MUNITIONS FROM JAPAN.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2872, 16 February 1916, Page 3

MUNITIONS FROM JAPAN.

LARGE SUPPLIES FOR UUSSIA

Dunedin, February 15. A gentleman who knows Ivuropo. well and is now payiny; a flying visit, to Diinedin after journeying through the East as far as Vladiv'ostock. said he was simply amazed at nrhut he saw in Vladivostock in the landing of munitions, guns ; etc.. from Japan. Material is passing in nractically an endless train across Siberia to tin; Russian front. The Trans-Siberian railway line has been greatly added to since the war, and tho work which has been done on the PetrogradArchangel line should also have a very real effect in enabling munitions to be carried speedily from the northern port to the front.

The visitor stated that in Singapore conscription has been introduced, and that in several other towns in the East compulsory service is in vogue. In Shanghai, which is what is termed a "seven-treaty port," seven of the countries which are at present at war have their own post offices.

One of the incidents of the visitor's sojourn thero was to go to each of the post offices and mirchiise a. stamp. Tho whole- seven were then stuck on a letter, which was forwarded to his relatives in Scotland.

'Hie visitor lost a nephew at Galli pnli. This young man was shot through both cheeks. He recovered and returned to the front, and received a second wound in the head. Mis parents at Simla were telegraphed to. to wiinc in haste. They obeyed Ihe (summons, but could not arrive in time. By a truly tragic cireii'nistanee. the first intimation they had of their son's death was wjion they met his funeral in a street in Alexandria.