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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XV, Issue 7, 10 June 1887, Page 7

" Rough on Corns."— Ask for Wells' " Bough on Corns. Quick relief, complete, permanent cure. Corns, warts, bunions. X ecqmists and druggists. Sir Charles Dilke's estimate of the military might of Bussia is not altogether supported by observers on the spot. The correspondents of some of the Austrian newspapers say that the Russian army is by no means in a condition to conquer Western Europe. Its vast numbers only exist on paper, and the corruption which bas ever been the bane of the Russian service is as bad as ever. The Court generals an d army contractors are said to be at their old tricks. The ingenious dodge of driving ambulance waggons round from garrison to garrison and taking receipts for them at each has quite a familiar air. It resembles the famous plan under which, when an order was given for two regiments to change quarters, nothing was really changed but the soldiers' buttons. It is the opinion of these Austrian observers that the Russian army cannot be got into fighting order for months to come. This, if true, accounts for the Czar's present " forbearance " towards the Bulgarian Regency. ,