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Show First, the Russians lay a trap, catch two battalions of Japanese in It, and kill them all; then the Japanese feign a retreat, got eight hundred Russians In a trap and massacre them. And so it goon. The tales are probably, all mere imaginings of the correspondents, who nro not allowed at the front but reel that they must send something, or else mere floating rumors of no value whatever. The history of this war evidently evi-dently lnto bewltten. while it is In progress, ahd its hlstorlarT will " be confined for his material. far moro to the mere official reports than is at all usual in modern times. And it s liable to be pretty dry history. |