NEWS AND NOTES.
Considerable speculation has been aroused amongst those who Follow the cabled war items as to the route taken by the Russian troops sent from Russia to help in the offensive on the west front. A recent issue of the Sphere (Loudon) gives a map showing the .successive stages of the journey. Leaving Moscow on February 3rd, the troops travelled east via Samara, Omsk, and Irkutsk to Dalny (in Manchuria), thence by trapsports down the Chinese coast t<> Saigon (a French port in China) )'* Singapore, Colombo, and Aden, through the Suez Canal to Marseilles, arriving at the latter p«rt on April 20th. The total distance covered by the troops was 15,500 miles. Clifford Brain, aged 14, died at the Auckland hospital from the effects of a, bullet wound. At Onehunga on Sunday last the brother of deceased picked up a revolver, pointed it at deceased, and said, jokingly, lie would shoot. Not knowing the weapon was loaded, he pulled the trigger, and the bullet struck his brother in the forehead.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1596, 10 August 1916, Page 4
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172NEWS AND NOTES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1596, 10 August 1916, Page 4
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