ALLEGED TREACHERY OF RUSSIANS.

Manawatu Herald, 9 June 1904, Page 2

ALLEGED TREACHERY OF RUSSIANS.

A Japanese cruiser reports that she saw four masts, one bearing 'wireless telegraphic instruments and a sentry box, on the top of Laotishan. The Daily Telegraph’s Nagasaki correspondent reports that a wounded Japanese officer informed him a party of Russians, at Nanshan, sur rendering under a white flag, the Japanese advanced to pass them, when the enemy fired point blank, killing and wounding many. TO DECEIVE THE PUBLIC. The Times’ correspondents aboard tho Hairaun state that continuous explosions at Port Arthur are inter preted to indicate the demolition of certain Government buildings. But it is pointed out that even if the channel is practicable for ships ol large draught there is insufficieni coal in Por Arthur for such vessels to proceed to sea. The Ht Petersburg correspnnden! of the Echo do Paris suggests that the story that- the Czar ordered General Kuropatkiu to detach a portion of his army to relieve Port Arthur was invented by the Minister ol War to deceive the public. The folly of the attempt is generally admitted. MYSTERIOUS EXPLOSIONS IN PORI’ ARTHUR. The Times’ correspondents aim'd the Haimnn state that continuous explosions at Port Arthur are interpreted to indicate the demolition of certain Government buildings. But it is pointed out that even if the channel is practicable- Ur ships of large (fraught there is insufficient coal in Port Arthur for such vessels to proceed to sea The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Echo de Paris suggests that the story that the Czar ordend General Kuropatkiu to detach a portion of his army to relieve Port Arthur was invented by the Minister of War to deceive the public. The folly of the attempt is generally admitted.