The Archive · 1905

In Saghalien

The Japanese are renaming all iniportant places in Karafuto (Saghalien). Korsakoff has been renamed Kushunkotan, as styled by the Ainu.. The Military Administration in the island is headed by, Major-General Takenouchi, formerly at Port Arthur. The Civil Commission, resided over by K. Kumagai, late of the ome Office, will leave Tokio on: the 10th inst, Upon the surrender of Lieut.- General "Liapnoff, with about 2,300 officers and mon, the island became an unqualified possession of the: Japanese, Those who surrendered with Gonoral off are regulars. ho original total strength of the regulars and volunteers numbered about ten thousand.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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