THE WAR.

Manawatu Herald, 10 January 1905, Page 3

THE WAR.

A STEAMER CONFISCATED.

THE BALTIC FI/EET.

Russian officers declarJ that of the casualties requiring treatment at Port Arthur at least eigpt thousand are Japanese. The Prize Court bass condemned the steamer Nigretia, recently captured by the Japanese, to be confiscated because the ( captain and lieutenant of the Russian destroyer Raztoropni, which tookj refuge at Chifu, were aboard trying to escape. Russia has protested to the Chinese Government against Chinese detachments participating in the fighting at Tailing Pass; also, against Japan using Miaotao Island as a naval base. I The Paris newspapfr Le Matin implies that'the authorities of Madagascar are less alive to/the necessity for observing a strict neutrality than the French Government. Some of the German colliers which were following the Baltic fleet experienced mishaps. Russia is trying, to obtain coal facilities and to repair her fleet at Madagascar. Also ; j maps of the routes and anchorages in the Indian ocean. k ■ I It is semi-officiply stated that the Baltic fleet remains outside the French temtoriailWaters.

JAPS HOPE RECOVER RUSSIAN WARSHIPS.

The premium’s offering af: L’oyds are equivalent to 2 to 1 against the war terminating by May. There are indications that only parts of the battleships above the waterline destroyed at Port Arthur, and » )ra are no signs of interior ,ns. The Japanese hope that repe-hs will be possible. French advkos state th*t Admiral Poelkorsahm. Vao is off Tamatave, telegraphs ib jWO cruisers of the Squadron ariuseless owing to a breakdown of the machinery. A WARNING IGNORED.

Generals Stojsssel and Nogi had a two hoars’ interview in a cottage at Shinsbi village. General Stoessel has been granted parole and is returning to Russia, via Nagasaki. The Times' Vienna correspondent reports that the Kaiser, on the eve of the war, un frf the Czar to reflect before rejecting the •Japanese terms,

; Eliding tb

In view of his exact yarding the respective

forces he feared the result. The Oaar replied that ail measures would be t! 4 kea to assure victory.