It is announced that Revel will be the meeting-place of
the Emperor of Russia and the President of the French Republic on the occasion of M. Fallieres's visit to Russia. He will arrive at Reval on July 27th, and will remain there until the 28th. On his way to the Baltic the President will spend two or three days at Copenhagen, and from thence he will go to Stockholm en route for Revel. On the return journey be will call at Christiania. He is expected to get back to France on or about August 5th. The visit is of considerable importance, and will tend to make visible the peaceful understanding which now binds France, Britain, and Russia. It is interest- ing to note in this context that the relations between Japan and Russia are steadily improving. The unveiling of the monument to the Russian dead at Port Arthur has been made the occasion by the Japanese Press for declarations that a lasting sentiment of profound mutual respect has grown up between the two countries, and has obliterated every sentiment of hostility, which " constitutes a guarantee of permanent friendship between the two nations." That is perhaps going too far, but at the same time there is no doubt that the relations between Japan and Russia are now of a very friendly kind. We feel sure that no Power realises more strongly than Japan the great qualities possessed by the Russian Army. In spite of so many unfaypnra.hle circumstances, the Russian troops never failed to prove the most etubborn and formidable of foes. Though. 'Raton, they were never disgraced.
