Mr. E. R. Peacock, of Messrs. Peacock Bros., Collins-street, Melbourne, who recently returned from the Far East, supplies the following intersting description of Porth Arthur. Rend with the advantage of the above excellent illustration of the entrance and barbour, it will enable the reader to gain a clear conception of ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 750 wordsThe Czar and Czarina yesterday witnessed the departure of several Russian regiments for the Far East. The Czar blessed the troops, and ...
Article : 124 wordsPublic Tenders Accepted.—The following tenders for the public works specified have been accepted:—W. G. Aitken, Coolgardie police quarters—Cyclone ...
Article : 2,153 wordsThe Acting-Counsul-General for Japan received the following cable from Komura:—"On the 13th inst, a detached squadron of torpedo destroyers left for ...
Article : 92 wordsRussia has finally re-hoisted her flag at the port of Shan-hai-kwan, owing to the British authorities protesting against a temporary French occupation. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe "Daily Mail" states that Admiral Alexieff is fortifying Harbin, a Russian post in Manchuria, at the junction of the Port Arthur and Vladivostock sections of ...
Article : 63 words"The Jap is a cute little man," said the captain of a steamer, now at Fremantle, who was in a Japanese port recently, and who knows something of the country and ...
Article : 407 wordsThe report of the torpedoing of the Russian cruiser Boyarin has been confirmed. The scout which was also reported to ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Minister for Mines (Mr. Gregory), and the State Mining Engineer (Mr. Montgomery), who have been on a visit to the Phillips River mining district, left ...
Article : 447 wordsAn official communique of an extraordinary character has been published at St. Petersburg, and indicates the nature of Russia's plan of compaign. ...
Article : 130 wordsThe Russian gunboat Mandjur is still at Shanghai, though she was ordered to leave. Her commander alleges that he is ...
Article : 36 wordsJapan's local war loan, tenders for which were not to close till March next, has been already subscribed two-fold. ...
Article : 30 wordsIt is stated that Russians detained at Port Arthur for five days 400 Japanese, including many women and children, who were almost foodless and waterless. ...
Article : 58 wordsThe "Times" correspondent at Tokio states that large Russian forces in the Liao-tung peninsula are advancing towards the Yalu. ...
Article : 20 wordsDenmark has refused to give Russian warships permission to coal, and has summoned 2,000 Reserves to protect her ports. ...
Article : 21 wordsJapan has intimated her agreement with Mr. Hay's proposals regarding China's neutrality, but reserving to herself the right of independent action in ...
Article : 35 wordsA report from Peking states that many Japanese scouts are inspecting the country at the head of the Gulf of Liao Tung. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe American naval authorities undertsand that during the action at Port Arthur on Sunday last, the Japanese torpedo boat, Hayatori, torpedoed the ...
Article : 38 wordsA telegram from a semi-official source, received from Port Arthur, declares that the war is the result of agitation on the part of the Chauvinist Party in Japan, ...
Article : 43 wordsThe main feature of Port Arthur is it great value from the military point of view, it being well-night as impregnable as Gibraltar, both landwards and from ...
Article : 1,492 wordsGeneral Pflug, commanding the Russian army in Manchuria, confirms the report that bands of Chung Chuses, Manchurian banditti, are being ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Paris "Figaro" has created a sensation by publishing an article in which it states that in 1898, at the time of the Fashoda incident, Count Muravieff, then ...
Article : 183 wordsA few days ago it was announced that the authorities of the Perth Public Hospital had decided that consumptive patients who were undergoing treatment ...
Article : 198 wordsThe Austrian cruiser Kaiserin Elizabeth, now at Batavia, has been ordered to abandon her contemplated Australian cruise and to proceed to the Gulf of ...
Article : 35 wordsThe publication of the Russian Communique, indicating that land operations are not expected for some time, has caused a sharp decline on the Paris and ...
Article : 36 wordsThe submarine cable between Port Arthur and Chifu has been cut. ...
Article : 22 wordsRussia, having abandoned the space which had been allotted her at the St. Louis Exhibition, Japan immediately secured it. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe "Times," commenting on the official Communique published yesterday at St. Petersburg, suggests that it is intended to prepare the Russian people for the ...
Article : 148 wordsThe Acting Consul-General for Japan received to-night the following cable message from Baron Komura:—"Dr. Morrison, the "Times" correspondent, ...
Article : 475 wordsAdvices from Seoul, the Corean capital, state that 2,000 Russians are near Wiju, at the mouth of the Yalu River, and that three thousand more are at ...
Article : 42 wordsLord Lansdowne, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, replying to an inquiry by a firm of coal-shippers at Cardiff, says:— ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 550 wordsSome Cossaoks at Neu-Chwang, at the head of the Gulf of Liao Tung, insulted the American Consul and the commanders of the British sloope Espiegle and the ...
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Advertising : 94 wordsThe Japanese have captured the Russian East Asiatio Company's 6,000-ton steamer Manchuria. The captured vessel was laden with ...
Article : 38 wordsMr. Bennett Burleigh, the "Daily Telegraph's" correspondent in the Far East, reports that the repair of the Russian battleship Retviza[?] which was ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Sat 20 Feb 1904, Page 7
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