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was transporting 1,258 people, including 867 members of a railway engineering battalion. Both vessels were transporting a large amount of stores, most critically needed were eighteen
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opened fire, killing or wounding over 30 men, before the
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to attack the Russian fortifications at Port Arthur.
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