The Blocking of Port Arthur.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11252, 10 May 1904, Page 5

The Blocking of Port Arthur.

How It was Accomplished.

Gallant Work by the Japanese.

Russian Forces in Manchuria.

12,000 Cavalry and 150,000

Infantry.

Received May 9, 11. M p.m. LONDOM, it] ay 9. The official report of the casualties suffered in the blocking of Port Arthur arc : Ono officer and live men killed, hnd five officers and fifteen men wounded; fourteen officers and seventy-lour men are missing. In the face of the ineespent lire poured into the channel, Lieutenant losa, commanding' the steamer "Emikawa Maru, rammed his way through the boom and reached the centre of the inner entrance, where lie anchored und blew up his ship. The Bussin n gun fire and mines helped to sink the othern. • ' The Totomi Jtfnru collided with the boom, and Sunk' athwart the passage, blocking nearly half of it. As the Veda Maru was. anchoring at the entrance c?f the, channel. Commander Takayanagi -was "shot. Sub-Lieiitucnant Nagatu assumed command and sank the ship. Reports state that the Russians in Manchuria number twelve thousand cavalry and a hundred and fifty thousand infantry. Tli ere arc 224 guns in Eastern Siberia, five thousand cavalry, twenty thousand infantry, and 32 guns.