Show at a cost of something more than a red cross expedition has been fitted out in russia for the avowed purpose of ministering to the w n aund ed cd in abyssinia the f friendly endly attitude of russia toward the and the decoration sent by the czar to king menelek after the battle of adona adata have caused italy to look askance at this expedition and finally to refuse it permission to laud land at Mas tao more so because its numbers and the presence of military men suggest other than philanthropic motives some of the nurses were sent back because the only other route open that by way of over a considerable stretch of lesert country was too difficult for them but the rest of the expedition kept en cn there are intimations in the russian san press that it will be followed by in expedition for scientific exploration |