RUSSIA AND JAPAN.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7917, 24 September 1904, Page 5

RUSSIA AND JAPAN.

The Assault on Port Arthur.

The Advance on Mukden.

(Per Press Association). (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright)

LONDON, Sept. 23

After . the capture of the forts of Kuropatkin,' Erlingsnan, . and i the batteries "denoted.by-.the letters E, :0, andP., General Stoessel ordered .a .counter attack, 'and, the Russians claim to have- recaptured Erling-s-han., -...-''■

The 'battle continraes.

_ General StoesseTe wife was wounded in the shoulder while attending •to -the wounded.'

General Stoessel reports that irt the assault of Port. Arthur, on the 15th, forty-five Russian Guns were destroyed, and 400 killed' an 3 800 wounded, of which number 5 per cent., were officers.

The Rattan Hall at KaaocKau has transferred its cargo of Cardiff coal to the German collier Erika* .ostensibiy for Japan.

The Erika is likely to run the blockage to Port Arthur in response to stupendous inducements for coal. ■ -

Rennenhampffi in -a reconnaissence ena^ofed/t'he Japanese on! Wednesday, nineteen miles southeast of Mukden. Two Russian officers and nine men were killed, and. three officers and twenty-three men wounded.

The Japanese ; are moving" to outflank Fushan'.

The St. Petersburg and Smolensk are nearing- Suez. The cruiser TereK was refusect permission to coal at Las Palmas, and was ordered to leave. She remains to repair . her engines..