THE WAR.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1409, 21 March 1905, Page 2

THE WAR.

A WARSAW THREAT.

AN ABANDONED PBOJECT.

GENERAL NEWS. ' DETERMINED JAPANESE,

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright . London. March 19. Cremation fires are burning all over the battlefiolde. Two thousand dead bodieß were found within a few yards at Likainpu.

Japanese officials report that on Thursday a dotachment dispersed eight Russian squadrons, with artillery, on the right bank of the river Liao-Ho. They occupied a height, and cannonaded the retreating Russians, consisting of an infantry division and ton squadrons. This evacuation of Tieling was due to the presence of tho wounded impeding the fighting.

A missionary/ \tes that General Nogi marohed along t. oast bank of Liao river, and thus l <pected Chinese-.neu-trality. . \ f"-, ■

Moderates in high Japanese Councils have hitherto opposed the marohiDg on Harbin. The victory at Mukden has removed their opposition, and the war is being carried to its utmost limit. It is officially stated at St. Petersburg that the gold reserves in the State bank amount to 896,600,000 roubles,and that the Russian gold reserves abroad are 453 millions. Credit notes have been issued to the amount of 790 millions.

St. Petersburg, March 19. The Novoe Vremya declares that Great Britain’s claim in the Knight Commander ease is unprecedented and unjustifiable. Once the demand would have roused Russia to arms. To-day she is bowed fh shame and forced to face the insult.

KIAYUEN EVACUATED.

CONCENTRATING THE FORCES,

By Telegraph— PreßS Association—Copyright Received 10.17 p.m., Maroh 20.

m Loudon, March 20. the hills made defeuee possible the Russians, owing to the closeness of'the Japanese pursuit and the dread of being outflanked, evacuated Kiayuen on Saturday after buruiDg the station. The evacuation occurred just after tho Japanese occupation of Fakumen.

• General Linevitch telegraphed on Saturday : “ Our armies are continuing concentration.”

Marshal Oyama’s prisoners ’state that the Russians resisting the Japanese south of Tieling on Wednesday oonsisted of three divisions.

General Kuropatkin directed the figh at Tieling on Tuesday.

A NINE DAYS’ PURSUIT.

KUROPATKIN TO REMAIN AT FRONT.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Gopyrlgh Received 11.52 p.m., March 20.

Loudon, March 20. General Kuroki pursued the Russians for nine days. There was frequent fighting over eighty miles. The retreaters became daily more disorganised.

His advance brigade occupied Tieling after a brief engagemsnt. Early in tbe Mukden battle a splinter from a shell wounded General Kuropatkin. ( It is stated that as a result of an interchange of telegrams with the Czar, General Kuropatkin remains at the-front in command of the first army. He assumed command yesterday.

MOBILISATION MEANS A STRIKE

&X Electrib Telegraph—Per Press Association, —'Copyright. Reoeived 12.1 a.m., March 21. St. Petersburg,'March 20. All the labor organisations of Warsaw have _ agreed to strike the ! moment mobilisation orders appear.

MYSTEKIOUS BOSHDESTVENSKY.

Byj Electric .Telegnapji — Per Press - [Association—.Copyrights Beoeived 12.10 a.m., March 21. . London, March 20. Laying a double track on the Siberian railway has been abandoned owing to the dearness of labor. , Admiral Roshdestvensky’s destination is unknown.