TO-DAY'S CABLES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 8038, 10 January 1905, Page 5

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

Miscellaneous Items.

(Received To-day, at 51.3 a.m.)

London, Last Night.

Reuter states that the prisoners who surrendered at Port Arthur will go to

Kure.

The Russians, on the 4th, interpreted the Japanese shouts of " Banzai" along the whole front at Sbaho to mean that Port Arthur had fallen. When the report was confirmed, it produced a deep impression, but the Russians kept up their usual gaiety at St. Petersburg.

Small congregations, including a few high officials, attended service at the cathedrals in memory of those who fell at Port Arthur.

[Received To-day, at 8.45 a.m.)

Berlin, Last Night.

The Mukden correspondent of the Lokal Avzicjer states that Marshal Oyama wrote a letter to General Kuropatkin informing him of the capitulation of Port Arthur. In it he expressed his admiration of the gallant defender?.

The effect of the news proved overwhelming since a longer defence on the part of the garrison was expected.

London, Last Night.

The Dally Telegraph states that rumours of the capitulation were allowed to spread at Mukden on the sth, but were not officially confirmed up to 6th.

(Received To-day, at 8.53 a.m./

London, Last Night.

Baron Kleist, of the Russian navy, interviewed at Chefoo, said the main cause of capitulation was the lack of heavy guns and ammunition. The Japanese estimate the Russian casualties at Port Artnur at twenty-five thousand.

Japan will shortly propose a domestic loan of ten million pounds.

None of the Baltic Fleet have entered Diego, Suarez, Tamalave, or Majunga.

The French cruisers are insufficient to watch the whole Madagascar coast.