Russo-Japanese Struggle.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3493, 7 March 1905, Page 3

Russo-Japanese Struggle.

PROGRESS OF FIGHTING ON THE SHA-HO, A COUNTER MOVE POSSIBLE. London. March 3. General Knroki occupies part of the first line on the Russian defences on the hills at Sha-ho. A series of tresh desperate engagements has taken place all along the front. The Russian official account states that two vigorous attacks were made, but were repulsed. The Japanese lost heavily. Four Japanese divisions, turning the Russians right wing at Liao, have reached Sawinpu, nA-miles otf Alruden. The advance was then checked. The Russians assert that the transfer of General Kuropatkin’s headquarters to Inushnn shows that he is prepared for a counter move. Ficnch papers anticipate grave consequences if he lias destroyed the railway bridge before his troops are over the Sungari.

WORLD’S RECORD FIGHT, KUROPATKIN SUFFERS SERIOUS DEFEAT. London, March sth. St. Petersburg reports imply that Mukden is completely isolated, the Russians retreating to. Tiding, also that a breakdown had occurred on tne railway. , ~ , General Kuropatkm reports that a Russian detachment at Kudtaza on Thursday repulsed a Japanese attack, inflicting enormous losses. A company was annihilated. General Oka on Wednesday opened a terrific bombardment with a bundled enormous gnus, greatly damaging the Russian defences and the villages on both sides of the railway. The Russians were unable to reply. It is estimated there arc 350,000 Japanese and 300,000 Russians engaged in a great battle, the greatest in the history of the world. A private Harbin telegram received at St. Petersburg states that the Japanese on Thursday recaptured the Platiloff and Novgorod hills after a terrific bombardment with eleven-men mortars. ,1 General Rennenkampf s cavalry division was was almost annihilated. The Russians abandoned all positions on the Hun hoin order to escape being surrounded. On Wednesday, after desperate bayoneting, General Knroki crossed the Sha-ho, and despite a determined resistance, by means of night marches, gained great successes and occupied on Thursday the Russian first line of triple defences on the bids beyond the river.