The Czar now moves about unattended, and the country is a unit behind him and the war and unitedly against the Germans.

From Warsaw to Siberia the German agents and merchants have been arrested and impounded.

Nobody in Germany can yet realize how this war has destroyed her commercial relations and commercial organizations throughout the world.

Everywhere German people are subjects of suspicion.

You will even hear in all seriousness that the Kaiser had an army of 150,000 reservists in the United States with a partial equipment of arms ready to attack Canada; and I have been told by supply agencies that these arms are now offered for sale, as the uselessness of any German movement on the American continent is apparent.
How far Germany is unable to measure the spirit of the English-speaking people is shown by the fact that she cannot understand why the United States does not take this opportunity to possess Canada.
I heard of a retired German-American of wealth, residing in Germany, who was actually invited to go to America to stir up a raid on Canada.
Of course he obediently returned to the United States, and then he sat down to wonder how he could effectively report back the foolishness of such an idea without offense to Berlin.
Russia has been perfecting her military organization for ten years.
The expansion was to come in the next two years.