Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1905 — War News in Brief. [ARTICLE]

War News in Brief.

A large rpinntity of Russiuu ammunition was seized in'China. The Japanese have sent seoutships in search of the Russian Baltic fleet. Japan will send her ehtire Port Arthur fleet to meet the Russian Baltic squadron. St. Petersburg newspapers charge the Japanese with fomenting anti-foreign sentiment in China. The Russian ministry to'spend at least $800,000,000 on a new navy, while continuing the war, serve to show the Russians’ indomitable spirit. Certainly it is the sentiment of the powers the Czar lias had enough. Gen. Stoessel’s surrender does not meet with a word of criticism in Russia. Even in defeat Gen. Stoessel's wonderful defense of Port Arthur lias earned for him an imperishable name in'Russian military annals.

Three things to fight for—honor, country and borne.