The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Daily Graphic of Tuesday
notices a curious fact in regard to the Jews in Russia. At present there are no less than 125,000 Jews in the military forces of the Empire, 46,000 of whom were recruited last spring, while next year's draft will, it is calculated, amount to not fewer than 50,000. Russia, though she refuses almost all the privileges of citizenship to the unfortunate Jews, exacts the full pound of flesh as regards military service. We pre- sume she relies upon the fact that they are too widely scattered throughout the Army to make their disaffection a danger ; but at the same time there is something strange in arming a body of men habitually oppressed by the State. It is almost as if the Southern planters had raised Negro regiments, or the Turks engaged Bulgarians in their regiments.
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