CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3500, 23 March 1905, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

The Eastern War. PRIVATIONS OF WOUNDED. WHAT JAPAN WILL DO IN. SIX ' • MONTHS. London, March 20. The Japanese found guns buried at Mukden, It is believed at Tokiothat four hundred guns were thrown into the river. General Kamarnura, on the 15th, brilliantly routed three divisions to the south of Tieling. Many fugitives, who are without food, are living on dead horses. Private advices from Harbin state there are only sixty surgeons and 150 nurses to attend to seventy thousand sick and wounded. Snyematsu, on being interviewed by a representative of the Paris newspaper “ Martin,” said that within six months Harbin, Vladivostock, the island of Saghallen and the whole Siberian seaboard would be in Japan’s hands. Then, quite other terms would be imposed than would be accepted now. RUSSIA'S HOPES. SHE WOULD LILE FOREIGN INTERVENTION. London, March 21. It is reported that General Kama- j mura ie approaching Kirin, whence he might threaten Changchun, on the j Kuintuleng, and intercept tint re- I treaters*, I The Milan newspaper Ilseoolo has collected thousands of signatures to a petition to the Government to offer mediation with a view to the termination of the war in the Far East. The “Morning Post's” St. Petersburg correspondent says Russia is prolonging the War in the hope that the Powers will intervene to obtain bettor , terms than would be conceded by a straight out deal between Russia and Jana:;. 1 The Russian rearguard is now 25 ! miles north ofTieling. Tho Russians report that the pursuit is weakening. ; Chinese spies are deserting to the Japanese. A Norwegian trader accompanying the retreat relates that Cossacks looted Tieling, sold champagne at a rouble a ■ bottle and burned or smashed everything they were unable to sell. The : authorities shot some. > !