THE WAR.

Manawatu Herald, 15 September 1904, Page 2

THE WAR.

DESPERATE FIGHTING. * BOTH SIDES LOSE HEAVILY. Detailed accounts show that General Kuroki’s failure to get round the Russian left and at the railway to the north of Liaoyang was due to General Kuropatkin’s foresight in sending a greatly superior force across the Taitse river. Some of the most sanguinary encounters occurred around Heiyentai, which was the key to the Russian position. On the night of the 2nd, the Japanese stormed the heights at the point of the bayonet, and they held it all next day despite their heavy losses. The Russians, at night, by reckless bravery, gained the summit. Prolonged bayonet fighting resulted in the Russian defeat with appalling losses. At the same time the Japanese attacked the Russian batteries. By means of electrical devices the gunners ascertained the exact position of the assailants, mowing them down in swaths. One battalion Was annihilated, dying in heaps before the guns. . There were three thousand casualties aroilnd Dairen tab AN ARMED TRANSPORT AT ’FRISCO. A BIG FIND OF WAR MATERIAL. STRAINED RELATIONS BETWEEN RUSSIA AND CHINA. The Japanese Consul has pro'ested against the Russian armed transport Lena remaining at ’Frisco beyond 24 hours. The authorities are awaiting a report as to the extent of repairs which may be necessary. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Cologne Gazette reports that a secret depbt, established at Port Arthur before the China-Japanese war, was recently unearthed. It contained between sixty and one hundred thousand shells, several hundred old Krupp guns, large quantities of powder, rifles and cartridges. The relations between the Russian authorities and the Chinese Governor of Mukden have been broken. LIAOYANG LOOTED. CHINESE TROOPS PILLAGE THEIR OWN SHOPS. Russians plundered the European and Chinese shops in Liaoyang and destroyed the foodstuffs. Much liquor was drunk and many excesses were committed. The Chinese troops, after the evacuation, continued the pillaging, and the Japanese, who were without food, completed the looting of the provisions. The Daily Mail’s Tientsin correspondent reports that General Linevitch, with 50.000* men in northeastern Korea, c W Kuroki’s communication with Fengwhancheng.