The Mongolia Incident.
The Siberian Railway. German Estimate of Its Capabilities.
No Japs at Weihaiwei Since August.
The Bible Society's Care.
Received Feb 24, 8.45 a.m
London, Feb. 23
Tho Mongolia was travelling at the rate of seventeen knots when the Russians signalled her to stop. The captain consulted Admiral Sir Gerard Noel who was a passenger and on his advice the vessel was stopped.
A German military paper estimates the rate of transportation across the Siberian railway at nine miles an hour, and says that, assuming Russia had 133,000 troops in the Far East on February 10th, it would be March 3rd before she had 158,000, the 19th before she had 183,000, and April 4th before she had 208,0^0, and this only under the most favourable conditions.
Earl Percy stated in the House of Lords that no Japanese warships hadj visited Weihaiwei since August.
The British and Foreign Bible Society has distributed 50,000 copies of the Bible to the Japanese troops, and a similar number to the Russians.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXI, Issue 6202, 24 February 1904, Page 2
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