PORT ARTHUR.
RUSSIANS PLAYED THE GAME. PBOMOTION OF JAPANESE OFFICERS. I ( Rpcciwd 8.-24 a.m. i IONBON. January 13. An official , Japanese report states that the Russians both, before and after the surrender of Port Arthur acted -with, perfect fairness to their oppenents. Six hundred Japanese naval effieers have been promoted in connection with the Japanese capture of Port Arthur. j 13.000 WOTODia) RUSSIANS. [ TO BE REMOVED TO JAPAN. JAPANESE PRISONERS RECOVERED. LONDON. January 13. Tiere are still at Port Aitknr ! thirteen thousand vanuxded Russians. As they recover they will be removed ta Japan. Among the two hundred Japanese prisoners taken by the Russians at Port Arthur were siitecn survivors of the third aA±emjtt by the Japanese to sink ships in the entrance to Port Arthur to block it. They are being sent to Sastsbo. THE JAPANESE CAPTURES. A DETAILED LIST. LONDON- .Janttiry 13. (iftnrral Nopi has reported i(j head- ! quarters at Tokio that he ha.s taken ove-r all the forts and other possessions of th<* I Russians ;it Port Arthur. The frst inchide?: j Fort*. 50: (iims (including .>4 of large calihre). 546; riOes, .'{5.252: shells, 82.S7O; torpedoes, fiO; cartridges, 266.800; powder, kilogrammes. 30.000: <words. 1891; battleships (not urclnding Sevastopol). 4: i-misers. - : gunboats ajid destroyers. 14: Hlranw.r.s. 10: launches, 8; misceHaneo7i« era.ft. 1:2 lall the foregoing vessels haw been destroyed or sunk) : small steaajeis (rtfj-tiiTrn£ slight repairs 1. .1.").
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 12, 14 January 1905, Page 5
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229PORT ARTHUR. Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 12, 14 January 1905, Page 5
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