The War Day by Day.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 42, 19 February 1904, Page 3

The War Day by Day.

ALEXIEFF'3 APPEAL.

RUSSIAN XAVAL LOSSES AT PORT ARTHUR. LONDON, Feb. 17. Admiral Alexitaf, in a pioclainatio*jL to the soldiers and sailors, axluiils that the foe is suoutf. H« appeals to all to heroically defend the Czar ami Fatherhvnd. The captain of the liritish steamer Tups.ll)4 assertM that tllc bouiAU-d----uwnl oti t"«-' 4th aewit'ly injured Port Arthur clock, aiul jjruthicuJ t! panic. iiiuiy people (W, iinlndiiiy the dock hands. The Kufifeo-Oiiuiwie Dunk bill Tivd its paper money, tunJ sent its. sjiccie inland. Thousands of troops who hud been despatched to the Yalu Hiver w«iv hastily recalled. Several hours hail ela.psad alter the %ht began before Russian olHcers who wore usiioi* at a ball ivterned. The 'l'iuiwi' I'ort Arthur correspondent states that eleu« Russian snips were put out of action during tile fighting on U.u Bth aud 9th, including the batt'U«uips Sevastopol (10, ySO tons displacement, Couuufmder, Captain Sherwlwv), and tlw retropar »losk (10,UM) <wns iti»pl«camMtt, and flagship of Anlmiial Stark ; commander, Odptain Yukolev). Tin.' latter, however, in ttou-gto. to refer to the Poltava.

ANOTHER ATTACK OK POUT *HTHLiK.

LONDON, Fob. *7. Russians attril*ite the capture of ten Russian vessels in Ul.iti*se waters to l'rmce Alexieft's neglect in warning the commanders. Heuter'sTokio agency reports that Japanese vesaate attacked J'ort Arthur on the 14th, damaging one shij>. The llussian Foreign Offlc# consider Colonel Hay's proposal practicable, araJ promises to teply to the letter after consulting Prince Ak-x----ieff. The Japanese Consul at Montreal urges tliu Uoininio'u Government to disallow lirlbish Columbia's antiJapanese legislation.

AJUVENTUiIOUS AIIEHICAJJS.

LOXDOK, Feb. 17. Ileqpite Japan's notilioation that ahe will not accept the service oi foreigners sixty residents of Chicago (many of them veterans of the Span-ish-American war) are sailing iroiu Pacitis ports. They meet at Tokio. The imiiv Mail's States that the British cruiser rialfcot sent nuviicai to tliu jtussaan vessel Yarvag when the Airing c eased. The ihiily Mail states that ten

Japam&e tivpfcdo-destroyws each iir"ed t\yo eigjhttun-inch torjnxloes in the Fort Arthur light. Tlte Mail's Ticn-tsm correspondent reports Uiat lite damage sustained by the Russian Hattteubip Cesare.,vitch in the light is irreparable.

ItfOSJCOtV COUNCIL RESIGNED. J

* S5 1 - PETERSBURG, Feb. 17. The Caar is reported to bo suffering from a severe attack oi nervous .depression. By his Majesty's command the ■* .Moscow M.unici|Kil Council was dis~ .solved for refusing to subscribe to th« svar fund. A JAPANESE LOAN. ■ .(Roceivvd Feb. 18, 4.16 p.m.) ; LONDON, Feb. 17. A .Japanese domestic loain of twi millions sterling will be itsmed next month. The o an 4 th« Bonk of Japan each subscribe two millions, and Noble's Bunk one million.

Later Newa.

HARBIN, THE KEY TO THE railway; SIVE BAJTLE. TROOPS SUFFEIUNG FROM COLD (Sfercived Feb. 18, 11.25 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 13. The Japanese expect that a suflicientr garrison is being left to protect Port Arthur. The Russians will concentrate tbeir main forces at Harbin, the junction of the railways from Lake Baikal, Port Arthur, ami Vkul-hostok, aii'J ] it is expected thitt a dvci.'.iw battle will occur iin-ar Kirin. Onoe established at H'a.bin the I -army of Japan will command the railway line to Vladivostok. Six hundi-ed whole crossi jng take Baikal suffered severely ifrom the frost, and some died of the icolth Advices from Tokio state that • eight transports with troops, and .many cargo vessels with stores, have Igone to the west coast of Korea. Patrols of cavalry kave alivody fctoeen landed at Wi-ju.

BHITiSH INTELLIGENCE OFFICE REPRESENTATIVES. WIMkJ AN OPEN PORT. . (Revived IS. 11.80 p.m.) '' LONDON, Feb. 18. Sir \V. G. Nichol>oir, Director' of the Oeneral Military Intelligence Department, is to Ik l attached to the .Japanese forces to ■watch 1 the operations on behalf of the llritish. and a naval officer will be attached at Tokiu. Mr H. N. Allen, American Uinistiv f. for Korea, cables that Korea has de- - ciared the port of Wi-ju, on the Yalu River, oyjea to the eomunrc* ol the mkantU, .