PORT ARTHUR.
LAND BATTERIES STRENGTHENED' BY NAVAL GUNS. THE iFAIRWAY COMPLETELY BLOCKED. : THE KmSHTJMARtf INCIDENT. . MAIL STOPPED IN THE iIEDITEft* : RANEAN. ■■'>/ : ■/-,'■'■;■ JAPANESE MAIL BAC® O^EIU LOOKED. (Received May 5, 9.9 a.in.|, ' LONDON, May 4, Guns belonging to the disabled warAipi at Port Arthur have been landed and need to strengthen the land! batteries. ; Reports receiyed at ToMo state that B6m« , of the .eight fireships completely Wbcfc Htf ' fairway. ■■■.-' ;, .'.■■'■■" /■■ It is officially announced that the Km* shinnaru's officers committed suicide i» their cabins, \aod that the soldier* motnally . ; bayoneted) one another. The prispoevf ■taken by the cruiser Rossi* were oaljj Bailors and coolies. The Russian ironclad Khrabry stopped the mail express boat Osiris Mthei Medi'" terrai^ean for two hours and sorted the }• maila, but the Japanese mails, which w*r« lying at the bottom of the mail room, wera untouched.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 8003, 5 May 1904, Page 2
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