To The East Via The Arctic.
Russia Employing Automobiles.
The Polish Thorn
London. Yesterday. Commander Ivulizilki has informed the Czav that ho is willing to pilot the Balkan squadron to the Far East via the fc>ea of Kara, and he is confident that ha would .arrive there in August. Eussia intends to employ for military purposes armoured automobiles manufactured on the Continent.'
Niuchwang is practically closed to commerce. The liussians will not reply to ships signalling for pilots to take vessels up the Liao river. The Russians have buried, with naval ceremonies, the body of Commander Hirose, the Japanese hero who was lulled in a recent attack on Port Arthur. Eussia has bought thirty guns at Connecticut and has shipped them to the Far East.
A crowded meeting of Polish emigrants, in Whitechapel, denounced Kussia s tyranny towards Poland, and prayed for Russia's defeat in the war with a view to weakening her power and thus to enablo the Poles to change th« political situation.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 7956, 13 April 1904, Page 2
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