p. 9 | AFFAIRS IN THE ORIENT

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 27, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 30.

AFFAIRS IN THE ORIENT.

TURKEY has permitted the passage of the Dardanelles to several Russian vessels which were ostensibly designed for hospital work in the Orient. At least two of these are now engaged in actual war operations in the Red Sea, hunting for contraband of war, and one is said to be receiving arms and armament at a French port. England is expected to land a protest with the Turkish authorities. Heavy losses have been sustained by the Japanese in recent operations about Port Arthur, tho the persistent report that 30,000 Japanese lost their lives there is not believed. The Japanese have captured the city of Kaiping, after a desperate resistance for three days by 30,000 Russians. Ciungtan, which is called the key to the Russian defensive works at Port Arthur, has been taken by the Japanese, and fighting is said to be going on continually in that vicinity. On July 14 the Japanese occupied Yinkow, the Russian garrison escaping with difficulty. In the advance on Yinkow a body of the Japanese was ambushed by the Russians, and lost heavily. It is now stated that a large number of Japan's heavy siege guns which were to be used in the reduction of Port Arthur went down with the transports sunk by the Russian Vladivostock fleet. Thirty thousand more Japanese troops have been landed in the vicinity of Port Arthur to take part in its capture. The great battle between the main forces in the vicinity of Ta Che Kiaou is daily expected.