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Show CZAR WAS I0T READY Ft WAR Had M Few Soldiers in Manchuria. Garrison at Port Arthur but Eight Thousand When Attack Occurred. Russian War Strength Only Nominal in Province Hardly More Than 90,000 Men. TDeRLIN, April 27. Col. von Gaedkc, war correspondent of -f- the Berlin Tageblatt. writes from -f Harbin, Manchuria, under date of April 4th, saying ho found the Rus- -f- slar.3 much more unprepared for war than ho anticipated. -f High officers assured him that tho garrison of Port Arthur amounted -f -f to only SttO combatants when tho 4- first attack occurred. The troops south of Mukden ready for .action numbered only 20,- 4" 000 to 25,000. Col. von Gaedko as- sorts that tho strength of the Rus- -f sians In Manchuria at that tlmo -f was hardly above 00,000 men, cs- 4- cluslvo of 23,000 railroad guards. 4- Tho Russians expected a speedy -f advance of the Japaneso after tho 4- 4- outbreak of tho war and rather lost 4- their heads. Much censure, the 4- Colonel ndds, was heard In army circles of tho mismanagement of tho 4- defenses of Port Arthur. -f- . |