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Show POE.T ARTHTJB, MUTED BY japs long Time ago, ' according to bumob. PARIS, March f Telegraphing from Harbin, a correspondent of the Matin says a special staff of officers has started for Lake Baikal to meet Gen. Kuropatkin. The Central telegraph office at liar bin will henceforth be closed to the public. The concentration of Chinese forces west of Mukden arouses suspicion,' In spite pf the repeated declarations jf China's neutrality. Cossacks are advancing Into Korea, where the attitude pf the natives toward them is variable. -' Cot. Tatsujire and five other Japanese officers who were arrested In Korea have been taken to Liaovang. The people at Harbin believe that Port Arthur was mined a long time ago by the Japanese, who are how trying- to send there a few men who know the place well to blow it up. |