RUSSIANS DRAWING LOTS FOR MILITARY SERVICE. RUSSIA'S almost incalculable military strength made it unnecessary that all men fit for military duty should serve. The recruits were therefore required to draw lots. This scene is in a Russian town hall at the opening of the war. (25) ALTHOUGH the actual outbreak of war evidently found Russia unprepared, for many months she had been rushing troops and stores to Port Arthur. The picture above was taken at Port Said, and shows a Russian warship bound for Port Arthur coaling at the former point. (21) RUSSIAN SUBMERGED TORPEDO TUBE. GREAT secrecy was observed by the Russian Navy regarding the mechanism and workings of its submerged torpedo tube. This is a picture of it, however, taken aboard the battleship Peresviet, afterward damaged by the Japanese torpedo attack. The compressed air for firing was in the cigar-shaped chamber above the tube. (90' |