Latest War News.

Northland Age, Volume 1, Issue 19, 20 December 1904, Page 2

Latest War News.

LONDON, Monday. Japanese Advancing Against the Forts. The Japanese are advancing agairst | Taivanglnm and Itzscsha* forts at Port Arthur, und along Pigeon Bay, sapping through the frozen ground. The naval guns on Metre Hill cover the infantry’s advance. ’ 4 The Russian Warships at ■ ' Port Arthur. Stoessel states that the watertight compartments of the warships were opened a month ago, and with the vessels halfsubmerged they sustained the Japs*’ plugging fire without injury to the engines, though the upper works were destroyed. Their guns are ashore. Tho list seen on the vessels is the result of the ships being sunk in shallow water, and swaying according to the current. If Port Arthur is captured the vessels, he adds, can easily be destroyed. Arrival of Provisions and Ammunition. Three cargoes of American provisions and ammunition, including 1000 tons of flour, reached Port Arthur on '2nd December. Despatches from Mukden. French newspaper despatcher from Mukden state that the Russian cavalry repulsed the Japanese turning movement on their left flank. Oyama had concentrated 15,000 men and 16 guns at Tsianchau and .Seiyamatse, threatening Rennekampf’s position. The Japanese appear to have removed the bulk of their forces from Yentai, The Carnage at Metre Hill. Commander Missenhoff, who carried Stoessel’s despatches to Chifu, states that the Metre Hill light was so terrible that even veterans shuddered at the sight of the Japs, as they clambered step by step up the slopes Without firing, facing a murderous fire. They went down in squads and companies, hut ever grimly and unwaveringly others took the places of the fallen and pressed forward.