RUSSIA AND JAPAN.
4000 Sick and -Wounded.
In Fort Arthur.
Difficulty in Providing Accom-
modation.
t'Per Press Association—Copyright) L'ONDOISr, March 17. "
It is stated at Brussels tnat I'.ussiajias -bought, at Antwerp, tviculy transport steamers and.insured tsch tor fifty thousand.-
The Standard's St. Petoi'siiurg correspondent states that a private telegram from Port Arthur reports that the greatest difficulty vias experienced in furnishiag proper accommodation and attention for 4000 sick and wounded, owing to the great 'destruction wrought by the bombardment. ■
The Times reports that the Japanese are holding -A-nju.
Russian and .Japanese scouts are only separated by a river at Ohongcheng.
Russia is negotiating for the construction within a year of twelve torpedo 'destroyers, some in Germany. V,
An additional battery and 150 scouts have -arrived at Niuchwang.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7794, 19 March 1904, Page 5
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