The measure taken by the police was not all their own initiative, for if such had been the case arrests could have been effected when passports were produced to be vised. It is rather due to popular sentiment and feeling which is running high throughout Russia, and express sed freely in the Russian press; for the democratic though patriotic voice of the people is lifted high in its ery for justice to be meted out to all, so that victory may eventually rest with the Russian arms, for whom now no sacrifice is too great.
Though not yet officially announced, it is practically certain that the regiments stationed along the Chinese Eastern Railway and forming the Railway Brigade will shortly be entrained en route for Russia, where they will be held for the present in the first line of reserve troops to be moved forward into the firing line when necessity demands.
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