Dark Siberia.
Press Association—Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, September 17. Harry De Windt, who travelled from Paris to Da.wson City, across Siberia, has returned to England. In an interview he stated that in traversing 11,263 miles in Siberia 800 horses, 900 reindeer, and 97 out of 100 dogs used died. He informed the authorities iat< St. Petersburg that half the exiles at Sledincolynisk die mad from solitude or fear of their sentences being suddenly extended. He states that the gold discovered in 1901 in the village of Vitimsk exceeded the yield of Klondyke in its best year, hence the eagerness of Russia to complete the Irkutsk-Yakutsk railway,.which will be finished in 1906.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 11741, 19 September 1902, Page 5
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109Dark Siberia. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 11741, 19 September 1902, Page 5
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