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Show From Mukden to Liao Yang Correspondent of German Papor Com-plimentB Com-plimentB Russian Government of District. x BERLIN. June 25. Col. Gncdlce, tho correspondent of the Tagoblatt In the far East, ln a letter to" his paper dated May 27, describing a ride from Mukden to Liao Yang, compliments com-pliments the Russians highly upon their brief administration of tho affairs af-fairs of the district. He says absolute abso-lute quiet prevails and that there wns no sign of robbery. The natives appeared ap-peared never to have heard of the Japanese Jap-anese invasion. The great Mukden-Peking military road was In such a frightful condition, Col. Gaedke says, that even In dry weather wea-ther an army would hardly be able to travel ten miles a day. The correspondents corre-spondents found that all the mapB they were able to procure were utterly worthless, rivers' and mountains being set down Incorrectly and villages being be-ing falsely named, and the correspondents correspond-ents were compelled to direct their course entirely by the compass. |