THE WAR.

Manawatu Herald, 18 October 1904, Page 2

THE WAR.

OKXJ’S ARMY AT WORK. LONDON, October 14. ' General Oku captured a Russian battery and pursued and effectively shelled the retreating enemy, taking many prisoners. The Japanese were reinforced and expelled the Russians from the vicinity of the mines, inflicting a loss of 800. The Japs casualties were also Severe, Several Japanese squadrons of the 11th Regiment dashed against the Voronezh Regiment, and not a man returned. The forces fought at 400 yards apart, Reuter report that General Oku’s victory was a decisive one. [n Japs left wing threatened to envelop the Russian right, and compelled the Ozar’s forces to retreat. Several positions were taken and retaken six or eight times, at a terrible cost. The Russians admit the capture by the Japs of many guns. EIGHTY GUNS TAKEN. General Nodzu’s chief captures were guns, ammunition, and waggons a few miles eastward of Yentai. The Russians, during their disorderly retreat, lost four more. General Oku, pursuing the enemy near the Shili river, captured five guns and five ammunition waggons. The Standard’s correspondent, near Yentai, says the Japanese altogether had captured seventy guns to Thursday last. PORT ARTHUR. The Russians are offering' fabulous terms for the conveyance of coal and foodstuffs to Port Arthur. The German steamer Emma is about to try and run the blockade. It is officially reported thdt 27 Japanese officers were killed and 133 wounded at Port Arthur during the month of July. LONDON, October 15. The St, Petersburg correspondent of the Petit Journal states that one of the Czar’s aides-de-camp has admitted that two regiments of the Russian right wing lost on the mdrning of the 12th 1500 men and 36 guns, and that by the evening the regiments were compelled to retreat precipitately, abandoning 76 guns. The communications of the Russian centre column and left wing were cut, and the retreat became general, and quickly assumed the nature of a disaster. The Alexander 111. Regiment was annihilated, and two other regiments nearly so. It is believed the Russian and Japanesecasualtiesamount to 80000. RUSSIA’S MAIN BODY. It is reported from Tokio that the main body of Russians on. Friday night fell back on the mountains east of the railway, where they halted, and faced the Japanese right. The Russians at Ponsihu fled in a north-easterly direction. The Japs are now engaging Kuropatkin’s reserves.