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A SHOOTING TRIP TO KAMCHATKA 



condition. We learnt that this was the Club, chiefly 

 used by officers stationed in the district, and entered 

 the place in hope of obtaining fresh news. There we 



A GILIAK (MKOI.AIEVSK). 



introduced ourselves to a colonel, who most oblig-ingly 

 told us all he knew about the war, \iz. that the German 

 Minister at Pekin had been murdered, and that the 

 Legations were besieged by the allied Hoxers and 

 Im|)erial troops. In addition to this, communication 



