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SMOKELESS POWDER tPED BY RUSSIANs.
While the Japanese were pressing the Yalu the Russians used smokeless powder with excellent results, the Russians’ positions in numbers of cases, being undiseoverable A merchant who is in a position to know told Reuter’s correspondent at Shan haikwan that there was coal at Port Arthur to suffice the warships for six weeks and foodstuffs to suffice 80Q0 men for three months. The capture of Dalny will seriously interfere with Port Arthur’s electrical supply.
Bandits have cut the railway at Haicheng. The Japanese censors, by mutilating them, spoilt £2OOO worth of cablegrams to London and New York.
RUSSIAN WOUNDED SUFFER ING TERRIBLY.
Geneaal Kuropatkin admits that the Russian casualties on the Yalu were 2324 men and 70 officers. The Russian wounded are suffer, ing terribly, no ambulance being available. Comrades carry them or they have to walk. Much hospital equipment at Fengwengcheng was captured. The behaviour of the Chinese who have enlisted in a Russian regiment at Harbin is causing anxiety. There are three thousand bandits outside Niuchwang ready to loot when evacuated.
.Russia has ordered from St. Etienne two hundred thousand L"bel rifles, to be completed at the rate of 500 weekly.
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Manawatu Herald, 12 May 1904, Page 2
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