THE WAR.

Manawatu Herald, 19 March 1904, Page 2

THE WAR.

A PLUCKY MIDSHIPMAN.

RUSSIA’S HATRED OF BRI

TAIN.

The Daily Express’ Niuohwang correspondent states a midshipman named Paloviky saved a torpedo destroyer during the attack on Port Arthur on the 10th, after the steers man was shot and the electric gear disabled, by taking the wheel and steering away from four Japanese destroyers despite a hail of bullets. The bodies of two Russians have been recovered from the Varyag and buried at Ohemulpho with full military honours. Japanese drew the gna carriage and fired volleys oven them.

The Czar has refused to all w Prince Louis Bonaparte to proceed to the Par East

The newspaper Echo de Paris says General Kuropatkin has declared that Prance, Germany, and Austria have an agreement with Russia to prevent Britain from taking parkin another Berlin treaty and robbing Russia of the fruits of her coming victories.

FINANCIERS AGREE TO ASSIST RUSSIA.

St. Petersburg reports state that a group of international financiers have undertaken to obtain forty million sterling as a war loan if Russia’s existing resources are exhausted. ROOSEVELT CAUTIOUS. President Roosevelt has instructed naval Captain Perry not to preside at the Russian entertainment at the Waldorf Hotel as it was arranged to d>, on the ground that such an act might appear to be a breach of the neutrality proclamation. The Daily Express’ correspondent reports that the Japanese shells in the bombardment of Port Arthur on the 10th, killed nineteen of the Retvizan’s officers and men.

Another shell, bursting amid a crowd who were gazing from a point of vantage, killed twenty five, while a third set fire to a cruiser, supposed to be the Diana; eighty of the crew perishing. The commander of, the Retvizan has been decorated.

RESIDENTS OF NIUCHWANG WARNED.

In the House of Commons, Earl Percy, in replying to Mr Charles McArthur, said the sloop of war Bspiegle would leave Niuohwang as s*on as the river opens. She would be in considerable danger in the event of serious hostilities, and her presence would not afford effective protection to life and property. The British and American Consuls had requested all women and children to quit town, Doubtless, if necessary,

they would similarly advise all other British and American residents. The belligerents would b * requested to do their utmost to safeguard the Britishers’ interests.

THE BOMBARDMENT OF PORt ARTHUR. BUSINESS PREMISES DEMOLISHED. •

General Kuropatkin corrects the report of the interview cabled on the 14th He states ho hopes to finish with Japan by the end of the year. A Chefu telegram states that the Russian cruiser Skori, while entering Port Arthur, s : ruok a mine, and was b own up. Four, only, of the crew were saved. This message probably refers to the torpedo destroyer Skorti, as there is no criuser of that name.

Norweigan vessels which have arrived at Shanghai report that the bombardment on the 10th practically demolished all the buildings in the main streets of Port Arthur. FAILURE OP WIRE&ES3 TELEGRAPHY.

The Marconi system failed to work during the bombardment of Port Arthur, on the 10th, owing to the electric currents from the Japanese vessels.

The Russians have sunk bulks at the entrance to Port Arthur, reduc ing the fairway to three hundred feet.

The Russian warship Mandjur’s crew is returning to Russia on parole. The Berlin newspaper Lokal An zeiger declares that the Grand Duchess Olga goes to the front to command the R«d Cross Societies’ Ambulance Corps.