Russian Want of Confidence.
The following incident is characteristic of Russian official want of confidence in the immediate prospects of tho war. A large supply of tin plates had been ordered from, and supplied by, an Ekaterinoslav firm for the roofing of hospitals and huts for the army at Harbin. They have long been ready, and ought to havo been sent off "weeks a%o, but, though paid for and labelled, their departure has beep sus r pended indefinitely, as the authorities fear that even H irbin may have to be abandoned, and its stores left in the hands of the enemy.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume xxii, Issue 6458, 30 December 1904, Page 2
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