RUSSIA AND JAPAN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 55, 9 March 1904, Page 3

RUSSIA AND JAPAN.

A RUSSIAN WARNING TO BRITAIN. LONDON. March 7 The St. Petersburg newspaper Novoe Vremya warns England thut Russia will remember her purchase of two Chilian battleships in December last, her increased naval estimates, the ordering of mail steamers in eonneclii.a will, the Canad-inn-Pacilic railway lo be ready for conversion into cruisers, unit the strengthening of (he defences of Vancouver.

A DAMAGED Cltl ISF.R FLOATED. LONDON, Mgrch 7. The Russian cruiser Askold, which was reported to be in a sinking condiliou after the attack on Port Arthur on February 29th, has been floated. An attempt made to dock and repair the Casarevitch has been abandoned. ALLEGED JAPANESE DYXAMITARDS ARRESTED. LONDON, March 7. The Standard suites that a story is current in St. Petersburg that a dozen Japanese, disguised as Tartars, were arrested at the Volga bridge, on the Siberian railway, with dynamite in their possession. JAPAN THANKED FUR I'REATMENT OF RUSSIA'S WOUNDED. LONDON", March 7 Twenty-two soldiers belonging to the Russian cruiser Vurvag, after being carefully nursed at Chemulpho have been transformed to an hospital in Japan. The French Minister, on behalf of the Czar, warmly thanked the Japanese for their kind treatment of the men throughout the campaign. VARIOUS ITEMS. LONOON, March 7. Business is proceeding quietly at Tokio, Tho Osaka liners have resumed running between Kobe and Chem-ul-pho, Japanese steamers in the Sea of Japan and the Yellow Sea go unescorted. Russia has given urgent orders for American apparatus for the i apid loading of coal at sea for the Baltic squadron.

Later News. JAPANESE-AUSTRALIAN STEAM SERVICE. (Heceived March 8, 10.10 p.m.) SYDNEY, March 8. In reply to inquiries the local agent iof the .Japanese-Australian steamer service states that it is hoped shortly to resume the service, which has been in abeyance since the commencement of the war. The steamers have baen utilised as transports and armed cruisers. JAPANESE URfIKJE WRECKERS IN RUSSIA. MAKTIAL LAW ON THE RAIL\VA\S. ■ I Received March 'J, 0.13 a.m.) LONDON, .Mui-cn 8. Tliree Japanese, disguised as nuns, mined a railway bridge over the Volga, at Lyzeran. the current curried the mines down the river, where they exploded. The Japanese were captured, but sentence on them was deferred pending an inquiry as to whether any railway men were accomplices. The incident led to the placing of the districts of Samara and Zlottonsk and the Siberian railways under martial law, JAPANESE PRINCE GOES TO WAR. LONDON, March 8. The Mikado's heir, Prince Yoshihito, is going to the front to take part in the operations. RUSSIAN' NAVAL AUDITIONS. LONDON, March 8. The St. Petersburg and Italtlc ship yards are finishing six battleships and two cruisers of the Novik type. SUMMARY PUNISHMENT. LONDON, March 8. Korean soldiers, incensed at ltussiun excesses and their maltreatment of native women at An-ju, attacked a body of Cossacks, killing thirty of them. SEIZURE OF REMOUNTS. LONDON, March 8. Four hundred horses, bought at Odenburg, in Hungary, for Japan, and six hundred purchased in Russia on behalf of Britain, have been seized at Libau, a Russian Baltic port. The authorities hint that doubtless the latter were intended for Japan. A MESSAGE FROM THE CZAR. MEDIATION ULTIMATELY PROBAJJLE. (Received March !), l.fi a.m.) LONDON, March 8. The Vienna newspaper Nieue Freie Presse states that Count Uencken(lorff, Russian Ambassador, has returned to London from St. Petersburg with the Czar's autograph letter mentioning the eventual resort to mediation and arbitration between the two belligerent Powers.