The Far East.
BRITAIN PREPARING FQR EVENTUALITIES. V* The Admiralty, on enquiry, Werd informed that 103 members of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade belong to the fleet reserve. Officers on the retired and reserve lists attached’ to the Plymouth division are being held in readiness to join theiL’ ships for Home service, and in the eVeilJl of a mobilisation of the fleets on & war footing will replace the officers who will be drafted into seagoing ships. The western division of the Channel fleet proceeds to Portland to await Admiralty orders. CHINESE TROOPS WELL ARMED.
Austria has assumed charge of Russian interests at Tokio, Britain acting for Japan at St. Petersburg. China has one hundred and thirty thousand troops with modern arms and munitions, including General • Ma's thirty thousand, in Chili, embracing a hundred and thirty. Japanese officers.
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Manawatu Herald, 11 February 1904, Page 2
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136The Far East. Manawatu Herald, 11 February 1904, Page 2
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