Miscellaneous Items.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7726, 28 March 1904, Page 5

Miscellaneous Items.

(Received To-day, at 5.53 a.m.)

London, Last Night,

The Japanese again attempted to block the entrance to Port Arthur with four merchantmen, which, however, the fortress sank in the channel. Thoir remains did not block the channel.

Admiral Makaroff reports that he left Port Arthur on the 26th, with battleships, cruisers, and torpedo destroyers for a reconnaissance of the adjacent islands. General Kuropatkin has arrived at Harkin. A St. Petersburg correspondent states that in consequence of forty thousand Japanese, the Bussians retired upon their entrenchments in the Yalu.

The Japanese advance guard and artillery are forty miles south of the river. The ice is breaking on tho Yalu. The Japanese are expected to attempt a crossing with the assistance of their gunboats, which have already arrived.