THE WAR.

Manawatu Herald, 17 December 1904, Page 3

THE WAR.

JAPS BOMBARDING PORT ARTHUR. RUSSIAN TORPEDOERS SUNK. There arc one hundred and fifty prisoners at Dalny. Since Metre Hill was captured the Russian dispositions at Yingkow, Itzushan, and Antzusdan are observable. The sailors who were formerly kepi in reserve are now working as aoldiera and are exclusively employed in making counter attacks. More big gups have been mounted on Metre Hill and the bombardment has been resumed, the new town being fired. Mr Bennett Burleigh says the Japanese'cruisers, about the 26th, sank two torpedoers while scouting outside Port Arthur. Korea, being anxious to test the value of her troops, is sending three battalions to Hftinyong to expel the Russians. Admiral Rozhdestvensky, with 21 Teasels is at Mossambes. The, Pronzitelni put in at Vigo (north-west Spain) in a damaged condition. The Russian destroyer Cromkin is at Piraeus, disabled. A British steamer passed on Sunday a mysterious cruiser 150 miles eastwards of Penang (an island of • the British Straits Settlements off the Malay Peninsula) steaming rapidly towards Pulowey. INDIGNATION IN RUSSIA. Eight thousand Japanese have reinforced the Port Arthur besiegers. The cruiser Askold (which took refuge in a Chinese port and was disarmed to avert capture) has shipped a thousand tons of Cardiff coal. It is believed she has replaced the machinery which the Chinese Government removed. Despite the censors, the news of the destruction of the fleet is spreading in Russia, and there is general indignation at the inglorious end. The discontent is intensified by the clamour for the Government to end the war,