We have to thank the Consul-General for Japan for the following official telegram, received by him from Tokio "Admiral Kataoka reports that the Third fleet arrived at Kerr Bay near (eastward of) Talienwan on the morning of the 12th instant. The Tisukushima, Nisshin, and Miyako undertook a demonstrative bombardment while the torpedo-boat flotillas were engaged in sweeping and sounding the sea, An officer and four men landed and destroyed the telegraph. Of the Russian mines discovered three were successfully
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