NOTES ON THE WAR.

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

NOTES ON THE WAR.

T . _ , —on, xuesaavi hLTw? 0 d0 o lbt , tbs Bussian main body that left on Sunday. The troops that fled in disorder were probably the laggardsiahathose who_preferrec the pleasures of 'the dty to facing the road. It is likely thit - are 1106 D °w flying in fear. By this time retreating; must have settled into a system, and the soldier, will, trudge along nke a swagman. So lnn« a-5-v

i r uu iuup as ns fldn: keep out of range of the Japanese guns be Th?°J-m ke n t0 f e o ßrfc himself very much! The difficuLy of General Kuropaikm willbo to got his worn soldiers to advance ?e°nf th T- ara fast enaugh to porrnit of concentration at some strateeioal nhint

Tnero is significance in the' cSbleeram' reporting that all women: have been uS I dered out of Vladivostok. It has'been thf t S fh tßd m thQ Shanghai newspaper? that the presence of women in Port Arthur i caused its downfall. A writer in » Shane' 5 referring to the surrender savi | H was not caused by starvation. Per’that they had sufficient proof “ in (he comfoTf' aWe portliness of the ladies and gem“m en of long names and sad memories ” wh? had arrived at Shanghai from Port Arthm, £lq says that manv of tho

oiueers had urged that toe women should be sent away, but tbatd'ho order never givoD. ' Weeping ladies used to coisSregat" at General Sloessol’s table and ~ va '?° yoUL ' honour more than d\ir Jives. This etcry may not ho .true, bdi the wntrr says that tho Russian cflicersV were very emphatic that the nrpspnf*ft rtf \

* vuo presence ot women and children had hampered the defence. Vladivostok apparently is to bo ,• saved from fbat handicap. J Jt is certain that botb the Russian and 5 ' Japanese fleets are somewhere in f. Indian Ocean. Rcshdestvonsky probe' I s cedeavouriug to slip nas3 - tho Janai

fleot, m order to teach Vladivostok, v the oepanesp, cn the other band,- moa. hnog him to battle before he can got it, Japanese waters. Tho Daval aide of- t war should now develop rapidly.'-:N.i. Herald. r- rS/ ,

Captain Edwin rsportod-at noon yeste r day t —“ Gale , front; between no 1- '" ' s "’ west and south west/ after 12 now ; glass fall ; tides' ) heavy off shore j iaia gf

We get only glimpses of what is takinS place upon tho snow-frmgod roadsdMdfe ‘ f! laa . a ‘ Thursday’s said Itnf* Russians had evacuated Changtufn on Sunday, yesterday’s cablegrams that-the Japanese occupied the nlacri nn Tno.jawi-