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Show iniVEn OF DEATH. IlorrlM Kceoaa In Norlh Chin Do acilboil by I'yowltosaoa. A traveler In Northern China, In n letter to tho London Qlobe describes what ho saw In tho Amur river In North China In tho wake of the Russian Rus-sian army recently. He says: "Two thousand were deliberately drowned nt Moraxo, 2,000 at Ilabe, and 8,000 around Dlagovctchenskl, a total of 1!,-000 1!,-000 corpses encumbering tho river, among which "cere thousands of women wom-en nnd children. Navigation was nil tiut Impossible Last week a boat had to plow her way through n tangled mass of corpses lashed together by their long hair. Tho banks wero literally lit-erally covered with bodies. In tho curves of tho stream wero dark, putrid, odorous masses of human flosh and "bono, surging and swaying In tho steamer's wake and wash. Tho cap-fain, cap-fain, vainly ordered full speed ahead Tho eights and odor will be ever with us. lVora lilagovetchenskl to Algun numerous village etudded tho bank, with a thriving, industrious population ot over 100,000, That of Algun bad 20,000. No ono will ever knnwr the number of those who perlined by shot, sword and stream. Not a village Is left. Tho silence of death was around us, tho smoking ruins ot Algun on tho right, with broken down, crumbling crumb-ling walls and shattered, roofless houses." |