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Russia Finds Another Excuse: Disorderly Tribes Are Reported to Be Making Trouble in Southern Manchuria. This May Provide a Pretext for Russia's Refusal to Withdraw Troops
St. Petersburg, May 25.—The evacuation of southern Manchuria by the Russian troops led to a display of ever-increasing insolence on the part of disorderly tribes, whose numbers are rapidly augmenting, says a Vladivostok dispatch to the Novoye Vremya. The correspondent proceeds: Many Chinese and Manchurians in the province of Mukden and Kirin are in terror of their lives and property. Unemployed Chinese laborers are congregating along the eastern China railway. About 4,000 Chinese are gathered at Harbin, some 4,000 are camping along the southern and northern sections of the Manchuria line and large numbers are moving into South Manchuria. Referring to the Russian timber concession on the Yalu river the dispatch says:
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Battle of Port Arthur
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