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Show JAPAN PLEDGE NIJfJIlING Petrocrrad, Nov. 30. (Correspond ence of the Associated Press). With the ordinary supply from France ractlc ally cut off, Rus-sia is now I lookinp to Japan to keep the Russian! armies supplies with arms and munition! muni-tion! of war All the leading hotels herd are tilled with the agents of Japanese armament firms, and trainload afti r trainlcad of arms and munitions ar being hurried here on the trana-s. berian railroad. Russia was admit- j tedly short of arras and ammunitions at the beginning of the war, but it in claimed that the supplies from lapan will prove ample for all of the leservrs which it may be necesaarv to call into the field. At the present time, it Is estimated that Russia has five million men in the tirst line fully equipped, uniformed uniform-ed and armed for fighting while the reserve armies are beint; supplin.-i with the necessary equipment so quickly that ibey will be able to ta their places in the battle line when-cer when-cer needed. |