PORT ARTHUR.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8143, 15 December 1904, Page 2

PORT ARTHUR.

MORE GUNS MOUNTED ON METRB HILL.

KOREANS ANXIOUS TO AB&ISTt.

[rout Auocunov.] (Beceived December % 8.7 a.n.l _ LONDON, Decetn&rM at^alny"* ' hUndred ""« «*SU!L ( Since Metre Hill wm captured Urn Baa. nan depositions at YinAow. lUnJ^T Auteutdtn ar« obserr*ul t ™ Hl f l * Sailor*, who formerly were kept in naerve, we now workiny v toWen exaSf' *" oyed fa**^ More bis gmu have been mounted at Metre Hifl, and the bombradmSt JJ been resumed and the new town-Arid. Mr Bennett Burleigh lays that the Japanese cruiwri on abdat the 26th Mnk thur torpedoew wooting outdde Port AtKorea ii anxioai to test the t*l<m of troopi, and i 8i 8 Mndin - brtt.JSSJ g A British steamer pawed on Svndav a mysterious cruiser IW^Ues^aSSSX fiweJ Mng ' $teamlng Mpidly fc^SSiTJAPANESE REINFORCEMENTS. (Received December 15, 8.44 a.m.) _. . L LONDON, becwnbei <U. Eight thousand Japanea. hava wlnforced the Port Arthur Wiging force.