Besides this Railway Brigade, further troops are being despatched from Vladivostok and district, it having been decided by the authorities that in view of the present en-toute with Japan a minimum of troops is all that is necessary for the fortress of the Pacific, A notification by the Russian Consul Genin Harbin ordering all reservists and militia under a certain age who live in Manchuria under consular jurisdiction to leave the country and report to their military district has appeared, but this order does not affect residents in the Chinese Eastern Railway area which is under the control of the railway authorities. Nevertheless the police are busily engaged hunting for Russians of military age who have come to Harbin since mobilization took place in Russia and periodical nocturnal visits are being paid to all hotels and lodging houses.
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