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Show Russia Will Win in W Fighting So Say Sailors Arriving From Tar East Admit They Do Hot Knew Situation. ASTORIA, Or., April 22. Officers of tho steamship Indrasamha arriving this afternoon from far Eastern points do not share tho belief that Japan will defeat Russia In tho war now In progress. They say Russia will soon recover re-cover from tho first defeats administered by the Japanese In water and will turn tho tables on tho Mikado's subjects. Tho Vessel brings six cabin and .133 steerage passengers. Amonj; tho cabin passengers aro two Japanese millionaires en route for tho World's Fair at St. Louis, Theso gentlemen are nangulno as to tho outcome of tho war and through an interpreter inter-preter expressed their conviction that Japan Ja-pan will 60on unnlhllato the Russians on land nnd sea. "Wo get moro accurate Information as to the progress of tho war right hero In tho United States than In Japan," said tho first o?Icer of the Indrasamha. "Tho Japanese refuse to Impart any information informa-tion to strangers, of whom they aro Intensely In-tensely suspicious. Wo were not nearly so well posted as to the war whllo in Japan Ja-pan as in other countries." All Japaneso harbors are heavily mined. Mines nro not permitted to remain long In one position, but aro frequently shifted. Government tugs pilot ships In and out of the harbors and tho utmost precaution Is observed by tho Japaneso to see that hostile hos-tile interests aro not placed In possession of any information. |