The Archive · 1904

NEUTRALITY

THE SINKING OF THE NAKONOURA MARU

We have received the following official telegram from the Japanese Consul-General here "Tokio, 22nd February.

"The "crew and passengers on board the Nakonoura Maru, w'.ich was bombarded and sunk in the Teugaru Sea by the Ru-sian men-of-war were all, except only two, saved by these men-of-war, and they have arrived from Vladivoscock at Nagasaki to-day by a German steamer."

Tokio, 22nd February.

Thirty-seven of the crew and four Fonsam Maru recently sunk off, passengers from tie steamer Na-

Hokkaido returned tv Nagasaki 10- day by a German steamer from Viadivostock, where they arrived on the 14th of February, having been saved by the Russian cruiser Gromoboi.

Two sailors were drowned on the spot by the bombardment.—-Our own correspondent.

London vii Bombay, 22nd Feb wary.

The Pais "Temps" publishes an article, laying strs on the anxiety felt in both Great Britain and France to hold aloof from the war, and ur ving both Powers not t" let their inclinations carry them beyond what is proper.—Reater.

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