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Show Rainy Season Unusually Long. VICTORIA, B. C, Aug. 13. Tho steamship steam-ship Pleiades, which arrived today from Japanese ports, brought news that tho rainy season In Maivhurla Is unusually nrolonged this summor, the rivers having hav-ing rlson considerably, and tho roads aro a sea of mud. Tho military operations wero being delayed in consequence. Tho Russians havo been working strenuously to Improve their position by building a network of supply railways from their llr.o converging toward Harbin. |