Russian Army On War Basis.

New York Times 100 years ago today, November 9, 1912:
Czar's Advisers Will Keep Time-Expired Soldiers in Service.
    ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 8.— The Russian Government has decided to retain all the time-expired soldiers of the Russian Array in active service with their regiments until Spring. This puts the Russian Army practically on a war footing, as the order affects several hundred thousand men whose places, in the ordinary course, would have been taken by the same number or recruits who have just been called up.
    It is announced that the Government has taken this step as the best means of preventing war, and it is thought that this can only mean that the Government foresees the possibility of complications arising from the Balkan situation.
    The detention of the time-expired men will cost many million dollars.