We have to thank the Consul-General for Japan for the following official tele-Tokiv, 22nd December.
The Port Arthur army reports:—The right det eliment made an assault on, and occupied, a height north of Housanyangtou near n Bay, on Thursday morning. On the same day also we captured another height on the peninsula We have received the "China Times" to the 17th inst.—News had been received of the death at home of Mr. Oswald, the well-known Tientsin architect and engineer.—The nurse who escaped from the Russian into the Japanese lines on the Shaho was sent by the French Consul at Newchwang to Chefoo, and it is now expected that the Sister Superior there will gladly get her off to Japan, where the Russian officer she wishes to join is prisoner.—General Linievitch, who commanded the Siberian troops in China during the Boxer troubles, has arrived at Mukden to take command of the second army.
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