The " Sinwenpao" learns from a Chefoo telegram that the Russian military authori at Viadivostock have issued a proclamation ordering a large number of the inhabitants of that port to leave owing to the limited quantity of grain stored there. It is believed that the Russians are expecting to undergo a protracted siege at Vladivostock and are therefore taking steps to send away all useless and superfluous people from the port before it becomes too late.
Patriotic Princes, A Peking dispatch to hand states that the enlightened Prince Ssu has asked permission from the Throne to be allowed to command the foreign-modelled Manchu Banner troops now being organised by Tieh Liang, Vice-President of the Board of War, of whom it is estimated there will be 25,000 well-armed and well-equipped men by the middle of March next ready for active service. The Mongol Prince of Kharachin, also an enlightened person and the first Mongol Prince within two centuries who has been to Shanghai and southern ports, has also asked to be allowed to lead his Mongol tribesman (15,000 strong) to reinforce General Ma Yii-kun's forces on the western banks of the Liao river in Lower Manchuria.
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