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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 102, 4 May 1904, Page 3

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CRUISERS IN A FOG. COMMENT ON THE RUSSIAN DEFEAT. FRENCH PRESS ALARMED. JAPANESE " SLIMNESS." (Received May 3, 10.10 p.m.) LONDON', May 3.

The cruiser Kamimura reports that it iwice passed near the Russian cruisers between Vladivostok and Genesan without either being aware of each other's promixity owing to the fog. The Kamimura rescued three of the Kinsliimaru's boats. It has been impossible to renew the attack on Vladivostok since Thursday in consequence of the impenetrable fog. The Maniwa discovered and destroyed a number of Russian mines along the coast. Military ferities .refer to the ser-. iousness of Sunday's rapid defeat of thirty thousand men holding a position which had been strengthened for several months.

Paris newspapers betray alarm for Russia.

The Japanese, early on the 28th, screened by a string of blazing rafts laid mines near the Petropavlovsk. The Russian searchlights revealed the operations and the Japanese launch retired., The mines were destroyed.

The Japanese tor several nights sent ethergrams intended to fall into Russian hands purporting to arrange a simultaneous land assault on Port Arthur.

AN OVERDUE VESSEL. RUSSIAN REINFORCEMENTS, VOLUNTEERS LEAVE ST. PETERSBURG. INTENSE ENTHUSIASM, JAPANESE ALL WELL.

(Received May 3, 10.10 p.m.) LONDON, May 3. The transport Haginouromaru is overdue, and it is feared that she experienced the fate of tire Kishiinaru.

The Berlin press minimise the Japanese success and allege that General Kuropatkin never intended to defend the Valu.

The guns and stores necessary for the rearmament of the Russian army have been despatched. The first contingent of volunteers has left St. Petersburg for the front. Intense patriotism was disdisplayed. When driven to the hills extending from Kiu-leng-cheng to Yoshoro the Russians made a second stand 'on the hills north-west of but retreated at two o'clock in rthe afternoon.. By six o clock the Japanese held the line, extending from Antung 'northwesterly to Lishukau.

At Hamatan the Imperial Guards enveloped tho Russians on thrcd sides and after sharp lighting at close range captured three guns and much ammunition.

A captured Russian oflicer states that the effect of the Japanese artillery fire on. Saturday was enormous. Shells wounded Generals Sashulitch and Kashtalinski.

General Kuroki telegraphs that the Imperial Princes, officers, and men are In excellent spirits.