MILLIONAIRES AVERSE TO THE WAR.

Manawatu Herald, 25 June 1904, Page 2

MILLIONAIRES AVERSE TO THE WAR.

It is reported that the Russians, in retreating from Wafangkau, mistook Emerson, the New York World’s correspondent, for a spy and shot him. Advices received at St. Petersburg and Now York state that General Kuropatkin personally directed the movement from Liaoyang southwards. General Kuroki and Oku functioned and presented a solid front to the column between Haicheng and Liaoyang, driving to Liaoyang and perhaps beyond, Russian officials in villages are putting, pressure on the people to contribute to a so-called voluntary subscription in aid of the war. The amount communes are expected to contribute is fixed beforehand The millionaires of Moscow are contributing niggardly sums. Mozoraff, one of the richest, told the Grand Duke Sergius that manufacturers preferred paying many thousand roubles daily in wages to keep the Socialist workers busy to assisting to continue a frivolous and useless war which was destined to inflict endless misery, TWO DESTROYERS LOST. The Japanese captured a junk near Port Arthur, The Chiuese who were aboard report that two Russian destroyers and the steamer Shintaping struck mines at the entrance and sank, 140 being killed. General Kuropatkin reports that the fifth division of the East Siberian Rides alone lost, at Telesze, 15 officers killed and 49 wounded, 886 soldiers killed and 992 wounded, besides 12 officers and 568 men lefr. on the battlefield killed or wounded. In the First Artillery Brigade ten officers were wounded and 102 men killed. In other regiments an enormous proportion of officers were disabled by tha Japanese sharpshooters. Some Russian detachments lost all their officers. RUSSIANS AMBUSHED. The Daily Mails’ Niuchwang cor* respondent reports that the Japanese artillery ambushed General Kurkondratovitch’s force of 8,000 from Walangkan, in a ravine 9 miles to the south-east of Kaiping, A largo force of ManchurialsHfflidits are marching on Genson. The Standard’s correspondent at the Japanese headquarters reports via Fusau, that a large Russian force to the northwards of Fengwangcbeng attacked a small body of Japanese at Hoachlinnen. After a stubborn fight the Japanese retired. The Daily Mail’s correspondent adds that the Japanese casualties were heavy. The incident is interpreted in London as a sign that numbers of Japanese have been with drawn and sent towards Kaiping. AN ATTACK ON PORT ARTHUR. Chifu reports a determined attack on Port Arthur on Wednesday, both by land and sea, lasting till night. General Kuropatkin, at Kaiping, addressing General Stackelberg’s army, declared: “We must settle the Japanese promptly, otherwise we will not return to our homes ” He decorated 250 officers.