Shanghai, 19th March.
We have just received news from Newchwang, according to which the town was occupied by the 15th East-Siberian Infantry Regiment, the Regiment of Primorski Dragoons and one battery of field artillery. The railway station is occupied by a Russian officer and twenty men, but the Chinese railway service is not interfered with. The ' Sivoutch" is till in dock, but ready to go out, as soon as the ico breaks; she is painted black and ready for action. The European stores have enhanced their prices twenty-five per cent; the market prices have gone up a hundred anda hundred and fifty per cent. All oxen and coal have been purchased by the Russians.
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