THE WAR.

Manawatu Herald, 13 September 1904, Page 2

THE WAR.

ATTEMPTING TO OUTFLANK KUROPATKIN. A vagus message from General Kuropatkin is interpreted to mean that he is threatened on both flanks. General Kuroki is marching parallel with the railway 27 miles to the eastward, and General Oku is doing similarly 20 miles to the westward. JAPANESE CAPTURE GUNS AND STORES. Rome advices state the Japanese pursuing the retreaters have captured 97 abandoned guns, mostly unspiked, and thousands of rifles. Many stories of heroism are told about both sides in the fighting at Liaoyang The Russians, on one occasion, surrounded two Japanese battalions in a millet field. A desperate fight followed. The Japanese refused to accept quarter, preferring death to surrended, and all were kill. d. A detachment of Russian frontier guards aso displayed great bravery and died at iheir post, refusing to suri'efitlei’. The paper Novy Krai states that an electrical land mine 'near Port Arthur blew up a Japanese column, 700 strong, while marching in a valley. Very few escaped. The Japanese bombarded Korsakovsk and torpedoed the stranded Russian warship Novik. ON STARVATION RATIONS. Moscow papers declare the soldiers, officera, and even generals, are living for days on mouldy bread, b’own tinned meats and filthy water, which was teeming with vermin. The Russians admit the position at Liaoyang was too long for defence. After crossing the Taitse river the soldiers, and horses were so exhausted that they might have suffered terribly if the Japanese had displayed their usual enterprise. Attacks from the eastern heights compelled the Russians, on Monday, to cross the railway and retreat by the western road.