Russo-Japanese Struggle.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3504, 1 April 1905, Page 3

Russo-Japanese Struggle.

PEACE NEGOTIATIONS Denied. GREAT FALL IN STOCK. GENERAL LINIEVITCH LOSING THOUSANDS OF MEN. London, March 30. It is officially announced that Russia has proposed no conditions of peace. Russian four per cents again fell several points, owing to increasing pessimism regarding the war and delay m conceding real reforms. French correspondents declare that the whole of Russia is in a state of effervescene. The news that the whole Baltic Seet had left Madagascar on the 16th has been confirmed. There are various indications that it will probably next be heard of in the neighbourhood of Chagos, where coal and stores were sent. The “ Daily Express’” St. Petersburg correspondent says General Linievitch is losing one thousand men per day by surrenders or desertions, besides four hundred daily through skirmishes. The Japanese nevyspapers publish details of the fighting at Litjunpao on the 7th, when two regiments were annihilated excepting one hundred, who successfully withstood the Russian turning movement. The Russian First Army Corps reports that the Japanese have not moved for a week, General Batianoff told an interviewer that the war would be fought to the end in accordance with the will of the Gzar. The Liao river is now free from ice, Japanese transports and merchantmen have entered Ninchwang. Twenty thousand prisoners from Mukden have arrived in Japan. Revised estimates of the Japanese casualties at Mukden and Tiding give the number as 57,000. The 11 Chronicle” asserts that Japan will stipulate an indemnity of one hundred millions stalingPLENTY OF MONEY FOR THE JAPANESE. London, March 30. Over 200,000 British applications have been made for the Japanese loan which is believed has been subscribed tenfold. The American share was many times over-subscribed. One American applied for three millions sterling, and several for one million. THE INDEMNITY CLAIM. London, March 30. The “ Daily Chronicle ” asserts that Japan will stipulate lor an indemnity fl a hundred millions sterling. STUBBORN JAPS. DAMAGE TO RAILWAY. London, March 30. Russian officials and private telegrams show that the Japanese are 65 miles from Mwangchengtze along the railway. The whereabouts of the flanking columns is still a mystery. The Japancese main army is 30 versts from the Russian outposts.

A Japanese column is 27 miles northeast of Sipingkas. The Russians are reported to have evacuated further stations on the railway in the direction ot Kunsuling. French St. Petersburg advices state that the Japanese have cut the HarbinViadivostock railway. The Figaro states that over-ruling M. de Witte and Count Lamsdorff, the Czar sided with the minority of the Finance Committee and Grand Ducal party in favour of the continuation of the war. The Grand Dukes’ hope centres in Admiral Rozdhestvensky. A fourth Russian squadron is preparing to sail.