[February, after 4, 1905, Geneva.]

Voss[ische] Z[eitun]g, 4 II 05, leading article: "Die Aussichten der russischen Revolution".
The article considers only the liberal opposition properly speaking and is on the whole superficial enough. Concluding words:
"However the government may conduct itself under present circumstances, it will always, against its will, foster the opposition currents, and this will continue until either it itself puts into the hands of its opponents the means for carrying out their wishes, or the despair of the opposition passes into apathy. In the former case we have revolution, in the latter the empire falls into spiritual marasmus.
"At the moment revolution seems to possess the greater prospects."

From the same article, Voss[ische] Z[eitun]g (4. II. 05)
.... "It will be difficult to date the beginning of the Russian revolution from them (the events of the 22nd), since they were unable to prevent the continuation and even intensification of the previous regime, but in the prehistory of the coming revolution they constitute one of the most important moments, since they have enormously increased its prospects" ... {at the beginning of the article.}