THE WAR.

Manawatu Herald, 9 April 1904, Page 2

THE WAR.

MANOEUVRING ON LAND. There has been no sign of the Japanese fleet since Sunday. Naval critics surmise it is co-operating with the army in crossing the Yalu. The Russians possess a line of fortified posts from Niuohwang to Antung. They recrossed the Yalu on Friday. The Chronicle’s Shanghai correspondent states that owing to the treachery of a Japanese officer the plan of campaign has been largely changed. The discovery was made through finding the "place where the troops were originally intended to land thoroughly mined. The officer has been arrested. The Russians are paying huge sums to induce the Japanese to sell information. The Russians are trying to dynamite the ships sunk at the entrance to Port Arthur, but are experiencing great difficulties. A Japanese was sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment foe supplying

naval information to the Russians about Yokohama and Maisuru. The Czar has declined the aid of the 500 Servians who volunteered for service in the Far Fast, CONVICTS OFFER TO SERVE RUSSIA. * REPORTED INTERVENTION. . Many Japanese at Chinampho and Anju are suffering from frost bitten feet.

Two hundred convicts from the Caucasus have arrived at Kharbin, having volunteered to serve at the front to expiate their crimes. A similar force is organising at Sak Halin Island, a Russian convict settlement in the North Pacific. Persistent reports, originating in Copenhagen, are in circulation to the effect that King Edward is preparing to interpose, at the opportune moment, on behalf of Peace in the Far East. JAPS FORTIFYING POSITIONS. The Japanese are fortifying Fusan and Koje Island. War correspondents have left Kobe for the front. FIGHT WITH COSSACKS. Russia has ordered, in Belgium, 250 carriages, cased with steel, for the transport of troops. The French newspapers report a fight, near Louohon, to the southwards of Wiju, between Japanese cavalry and Cossacks. The former suffered severely until they were reinforced, the Russians then refciring. Three hundred Japanese infantry, at Youngampho, found Russian depots, which they pillaged and burnt. Forty-five Tonghak bandit insurgents were hanged at Kunohon, Korea. RUSSIAN GUNS REMOVED. JAPANESE SPIES CAPTURED.

A Seoul telegram reports that the Japanese, by a rapid advance, forced the Russians to abandon twenty-four guns at Wiju. The Sayan, flying Admiral Makaroff’s flag, chased, overhauled, and liberated the Times correspondent’s steamer Haimun, 85 miles from Port Arthur. A Tokio telegram states the Russian guns at Wiju have been removed to Antung. The Russian scheme of administration economies saves fourteen million sterling, which will be de voted to'the war. Mr Bennett Burleigh, the Daily Telegraph war correspondent, states the ioe floes render the passage of the Yalu dangerous, probably, for a fortnight. The Russians are bridging the Yalu at chosen spots. Scouts report the Russian defences along the Yalu and Tumen rivers are scattered, rendering concentration difficult if the line is once broken. The Russians have captured two spies at Niuohwang with plans of the new fortifications. ATTEMPTS TO WRECK TROOP TRAINS. Forty Japanese transports, with a portion of the second army intended fir Yongampho, is off Huiju, fifty miles northward of Chemulpho. Advices received in Tokio state that Japanese transports with stores have entered the estuary of the Yalu river, effecting a landing on the Korean bank. Several fresh attempts have been made to wreck trains in the Tomsk district. A signalman who was ap preaching the obstacle placed on the line was fired on from a forest. A bullet shattered his hand, but he succeeded in stopping a train which contained 1000 Cossacks, The Czar is contributing to the war fund three years’ revenue from his private estates. .