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PPLICATION has been made to the A GENERAL MANAGERS of this Company to issue to the RUSSO CHINESE BANK of Hongkong duplicate certificates for Two Hundred Shares in the above Company or other certificates in lieu thereof upon the State- ment that the original certificates, viz:--- Scrip No. 69 Nos, 17,826,12,850-a5 shares in
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Scrip No. 380 Nos. 36,43 136,479-50 shares in
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THE ARMY OF MANCHURIA.
(MILITARY CORRESPONDENT OF "THE TIMES.")
The official accounts of the battle of the Trans-Pacific Service and until further notice. Yolu disclose the fact hitherte rather suspected to BOOK CARGO and 19SUE BILLS OF LADINO than ascertained, that the Russian army camps to SEATTLE, WASH, VICTORIA, B.C., and PACIFIC COAST PORTS, also to OVER-organisation har signally broken down. Many LAND POINTS in the UNITED STATES other circumstances combine to show us that and CANADA in connection with the GREAT the army of Manchuria is still in the melting NORTHERN RAILWAY FROM SEAT- TLE, as hitherto, by the Steamers of the, and that it will not be for many a long day NORTHERN PACIFIC S. S. Co., BOSTON that the finished article will be turned out. STEAMSHIP and TOWBOAT Co)., OCEAN 8. S. Co. and CHINA MUTUAL S. N. Go.
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unconvincing for the "Novos Vremya" to Jament that Rustla is only now aroused to the sense to her danger. If the Russian Govern, ment will turn up the dossier of the allied operations againit Peking, deposited among the archives of the Russian War Office, they will find the Japanese army described with almost extravagant praise and its bigh efficiency landed in no measured terms Another and an equally futile excuse put forward to account for the recent defeats in that hitherto only in different troops have been apposed to Japan, and that, when the main army deploys, with all After enumerating the details the come the pomp and circumstance of Russian war pondent goes on to say, if all the troops were ❘ than we shall see what wo'shall'see. These In Manchuria, which is not the case, and if declarations are at reassuring. The 3rd and being there, they were available to take the 6th East Siberian Rifle Divisions engaged on field, which they are not, the total combatant | the Yalu are undoubtedly among the bert farce would be 223,000 rifles, 21,764 sabru, troops Russia has in East Asia, and they are 496 field, 30 home artillery, and 21 machine | infinitely superior to regiments of new forma- guns, besides 4,000 engine. But we must tion like the 7th, 8th, and 9th Division, and deduct the 4th Army Corps, which is only now
still more so to the reserve division of Siberia crossing Lake Baikal, and the Siberian Cossack Division, which has never been reported eat of Baikal; we must also strike off the frontier guards with their guns, besides the railway and fortress troops. This reduces the field army available throughout the entire area of operations to 136,000 infantry, 15,000 sabres, 10 field, 30 horse, and a machine guns, besides 4,000 engineers. These figures allow each unit its authorised war strength, and take no account of losses or sickness. If we assuns that the war drengths are complete which is improbable, and deduct to percent, for sick and alto the losses on the Yalu, the figure is re- duced to 113,400 rifles, 13,500 rabres, 301 field,
Scrip No. 550 Nos. 44.7 59/44.783-25 shares in ESPECIAL OLD TOM GIN. horse, and 16 machine guns. That is, at
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Then come in some very serious questions. WATERS in the Far East on account of Are the transport and supply of the improvised | their High Class Machinery and aho of the army assured? Are all the horses, carts, and superior ingredients theyuis in the manufacture waggone for the regimental, divisional, and of their goods, and the cleanliness, &c., ero all
under strict supervision of Europeans only. corps transport complete ? Are the ammuni tion and supply columns, trains, and parks pro vided? Is there a coolls or pack transport corps ready, on a military basis, to allow free dam of movement in the mountains? Is the army, in short, mobile, or is it not? Thess questions are vital, and the course of the pend. ing operations will disclose whether the mass of this army is chained to the railway or whe ther it is not.
Such as it is, the field army of 'Manchuris now stands on a front of nearly too miles from the outside, the field army of Manchuria at the Mukden to Newchwang'facing east parallel to present hour and until the 4th Army Corps its single line af communications, and with a begins to reach the scene of action. The back single line of retreat. Even the possessions of bone of the first three Army Corps is compared the milway, affording some help to transfer of 108 battalions of East Siberian Rifles, 36 to troops from one portion of the line to another. each corps. Last autumn' these regiments | cannot in any serious measure atone for the formed six brigades, or 48 battalions, but by a } defects of a fundamental'y false position. This priknæe of Oct 30 à 7th and ith brigade were | army is now being assailed by the enveloping created out of the fortress regiments at Port attack of Japanese armies superior in strength, Arthur and Vladivostock, and a 9th brigade with a dozen different lines of retreat, and as was added Inter. Thus to new field battalions many or more secure bates on the coast under were hastily created almost out of nothing at the protecting guns of their warships. Let the the opening of hostilities, and even the origin-Russian army strike back where it will, al 48 battalions had themselves to be complet ed by drafts from Europe, since it is now known that they were only 700 strong when the war began. Each regiment of the nine brigades Port Arthur, meanwhile, with its 25,000 men, was next increased from two to three battalions, | is stalemated by a detachment of moderate the men for this purpose being also drawn | strength, as everyone foresaw; the forces at from western garrisons. The 48 units of list year thus grew to to8 officer and men equally ignorant of each other and of the country, being [608 bundled into the ranks in primitive fashion.
'Thes the solidity of good regiments was in-scientific use of military force by a maritime
paired, and even the East Siberian Rifles, the best Russian troops in East Asia, lost some thing of their previous efficiency.
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bayonet and all, even tactical success offers nothing necessarily decisive. Land cannot injure sea, but ses can infire land.
Vladivostock, Harbin, and elsewhere are mere spectators. In Japan, a fourth army remains
HINCHLIFFE, LIMITED, Aerared Water Engineers and Chemists, Manchester, visited our factory recently in the course of a tour amongst Eastern Aerated Water Makers, and factory and also the methodical way in which was greatly surprised at the compact Dem of our everything pertaining to the making of Aarated Waters wascarried out. He also expressed him. self strongly on the absolute cleanliness of our whole establishment, which he assured us was equal to any he had yet visited and perior to a great many. He also reported that the quality of our goods was of a first class nature, and they showed that scrupulous care was exercised in the course of their manufacture, FACTORY and OFFICE, West Point. Tel. 367. Order Books and Price List. Please apply to
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"TREASURE" ISLAND.
MORE WEARIED ADVENTURERS BACK
FROM THE СОСОВ
Members of the crew of the yacht Row Marine have returned to Southampton by the mail steamer La Plata,
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of more than average length.
It is not wonderful that the arrival of the 4th Army Corps is still awaited, neither will it be wonderful if it fails to stand the racketing of another Yalu fight on a larger scale; the Russian reserve troops are in the nature of militia, and the preference given to the Siber- ian reserves over the solid hattalions of the regiments in the west is only another proof that Russia has entirely failed even now to grasp the problem with which she is coa fronted. Anything is apparently considered
They have been to the Cocos Islands-as 10 good enough to beat Japan, and the cavalry
many expeditiont have before-in search of the is composed almost entirely of Cossacke famous treasure supposed to have been hidden N.B.-A Special Charge is made for Line> of the Eastern veiskos, which have no there. They are back again-se so many have serious experience of war or campaigning. come back again-minus the treasure, but plus To form General Simonov's independent divi- certain opinions about the islands which we sion of Siberian Cossacks, which has disap-will not here set down. peared since its mobilisation, there were only 18 squadrons existing in the Siberian military district last February, and thate have expanded into six regiments, the deficiency in officers being made good by volunteers from the Rus sian dragoons. The greater part of the rest of the Cossacks comes from the Trans-Baikal "voisko," which possessed 14 squadrons, or four regiments, before the war General Ren nenkampf's independent division alone has four regiments, and there are four others with the corps cavalry. None of these Cossacks are to be reckoned the equals of those whose homes are on the Don and to the north of the Caucasu.
According to a diary kept by one of the crew,
who left in October last, the voyage was a very eventful one. Only the captain on board the yacht was acquainted with the final destination
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of the vessel until Valparaiso was reached, For a small additional annual charge Desk when the crew were let in the secret. At that port two gentlemen came on board the yacht, which then proceeded to Panama, where Mr. H. S. Gray, his wife, and some friends, who completed the party of treasure-seekers, were
taken on board.
FULL STEAM FOR THE COCOS.
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• Provisions and coal having been secured, the vessel steamed for the Cocos Islands, anchoring BATTERIES, there in Chatham Bay on 15 Jan.
Given the extreme difficulty of maintaining more than 250,000 men in Russian East Asia,
There were only three persons on the island, and given also Japanese eficiency and nom-
one being the governor (in the pay of the Costa bers, it was obvious that every man and every Rica Government), who took a keen interest in regiment Russia put in the field should have the mission of the party, three of whom had been of the highest quality to enable this camclues" to the spot where the treasure was paign to be waged with a pious prospect of
success. The Siberian and Baikal reservists are certainly fine, hardy fellows, and on the score of raw material we can only take offour hats to the Russian regiments. But, que army, Kuropatkins force is a shabby improvisation, [1 possessing none of the quailties that make an army formidable save good arms, gallantry and fine physique. Our own pride has been too rudely shaken in the last few years for us to re-echo those insults, sarcasms, and prophecies
supposed to have been hidden.
Working upon these, digging operations were commenced by the crew of the yacht, who laboured assiduously on the promise of a hand- some bonus for each man should the object of the search be discovered.
The sailors, however, could only put in six hours, daily in. consequence of the interse heat; but for the weeks they delved indus thously, though without success.
of doom which were showered upon us from the end of that period its party became somewhat disheartened, when Mr. Gray, listene Russia four years ago. Every fault that wa committed Russia has copied, measure for ing to the persuasion of the governor, tried
Bay, though still without any result.
TS now in a position, in his Naw and Commeasure, and the bas only ouldons de by loring / Another part of the island, known as Waler
modions Promnisés, to eclipse, as heretofore, ALL PHOTOGRAPHIC ART PRACTICED In the Colony or in any part of the Far East.
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the AGENTE,
in her first encounter one gun more, then we lost in nearly three years of a harassing-but never doubtful war. But, at lomst, we met im provisation by improvision and we were not called upon to dash our hastily-formed levies sponines of à numerous and highly-organ- ised regular army, backed up by the adjacent and resistless weight of a patriotic and united people nearly 50,000,000 lo sumber. It is vòry.
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THE USUAL FINALE, Notwithstanding that the natives of the neighbouring islands and been requisitioned to help, after several weeks of hard toil the search was abandoned, and the yacht retamed to Panama, where she was laid up
· And so anda the story of ons more unsuccess- ful vanture in the Cocos Islands.
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