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Show uu WAR MUNITIONS BY TRAINLOADS Japan Sends Shipments to Russia Rus-sia at Rate of Twenty Trains Daily. DUMMY BATTLESHIPS Decoys Used to Bring Out Gerrrian Torpedo Boats and Locate Land Batteries. New York, Oct 13 Russia has been receiving munitions of war from Japan at an average rate of twenty tralnloads a day for more than three months, according to Cyris Robinson, a raining engineer of London, who arrived hero today on thetf steamship California from Liverpool. Mr. Robinson Rob-inson said he was in Petrograd for two months on government business, me nature ol wnicn ne uecuuuu iu discuss. Ho declared that rail communication com-munication via Vladivostok had been turned over almost entirely to military mili-tary trains and that the war material coming from Japan helped in a great measure to check the recent advance of tho central powers. Dummy Battleships as Decoys. A number of the California's passengers passen-gers wore from Glasgow. Several of theso persons said thoro had recently recent-ly returned to that port six dummy battlesips that had been with the British fleet These dummy battleships, battle-ships, made by taking freight steamers steam-ers and building over them falBe woodwork and canvas so that they resembled re-sembled war vessels, wore used as decoys in the effort to bring out German Ger-man torpedo boats and also to locate land batteries along tho German coast. Thoy are now being dismantled because the Germans discovered the ruse. |