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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 407, 25 February 1904, Page 5

The rather *' thin " reason advanced for the Government's advancement of Easter volunteer encampments this year is stated to bo the possibility of Britian being drawn into the RussoJapanese war, and the likelihood of drafts from New Zealand volunteer forces being required for active service, ft is thought by one or two authorities (notably Sir Robert Low) that this step will be necessary within two months' time. Wei Tang Tao, a Chinese journalist, who is making a tour of Europe, is at present in Paris. Both his ears were cut off at Hnanghai some months ago because he had written an article which displeased the Empress. The phrase which caused the trouble was to the effect that the Government of the Empress was comprising tte future of China by a pigheaded refusal to accept Western ideas. For this he was imprisoned for a month, and then, the executioner having lopped off both his ears, he was alk> e i\ to go, " The labor problem is of absolutely vital inifresf io lie Empire. We repeat that, un-ess South Africa - ! ;j largely peopled by men of BiiiHh rac(f, the foreign element, native or imported, will overwhelm the British, ayjL .the Boer war will have been fought in vain,"—" Auckland ;Star." - ' For Infloenza and Cold in the Head takej Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, 1/6 and 2/6, w.