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Show FRANCE'S FAITH SHAKEN. Belief In Russia's Prowess Receives Serious Set-Back. A Pnrls dispatch snys: French confidence con-fidence in Russian prowess is much brokon as a result of tho rocont developments de-velopments concerning tho weakness of General Kuropatkln's land forces. Tho early Japancso successes wore accepted ns merely preliminary, It being be-ing bolloved by tho officials and public pub-lic hero gonernlly that Kuropatkln was qoncontrntlng a vast force, approximately ap-proximately 100,000 men. which ovon-tually ovon-tually would annihilate tho smaller Japancso army. |