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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 111, 3 October 1914, Page 4

A warm tribute to tha Russians as fighters was made a few days ago by Mr R. W. Laidley, a Sydney consulting engineer. Mr Laidley spent a year in Russia as a young man, and has a great admiration for the Russians. "They aro men of magnificent physique, but very slow in movement," he said. "I have always taken a very keen interest in Russian affairs, and have followed events there as closely as one can do from here. I know that the Russian Army of to-day is a very touch proposition. They have been splendidly drilled, and have remedied the defects exposed in the war against the Japanese. As for personal conraire. the Russian is not one whit behind the British officer, and that is paying him the highest tribute I know."

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