Events in Eastern Asia are following each other with lightning rapidity. Hardly a week has elapsed since Japan, exasperated by Russia's procrastination, ...
Article : 915 wordsOwing to the heavy fall of Russian securities, the Russian Government has warned investors against rash selling. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe "Times" states it is clear that the Russian gunboat Koriets opened fire on the Japanese fleet at Chemulpho five hours before Port Arthur was attacked. ...
Article : 80 wordsTwo Japanese warships are awaiting, near the mouth of the Yang-tse, for the Russian gunboat Mandjur, which recently put to sea from Shanghai. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Russian cruisers in the Mediterranean will, it is stated, prevent the Japanese steamer Kanagawa Maru, 6,165 tons, from leaving Malta. ...
Article : 62 wordsFearing that the port of Neu Chwang, the principal port of Manchuria, will be attacked by the Japanese, Russia is feverishly strengthening her garrisons at ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Russian military officers at Port Arthur are strongly hostile to Admiral Alexieff, and are clamouring for General Kuropatkine to take command of the ...
Article : 38 wordsFew residents of Perth are watching the progress of the Russo-Japanese war with greater eagerness than Dr. R. Logan Jack, the well-known geologist, ...
Article : 833 wordsThe Weather.—The shade temperatures recorded at the Observatory yesterday were:—Max., 83.3deg.; min., 60.4deg. The Government Astronomer, ...
Article : 4,357 wordsOne hundred Japanese at Vladivostock are still awaiting repatriation. They complain that their houses have been destroyed, their jewellery and ...
Article : 50 wordsThe "Daily News" states that Count Benckendorff, the Russian Minister in London, has asked Lord Lansdowne, the British Minister for Foreign Affairs, to ...
Article : 70 wordsOne certain consequence of the increasing importance of international naval interests in the Far East must (remarks the "Singapore Free Press") be a more ...
Article : 774 wordsMajor-General Sir Ian Hamilton, Quartermaster-General to the British forces, has been attached to the Japanese Army. ...
Article : 28 wordsGermany has agreed to the proposal put forward by Mr. Hay, the United States Secretary of State, in favour of preserving the neutrality of China ...
Article : 44 wordsRussia, it is announced, is mobilising 40,000 Reservists. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe announcement that a detachment of French troops from Tonquin was about to occupy Shan-hai-Kwan, a Chinese port on the Gulf of Pi-chi-li, which ...
Article : 52 wordsA strike of lumpers has taken place at Fremantle, in connection with the unloading of a foreign vessel in the harbour. The trouble is similar to that ...
Article : 359 wordsThe Japanese have seized Mesampho, a southern port of Corea, which possesses a magnificent land-locked harbour. Japan's intention is to utilise Mesampho as ...
Article : 41 wordsJapan has approved of the proposal put forward by Mr. Secretary Hay, of the United States, in favour of localising the war. ...
Article : 96 wordsDr. Morrison, the "Times" correspondent at Peking, declares that Russia's exaggerated statements as to the number of Cossacks in Manchuria were due to ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Jews at Atlanta, in Georgia, U.S.A., have initiated a fund to provide Japan with a warship. [This movement on the part of the ...
Article : 102 wordsThe Consul-General for Japan received to-day a cypher message of the Emperor of Japan's proclamation of war against Russia. It is a long document in ...
Article : 205 wordsAccounts of the battle of Chemulpho published at Tokio credit the captain of the Russian cruiser Varyag with great gallantry. ...
Article : 59 wordsBoth Russia and Japan have issued formal declarations announcing the existence of a state of war between the two nations. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Russian Naval Department assert that six Japanese ships were slightly damaged at Port Arthur, and that fifty Japanese were killed and 150 were ...
Article : 38 wordsOwing to the danger of passing trains across the ice of Lake Baikal, on the Trans-Siberian Railway, the Russian troops are traversing the lake on foot. ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Commissioner of Health, on being asked for his opinion in respect to a telegram concerning the cure of leprosy in Western Australia, said that oil had ...
Article : 75 wordsAccounts of the fighting at Port Arthur which have reached Tokio show that under the heavy fire of the Japanese fleet on Monday night, five Japanese ...
Article : 101 wordsAlthough months ago (writes Mr. Geo. Lynch, in the "Daily Chronicle" of January 18), it seems only yesterday that whenever I had half an hour to spare in ...
Article : 802 wordsThe contractors have been promised by the Russian Government a bonus of 8,000 roubles (£300) for every day the railway across the ice of Lake Baikal is completed ...
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Advertising : 143 wordsA conference was recently held between the Trades Employers' Association and representatives of employees, but the latter refused to agree to any of the ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Russian cruiser Smolensk was allowed at Port Said to take aboard sufficient coal to go to her nearest home port, but she entered the Suez Canal ...
Article : 54 wordsPeking reports that the Chinese Government are about to send 200,000 Boxers to Manchuria. The injury to the Manchuria railway ...
Article : 39 wordsOn December 24, the city editor of the "Daily Telegraph" (London). gave the following explanation of the financial aspect of the Far Eastern crisis:—"It is almost ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Sat 13 Feb 1904, Page 7
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