RUSSIA'S ARMY IN MOTION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 179, 7 January 1915, Page 3

RUSSIA'S ARMY IN MOTION.

MEN' AXD MATERIAL FROM THE FAR BAST. JAPANESE GUNS FOR THE FRONT. New York, November 14. The World hag received the following dispatcli from Port Arthur:— In Vladivostoclc there is great turmoil over the dispatch of 60,000 soldiers to the westward. Every German of the extensive Teuton colony there already taS been shipped wess t<? t k « prison camps.

I have obtained corroboration from ] two persons of an account given me; of the passage of % quantity of Japanese 1 heavy artillery, m charge of Japanese, officers, over the Trans-Siberian railway j to Poland. Considerable spprecy was observed. I

Long trams of Japanese gu..j lic.v2 ;or.e to the front. One passenger train, insisting of half a mile of car;,, left laily for the west for more than a reel:.' being hauled at a snail's pace by j .n animated locomotive. All the fe°°d locomotives in Siberia: lave been requ.'s'tioned for service in i Russian Poland, anil an extraordinary | collection of Belgian, Gorman, Russian ' wd American locomotives is attempting' to cope with the traffic. | Extraordinary precautions are taken | to safeguard the enormous supplies of troops, horses and guns that have been sweeping over the line day and night since early in August, and that as yet show no sign of abating. Every bridge from Vladivostock to Petrograd is picketed by troops, and the tunnels are lined by sentries. In spite of the strict official reticence, I learn that many attempts have been made by German agents to blow up the long, many spanned bridges over the

great rivers of Northern Kussia. Every passenger train nearing a multi-spanned bridge is boarded by a squad of Cossacks armed with rifles, bayonets and revolvers. The passengers are roughly told to move away from the window: and sit with their hands visibly folded

in their laps. I saw a man vigorously prodded with a bayonet for sleepily rubbing his eyes in contravention of orders, when he had been suddenly awakened at 3 o'clock in the morning for a bridge crossing. Two efforts have been made to Mowup the great Sungari bridge at Harbin. A train attendant told me that an (ittempt made by the Germans to blow up the Kama bridge near Perm had been narrowly frustrated. In Irkutsk thousands are clamoring for transportation, but cannot be accommodated. There are 00 generals in the town who have not yet gone to tinfront, but are organising forces. War bulletins are posted in all stations nnd peasants ride 50 miles to read them 'and carry home the news.