Fighting in Manchuria.
.. ■ REPORTED DEFEAT OF JAPANESE TROOPS. KUROPATKIN IMPEACHED. London, May 27. General Linevitch reports that General Mistchenko, with portions of a Caucasian brigade and detachments of trans-Baikal Cossacks, attacking heights southward of Fakumen, on the 19th inst., annihilated two Japanese companies and captured one company and two machine guns. Five officers and • 229 rank and fije were taken prisoners by General Mistchenko’s force. Russian correspondents in Manchuria complain that although Japanese cavalry has appeared twenty miles aorth-west of Kunluling, at the rear of the Russian headquarters at Hailungcheng, General Kuropatkin, who has refused to surrender his train de luxe to General Linevitch, indulges in constant pleasure with Princess Reuss and other Russian ladies who are parading as Red Cross nurses. There is much evidence that neither the army nor the naaion has any heart tor the war.» , , General Linevitch, it is remarked, abstains from frivolities.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3528, 30 May 1905, Page 3
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147Fighting in Manchuria. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3528, 30 May 1905, Page 3
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