her armaments), I wrote that she couldmobilize 380,000 men and 1,090 guns, abou
. The Russian army and the Japanese war, being historical and critical comments on the military policy and power of Russia and on the campaign in the Far East . ays. If these lines had been more efficient,we could have brought up our troops morerapidly, and, as things turned out, 150,000 menconcentrated at first would have been of farmore value to us than the 300,000 who weregradually assembled during nine months, only tobe sacrificed in detail. In my report upon theWar Ministry in 1900 (before Japan had com-pleted her armaments), I wrote that she couldmobilize 380,000 men and 1,090 guns, abouthalf of which could be transported across thesea; that there were immediately ready only sevendivisions, with a war strength of 126,000 rifles,5,000 sabres, and 494 guns. In March, 1903,before visiting Japan, I calculated that if theviews then held by our naval authorities as tothe comparative strength of the two fleets werecorrect, we ought to be ready, in the event ofwar, to throw an army of 300,000 into the battles of Liao-yang and the Sha Ho weonly had from 150,000 to 180,000. If we hadhad a better railway, and had been able to mass I p. THE RAILWAY PROBLEM 243 at Liao-yang the number specified, we shouldundoubtedly have won the day, in spite of ourmistakes. As regards the railway problem, we counted,in August, 1901, on having for military trans-port purposes on the Eastern Chinese Railway20 waggons running in the twenty-four hours,while in the summer of 1903 we calculatedwe should have 75. We were promised fromJanuary 1, 1904, five pairs* of military trains of35 waggons each, or 175 waggons each way;and it was supposed at the same time that theSiberian Railway would be in a condition to runseven pairs of military trains in the twenty-fourhours, but these hopes were not realized. Letus see what actually did happen. In 1903 we were only able to reckon on fourthrough military trains on the Siberian line, andon three short trains on the Eastern th
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