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Article : 202 wordsAdmiral Alexieff has reported to St. Petersburg that the news he has received from Port Arthur shows that the situation there is serious, but not desperate. ...
Article : 96 wordsIt is announced at St. Petersburg that at General Kuropatkin's request Major-General Orloff, who was severely wounded in the Hai-yen-tai fight, has been recalled ...
Article : 42 wordsNo definite information as to the progress of the Japanese advance upon Mukden has been allowed to transpire, but Russian official despatches indicate that the flank ...
Article : 232 wordsWhen the Japanese troops under General Kuroki captured the Yen-tai coal mines north-east of Liao-yang, they found that the Russians before retreating had ...
Article : 71 wordsLord Rosebery, in a letter to the "Times," replies to the letter in which Mr Joseph Chamberlain called him to task for declaring in his recent speech at Lincoln ...
Article : 262 wordsAccording to the St. Petersburg corres- pondent of the Paris newspaper "Matin," Lieutenant-General Stoessel has reported that the Japanese fleet is co-operating with ...
Article : 129 wordsAmong the Russian documents which fell into the hands of the Japanese when they captured Liao-yang were several general orders issued by Admiral Alexieff, the ...
Article : 98 wordsThe Czar has appointed General Gripenberg, commander of the Vilna military district, to command the second army in Manchuria. The instructions given to him are ...
Article : 123 wordsThe "Times" observes that the proposal of Mr. J. C. Watson, leader of the Opposition in the Commonwealth Parliament, to prepare a scheme of Imperial preference, ...
Article : 124 wordsThe Japanese have completely repaired the Manchurian railway line as far north as Hai-cheng, and are running 60 locomotives and 1000 railway trucks on it. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 88 wordsJapanese fleets are cruising to the east and west of the Port Arthur entrance in expectation of the last desperate sortie of the Russian war ships within. Captain ...
Article : 117 wordsThe Tokio correspondent of the London "Express" reports that the Japanese newspapers are becoming impatient because the fall of Port Arthur has not yet taken place. ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Japanese besiegers recently started to tunnel an approach to one of the strongest Port Arthur forts in order to undermine it. The Russians, discovering ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Japanese war ships, forming a cordon outside Port Arthur, have recently captured as many as 300 Chinese junks, which were attempting to run the blockade ...
Article : 40 wordsAn Italian naval commander in the Far East has cabled that some Russian war ships sortied from Port Arthur aud were immediately surrounded and compelled to ...
Article : 39 wordsReports from Port Arthur state that the besiegers are to a large extent directing their operations against the Russian defensive positions westward of the railway line, ...
Article : 169 wordsJapanese telegrams report that heavy firing has been heard off Cape Aniva, on the south of the Russian island of Saghalien, near which the Russian cruiser Novik ...
Article : 70 wordsIn Russia the unpopularity of the Far Eastern war is every day demonstrated by numerous military desertions. So frequent are the cases in which soldiers desert their ...
Article : 101 wordsThe Melbourne correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle," a London Radical free-trade paper, suggests that British trade unionists and Labor members should appeal ...
Article : 133 wordsAn accident has occurred to the Russian cruiser Oleg, 6675 tons, 24 guns, belonging to the Baltic Fleet, now at Libau. Two of the vessels pistons burst, and her ...
Article : 83 wordsAdvices received at St. Petersburg from the general staff state that the Japanese have begun an offensive movement along the entire eastern and southern fronts. ...
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Leader (Melbourne, Vic. : 1862 - 1918, 1935), Sat 1 Oct 1904, Page 25
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