More than one third of her officers were dismissed after that war.

The Russian officials now say that the Japanese war was to Russia most providential.

It showed the lines of Russian weakness, inefficiency, and graft, which could flourish at a distance from St.Petersburg but became exposed when war put the Russian organization to the test.

Steadily every year Russia has been systematically and thoroughly routing out graft and inefficiency.

When Russia starts to do a thing she does it thoroughly.
It was because Russia was rebuilding, reorganizing, and was indulging in criticism and putting its mind on the weak spots, that Russian confidential papers stolen in the interest of Germany misled both Berlin and Vienna as to the possibility of Russia going to war to defend Servia in the year 1914.
War has united Russia as never before.