PORT ARTHUR FROM THE SEA.
A JAPANESE RECONNAISSANCE. LONDON, June 1, (Received Juno 1, at 10.34 p.m.) While reconnoitring oft Port Arthur on the 30th May, the Japanese gunboats, destroyers, and torpedoers were exposed to a heavy iire from the forts. A shell struck a gunboat, killing four men and damaging one gun. Tho reconnaissance revealed a new searchlight station ami several new forts.
THE POSITION AT DALNY.
WHAT THE JAPANESE FOUND. SYDNEY, June 1. (Received Jnno 1, at 3.23 p.m.) The Japanese Comul-gnneral has received a cable from the War Department at Tokio advising that the forces under Baron Oko occupied Diilny on the 30th ult. Over 100 warehouses, the military bavvaeks, the telegraph offices, tho railway station, mid 20!) railway cars were found to be uninjured.
All the decks and piers were left uninjured by the fleeing Russians. Only the great pier was destroyed by the Russians before evacuating the town.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 12989, 2 June 1904, Page 9
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153PORT ARTHUR FROM THE SEA. Otago Daily Times, Issue 12989, 2 June 1904, Page 9
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