DETAILS OF RECENT FIGHTING.

Manawatu Herald, 4 June 1904, Page 2

DETAILS OF RECENT FIGHTING.

The Russians destroyed a gunboafe used at Talienwan to bombard the Japanese left flank at Nanahan. It is supposed to be the Bohr. While reconnoitring off Port Arthur on the 80th, Japanese gunboats, destroyers, and torpedo boats were exposed to a heavy fire from the forts.

A shell struck a gunboat, killing four men and damaging one gun. The reconnaisance revealed a new searchlight station and several new forts. Several Chinese have been hanged at Vladivostok tof signalling to tha Japanese fleet. Bandits pillaged and partly burned Dalny between the Russian evacuation and the Japanese occupation. The artillery captured at Nanahun includes some naval guns in excellent condition. The Neue Free Press states that Russia has ordered from a Trieste company five twenty-one knot atmoured cruisers, costing sixty million francs. Two will be completed this year. They will be delivered unarmed,’ and Russia will thus avoid a breach of the neutrality laws. The Japanese Consul-General has received a cable that General Oko advices that his detachment occupied Dalny on the B(sth. Over a hundred warehouses and barracks, telegraph offices, railway station, and two hundred cars have been found uninjured. The docks and piers were left uninjured, excepting the great plow which has been destroyed. The Chuncbuses captured ‘ the principal Chinese merchant at Dalny, before the Japanese arrived, extracting a ransom of fifty thousand roubles. The Russians fled before Ohenkoehenpan was occupied. They intend to defend a second position twelve miles to the north-east of Port Arthur, but the position is not nearly so formidable as that at EincbaU. Continental experts express their admiration and amazement at the storming of Kinchau, which was a feat of arms of the first rank. Tha Japanese are now dealing with three thousand Cossack raiders in the Gensam and Songehin Jjtftriots. Two contraband cargoes of flour, tinned meats and specie have been landed at Niuchwang and hurried to Mukden.