Russia in Manchuria.
The Russians hold all the large towns' in Manchuria, but tho Japs have fought and know the country, with all its weak points, a<* well as, if not hotter than, their foes do. Tho Japanese" will have the sympathy of all the villagers, for they well know that on a town being taken by the Jape they immediately protect all the wealthy men from phmder,*as they did in their quarter of Tientsin when it was captured in 1900. and Niuohwang, captured by them in the Chinese war. There are. dißguised aa Chinese, with false quenes, thousands of Japanese in Manchuria at the present moment. They are there foe a purpose.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXI, Issue 6201, 23 February 1904, Page 2
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113Russia in Manchuria. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXI, Issue 6201, 23 February 1904, Page 2
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