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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1905
Page
5
Reports from Chefoo describe Gen Stoessel nearing surrender as Port Arthur endures bombardment and garrison losses. Messages to St Petersburg and Gen Kuropatkin weighed on decision making while Japanese forces tightened the siege.
Tokyo reports Gen Stoessel amid sharp censure for destroying Russian warships and blowing up ships after offering surrender. Nichi Nichi shows strong blemish on his record, contrasting Imperial honors with his actions. Jiji labels Stoessel’s conduct mean and unlawful. An ad for Cold Cause Soré and Laxative Bromo Quinize follows.
Gen Stoessel’s dispatches from Chefoo detail Port Arthur’s rapid decline in safety and rising scurvy, with ammo gone, 11,000 sick, and only 10,000 men under arms. The fortress fell after Japanese mines and bombardment, forcing Russia to rethink sea power and reinforcements as Emperor Nicholas heads toward St. Petersburg for crisis talks.
Maud B Opplinghr praises Dr Miles Nervine as a cure for nervous disorders and loss of vitality in women. She claims delicate women improve health and vigor by strengthening the nervous system and endorses a money back guarantee with a free trial bottle offer.
Paris reports deny any imminent mediation move by France or others. Russia vows to push the war while Port Arthur’s fall is noted as expected. British officials view early peace as unlikely and Japan signals readiness to discuss terms if Russia consents. US stance remains neutral, offering help only if both belligerents request it.
The Japanese Third Army detonated seven mines under Ashlune Mountain fort on December 28, wiping out much of the Russian garrison. After fierce combat, Japan captured the fort by dawn, suffering about 1,000 casualties while taking large guns and machine weapons and burning barracks and kitchens.
Newport News Va Jan 8 The German steamship Adria sailed for Hamburg this morning with two Lake submarine boats and equipment on board valued at 150000. They are consigned to Walsh. Underwriters had prevented sailing yesterday alleging the safety of the ship was imperiled by how the submarines were stowed aboard.
A broad claim offers Dr Shapp's Restorative as a cure that targets the underlying causes of indigestion. The ad promises a free full dollar bottle and a mail-order book set, urging readers to request information without risk. It lists multiple “books” on related health topics and directs to a box address for orders.
Russia defends Sakhalin as a penal colony near Japan, citing its mines fisheries and Arctic climate. Japan seeks the island for strategic control of the Amur region and seas. Exiles are invited to join Russia’s defense with potential sentence curtailment, while Kamchatkan forces have repelled Japanese incursions and locals vow loyalty if attacked.
London sources report Japan will propose changing war rules on blockade runners after Port Arthur’s fall. The move aims to classify captains and crews as belligerents and impose strict penalties beyond confiscation, citing vast Japanese casualties in the protracted defense.
The Porte replies to American and British notes on Bible sales, refusing street peddling. It states Bible societies prop up propaganda and that the empire forbids propaganda, so access to scriptures must be limited to shops or depots, banning itinerant colporteurs.
The government offers Adolf Beck, a Swedish mining engineer living in England, 45,000 in compensation for a miscarriage of justice. Beck was imprisoned in 1896 for alleged theft from women, with a committee finding the judge Sir Forrest Fulton to blame for excluding favorable evidence and not stating a case to a higher court.
Empress and young princes Joachim and Oscar were in the music room when a chimney defect caused a brief fire. Servants extinguished the flames before Berlin firemen arrived. The Emperor ordered a special report on the incident.
George M. Cohan, famed writer and comedian, will debut as a solo star at the Columbia next Monday in Little Johnny Jones a musical comedy that has run successfully in New York and Philadelphia. The production features over twenty musical numbers and a cast of about a hundred, with seat sales opening at the Columbia box office tomorrow morning.
William H Baldwin Jr longtime head of the Long Island Rail Road dies at Locust Valley L I after months of cancer surgery His public work included a Fifteen Committee chairing duties tenement law enforcement anti vice efforts and education promotion in the South Cardiff Wales Jan 3 Daniel T Phillips American consul in Cardiff dies after sudden illness an explosion injures a servant The consul’s death attributed to shock Middletown N Y Mrs Ann Haebrouck dies at 104 three of her sons served in the Civil War.
Toledo officers John Stollburg Milton Taylor and John Nolen of the board of public service were indicted by a special grand jury on three counts for being interested in selling supplies to the city. The offense is a penitentiary crime in Ohio.
The advertisement urges trying Liquozone first with a 50 cent bottle paid by the company and a year of large spending on promotion. It claims the product acts like oxygen, kills germs without harming tissue, and offers a $1,000 germ claim. A free full-size bottle coupon is offered with no obligation.
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