Harbin, April 6.
It was not until last night that any authentic news concerning the occupation of Vladivostok by the Japanese was received in Harbin. This is due to the fact that telegraphic communication with the Primorsk is entirely interrupted, the news which was received being sent from Pogranitchnaya. government and military buildings ut Vladivostok were occupied by the Japanese in the early hours of the morning of the 5th instant, troops at the same time being sent to the suburbs of the Port—Vtory Rechka and Ongotnaya and about the same time the Japanese commenced active operations Nikolsk and Habarovsk. As the troops of the Primorsk Provisional Government had no idea of this contemplated Japanese action, the latter at the beginning met witn practically no opposition and it was only after all the important positions and buildings were in the hands of the Japanese that firing between the Russians and Japanese began.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.