EXPLOSION OF A MINE FIELD.
An eye witness of the mine-field explosion declares that while the Japanese advanced not a single Russian was visible. I No guns or rifles were fired./ Suddenly a series of explosion s accarred. ■ ' Each opened up a wide gap, siootdebris into tho air.
The ground became littered with limbs and piles of dead, while agon; ising cries rang out. Pour areas are still uneXplodod. Hoffmann, the German attache, was quartered in the Tiger’s Tail battery, 000 feet high, And was not permitted to see any fighting,^’ Pew women and children remain in Port Arthur. Thirty thousand Japanese ; have arrived from the north before Arthur. ' '
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Manawatu Herald, 25 August 1904, Page 2
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109EXPLOSION OF A MINE FIELD. Manawatu Herald, 25 August 1904, Page 2
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