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Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42771, 29 August 1905, Page 2

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UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT.] London, Yesterday. Route ’8 Portsmouth correspondent says £that M onday’s Conference was privately postp >ned until Tuesday afternoon at the instance of Count Takashira. The Daily Express Kobe correspondent States that incessant rains aie feared by which the rice crops would be totally ruined. The Russians have reinforced 'wo guard stations at Zareff, Port Lazerev. The Japanese torpedoers destroyed both, and bombarded the lower spurs of Lazarev. The Russians fear a fresh landing. The rainy season at Kurnchuling is ended, Lori Roberts, at Llanelly admitted that the regular army is as eflicient as it possibly could be with the training received, but that what was wanted was not merely efficient regular auxiliaries, but that whole manhood of a nation was a great potential reserve of force that a sane nation seldom if ever assailed.

Hongkong, August 28. Bakers at Hongkong and Canton have refused to handle American flour, American trade in China is paralysed, St Petersburg August 28 Peasants in the Caucasus are refusing to their landlord, Prince laukhrausky the proportion of crops to which he is entitled. The police re moved' the wheat, whereupon a thousand peasants armed with pitchforks and Bludgeons, demanded restitution, the Cossacks ordering them to disperse, charged them and fired: 70 were killed and wounded. The peasants tried to shoot Prince Jnukhrausky. Washingon, Yesterday. Count Larasdorff reiteratod to M Roosevelt that the Czar forbids the cessation of part Saghalien, and also the payment of an indemnity. St Petersburg August 27 A Russian Navy League is in course of formation. As a result of the Czar's edict of April 30 th, an immense number of former Jews have reembraced Judaism, including the whole village of Astraohan. Tokio, yesterday. Baron Katusura received hundreds of memorial telegrams urging him to insist on the original peace terms General Kataoka reports the Okhotsk fleet captured a gun at Portagon and seized the British ship Antelope near Saghaiiea. The Japanese fleet is sounding the mouth of the river Azur. Roosevelt’s appeal to the Czar was framed on bboard humanitarian lines. The Czar, through Colonel Moyer, American Minister at St Petersburg, conveyed the final unqualified refusal to intertain any demand for indemnity. Sa urdt 'y’s sitting threatened to be the last, through the secretary excluded to secure the strictest secrecy, one of the Russians plenipotentiaries who has supplied the New York correspondent of the Times with many details, The Japanese seemed to expect a new proposal. ‘No ” said the Russians, “ half Saghalien and no indemnity ” are our last words. M. de Witte’s quiet firmness convinced the Japanese of the unalterableness of the resolution.