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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7702, 3 January 1905, Page 3

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Admits Resistance Hopeless. PKeUIOKARIES TO BE SETTLED OH lOKDAY " Mikado's Magnanimous Order. (Received Jan. 3, 0.19 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 2. It is officially announced that Gen- * eral Stoessel has written to General . ]fogi with reference to a surrender, and tfUct hostilities have been suspendciL {Received Jan. 3. 1.4 a.m.) ■*~ arjxsrgja LONDON, Jan. 2. ■moo>mfal Stoessel, in his letter, admits that further resistance is useless, and that the situation is equivalent to a surrender. The Mikado commands that General Stoessel s officers receive full military honours. The chiefs- of the staff meet at noon to-day. SfiUflgs&BShan Captured on Saturday at the Bayonet Point HEARING THE END. (Received Jan. 2, 8.20 a.m.) '■ LONDON, Jan. 1. ( The Japanese stormed and captured Sungshushan on Saturday. I i STORM AIDS BATILE. , - DESTRUCTION OF THE SEVAS- ' TOPOL COMPLETED. 1 LONDON, Jan. 1. A Che-foo telegram states that heavy storms in Port Arthur completed the destruction of the Sevastopol, while other damaged Russian warships suffered. FURTHER JAPAHESE SUCCESSES, i ji RIGIDITY OF THE BLOCKADE i RELAXED. I (Received Jan. 2, 10.5 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. ,2. The Japanese on Sunday occupied the "H" foru, end also a new fort j at Panlungahan, and, after an , Sffectivc bombandmtnt, the heights j south of Houyangantao, despite a I stubborn resistance. r, . Admiral Togo has diminished the'. extent of the Pott Arthur blockade, 1 ] and intends Jo open Dalny to for- '] eign shipping. , k Minor War Items Epitomised. Se.vcn junks, while attempting to provision Port Arthur, were captured. The Pescadores Islands (west of Formosa) and Keelung l , arc being rapidly, fortified. One itundred and twenty-five Red Cross waggons! were lost during transit on the trans-Siberian line. ,' In consequence of public dissatisfaction the Czar has sent an aide-de-camp to Srberia to inquire into the matter. .^—. St. Petersburg cables state that the Russians arc endeavouring to purchase a hundred thousand tons of ..coal at Bombay. Many supplies of military overcoats in Moscow were rejected as useless, and others on account of their poor quality. Mobilisation in Poland is proving extremely difficult. Reservists are , treated like criminals, and are constantly trying to escape as they are V forced into tho railway carriages.