The Latest.

Manawatu Herald, 11 June 1904, Page 2

The Latest.

SENDING CHINESE AWAY. The Russians admit the shortness of food and coal at Port Arthur. Reuter’s agency reports that the Russians at Port Arthur are now sending away the Chinese. Fifty junks with coolies and merchants have arrived at Cbifu. It is reported that a battle was raging for four days, ten miles to the north. All the soldiers have been sent to the front. Only three large ships and a number of small ones remain in the harbour. Reuter’s agency is unable to say what has become of the others. AH the forts are more or less damaged by the bombardment. Admiral Alexieflf has issued a pro* clamation that the villages within twenty-five versts of where the railway is destroyed will be fined for the first offence; for the second they will be destroyed and every inhabitant killed. Three hundred Russian reservists regulars mostly from Bessarabia and Warsaw, including many Jews, have t . entered Austria during the week to evade service. They int6nd immigrating to America. DISCOVERY OP SUNKEN SHIPS. Admiral Katoka reports a discovery in blowing up twenty-one additional mines in Talienwan Bay. Wrecks, supposed to be those of the oruiser Boyarin and another war vessel were discovered in deep water outside Talienwan. Admiral Togo reports that eight torpedoers entered the harbour at Port Arthur on Tuesday night. A heavy fire from the batteries killed two seamen, but the torpedoers were not damaged.