25 FEBRUARY 1905, Page 1

O F news from the front there is none to record.

This does not show, however, that nothing is happening, but merely that tha wires are not allowed to carry Press telegrams. Doubtless the J apanese are busy preparing for another blow, and when they next strike it will be with all their force. In regard to the internal condition of Russia, we must note the very serious statements concerning the Caucasus. The whole province seems to be in a state of anarchy, while in Baku riots between the Tartars and Armenians are said to have laid waste the town and resulted in a thousand casualties. The insurrectionary movement in Poland is also still unsubdued, and a Reuter's telegram from Warsaw published on Friday describes the strikers as cutting telegraph wires and paralysing the railway traffic on the direct line between Warsaw and Germany. We may also note the extremely significant report, based apparently on good authority, and published in Friday's Times, that the Czar has decided to summon the " Zemski Sobor," and leave to it the question of peace or war.