KUROPATKIN DESIRES TO ABANDON PORT ARTHUR.
General Kuropatkin reports that the Japanese bombarded Siungyuecheng and landed a force at the village of Huangtsiatung. They marched in the direction of Kaiping. The Paris newspaper Le Temps states that General Kuropatkin wishes to abandon Port Arthur and retire to Harbin, as he is unable to defend Liaoyang with only sixteen thousand in the fighting line. Admiral Alexietf insists that Port Arthur is impregnable. The Czar’s entourage support Admiral Alexieff. The appearance of considerable bodies of the enemy in the northwest region of Manchuria caused the military at St. Petersburg to believe that the Japanese are trying to bar General Kuropatkin’s retreat northward, while the main Japanese force is hurled against Liaoyang. Mukden reports state that twenty thousand Japanese landed at Kalchu. Reuter’s Mukden correspondent states that the Japanese appeared thirty miles north-east of the Mukden line. Lord Lansdowne state# that Russia has notified that cotton will be regarded as contraband of war. General Kuropatkin is expected to retire on Harbin wi h a hundred and twenty thousand men.
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Manawatu Herald, 21 May 1904, Page 2
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176KUROPATKIN DESIRES TO ABANDON PORT ARTHUR. Manawatu Herald, 21 May 1904, Page 2
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