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Southland Times, Issue 19471, 26 November 1904, Page 2

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THE 81TUATION IN PORT ARTHUR LONDON, Nov. 25. Received 25th, 9.58 p.m. General Stoessel's despatch l»y tho Roztoropni warned the Czar that tho garrison of Port . Arthur was being starved out. The Japanese press deprecates an immediate assault on Port Arthur since it is certain to soon fall. JAPANEBE LOSSES It is admitted .14.400 .Jai>ane«? casualties resulted from the assault? from. August 19th to 24th November.. Prisoners estimate the effective garrison of Port Arthur at 8000, only a third of iwhom are provided with winter clothing. BIOKERINQ IN MANOHURIA Received 25th, 9.31. p.m. Six hundred Russian infantry cpnw pellcd the Japanese to evacuate Bsinglukun and burned the tillage. The Russians, at dawn on Wexjnesi ' day, made several surprise attacks near the Shaho railway bridge at Pabtzuyon but were repulsed. GOAL LOST Japanese shells on Sunday fired a huge pile of coal at Port Arthur railway station. It burned for 14 hours. TOGO UNDER FIRE Capt. Osawa, who was aboard the bfikasa during the naval battle off Lia'ptung on August 12th, states that : a 12-inch shell sligHtly wounded Prince Fushime ; ttnothejrvburst closa to the bridge where AdnWral Togo arid ten others were bianding, wounding four, including tho captain of the Mikasa and the chief of the staff, killing a lieutenant and three others in the chart room below the bridge.' The officers then forced Togo to enter the conning tower. STRICT NEUTRALITY 26th, 9.40 p.ni. TheT Danish authorities refused to permit the 'Russian; cruiser lzumrud to coal troth a collier in Rrederikshaven roadstead and requested her to go outside. * - ~ SINEWS OF WAR Reuter's Agency reports that Bei> lin bankers find twenty million pounds of the Russian 5 per cent loan, and Paris" thirty two millions* The Russian ' squadron has fcniled from Hie Skaw. .