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Show RUSSIAN OFFICERS IN JUNK CAPTURED; A BIG i STEAMER: SUNK BY JAPS "':'' BX7IXETIN. - TOKIO, May 22, 8 p. m. It Is reported that a junk filled with Kus-- Kus-- si&n officers has been captured. It la presumed that they were making1 a reconnaissance from Vladivostok. i CHE FOO. May 22. Travelers who arrived ar-rived here today from Port Arthur say that a Japanese armored force of a hundred hun-dred men boarded the fiusalan steamer Kuan on Saturday In Port Arthur har- bor on receipt of a dispatch from Toklo announcingthat the Japanese Government had decided to retain her as a prise on the ground that she is a war vessel. The Russians used the Kazan as a hospital ship during the siege. Russian Steamer Sunk. HONG KONG. May 22. The latest steamer to arrive here reports sighting a Russian volunteer fleet steamer, accompanied ac-companied by a large transport In the Hainan straits on the morning -of May 20. They were steaming west. |