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Show RUSSIANS STILL BAR ALL FOREIGN JOURNALISTS Soldiers of Czar, En Route to Field of War, Make Friends With Chinese Villagers. lagers with whom the soldlors quickly make friends, gather about, listening to the songs which are mostly plaintive airs. The men, many of whom have been forty days on trains on their wsy from the interior of Russia, are all healthy and Join heartily In the songs. The Chinese commander of the district, dis-trict, accompanied by an escort sttlred In barbaric uniforms which contrasted strongly with their modern arms, j waited at the station at BJandsun for I an Interview with Gen. Kuropatkln, I who later reviewed the e-arrt3on hero, t A large concourse of Chinese assembled f I to witness the review. j ... ! M.UKDENV My . Still no foreign newspaper correspondents are allowed at Uao Tang, where are the foreign attaches are detained. Capt. William V. Judson of the engineer corps. V. S. A., who is to accompany the Russian army during hostilities, and Lieut. Newton New-ton A. McCully, the U. S. naval attache and others have been provided with quarters there. The men on the troop trains passing through Mukden on their way to the front are in excellent spirits and ex-, press confidence in Russia's eventual success. They ask their officers when they may expect tc reach Japan and already al-ready want to know the Japanese names for tobacco, tea and other articles. arti-cles. Picturesque scenes are frequently witnessed wit-nessed at the wayside stations where the troops frequently remain over night. The soldiers are drawn up on ths platforms, the bugles sound and then all uncover as the priest utters the evening prayer. Then the troops in each car, led by a tenor voice break out Into folk songs. The Chinese vll- |