Latest War News.

Northland Age, Volume 1, Issue 15, 22 November 1904, Page 2

Latest War News.

LONDON, Monday. Advices from Mukden state that a flotilla of Japanese destroyers and torpivhi bouts liavy left under orders lor an ft unknown destination’^''alter having taken iii 4, mil supply of coal. It is supposed that this fleet has' gone to meet the Baltic fleet. Part of Togo’s fleet has Deed boutte Japan*, for' repairs, in readi- j ness to meet the Baltic fleet. The. Japanese assert that if tho coaling facilities, granted to Admiral Roshdestvenski are persisted in, the responsibility of extending the area *of the war will rest on the shoulders of Emmie. Rumors are current at Shaijrhai *hat after a fuiious attack on Nuv<flmb# 17th, the Japanese occupied the undergrhiffuj chafiibers of importaint positions at Tort Art Eur,

Bennett, Burleigh states that the Russians at Port Arthur make daring sorties each night in hands, of 50, throwing grenades into the trenches, and storming the outworks with bayonet.. Their daily mortality is "0, but.’the Japanese loss is greater. Admiral Togo has received orders to lose no sixipq. All are consequently kept out of range of the land batteriesret IW Arthur, and the siege has devolved the army. The blockade of Port Arthur has latelv been much relaxed, and the ingress and egress of merchantmen, is not now difficult. Fowler, the American Consul-General at CLifu, has telegraphed to Secretary Hay that the situation at Port Arthur is extremely critical, the outer forts being in the possession of the Japanese. 6 The “Daily Telegraph ” says that the outer - forts mentioned by Fowler ure probably Erhlung and Atzushan, and he considers Liaotishan and .the Tiger’s Tail forts as inner defences. Tokio reports state, that Japanese shells exploded another Russian arsenal at Port Arthur. The Japanese concentrated their fire on the arsenal, and two hundred shells were thrown. be,ture it was destroyed. v An unconfirmed gt. Petersburg message, published in Rome, „ avs t)mt the Tsar, after council with'theGrand-Dukes, genejuls andmjmirals, authorised Stoessei / to destroy the forts, dock, magazine and / vessels at Port Arthur, and retire wi# 1 5,000 troops to Liaotwhua, the soutlT western extremity of Port Arthur peninsula: ”, Reuter’s agency repots that Stoessel telegraphed to the Tsar that he is abletahold tho town for several months. The " Daily Mail’s ” St. Petersburg correspondent states that Stoessell added that lie was able to hold out if supplied witK munitions and stares. Russia has tfraei <1 them to be HUpphed Lit any cost. .