SHARP SKIRMISHING.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 10139, 27 August 1904, Page 2

SHARP SKIRMISHING.

PORT ARTHUR.' IN FLAMES,

HEAVY JAPANESE LOSSES.

(Received August 27, 8.52 a.m.) LONDON, August 26. Tli© rainy ' season m Manchuria has ended. -Sharp skirmishing has been resumed. Official estimates at T.okio show there have been. 7500 casualties m the Japanese army at Port Arthur since the outset. - Tlie German steamer, Valesia is coaling three Russian cruisers off Cape July, oil the North-west coast of Africa. The Ural stopped and detained for an hour the steamer Pencalenik, bound lo Malta, with coal for the British navy. There is an uneasy feeling at St. Petersburg lest British merchantmen, knowing the St. Petersburg and Smolensk's i commissions have been withdrawn, re- •- fuse to stop, and ate perhaps sunk before the cruisers are aware of -the withdrawal. Chifu reports state there has been heavy loss m the Russian fi ring line at Port Arthur. . \ The European quarter of, the town is m flames. " . Tlie Askold and Grosovoi crews return to Russia on parole. (Received 9;16 a.m., August 27.) ', LONDON, August 26. The Standard's St. Petersburg's correspondent says that after the baptism of the baby Prince, the Czar ordered the volunteer cruisers, through the Admiralty, to cease stopping neutral vessels.