13 FEBRUARY 1904, page 1

Meantime We May Expect A Naval Attack On Vladivostok, Unless

the Russians have really been so foolish as to send their squadron out of the port already, in which case it will almost certainly be met and destroyed before it reaches Port......

News Of The Week.

T AST Sunday afternoon London learned that war had, in fact, broken out, and that the Japanese Minister had been withdrawn from St. Petersburg. As we have said elsewhere, it is......

In None Of The Actions Did The Japanese Suffer Any

loss in men or ships. Thus the war opens with loss or serious damage to nine of the Russian ships, the greater number of these being first-class battleships. At the . same time,......

Baltimore Has Been The Scene This Week Of One Of

the most devastating of recent fires, which, beginning last Sunday morning, raged for two days, and destroyed all the ancient centre of the city and the entire business quarter.......

It Is Difficult To Say Where The Next Blow Is

likely to be struck ; but the Japanese are pouring troops into Korea—they have some four hundred thousand men ready mobilised and equipped—and it is believed that they will very......

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