despatched an express train from Vladivostok to Moscow. It was fairly well patronized, though not! being able to ran on scheduled time will, no doubt, travel considerably faster than the daily mail. A regular weekly service is to be inaugur rated, but how soon arrangements will be complete it is impossible to know exactly, as the military still practically monopolizing railway. This week there has been express. There is also a great dearth of goodecars. The greater part of those belonging to the Rail-been requisitioned by scattered of over the Russian Em-authorities and are
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The tow firms who are doing export business are experiencing great difficulty in getting the neces-cary freight and shipments are being
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