The capture of the Erlungshan fort at Port Arthur by the Japanese invelved a fierce assault, and was responsible for heavy losses on both sides. ...
Article : 202 wordsThe Congress of the Zemstvos ot the government of Moscow, which adjourned in definitely on account of the official warning that they must restrict their discussions to ...
Article : 212 words"I am in the place where 1 am demanded of conscience to speak the truth, and therefore the truth I speak, impugn it whoso list." TO CORRESPONDENTS. ...
Article : 5,707 wordsA Dutch journal published in Pretoria announces that a conference has taken place between the Boer leaders and Lord Milner, the High Commissioner for South ...
Article : 156 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—Mr. P. K. Bowden, the secretary of the New South Wales Cricket Association, has received a letter from Mr. P. F. Warner, dated November ...
Article : 458 wordsThe report of a Dutch journal that Lord Milner had discussed with Bocr leaders the question of a constitution for the Transvaal is declared to be unfounded. ...
Article : 35 wordsIt a large meeting of workers held at St. Petersburg a resolution was agreed to insisting upon the necessity for putting an end to the war against Japan. ...
Article : 168 wordsThe War Office anticipates that about 20 months will be occupied in rearming the artillery with new 18½-pounders. According to "The Times," the orders placed are ...
Article : 110 wordsOn Christmas Day, three days before the assault on Erlungshan, a general attack on the Russian positions was commenced by the Japanese This brought the besiegers' ...
Article : 139 wordsThe second of the annual interstate matches in Melbourne will commente on the Melbourne ground this afternoon, when Victoria and South Australia play their return ...
Article : 315 wordsTwo of the smallest ships attached to the Australian squadron, the Torch and the Cadmus have left Sydney under sealed orders for a cruise in the Pacific. A ...
Article : 739 wordsThe unemployed problem is considered so pressing in England at present that the Government has decided to call Parliament together at the beginning of February, ...
Article : 51 wordsSt. Muravieff, the Minister of Justice, who recently tendered his resignation to the Czar, his now withdrawn it. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 126 wordsA scheme for the drainage of London is being elaborated by the London County Council. The estimated cost is £7,000,000. The ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Japanese estimate their losses in the capture of the Erlungshan fort at 1,000. A further list of casualties has been published by the Japanese, presumably in ...
Article : 75 wordsThe whole ot the state was visited yesterday by a heat wave of great intensity. In Melbourne the maximum shade reading was 98.2deg., and was reached ...
Article : 529 wordsFarmers in the United States are greatly alarmed by the slump which has occurred in the New York morket, owing to the heavy cotton crop. ...
Article : 78 wordsUnless the Baltic fleet, which is now on its way to the Far East, is able to wait until the third squadron, under Admiral Birileff, is ready, the Russian service journals ...
Article : 90 wordsThe open market discount rate for three months' bank bills is 2[?] per cent., or [?] per cent. below the Bank of England rate, which is 3 per cent. ...
Article : 31 wordsLord Stanley, the Postmaster-General, has made arrangements for an extension of the system of wireless telegraphy in Great Britain. ...
Article : 79 wordsThere appears to be general confusion this year, as to when the close season for game expires. This is possibly owing to the fact that so many changes have been made this ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 218 wordsThe Japanese war-ships which have been sent south to intercept the Baltic squadron have passed Anjer, on the Straits of Sunda, between Java and Sumatra. ...
Article : 31 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—A meeting of the representatives of all the deep-sea and interstate shipping companies was held to-day to consider what steps should be taken by the ...
Article : 202 wordsVice-Admiral Kaznahoff, the Russian representative on the International Commission appointed to inquire into the North Sen incident, is returning to St. Petersburg ...
Article : 53 wordsTo-day's quotation for silver ia 28½d., a rise of [?]d. since yesterday. ...
Article : 17 wordsAdmiral Skrydloff, who was appointed to the command of the Russian navy at Port Arthur on the death of Admiral Makaroff, but who hoisted his flag with the squadron ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 21 wordsThe quoations given below are Thursday's closing quotations:— Wool.—The Bradford market is quiet and uncbanged. Quotations for tops are ...
Article : 276 wordsRussia is again going into the market to raise money to finance the war. She has arranged for a loan of £25,000,000, at 4½ per cent,, to be raised partly at home and partlyt ...
Article : 51 wordsAlfred Reynolds, a lad of 12 years of age, has had four leaden pellets filed into the back of his scalp and one into his upper arm. Reynolds resides with his parents in ...
Article : 406 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—Among the correspondence read at the last meeting of the Sydney Labour Council, was a letter from Mr. B. R. Wise, late Attorney-General, ...
Article : 352 wordsHOPETOUN, Friday.—The weather was so hot to-day that many birds dropped dead, Hundreds were too exhausted to fly, and were easily caught. The shnde tempera ...
Article : 33 wordsSome days ago the Japanese captured off the south-eastern coast of Korea the steamer Negrimia, bound from Shanghal to Vladivostok, with a ronti.ib.ind cargo. It ...
Article : 101 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—Intense heat was again experienced all over the state to-day. In the city the thermometer stood about 83deg. during the day, but at 9. o'clock ...
Article : 149 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—The acting ConsulGeneral for Japan has received the following cable message:— "Our Port Arthur army reports that our ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 114 wordsADELAIDE, Friday. — A stronglymarked heat wave is how passing over this state. Very high temperatures were recorded in the interior to-day. ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Erlung-shan group of fots, which the Japanese have just captured, are very nearly, if not quite, the strongest link in the chain of defences about Port Arthur. ...
Article : 589 wordsThe R.M.S. Orontes, homeward bound, arrived at Colombo on December 22. The R.M.S. Ormuz, for Australia, left Port Said on December 29. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 31 Dec 1904, Page 13
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