THE LATEST.
Japanese Losses* Novel Ear Proteotoro. Fort Itzushan. A Destructive Fire. China's Vigilance. (Received this day at 7.45 a.m.) London, December 29. A further list gives 18 - Japanese officers killed and 86 wounded, presumably at Port Arthur.
The crusade against the rats in 1902 enabled the Japanese to distribute amongst the troops in Manchuria hundreds of thousands of small fur ear protectors.
Itzushan contains the remnant of the Metre garrison. The artillery, with fifteen guns, are in four stockades in the front and two in the rear.
The Japanese fire destroyed five gunSj and disabled one thousand men.
China is exercising renewed vigilance to prevent the Askold and Grosvoi from attempting to escape.
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Bush Advocate, Volume XVI, Issue 601, 30 December 1904, Page 5
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