Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1904 — Told in a Few Lines. [ARTICLE]

Told in a Few Lines.

Fearing violence, the Czar has Issued a decree forbidding patriotic celebrations in the streets. ~ A cable to a Paris paper states that Chinese generals, Ma and Tlijang, desire permission to aid Japanese. Vladivostok and Dalny are being deserted by terrorized inhabitants, who are fleeing before the Japanese advance. George Poole, a British merchnnt, has reached London from Dalny after a three weeks’ journey, and describes the panic there when fighting began. Observers nt Lake Baikal declare that hundreds of Russian soldiers are rendered unfit for service through the suffering they endure in crossing Lake Baikdl. A jumble of conflicting war news keeps London puzzled ns to th« real de velopments in the far East. The seizure of British colliers gives the English press food for discussion ns _,to the articles property contraband of war. The prills of provisions nt Irkutsk. Siberia, are rising by leaps and bounds. A fortune of SIO,OOO was made iu n few days by n man who bought up ail the available felt used for lining. The government ordered the inside of railroad cars lined with felt and the authorities were forced to buy all the apcculator’a stock nt double price.