For the third time singe the beginning of the war, the usually quiet routine of life in this port has been enlivened by the advent of Russian torpedo-hosts, which have ran the gauntlet of the Japaneno block ding eqoadron outside Port Archur, and ran for refuge into this so-called ventral port. On the first ace sion the Reschitebelnij was seized by the Japanese in the harbour and towed away, rifier her commander had attempted unsueesstully t" blow her up. The second boat, the Ratstoropny, was sunk in the harbour anchirge, after having been ostensibly handed over to the Chinese authorities to be dis nted. Consequently the excitement of ths community here may be imagined when Monday morning revealed the presence of two Russinn destroyera and.two picket-boats which hud escaped from the doomed and falling fortress, unwilling, apparently, to share ite fate, Certainly'a New Year's souvenir which was hardly anticipated. We are told we should not look a gif Itis, nevertheless, advisable eometim-3 to invest it with muzzle. The.; wo destroyers
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