It is rumoured here "that 250 of the Hongkong, 8th January. Sherwood Foresters will embark to-day. The authorities refuse to give any information, but it is believed that they leave in the British storeship Humber for the North (for Coren or Amoy tHaitor).'Thero is much excitement and activity here.
The following telegrams' are from the "Kobe Herald"
London, 81st December, reported from Russia that a frst contingent, numbering 1,000, of the troops now being mobilised at' Nijni Novgorod, will shortly leave for the Far Kast. The Manchurian correspondent of the "Daily Mail" at Niedaieff states that the volunteer cruisers Kazan and Ekaterinoslay have been recalled to the Black Sea, it ing feared that they might be captured on route for the mediterranean.
Kazan was to carry two thousand troops for the Far East. The National Zeitang " states that Russia is withdrawing the railway troops from the Warsaw frontier and sending them to Manchuria, Paris journal " Lo Temps" expresses inability to understand for what reason Russia is endeavouring to prevent the application of the policy of the open door" to Manchuria. michi,"
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