Tokio, acting under instructions from the French Government, recently paid a visit to the Russian wounded at the Matsuyama, Red Cross Hospital, Shikoku. The wounded men wore informed that their valour, testified by their gallant fight against superior forees at Chemulpo, would on their return to Russia be fully' appreciated by the Russian Government and public. In answer to a question, one of the wounded men said they had received the greatest kindness from the Japanese, and asked the visitors to comiunieate this fact to the Russian Gover ment. The only thing they wanted was reading matter, in the form of Russian papers and books, which the French officials promised to obtain for them. Captain Troubridze, Naval Attache tothe British Legation at Tokio, left Yokohama for home vit Hongkong on Monday, the 28th March, on board the R. M. 8. Athenian, his term of office here having expired. Hi absence is sincerely regretted by a wide circle of friends, both Japanese and foreign. On Saturday last he had a farewell audience with the Emperor, who has been pleased to decorate the gallant officer with the Second-Class Order of the Rising Sun. Tt may be noted that ho was specially. allowed by the Japanese authorities to attend th grand naval manceuvres Jast year in the Tsushima Strait and was also a witness of the recent naval engagements at Port Arthur.
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