THE WAR.

Manawatu Herald, 14 April 1904, Page 2

THE WAR.

TWO TRAINS OP RUSSIAN WOUNDED. Reports from Mukden received at Tientsin state that two trains passed conveying to Harbin many Russians wounded in the engagement at Yalu. Two thousand Russian Artillery, with sixty guns, arrived at Niuchwang on Thursday. Admiral Makarnff frustrated a fresh attempt to surprise Port Arthur and the Japanese vessels then withdrew. Searchlights disclosed their approach. RUSSIA’S TYRANNY DENOUNCED BY POLES. Commander Kulizilki has informed the Czar that he is willing to pilot the Baltic squadron to the Far East via the sea of Kara, and he is con fident that he would arrive there in August. Russia intends to employ for military purposes armoured automobiles manufactured on the Continent. Niuchwang is practically closed to commerce. The Russians will not reply to ships signalling for pilots to take vessels up the Liao river. The Russians have buried, with naval ceremonies, the body of Commander Hirose, the Japanese hero who was killed in a recent attack on Port Arthur. Russia has bought thirty guns at Connecticut and has shipped them to the Far East. A crowded rrleetifig of Polish emigrants, in Whitechapel, denounced Russia’s tyranny towards Poland, and prayed for Russia’s defeat in the war with a view to weakening her power and thus to enable the Poles to change the political situation. Storms at sea and rains in Southern Manchuria are impeding the war operations. Vice-Admiral Rogestvonsky, chief of the Russian Navy Staff, in an interview, declared the fleet at Port Arthur at the outset ought to have gone out and fought tooth and nail and even sacrificed the fleet in order to prevent the Japanese landing in Korea. Japanese thrown overboard. Admiral Makaroff telegraphs that the entire Russian fleet has just returned to Port Arthur from a cruise far out at sea. The enemy was not seen. A Japanese cruiser captured a Russian coasting steamer early in the war. A prize crew, numbering eight, was ordered to take the vessel to a Japanese port." It now transpires that the captain, using the East Honian language, with which the Japanese were not acquainted, arranged a rescue. At a given signal, the crew rushed the Japanese and threw all overboard excepting two officers, who were conveyed, as prisoners, to Vladivostock. The Times’ correspondent with the Japanese headquarters says that neither of the belligerents desire to fight in the vicinity of the Yalu. The Russians recognised that the Japanese possession of the sea would enable them to turn the Russians’ right flank on the Yalu, and, therefore, desire to entice their opponents inland, while the Japanese wish to get inland where a more suitable theatre may be obtained for their operations.