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Show MONEY-MAD PATRIOTISM IN JAPAN AND RUSSIA TOKIO, Feb. 24. According to the reports re-ports of. local banks the national loan of one hundred million yen ($40,800,000), has been covered nearly four tlrr The Intense patriotism of all classes evidenced by the fact that even servants and laborers are contributing from their savings. According to the Seoul correspondent of the Nlchl Nlchi, ' pro-Russian Intrigues In-trigues are being carried on thore under tho active leadership of Yi Ton Glk, former Minister of "War. The correspondent corre-spondent avers that the intriguers meet at night at the French legation. Their object is, he says, to got the Emperor to remove with his court to Chlyun-chlen, Chlyun-chlen, fifty miles to the eastward of Seoul. ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 24. There la an incessant Influx of subscriptions of money and contributions of jewelry and other articles toward the fund being raised to strengthen the navy and aid the families of the victims of the war People of all religions, Jews, Catholics, Lutherans and Mphammedans are vie- ing with each other and the members of the orthodox church in the display of patriotism, while the peasants and workmen are contributing as freely in proportion to their means as the nobles and officials. Several hundred Turcomans have applied ap-plied to the Governor-General of Turkestan Tur-kestan to be sent to the fighting line. |