Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1904 — War News in Brief. [ARTICLE]

War News in Brief.

It Is reported that Edward F. Knight, the correspondent of the London Morning Post with the Japanese army, was killed st Wafangtien. H. J. Middleton, the Aeeociated Press correspondent with the Russian headquarters near Llaoyang, In Manchuria, died Sunday from enteric dysentery. Later details of the naval battle off Tort Arthur show that the Japanese torpedo boats defied the broadsides of the Russian fleet, sailing boldly up to the battleships and launching their torpedoes with deadly effect Defeat of the Russian army near Tatcheklao la reported In St. Petersburg, but confirmation cannot be obtuined. Gen. Oku's'forces ere said to be withdrawing from the position they have held, but military experts think this may conceal a movement in another direction. The St Petersburg Novoe Vremya, calling attention to the statement that Don Jaime de Bourbon was an eye witness to< the killing of Russiau wounded at Vafangow, declares that something must be done quickly to prevent the war degenerating into the seneelees brutality which the Japanese practices indicate.