THE WAR.

Manawatu Herald, 24 December 1904, Page 3

THE WAR.

BRITISH STEAMER CAPTURED. RUSSIAN OFFICERS ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE. As a result of the recent fighting •v another 26 Japanese officers were and 44 wounded at Fort s' Arthur. The Japanese guardship Asagati Captured the British steamer King Arthur while attempting to escape from Port Arthur with Russian naval officers aboard who were trying to ' join the Baltic fleet. Khilkoff has requisitioned one • thousand extra railway carriages from South Russia and be hopes loon to transport forty thousand soldiers each month. A SAVAGE CONFLICT. After the first assault on Keekwan was repulsed 800 Russians reinforced the fort, but only twenty escaped, the exploding of the mines having filled the covered way. The Japanese white and red heroes torseeing that they would be mutilated by the hand grenades, wrote their names in their caps and on their leggings and clothing to ensure their identification. According to General Meckel, a former adviser to the Japanese mill tary authorities, the German general staff is convinced of the hopelessness of the Russians emerging from the war victorious. When the present Russian mobilisation is completed there will be half a million reserves under the colours.