He also adds a-good story which is quite jin harmony with Japanese cuteness; similar plans have been used in war from Siege of Troy to the war with Cuba. Ihe Japanese rigged up an old hulk to look some thing like " manof-war. At night they tugged it into the mouth of the outer hat hour or at any rate within reach of the Russian guns. After firing a few shots they all boarded their tugboat and retired. For several hours after that the Russians fired away at the dummy boat until, it was said, eight hundred shots had been fired! [Much of the above I must admit, _temporarily, does not belong to the species of established facts."' It is clear, however, that they are not baseless rumours and have their writing. The rumour continued. however, value, in that they serve to draw our awengreat persistence and all who saw the tion to these matters,.and cause us to look——|for verification in more reliable testimony Winnis letter has not set reached us.—Ep. {from various other sources.
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