THE WAR.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, 31 March 1905, Page 2

THE WAR.

GENERAL NEWS

£sy Telegraph—Press Assooiation—Copyri,® London, March Tho Ruseian first army reports tj 1 Japanese have not mo.vod for a wee' M. Batianoff told an "interview, tho war would ho fought to the f accordance with tho will of tho Czij The Liao river is now freo of ici aneso transports and merckantm* entered NinchwaDg. > . Twenty thousand prisoners frc. den have arrived in Japan. Tho revised estimates of Japanese casa'allies at Mukden aDd Tiding show a to’al of 57,000.

The Daily Chronicle asserts that Japan will stipulate for an indemnity of ono hundred million pounds sterling. Tho nows that tho whole Baltic fleet loft Madagascar on .the 16th is confirmed. There aro various indications that it will probably next ba heard of in tho neighborhood of Chagos, whore coal and stores have boen sent.

The Daily Express’s St. Petersburg correspondent says that General Linovitch is losing 1000 men by surrenders or desertions, besides 400: daily by skirmishes. --

Japanese newspapers publish details of the fighting at Litwaupao on the 7th, when two regiments were annihilated, excepting 100, who successfully withstood tho Russian turning movement.

SIGHTING OF THE WARSHIPS,

By Telegraph—Press Aesociation—Copyright Roceivod 9 43 p.m., March 30. London, March 30. Thirty warships end fourteen colliers were sighted on the 19th 250 miles northeast of Madagascar, steering easterly.

CONDITIONS OF PEACE DENIED

FURTHER FALL IN RUSSIAN . SECURITIES.

By Telegraph—Pres3 Assooiation—Copyright Received 10.3 p.m., March 30. ' - London, Maroh 30. It is officially announced that Russia has proposed no conditions of peace. Russian fours again fell several points.