RUSSIA AND ENGLAND.
' -v Sbeakinjf ; '^^Russian soldiers, Mr G. v AV^-j^ff^^^ course of a lecturo at ParnSnmraffaid they were not to be despised as opponents, although, their military knowledge was flogged into them. It was calculated that it took 500 lashes to make an efficient private, 850 a corporal, and 1200 a sergeant ; but despite' this treatment they fogght doggedly -atttt^btlndlyTneither : ask*ing""nor canng ; why'Oi § whom they fought,, and loyal to the death. He considered it a gre^tpity gaged m some decisive, with ; Russia, and M,V^M.Wj.mM.}£ the i struggle were to come noj^, for cjme it 1 must, and he .was <jertj,xijL thut" Great Bjlt^n^would yQthc rMti(iivha« i be"on ? saia ill connection w- ? receTit cohfi plications of Russian ens hers ; .but if iwar came : England w'»aldV <jhecknsate 'them by covering the s<. 1 is :with,.crnißers fali|ceito T protect her ow<j^shores apd^her I pogsefsi^na ab/oad. " |V y |V I
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 146, 26 May 1885, Page 2
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