Tokio, 22nd June.
It is officially announced: that. the Japanese occupied Hsiungyaochéng yesterday afternoon—Our own correspondent.
The two northern roads which diverge at Pulantion mest again at Hsiungyaochéng, some twenty miles south of Kaiping.—Ep.
We have to thank the Corisul-General for Japan for the two following official telegrams received by him on Wednesday Tokio, 22nd June.
(1) The destroyer flotilla engaged in blockading off Port Arthur on the morning of the 21st June examined two Chinese junks emerging from the port, who stated that two Russian destroyers three or four days ago ran on mines and sank a mile and a-half from Port Arthur with casualties aggregating 140.
The steamer Hsintaiping was also recently blown up by mines outside Port Arthar.—Komura.
(2) A detachment of the Liaotung army occupied on the afternoon of twenty-five miles southewenti the Ist June Hsiungynochéng, Kaiping—Komura.
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