THE INTERVIEWING GRAZE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 220, 13 October 1903, Page 3

THE INTERVIEWING GRAZE.

0 / A REOHAUKKK OF RE4L fcUEEUIa." FEE PFBBS ASSOCIATION. Receive' 1 . 12, 10 29 pm. Brisbane, Oc ober 12. Downie Stewart, a New Zeiland barrister, who arrived by the steamnr Eastern, after having travelled from Moscow to "Vladivostock ou the Siberian railway, on btiDg interviewed stated that every station and bridge was guarded by Russian soldiers, and at intervals all along the line there were Russian camp". When the' officers were questioned regarding the evacuation of Manchuria they smiled and said it had been proposed they should clear out and allow Chinese to protect their railways, but Russia did not intend to clear out They thought, '.here was very little likelihood of war with Japan, but if it came to fighting the Japs would ba swept out of the country. He noticed at various stations many transport waggons in which she Russians could transport an enormous army. Speaking of tne Siberian railway he said it was very lightly and badly constructed. So far as he could make cu; thd Chinese were very pleased at the Russian occupation, because they found the Rustics kep good order. He believed Vladivoi-tock was practically impregnable, the Rus sians continually building substantial fortifications and business places. Taking the indications all round he believed there would be no war, bu f , if there was, the Japs would be beaten. Russia would never leave Manchuria.