Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1904 — WAR NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

WAR NEWS IN BRIEF.

All foreign consuls in Newehwang have been notified officially that martial law is in force. Irkoff, the Russian government official convicted of selling secrets to The Japanese’, was hanged. The -Vladivostok squadron is reported to have captured several prizes, including a Japanese warship. The government is ordering the construction of an immense dock for Port Arthur, to be completed in four months. The Russian armored cruiser Dmitri Donskoi and three torpedo boats left Bizerta, Tunis. Their destination is not known.

At Newehwang American and British flags were removed by the Russian military from the property of citizens of those countries. The Japanese infantry won a fight with Cossacks between Anjjjatid Chong Ju. Fifty Japanese were killed. The Russian loss is unknown. » The Czar has telegraphed to Vice Admiral Mnkaroff an order decorating the officers nnd men of the torpedo-boat destroyer Silni with the St. George’s cross for their valor in the repulse of the Japanese attempt to block Port Arthur. The Japanese squadron made nnothcr unsuccessful attempt to block Fort Arthur harbor. Their four tire ships were sunk and three of the crews were lost.

Smallpox has become epidemic in the interior around Irkutsk, Siberia. The authorities have taken measures to stamp out the disease, which has yet affected the troops. So that the Russian troops shall not present a bright target for the enemy, an order has been issued by the ministry of war directing that gray' instead of white shall be the color of the uniform during the summer season.