RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 12759, 12 January 1905, Page 3

RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR.

0 REE\FORCE3I : RNTS TOR ROZHDEST \'fiON S X V . PRISONERS IN GOOD ILEW/DIL DEADLOCK O.N TitE SHA-HO. RUSSLA.N GEiNERALS AND ADMIRALS PRISONERS. lOXPLOSrO.N OF A MINE. Till-: KAISKii I.USTHIHLTES HONOURS. JuJlfKi Pr«8o AeKociatton.—By iiiiaou, To]«graph .—Copyright. London, January 11. Admiral DoU"ov«L.y's sit pp! en unitary division, including- the Dion, Dnieper, and several destroyers, has arrived a t Port Said. Tl'e vessels afe intended to reinforce Rozhueslvcnsky. They wi>re allowed a limited quantity oi coal, water, and provisions. Tin: Daily Telegraph's Port Arthur correspondent says that the prisoners .-.how no signs of starvation. They are. in the best of health and condition. The ollicers appear keenly to feel the huniiiiation of surrender. Thr-re is a complete deadlock on t!ie Sha-ho owing tp the strengtli cf thy defence. The hospitals at Kiao-chau are ready 1o receive* a proportion of the wounded from Port Arthur. The Ham burg- Aunerican line is bearing tho cost of transport. The Japanese havo destroyed 395 mines within a radius of forty miles <>f Port Arthur. General Nogi reports that Generals Nikitin and Baili, wit!' Admiral Wirrin. are prisoners. Generals Reis-, !Nadim. and Ivottinkolf, and Admirals Ici-tomsky, Grigoreviteh, and Roshlibski have given parole. The explosion of a mine in Port Arthur killed twenty Jcipaiicse. The Kaiser has conferred tie Order of Merit on Stocsscl and No en.