A DWINDLING REGIMENT.
FIFTH OF ORIGINAL STRENGTH (Received 7.36 a.m.) LONDON, October 17. The third Siberian reserve division, which numbered foar thon~ ■and strong at the ontset of the war, was reduced in the battle of Uao-yang to 2500. After Wednesday* fighting it suffered a farther red-action, aad It is now no more than eight hundred strong; A captain is in command of the regiment, and a lieutenant of a battalion, while the companies are commanded by the first privates.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 249, 18 October 1904, Page 5
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80A DWINDLING REGIMENT. Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 249, 18 October 1904, Page 5
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