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Show SITUATION AT NEW CHTJANG. Russian Officers Said to be Desperately Desperate-ly Gloomy. Tien Tsin.. June 1 (morning). A courier who has arrived here from New Chuang says: "While it is known that the Russians received reports from Mukden last night giving the losses sustained by them during the fighting at Kin Chou and Nanshan Hill and the conditions prevailing, they will not talk on the subject. The officers are desperately gloomy. The-press bulletin giving the news of the fighting on the Kwang Tung peninsula with the comments on the victory, of the Japanese was suppressed sup-pressed on' its arrival, but was- released re-leased when the Russians learned that the two copies of it were in possession of Englishmen and were being shown to other people. The Tien Tsin newspapers news-papers which reached New Chuang ,last night were eagerly snapped up. Knots of officers stood in the streets and in and about the club eagerly scanning the papers. "Six hundred junk loads of suppHof, mostly beans and grain, purchased at New Chuang, were shipped to Liao Yang yesterday. These were the same supplies the Russians ordered from the Chinese interior at the time of the second sec-ond evacuation scare, saying the Japanese Jap-anese would confiscate or burn them. The Russians were compelled to pay-four pay-four - times the prices demanded a month ago. "The Russians are again meddling with the telegraph offices between New Chuang and Shan Hai Kwan." |
