Show VICTIMS OF THE WAR WAn I Sufferings nd Children in I Dreary Siberia St Petersburg March p rn m mA rnA A A Russian correspondent proceeding to the front wrItes to the St Peters burg Telegraph bureau from Siberia as follows Our Om express train travels slower glower than the slowest train In European on Russia The seat of war is still sUll re remote remote mote but Its presence Js is felt The long rows of cars filled with soldiers the caravans and the primitive sleighs drawn by shaggy hor horses s we pass along the way at the crowded break tl the e othe of the snowbound wastes and endless forests and the stillness is broken by the songs o of the jolly reservists and the bells of the village churches scudding o clear through the frosty dir lr This bustle and activity amidst the SiberIan deso desolation desolation lation strikingly illustrates the Russian giant glant stretching his limbs preparatory to punishing the tho Ide de General kampf who Is to lead the Cossack dl di Is on the same train He tells me that all these reservists will become hardened soldiers a fortnight after reaching the thc front Pitiful Scenes At we met the vIctims of the and women 1 tryIng to get bock back to European Russia On our entrance into the semidarkness or of orthe the station we were greeted by the wailing of chIldren Issuing from the dirt heaps and baggage encumbering the floor Their waxen faces and bloodshot sleepless eyes would molt a aheart heart of stone The wild panic strIcken flight of their mothers from rom Manchuria after atter the startling outbreak ot of the war led to great eat rhey reached this place after untold hard hardshIPs shIPs only to find that t they will hue have hueto to walt wait weeks more until there is sut suf train accommodation to enable them to proceed further Soth So the have b en i pt ss ud motionless Int In tHI St beta se r de |