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Show JAPS PLAN TO TAKE ALL OF SOUTHERN MANCHURIA SBSsWaBBBBieBBSSSBMBSBasa Gen. Kurokl Declares Purpose (Is to Occupy Port Arthur and Newcfawang. LIAO TANG, Thursday, July 7. Gen. Kurokl, talking to. a Russian officer who has been taken prisoner, said tha Japanese Intend to take possession of all southern Manchuria, establishing themselves at Port Arthur and Tin Kow (the port of Newchwang), which It is purposed to fortify, garrison with large bodies of troops and supply It with long range artillery. If the Russians then recapture these places. Gen. Kurokl declared, it will be at the cost of an enormous amount of money and 800,000 fresh troops from Europe. |