RUSSIA AND JAPAN.
k GEimL'B mm. Mortality it Port Artiir. m LONDON, J Bit. 8. . ■ The Daily Mail states that the 1 Czar before Christmas informed ' .General Stoesacl that the North Sea outragu had delayed the Baltic 'Fleet, which would tic ' unable to ! ivaeh Port Arthur until tho end of | February, and relieved General Stoof tho promise he lrnd made to hold tj>e dity to the death. und dSroctod hlin to use his judgment. {j | Port Arthur is full of typhus ami other contagious diseases. | General Nog;'a figures show that live Russian regiments which at Jt>°, '*« i n "i n« of the siege totalled ;12,00(*, still have 306 officer* and 6451 men, ■ OFFICIAL MEWS. (Received Jan. 10.0.49 A m ) ' SYDNEY, Jan. 8. The Japanese Consul has received a cable from Admiral Togo, «tat"B that ho niiwt tho blockadd oit the 7th, but that only JapantM Government service vessels were allowed to enter Port Arthur at pt«Rjnt.. General Nogi reported on Sunday that tho delivery of prisoners nder the capitation agreement was completed. The numbers were 878 officers and 23,000 men, whereof 441. officers and 229 orderlies had given their parole. Generals Zonk, Bntir- • noil, and Gorbatvosky, and Admiral ■ ""'man preferred to be sent to Ja- ' pan, ; on'^ofh.^ 1 d6P " rU holaeWt,,!l ; THEUTEST I (Keooivod Jan. 10, I.l# a.m.) | LONDON, Jan. 9t Tho Daily Mail's St. Petersburg" . correspondent says the public In I the provinces are Kept ignorant of . Port Arthur's fate. For days the . censor in Moscow altered the news- , papers' leading articles wherein c«pti ulation was bewailed, substituting , in evm-y instance the word "frost" , for the word "fall." I The y Port Arthur blockade at Llaoi t u "K h as been raised. A bmii / i garrison will remain in Port Arthur . and a naval station is bcW eatafc- . lished there. * . General Kuropatkin reports U»t the Japanese attempted a night surprise on his centre front, but were ' repulsed. \
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7708, 10 January 1905, Page 2
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