RUNNING THE BLOCKADE.
A RISKY ENTERPRISE. (Received) November 9 t 8.31 a.m.) LONDON^ November 8. , Tempted by the va«t profits, three American and two German firms at Chifu and Kiaoohau continue to smuggle food, and occraeionally ammunition, into Port Arthur, though many of their junks have been cap-' tured and eunk by the Japanese fleet, which is stale by long watching. THE SIEGE OF PORT ARTHUR. COLLAPSE OF JAPANESE TRENCHES. THE COMMANDER OF THE RECHITEL2JI. ESCAPE FROM SHANGHAI. THE MOBILISATION DISTURBANCES IN RUSSIA: RESERVISTS UNFED,. UNPAID,' UNCLOTHED AND UNHOUSED. (Received November 9, 9.31 a.m.) LONDON, November 8. Some Japanese trenches at P6rt Arthur collapsed into a Russian gallery, and. the Russians fled. ' - i The commander of the gunboat Rechitelni, who was interned at Shanghai, has escaped to Wusung. It is 'believed he is voyaging in a German steamer to Russia. The disturbances amongst the reservkte in Russia are due to the men not receiving their pay, and to necessary provisions not being supplied. -Thirty thoiwaad men are bivouacking in open fields at Novorodonisk in a deplorable condition, owing to the want of food' and clothes, and there is much bloodshed in various places.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 8162, 9 November 1904, Page 3
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