AROUND PORT ARTHUR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 291, 13 December 1904, Page 3

AROUND PORT ARTHUR.

ff fflBE WORK OF BOTH PARTIES — GROWS HOTTER. I* HARROWING DETAILS. L LONDON, Dec. 11. I A further list of Japanese officers, p *B2 tJiat 18 wcre wouwlt<i at Pon F Aslfor. P Friday'B bombardment nearly cap- !' sized the Bayan, which heeled over The Sevastopol moved to the outer roadstead to escape ' tUE» shells. The Japanese cruiser Stiyen was blotbaiding I'ort Arthur et the time ol the disaster. Thirty-eight were •1 drowned. : " Russian correspondents give appalling accounts of the bandships oi the soldiers. Their clothes are mene rags, they are bootless, and their bruised and frostbitten fact are bound with pieces ol' skin and cloth tied with string. After the battles Jfchesoldiers strip the Japanese for their clothing and boots, The Japanese taunt the Russians as l'ag- - gad njn.

THE CZAR'S THANKS. RECOGNITION OF BRITISH CREW'S' BRAVERY. LONDON, Dec. 11. The Czar has presented a silver howl end ladle to 11.M.5. TaJhot's ; .wardroom officers for their services in rescuing the crews of the Varyag r and Korietz at Chemulpho in February, and £SOO to the Royal Naval ■ , Fund. si- (Received Dec. 13, 0.12 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 12. The battering of the Port Arthur fleet continues, but the whereabouts of the destroyers is doubtful. The Daily Telegraph's correspondent, describing the fighting preceding the taking of Metre Hill, and the defensive arrangements at Kiksiiawan and Erhlungshan, says they pene magnificently executed. Ht- ■ serves were massed everywhere, to prevent the garrisons from retiring, and otter the Japanese had penetrated to the enceinte (main enclosed position) enfiladed and expelled them.