CAPTURE OF BRITISH CONTRABANDISTS,
OPERATIONS IN MANCHURIA. RUSSIA CONSTRUCTING RAILWAYS. PROJECTED FLANK MOVEMENT BT KUROPATKIN. FRENCH AND GERMAN ATTACHES . MURDERED. (Received February 21, 8.44 a.m.) LONDON, February 20. The Japanese have captured the Powderham and Silviana, British colliers, bound for Vladivostock. General Kuropatkin has- constructed light railways connecting Fushun and Yenling and Fushun and the Upper Shaho, indicating an intention to turn General Kuroki's right. It is officially announced at Chifu that Captain Cuvervilze, a French attache, and Captain Gilgenheim, a German attache at Port Arthur, who some months prior to the surrender escaped on a Chinese junk and were not again heard from, were^ thrown overboard and drowned. The master and a sailor of the junk have confessed to the crime. \
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 8247, 21 February 1905, Page 3
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