LAYMEN 'AND ELECTRICAL TREATMENT.-LIVERPOOL.' the relative absence of information as to the extent of the losses. According to a war correspondent of the Standard a foreign merchant has arrived at Chifu who left Kharbin on July 22nd last and reports that during the last five weeks a very large number of Russian troops had arrived and were still arriving there. They were well provisioned; grain was plentiful, the Russians paying good prices for it to the Chinese. There were many wounded at Kharbin but there are excellent accommodation for them and ample medical comforts. The Japanese prisoners have been sent to Tomsk where they are treated excellently. The railway is working well, though slowly.