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mobilising Japanese forces. A TRANSPORT SUNK. The Japanese, on the 20th, mobilised the fifth, tenth and eleventh divisions, constituting a third army numbering 75,000. A Russian general staff officer declares the Japanese attempts to cross the Yalu were feints, their real objective being Port Arthur. A Russian torpedoer sank the transport Kinschimaru with a landing party who refused to surrender. • Admiral Deszen cables regarding the incident on the night of the 26th that two torpedoers encountered, at sea, an armed transport of 4000 tons, laden with coal, military stores and troops, intended as a landing party. Seventeen officers, 20 privates, 83 coolies, and 65 of the crew surrendered. The rest obstinately refused to surrender or go aboard the Russian cruiser, and were sunk with the transport.
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Manawatu Herald, 30 April 1904, Page 2
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