Latest Cables. the War. London
Japanese cruisers are searching for the Russian Vladivostok squadron in the neighbourhood of Sagbalien. General Yaman and 5000 Japanese troops…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1904
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War News. London, March 15
Japanese cruisers are searching for the Russian Vladivostock squadron in the neighbourhood of Saghalien. General Yaman and 5000 Japanese troops…
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The correspondent of a Parisian journal, who interviewed Baron Von Rosen late Russian Minister to Japan (who left Tokio on the eve of the war and who is now [?]…
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The Times war corresponded reports that the Japanese are holding Anju, the city on the Great Mandarin-road, 150 miles north of Seoul and 70 miles east-south-east of Wiju, on the Yalu…
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A SHARP engagement has taken place near Wiju. The Russian casualties number 600. Severe fighting has taken place at…
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Admiral Alexieff reports that on Monday night the search light revealed the approach of Japanese torpedo boats towards port Arthur The forts and guard ships opened…
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M. Katoka, a Japanese merchant, has been secretly buried alive at Tientsin as a Russian spy. The Japanese inhabitants are overjoyed at the spy’s fate…
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The correspondent of the Daily Telegraph at Tokio telegraphs that a Tokio newspaper published on Monday a highly circumstantial account of the capture of Port Arthur. This report states that a…
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The employment of the damaged Russian cruiser Retvisan as a stationary battery, in the defence of Port Artbaur, has resulted in a serious loosening of her plates…
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All the horrors of war are [?] the Liao-tung Peninsula, the scene of Russia’s greatest martial activity (says a correspondent writing from [?] on February 17…
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The third report of the Esher Commission states that the War Commissioner’s reports have revealed a stale of affairs which are an entrage on the public…
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ADMIRAL TOGO reports that his fleet was not injured during the bombardment of Port Arthur on Monday night. He states that five Russian…
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The Tokio correspondent of the Daily Telegraph reports that on Tuesday night 16 Japanese warships escorted seven merchant steamers, which, under cover of bombardment of the fostress, were…
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Correspondents at Tokio state that two hundred transports are conveying coal and troops to a secret base, 120 miles form Port Arthur…
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A cable from Seonl states that 55 transports arrived at China[?] Korea, and have landed a large force with sixty guns. There are now 125,000 Japanese troops in Korea…
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The Daily Mail reports that the Japanese engaged the Russians at Chongju (on the left wing of the Japanese advance in Korea) and were victorious, although they lost 50 men. The Russians retreated…
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Admiral Toge has revisited Port A[?]bur[?] with the Japanese main squadron, and found the operations of Sunday last in the neck of the channel had so narrowed it that entrances…
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The Chinese and Japanese being satisfied that the disarmament of the Russian gunboat Mandjur at Shanghai is complete, the Japanese cruiser which was lying at Woosung watching her has been…
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On October 20, 1899, the first general action of the Boer War took place, when the British force in Glencoe camp, under Major General…
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The Japanese fro[?]tal base is at Anju. Bridges have been laid across the Chaug-Vhung and Pak-Chung rivers, and the advance upon the Yalu is preparing by three…
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