Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1904 — MARCH AND RIDE BY TURNS. [ARTICLE]

MARCH AND RIDE BY TURNS.

The Russian Fo’dlcrs Do Not Make Through Trip by Train. The wife of a Russian officer of high rank, who has just returned to St. Petersburg from Port Arthur, leaving thnt town the.day after the first attack by the Japanese, say?, that innumerable troop trains passed her ail the way, this method of transportation being supplemented, so far ns possible, by the soldiers marching and entraining alternately. When an east-bound train arrives nt a wayside station' the soldiers detrain to march to the next stage, their places being taken by men who had been marching from the last stage. The soldiers are thus kepi in better condition. The railway between Samara and Zlatoust, European Russia, and the Siberian lines, with all the territory appropriated by the government for the purposes of these railways, have been placed under mart ini. law, in order to tasure the regular running of military trains. The Hebrew community nt Gfnjevo, Russia, crowded the synagogue Saturday to pray for a Russian victory. The rabbi compared the Japanese to the Amalekites, “the memoyy of whom would be wiped out." The congregation raised a subscription for war purpose*.