Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1904 — War News in Brief. [ARTICLE]

War News in Brief.

Japan has decided on another loan of 140,000,000. Russia lias ordered eleven torpedo boats in France. The Japanese have about 150,000 men ■round Mukden. The new Japanese conscription will furnish 200,000 men. Russian papers say that country is fighting two wars—one with Japan and a diplomatic one with the European powtrs.

Conditions at Port Arthur have become unbearable, but Gen. Stoessel raves When surrender is suggested. Japanese claim that Russians fire on their burial parties at Tort Arthur In order that the dead may cause disease. In a three-day battle the Japanese seized Fort Kuropatkin and thus got control of Port Arthur's water supply. Russians at Vladivostok mistook tbs planet Jupiter for a Jav>aue»e war balloon and were preparing to fire at It when the mistake was discovered.