THE LATEST.

Manawatu Herald, 25 October 1904, Page 2

THE LATEST.

RUSSIANS CONCENTRATING AGAINST KUROKI. A Tokio message of yesterday’s date reports that the Russians are concentrating against General Kuroki. A detachment of . Russian cavalry has crossed the Taitsoho, east of Pensihh. ’ v: General Kuropatkin reports that the Japanese, at nightfall on. Thursday, retired from Shaho the Russians bad ‘ shelled' the station. The retreat was precipitate] arms, ammunition and stores being abandoned. " Marshall Oyama reports that investigations to Saturday show that the Russians’ loss in the battle . of Shaho were:— Prisoners, 100; corpses, 10,550; guns, 45 ; shells, 6,974. THE RUSSIAN WOUNDED. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the newspaper Echo Da Paris states 70 per cent of the Russian sick and wounded rejoin the ranks after a fortnight, their wounds being slight unless abdominal. Thecopper* cased bullets the Japanese use, however, wound dangerously. . The Russian Admira'ty Council has annulled the Vladivostok Court’s confiscation of the Allanton, and released the ship and cargo, though it is considered the suspicious circumstances justified the arrest. The Japanese captured 5,474 rifles at the battle of Shaho.