UNEASY PEELING IN ST. PETERSBURG.
The rainy season in Manchuria has ended, and sharp skirmishing has been resumed, Oflinial estimates at Tokio state there have been 7000 casualties at Pott Arthur since the outset.The German steamer Valesia is coaling three Russian cruisers off Cape J uly, on the north-west coast of Africa.
The Ural stopped and detained for an hour the steamer Pencalenik, bound for Malta with coal for, the ‘British navy, There is an uneasy feeling in St Petersburg lest British raerchantmeti, knowing the St, -Petersburg and Smolenski’s commissions to be withdrawn refuse to stop and, perhaps, will be sunk before the cruisers are aware of the withdrawal.
Chefoo reports states that there are boys in Russia’s firing line at Port Arthur.
The European quarter in Port Arthur is in flames.
The Askold and Grosovoi’s crews return to Russia on parols.
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Manawatu Herald, 30 August 1904, Page 2
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142UNEASY PEELING IN ST. PETERSBURG. Manawatu Herald, 30 August 1904, Page 2
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