'A submarine cable has been completed from Soya, Hokkaido, to Alexandrowsky, besides that from Soya to Korsako They communicate with the land-line vid Hokkaido and Aomori, The refloated prize vessel Porosviot (now Sagami) reached the Saseho Admiralty by her own engines at 3.50 on the 23rd inst, The transport Australia, of American nationality, captured at Petropaviovsk, Kamchatka, by the Janaval detachment, has already sent on to Yokosuka.
The prize vessels so far obtained by the Japanese number over fifty, and already in the government 29th August.
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