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RELIEF OF ADMIRAL SEYMOUR'S PARTY
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"There is no telling. We have probably four or five thousand, here and on the way; and England has twice as many. The majority of troops are, of course, Russian and Japanese, since they were close at hand when the trouble broke out," concluded the major of the first battalion.