THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13210, 17 February 1905, Page 5

THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR.

m ' THE RUSSIANS MAKE A MOVE, at. THE SURRENDER OP PORT ARTHUR. ox APPALLING STATE OF £ ADMINISTRATION. epB . TWO BRITISH STEAMERS CAPTOR®. !\Yliis ' an Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. in. ing ?!y OUTFLANKING THE JAPANESE, 'ce LONDON, February 16. ry, (Received Fob, 16, at 9,9 p.m.) ish Nine thousand Russian cavalry, with >p, artillery, are trying to cross the Hun-bo, at ,-er l'ai-ha, to outilank Field-marshal Oyama's er, extreme left. STOESSEL INTERVIEWED. THE SURRENDER OF PORT ve .ARTHUR. LONDON, February 16. flleceivcd Feb. 16, at 9 9 p.m.) The Standards correspondent . interU, viewed General Stoessel at I'ort Said. He denied The Tiines's accusations cabled on January 16, and declared that lie was authorised since September to surrender when needful. The garrison never numbered 25,000 when they surrendered. There were only 5978 effectives. What little ammunition remained was of poor quality, DISSENSIONS AMONG OFFICERS. AN ADMIRAL'S HOPES. LONDON, Jn.nucry 16. a- (Received Feb. 16, at 9.34 p.m.) ho French correspondents interviewing officers from Port Arthur between r g Aden and Suez v.ere amazed at the bitter ys recriminations between the military and es naval services. They consider tliev supply proof of the r.ppalling condition of the et administration. Admiral Lodeschensky :y commander of the torpedo flotilla, declared s, that_ he hoped to crush General Stoessel, s. Admiral Stridloff, and Viceroy Alexieff lg before a court-martial. ;l1 BRITISH STEAMERS CAPTURED Ig . SEIZURE OF BLOCKADE-RUNNERS. LONDON, February 16. (Received Feb. 16, at 9.9 p.m.) The Japanese captured the British steamers Apollo and Scotsman off Hokkaido, carrying coal and provisions to Vladivostok. , lhe British collier Eastry, which was mistakenly seized by the Japanese near Hokkaido has been released, WARSHIPS BUILT IN JAPAN. e l A DESTROYER. SINKS. fl LONDON, February 15. (Received Feb. 16, at 8.51 a.m.) .. The destroyers Arinke and Fubuke, of _ 29 knots speed, constructed in Japan, have i , been commissioned. The destroyer Arara, when being launched at Yokohama, suddenly slipped oft the reef and sank.