CHAPTER IX.
RUSSIA AND THE RUSSIANS Russian Reforms--A United Russia--Russian Armaments--The Greatest Future--Two Water Outlets--The Slav Invasion Bugaboo.
Russia also is likely to bring forth some notable men who have not previously been heard of before the world.

General Evanoff is the idol of the Russian army.

He is the strategist who plans the movements against Austria and Germany in the East, who surrounds Przemysl and says, "Now, we can take it when we please, but we will not sacrifice Russian troops to take it now; Cracow is more important.

Lodz is not important from a military standpoint.

We will surround it later." Evanoff orders his men to keep out of the valleys and engage the Germans in the open plain, where their own numbers will count in action; for in the valleys the German big guns have the advantage.
Russia has been at work steadily since the Japanese war reforming her army within and without.