There are persistent reports in Tokio that the Valdivostock squadron of Russian cruisers has engaged the Japanese fleet of five battleships, two armoured cruisers, and ...
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Article : 179 wordsThe Earl of Selborne, the First Lord of the Admiralty, replying to Lord Brassey in the House of Lords last night, said that the naval reserve three years ago ...
Article : 108 wordsThe Russians are entrenched on the hills of Antung, at the mouth of the Yalu, in Manchuria. The position is parallel to the river, and is similar to that held by the ...
Article : 122 wordsOwing to the impossibility of sending Japanese residents at Port Arthur and Viadivostock home by steamer, the Viceroy, Admiral Alexeieff, has directed their ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Czar is in daily conference with Admiral Alexeieff, the Viceroy in the Far East, by means of a special telegraph line. ...
Article : 60 wordsOn several occasions recently it was rumoured that a change was contemplated with regard to the position of President of the Metropolitan Board of Water Supply and Sewerage. ...
Article : 218 wordsIt was lately permitted me (observes Sir Edwin Arnold in the London "Daily Telegraph") to sketch in light and respectful outline his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of ...
Article : 1,518 wordsThe death is announced of Lord Augustus Loftus, who was Governor of New South Wales from 1879 to 1885, aged 86 years. ...
Article : 30 wordsMr. A. J. Balfour has promised to appoint a Royal Commission to inquire into the practice of Ritualism in the Church of England. ...
Article : 37 wordsThere has been a great exodus of families from Vladivostock. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe political history of the present session is not yet being written in the House, but it is being prepared outside, and it is not unlikely that in a few weeks at most some ...
Article : 1,261 wordsMajor-General Prince Louis Napoleon will proceed to the Far East in charge of a brigade of Cossacks. Prince Louis Bonaparte is a Major-General ...
Article : 91 wordsMr. A. Lyttelton, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, in acknowledging the protest of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, against the importation of ...
Article : 72 wordsMr. Kruger, who Commandant Ben Viljoen said was dying at Mentone, is improving. He anticipates leaving the Riviera in May. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe Japanese are landing at Wonsan (Gensen), on the west coast of Korea. The work of disembarkation is proceeding night and day. The troops are proceeding ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Criminal Chamber of the Court of Cassation at Paris has opened the Dreyfus inquiry in camera, and has taken the evidence of Captain Targe, who conducted ...
Article : 64 wordsThe students of the Institute of Mining Engineers, St. Petersburg, by 215 votes to 40, passed a resolution condemning the Russian Government for "embarking in a ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Marquis Ito, the President of the Privy Council of Japan, is a special Ambassador from the Mikado to the Emperor of Korea, and bears to the Emperor an ...
Article : 113 wordsThe new President has had a long and varied experience in the public works of this State, having entered the Harbours and Rivers Department in 1868 as an engineering cadet under ...
Article : 750 wordsWork on four railways under construction in the Transvaal and the Orange River Colony has been suspended. ...
Article : 25 wordsA negro was arrested at Springfield, Ohio, U.S.A., for shooting a policeman and a woman. A crowd of 800 persons broke into the gaol where the negro was confined ...
Article : 54 wordsThe municipality of Paris has passed a motion of sympathy with Russia in regard to the war, and expressing the hope that Russia will be victorious. It also voted ...
Article : 51 wordsThe majority of the Government in the House of Commons last night on the resolution for going into Committee of Supply to consider the Army Estimates was ...
Article : 42 wordsThe movement initiated recently by the Sydney branch of the Chinese Reform Association to collect funds from the local Chinese in aid of the Japanese sufferers in the war has ...
Article : 309 words"St. James's Gazette," in referring to H. Trumble's performance of taking seven wickets for 28 and doing the hat trick in the fifth test match, congratulates him ...
Article : 47 wordsM. Kaneko and a vice-president of the Bank of Japan have gone to the United States respecting a war loan. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe increase in the imports of raw material into the United Kingdom in February amounted to nearly £2,000,000. The increase in the imports of flour and ...
Article : 40 wordsThe construction of the raliway from Seoul to Wiju has begun. The construction of a railway from Wiju to Seoul was originally granted to a French ...
Article : 72 wordsThe events in Korea are slowly but surely leading up to a crisis on the Yalu, The Russians are establishing themselves on the Manchurian side of that river, while the ...
Article : 1,374 wordsThe Oxford-Cambridge boat race will take place on March 26. Mr. S. M. Bruce, of Melbourne, and' Mr. H. D. Gillies, of New Zealand, will row with the ...
Article : 37 wordsThe French second-class cruiser D'Assas, 4000 metric tons, was leaving Algiers yesterday for the Far East, when a boiler tube burst. Four men were severely ...
Article : 78 wordsBest informed Russians at St. Petersburg are afraid that the Chinese will rise. This prospect is viewed more seriously than intervention in the war by a European ...
Article : 57 wordsThe holders of New Zealand debentures of £250,000 have been asked to renew in April the debentures for four years on the basis of 4 per cent., receiving at the same ...
Article : 68 wordsThe "Daily Express" reports that the signal book which was missing from the battleship Prince George at Lisbon has been found in a floating wooden box in ...
Article : 38 wordsAdvices from Chifu are to the effect that a squadron of 15 Japanese warships and four torpedo boats has been seen proceeding in the direction of Niu-chwang. ...
Article : 37 wordsThere is an electric feeling in the air to-day in connection with the situation in the Far East. We are expecting to hear every hour, if not that war has been declared, that ...
Article : 487 wordsThe second series of wool sales opened to-day. There was brisk competition. In crossbreds prices were from par to 5 per cent higher, while in merinos prices were ...
Article : 732 wordsThe United States Locomotive Trust has acquired the locomotive and machine works built in opposition to it at Montreal. The Trust will now transfer to the works ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Japanese intend subdividing their forces into four armies to operate in Manchuria and Korea. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe whereabouts of the Russian squadron which some days ago left Vladivostock is a mystery. Some people represent the squadron as trying to intercept transports, ...
Article : 123 wordsIn the arsenical beer case, Bostock versus Nicholson and Sons, chemical manufacturers, Mr. Justice Bruce, in the King's Bench Division of the High Court of ...
Article : 125 wordsThe following letter was sent by Mr. E. W. O'Sullivan) to the retiring president, intimating the decision of the Government:— "Dear Mr. Garrard,—When in Cabinet ...
Article : 293 wordsBar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 2 7-16d per ounce standard, a fall of 1/4d since Monday. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe "Lokal Anzeiger," of Berlin, announces that Russia is accepting foreign volunteers for her forces. Fifty Boers have arrived at Samara, on ...
Article : 64 wordsAt the tallow sales to-day 599 casks were offered and 106 sold. Prices were unchanged as follows:—Mutton, fine 28s 9d, medium 27s; beef, fine 28s 6d, medium 26s 6d per owt. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 156 wordsIt is understood that the position at present occupied by Mr. Keelo in the Public Works Department will not be filled up. The work will be performed by Mr. J. Davis, ...
Article : 117 wordsVice-Admiral Makaroff, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Naval Forces in the Far East, has arrived at Dalny from Port Arthur. ...
Article : 26 wordsMessrs. Vickers, Sons, and Maxim and Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co. received on January 29 formal orders to proceed as quickly as possible with the ...
Article : 236 wordsAdvices from Mukden are to the effect that the Tartar General in command of the Chinese troops there has refused to withdraw from the town, and that ...
Article : 61 wordsWhen the Adelaide authorities saw that the fifth test match had ended so early in the week they endeavoured to get the return match. South Australia against England, ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Commercial Bank of Tasmania's half-yearly report shows a profit of £23,333. A 10 per cent. dividend has been declared, and £1000 bonus to be tendered to Mr. C. J. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 10 Mar 1904, Page 5
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