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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XL, Issue 1, 3 January 1905, Page 3

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(stecv 9.2 a.m.) .SYDNEY, This Day. . Cables have fieen received by the Japanese Consul regarding the surrender of Pdrt_£rthur. They state that the Mikadcv appreciating the self-sacrifice" and devotioii that General StoesseJ had displayed for the cause of His fatherfand, desired that honours due to a soldier should be accorded to him. General Nogi reports that the Tuiigkikwaiishan and Q. Ports were blown up 'on Monday by the enemy, who had evacuated them! '^Thereupon iho Japanese occupied the forts au<i Lhe heights southward thereof. Almost all the Russia* ships in the harbour or harbour -entrance were blown' ujj by the besieged. The cablegrams add : "Our operations have been suspended since, the same morning pending the conclusion of "negotiations for surrender," LONDON, Yesterday. The capture of Metre Hail and. the extension of the Japanese right compelled the Russians to fight' £ver an extended front, making) adequate concentration with reduced numbers impossible. (Rec. Jan. 3, 1.9 p.m.) LONDON, Yesterday: General Ncgi reports that prior to evacuating the Russians exploded the Tungkekwanchan forts, which the Japanese occupied with the heights to the southward. i The Russians at Ghefpo explain that the explosion of the¥orts lwas due to shortage of men and ammunition. ! ' (The following cablegrams were received on Sunday and yesterday, relating to the war.) j ST. PETERSBURG, iiec. Mystery surrounds Kaznakioffs return. It is supposed that he is going to report to the Czar* as* to the probable outcome of the Commission. The plea of health is; ridiculed. The Russian Government has • invited the Orthodox monasteries to tax themselves to assist in the tvar. TOKIO, Dec. Jl. Admiral Togo declined the Tbkio municipality's proffered reception on the ground .that the lime 7 was not ripe but he did attend the) f\x-» neral services of those killed? at Port Arthur, and read an, eulogy. * LONDON, January! 1. " The. ''Standard" states that ihere are a number of Russian naval officers at Chinese ports, even 1 at KiaochaUj who have escaped ih the hope of joining the Baltic Beetj The "Daily Mail's" Tokio correspondent says that news has iieached^Niuehwang; that 30,000 Russians from Tiding have jharched to Tchentsu, 50 miles east pf Mukden, With the intention of strenbthening the left wing."' i The Pescadores Islands and Keling are being rapidly fortified. General Kuropatkin reports that he dispersed two Japanese outposts •at Shaho on Saturday. ■ r The "New York Herald" reports that hundreds of Russians at Shaho died from the intense cold. ; One hundred and twenty-five Red Cross waggons were - lost daring transit oh the Trans-Siberian line. SOY PETERSBURG, January 1. Russians are endeavouri lg to purchase' 100,000 tons of coal at Bombay. ' Many supplies of military , overi.eoats from Moscow have been {rejected ,as useless, and others dp accoujnt .of thair- poor- quality. | \ MobiUsatioTi in , Poland is pf oviug extremely 'difficult. The resahvists are treated like criminals, tbfly try to escape, and are forced into the railway carriagee. .: 'China has intimated that she is Unable to protect the Russians interned if the Consul at Shanghai ignores the demand for the surren■de£ al the sailors, who recentlj' umirdered a Chinaman. H y ■WlHie Askold's sailors charged jwith murder will be tried before $ (Russian Consul at Shanghai, witjh a Chinese assessor. ; ;t. . LONDON, Yesterday. Nine tunnels at Erkmgshan were the solid rock, an I two tions of dynamite were used, The spectacle at the time of thp siecessive explosions is describe* as magnificent. The infantry's s orming was splendid. *The first (xplopioh'killfed phfe half of the gnn ison. SpniQ Russian jailors assisted the garrison, and there?i*ere 500 et E/---lungsjianj, 3>ut the bulk of the gor- . resoh aiid. of the sailors were killed. S^lfe? ifav&l Department at tokio pu&i&hfitfja statement that ai offi-'cer--of- the Sevastopol was ntercei)ted wi^h a letter, which [states tfiat:tli.e" defenders are resigned to their fate, but sadly disappointed *t^ : the non'-arrival «f the? Baltic j#&t/ Tefl-inch shells, after tne Ist December, ppnptf ated the Se-wasto-v6Vb different decks tQ the bottom o> the ship. . The letter dcskib.es 3a^-. hopeless the damage that] was dong; the ship after quitting J har.bdury and hints, without naming hiw, that General Kuropatkin I waß> friesporisibi^for Port Arthur's ! fate toy-failirig to prevent the Japknese 'landing in Liaotung. The bitterly adds : "Very, few of our i "Officers dare brave death, the 1 majority only desire to save Iheir pvrtx lives, but we Sevastopblers a¥c>- determined to die figfctiiig. I