(from 4 connEsroNpEST.)
Two months ago, when first the news of the China troubles reached us at this port, we were considering ourselves lucky for once, indeed, to be out of China, but now, even as I write, the Lall has come rolling up to us, and our half dead and a.ive country has been transformed Three weeks since, the Kastern Siberian troops were ordered to mobilise, and twelve thousand to proceed t" China, Than the women wept and gashed their teeth, for many were called and many were chosen, and day after day the troopships are I -aving the port amid the playing of nati anthems, and somewhat unenthusiastic cheering (the Russian is not g-od at this pay-time), and the helpless women and children are left to exist as hest they can, Perhaps some Shanghailanders who visited this port Inst}summer inay remember the ramshackle "isvoschiks;" and those who may have been enchanted with them perhaps grieve to hear that their numberissreatly diminished, that is to say, the and country somewhere down in China picturesque drivers are fighting. for Czar leaving the hapless Viadivostockians to trudge wearily through the romantic glides of the town, sighing for the days that are no more. It was quite impossible to obtain one "hansom," in fact, the
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