CABLE NEWS.
War in Manchuria. CONTINUED RETREAT RUSSIAN EFFORTS TO CHECK JAPANESE. London, April 15. Russians in retreat from Kai-yuan (seventy miles north of Mukden) have reached Kirin (two hundred miles north-east), leaving a rearguard of 8000 at Itsuchan, Haldusil, and Sulipaii. Russians from Fakumen and Changtu are rallying at Chang-chung, but 13,000 remain at Fenghwa, and 3000 at Pamien-cheng (forty miles northwest of Kai-yuan), to check the Japanese advance. it is officially reported at Tokio that Japanese troops advancing along the Pushun-Hai-lung road, after defeating a Russian regiment of infantry and six sotnias of cavalry with fohr guns at Erk-holo, eight miles northeast of Ying-patt (on the Hunho, forty miles east by north of Mukden), occupied Tsangshi (twenty miles north-east of Ying-pau). The KUSSians fought every step, retreating to HaiJung (eighty miles due east of Kaiyuan), where a rearguard of 12,000 i» posted. REPORTED COSSACK SUCCESS. St. Petersburg, April 16. General Linevitch reports that Cossacks, on the xoth, discovered a force of Japanese in the Hunho Valley and turned their position on two Sides. The Japanese fled westward.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3511, 18 April 1905, Page 3
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179CABLE NEWS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3511, 18 April 1905, Page 3
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