JEWS AD. JAPAN.
A WAR FUND STARTED. THE TRANS-BAIKAL RAILWAY. i Received 9.2 sum.) •LONDON, February 11. The Jews on the Atlantic coast of have initiated a war fund with the object of providing Japan with a new warship. Owing to the danger incurred by run- ' I ning. trains over the Ice of Lake Baikal: j the troops destined tor the Far East are i crossing the lake on foot. Meanwhile the war material and provisions are being transported by means of -a. temporary rail-way. Lake Baikal is commonly crossed by ' means of large '"icebreakers^ , : but the process of breaking is necessarily slow. at any time, and on some occasions it lis all but impossible.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 37, 12 February 1904, Page 5
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