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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 26 January 1901, Page 4

The London ' Globe publishes a letter from a Belgian gentleman who has been travelling to Pekin via the Tf ans-Siberian railroad. He describes, under date of September 6th, what he saw in the Amur River. His accounts surpass in horror those previously published. " The scenes I have witnessed during the three days since the steamer left Blagovestschensk," he says, " are horrible beyond the powers of description. It is the closing tableau of a fearful human tragedy. Two thousand were deliberately drowned at Morxo, 2,000 at Eabe, and 8,000 around Blagovestschensk, a total of 12,000 corpses encumbering the river, among which there were thousands of women and children. Navigation was all but impossible. Last week a boat had to plough her way through a tangled and mangled mass' of corpses lashed together by their long hair. The banks were literally covered with corpses. In the curves of the stream were dark, putrid, smelling masses of human llesh and bones, surging and swaying in the steamer's wake- The captain vainly ordered full steam ahead. The sight and smell will ever be with us. From Blagovestschensk to Aigun, forty-five kilometers, numerous villages studded the banks with a thriving industry. Their population was over 100,000. That of Aigun was 20,000. No one will ever know the number of those who perished by shot, sword and stream. Not a village is left. The silence of death was around us. The smoking ruins of Aigun were on the right, with broken down, crumbling walls and shattered, roofless houses." Tymons and Co drapers and clothiers are now opening their second large shipmenfc of new goods—every line new and up to date—lnspection invited—-T. W. Tymons and Co Greymouth.—Advt.

SANDER & SONS'. EUCALYPTI EX-TRACT-—Under the distinguished patronage ofßis Majesty the King of Italy, as per communication made by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, through the Consul-General for Italy