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Manawatu Herald, 10 September 1904, Page 2

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RUSSIAN NEWSPAPER CONFISOATEI). KUROKI ENTERS YENTAI. HOW THE JAPS CAPTURED LIAOYANG. The police of St. Petersburg confiscated the newspaper Novoe Vremya’s edition announcing that the Japanese were rapidly advancing on Mukden. The latest advices state the Russian rearguard have evacuated Yontai. « General Kuroki occupied the Yentai line to the collieries. The scouts got to within 12 miles eastward of Mukden. The Japanese captured quantities of guns, stores and ammunition at Liaoyang, notwithstanding the ravages of the fire throughout Monday The latest census of opinion is that General Kuropatkin will retreat further unless prevent-d by Generals Kuroki and Oku effecting a junction. . The Russian paper Vilomoski states that General Kuroki has 148,000 men with 366 guns, making a total under General Oyama of 355,000 men with 1002 guns, or 90,000 men and 368 guns above the Russian strength. JAPANESE DETACHMENTS OUT UP. BRAYE SISTERS OF MERCY. RUSSIAN BATTALIONS DIE HARD. The St. Petersburg correspondents of French newspapers state the Cossacks, on Wednesday night, cut up a strong detachment of Japanese seven miles" from Mukden. An American eye-witness of the Russian stampede at Liaoyang, testi ties to the heroism of the Sisters of Mercy in removing the wounded to the hospital under shell fire. One sister was killed and seven wounded while dressing wounds in the streets. The soldiers are completely exhausted and sleep in the firing line. The Japanese turning movement ’ust failed owing to entire Russian battalions suffering annihilation to prevent the cutting of their line of •communications.