THE WAR.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 30, 4 February 1905, Page 5

THE WAR.

iISSIAN SUPPLIES FAILING.

' EHSON FOR THE ATTACK. OF PROVISIONS, DASGER FOR SUSSIA3S ABUX c, (sSte.-ITeaS CBeeefced 9.3S a-m.) ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 3■Bus earlier reports to the effect thtf there Is a anions scarcity of vse7is ± ma vriih the Russian amy to jfcuiclioria is confirmed. LONDON, Feraraary 3. There Iβ great anxiety felt in St. petewberg reapecting tke provi|ionlßg 0 £ General Knropatiin'e „„, in April, and May, by which ttae the whole of Manchuria's retotacta will have been exhausted.

GRIPENBERG'S COMPLAINT.

GOTEBAIS AT VARIANCE. (Received 8.29 ajn.) LONDON, February 3. There are persistent reports that General Gripenberg is making accusations against General KuropatWn of having inadequately reinforced him dnring the progress of the fighting. The two generala are stated by these reports to be utterly at variance* and Gripenberg, it is said, would like to xetnrn to Russia.

JAPS HOLD HUN RIVER.

THE RUSSIAN MISTAKE. THOUGHT ENEMY TTNPRHPARED. I Received 5.29 ajn.j LONDON, February 3. Field-Marshal Oyazaa, in a report on the recent fighting, states thai the Japanese are in firm possession of the line of the Han Rivei, their extreme posts being established on the right bank of the stream. It now , appears that the reason of the Russian attack was that they iad been informed lay the Chinese that the Japanese were unprepared to resist them. This statement had completely misled General Gripenberg and his staff, with the consequence of a disastrous attack on General Oku.

SLAUGHTER OF RUSSIANS.

POUR REGIMENTS NEARLY WIPED OUT. LONDON, February 3. Field-Marshal Oyama reports that the casualties of the Japanese fai the recent fighting were seven thousand, a figure which is in •gwemeat with the earlier reportf. PHjonew say that four Russian wglmeati of infantry were nearly ■Muhllated, and that many oomPaniei were reduced to twenty or thirty jufsa..

THE RECENT FIGHTING.

GONSTTL-GENERAL'S REPORT. COMBINED CASUALTIES 17,000. i Received 8.43 ajn.) SYDNEY, this day. A cable received by the Japanese CoM,a -General states that FieldMarshal Oyama reports fierce fight ™g from January 25th to the 29th. Tie enemy consisted of the First Stterfan , Army Corps, one army !°*ps consisting of the Second and *»ta Brigades of Sharpshooters, Wrt of the Eighth Army Corps, the l"t Siberian reserve division, and "»• cHasseurs, the total amount. ™Bo at least seven divisions, with one cavalry division. • Our casual™V concludes the Commander. *?-Chief, "numbered about seven aad the Rnssiaji at least wn thousand."

AUXILIARY BALTIC SQUADRON.

(Received 8.29 a.m.) LONDON, February 3. HtaS lina ., PetroVßk y' s auxiliary squadBule d from Jibutil for Madaga,-