Latest Wires. London, Wednesday. the War
A French newspaper reports that in a fight at Souchon between Japanese and Cossacks the former suffered severely till reinforcements arrived, when the latter…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1904
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War News. London. April 5
Japanese accounts state that there are 260,000 Japanese troops in motion, besides 60,000 troops in garrison. It is believed that Japan intends to operate with three armies of 100,000 men each…
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There is no sign that the Russians intend to vigorously oppose the Japanese crossing the Yalu. The Cossacks and the outlying garrison are apparently only intended as screens, behind which the…
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The Russian papers publish details with reference to the disaster which overtook the battleship Petropavlovsk outside Port Arthur. These reports state that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War News. London, April 15
Reuter's Agency learns from Japanese sources that the attack on the Russian fleet by ViceAdmiral Togo on Wednesday was carefully planned. The torpedo craft made a demonstration at early…
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Speaking to a reporter [?] comments recently made about the supply of [?] and of small arms ammunitoon Mr Chapman said that Mr. page M.P. of…
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The Japanese forces in Korea consist of 45,000. oops, who are advancing on the yalu 15,000 reservists guarding the lines of communication and 4000 troops…
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'The Russian soldier,' says a French writer, 'is brave, doolie and gay by nature, and it is a pleasure to see a detachment of improvised musicians…
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General Kuropatkin reports that Russian outposts have occupied islands in the Lower Yalu, within 400 yards of the Japanese outposts, who retreated at night…
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ADMIRAL ALEXEIEFF reports that steam launches were placing mines in position on Friday when one exploded under the stoa[?] of one of the steam launches, and 21…
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Admiral Alexeieff has telegraphed to St Peterurg an account of another disaster . He regret to report that when steam launches were laying mines on Friday one…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War News. London, April 22
The Japanese War Office is flooded with applications from men of all ages anxious to go to the front. Many of the applications have been written in the blood of the applicants. No volunteers have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hoodie Crows and Wounded Game
A correspondent of 'Country Life' writing from Norfolk says:--'At this time of the year we suffer from a regular invasion of grey crows which come across…
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Vice-Admiral Skrydleff, who has succeeded Vice-Admiral Makeroff, told the Czar that his task was almost impossible, but he would do his [?]most…
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Sandie Macpherson was a soldier in an English regiment, which landed in India on Christmas Day, Sandie was longing to hear a 'braw Scot's' tongue. Suddenly…
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Yesterday the unprotected Japanese colony at Geusan on the east coast of Korea, 115 miles north-eath of Seoul, was a armed by the arrival of three of the Vladivostok cruisers and two torpedo craft,…
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CABLES dated April 28 state that 200 Japanese perished by the sinking of the Armed transport Kinshu Maru by Russian torpedo boats. She was…
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Eighty seven of the column operating with Colonel Glasenapp in-German [?]ritory, South-west Africa, against the Hereros, are down with typhoid fever…
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The United States Minister for Foreign Affairs at Washington is informed by cable that the engagement on the Yalu between: Japanese and Russian troops resulted in a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War News. London, April 29
Reports from Tokio state that the Russian armoured cruiser Roasia, 12,130 tons, torpedoed the Kinshu Maru, 73 men being drowned. Russian despatches claim that the Japanese lost 130 men…
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