Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1904 — War News in Brief. [ARTICLE]

War News in Brief.

Fort Dalny is said to be filled with wounded men. An official dispatch from Shanghai •ays the Russian consul has notified the taotni that the Askold and Grozovoi have been disarmed. Two Russian torpedo-boat destroyers ■truck mines at the entrance of Port Arthur. The larger one of the destroyers, a four-funneled one, was sunk. The names of the vessels and the number of lives lost are unknown. The Russian cruiser Norik', the fastest

protected cruiser In the world, la beached in a sinking condition at KorSakovsk, Island of Sakhalien, after a two days’ running battle with the Japanese cruisers Chitose and Tsushima. The Japanese sustained small damage. Tho fate of the Russian sailors is not known. Russian advices received at Chefoo aay that two Japanese assaults on Port Arthur were repulsed with tremendons losses. It is added that the Attempt of the Japanese to capture fort No. 1 cost them 10,000 men and that their attack on Fort Etseshan resulted in their Igslng 3,000 men killed or wounded.