CABLE NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—COPYRIGHT.] WAR IN THE FAR EAST

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 3 November 1904, Page 5

CABLE NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. — COPYRIGHT.] WAR IN THE FAR EAST

THE SIEGE OF PORT ARTHUR. PROGRESS OF THE ASSAULTING FORCES. [press association.] LONDON, 2nd November. It is officially stated at Tokio that a hundred Japanese guns maintain an increasingly effective bombardment of the northern and eastern forts at Port Arthur. The infantry are advcWicing by desperate rushes, and the engineers and sappers' are running mines up to the Russian forts. The attack on the fortress continues. The enemy have resorted to every means to obstruct the progress of the assaulting forces. They are using bombs and energetically repairing damage. They have placed saadbags on a banquette that was destroyed earlier in the bombardment. THE TUNNELLING OPERATIONS. AN OPPORTUNITY TO SURRENDER (Received November 3, 9.15 a.m.) LONDON, 2nd November. The Daily Express states that two forks at the extremity of the tunnel under Port Arthur which are being completed to-day will not be exploded until General Stoessel, the commander of the garrison, h«s been given an opportunity of surrendering. General StoesseTs guns are outranged.