THE FIGHTING AT PORT ARTHUR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12524, 17 March 1904, Page 5

THE FIGHTING AT PORT ARTHUR.

GARRISON MUST HOLD OUT.

PENINSULA SURROUNDED

WITH- MINES.

DESPERATE BRAVERY OF

RUSSIANS.

A JAPANESE HERO.

(Received March 16, 3.18 p.m.)

London, March 16.

The Daily Mail's Niuchwang correspondent reports that, General Kuropatkin, the Russian Commander-in-Chief, has telegraphed to Lieuten-ant-General Stossel, stating .that he must hold Port. Arthur with its present garrison. The Daily Express' Berlin correspondent states that a Russian Note announces that Admiral Makaroff has completed the laying of mines all round tho Liaotung Peninsula, on which Port Arthur is situated, and seawards for three miles. Neutral ships must hoist their national flags at a distance of five miles from land, and signal their destinations to the Russians, whose pilots will convey them '.to port. London, March 15. A steamer has landed at Sesebo ten wounded Japanese, the bodies of ten of those killed, and ten survivors of the attack on Port Arthur on the 10th inst. The survivors praise the Russians' desperate bravery, and give a vivid description of the action of a Japanese sailor who leaped on board the Russian torpedo-boat Stereguohichy and cut down her commander. "