THE FLOATING MINES.

Manawatu Herald, 28 May 1904, Page 2

THE FLOATING MINES.

The leading newspapers of Britain and America are emphatic in denouncing the reckless sowing of the ocean with floating which they characterise as savage Jtnd HI disregard of neutral rights. General Kuroki reports that a section of infantry encountered 200 Cossacks eight miles north east of Kwantien, and that the Cossacks fled north-east, leaving twenty dead. Fourteen vessels of the Black Sea floi-t, including several battleships, are mobilising in readiness for servie ■. General Kuropatkin’s despatches with reference to skirmishes prove that the Japanese are gradually pushing inland. Professor Woolsey, of Yale College, a leading authority on the subject, declares that mines anchored or scattered beyond the territorial limit Torm an indiscriminate attack on neutrals by the belligerents, and is illegal. It is reported at Mukden that Cossacks have captured several transport columns, thus hampering General Kuroki. The Japanese ai'9 closing Yougarapho to mercantile traffic. This is supposed to be a prelude to the landing of a part of the third army ou the Yalu. The Japanese treat captured Russian spies as prisoners and do nob shoot them. General Stossel has seized all the banks’ cash at Port Arthur. An Oifu telegram reports that heavv firing was heard near* Port Arthur, indicating a land attack,' since the Japanese fleet was not there. . The assistant president of th 6 Canadian-Pacific railway is confident that the light and kadly-oonatructed Manchurian railway J 3 unable to victual balf-a-million Russians.