Tokio, 12th August, Marshal Yamagata conveys the Imperial wishes for the removal of non-combatants before the general attack at Port Arthur, Yamagata instructs the commander at Dalny {Anchorage to provide facili s for their removal.—Our own correspon dent.
We have to thank the Consul-General for Japan for thy following official telegram:—4
Tokio, 13th August, His Imperial Majesty, ueiuated by motives of humanity, has graciously expressed. his desi € to see the no. combatants in Port Arthur saved as much as possible from the disastrous
-|the Commander-in-Chief of his consequences of war. Acconlingly, jjesty's forces in Manchuria hi been instructed to the effect that women, children, and clergymen, as well as diplomatic und military officers of ventral Powers at Port Arthur, who may desire to seek refuge, shall be escorted to Dalny, and that similar treatment should be ext other non-combatants, as tary exigencies permit.
T add for your information these refugees will be transported from Dalny to Nagasaki, whence they will be allowed to start for their respective hoimes—Komuna.
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