RUSSIA AND JAPAN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 106, 9 May 1904, Page 3

RUSSIA AND JAPAN.

CABLE NEWS.

Ualted Preae Association.—By Tel»graph.—Copyright.

THE INSISTENT JAPANESE. LANDING ON IJAO-TIXG. LONDON, May 0. It is officially stated at Tokio that the Japanese have begun landing on the Liao-tung Peninsula, but the locality and numbers are withheld. Reuter's Che-foo correspondent states that trustworthy Japanese advices have been received to the effect that a landing was effected opposite the Elliot Islands. Admiral Hosoyo reports that early on the morning of the oth, after shelling a Uussian position, he dispersed their patrols, and a [)ail\ of sailors of the Seventh Division, who waded ashore breast deep for u thousand yards. He hoisted a llag on a range of hills on the peninsula without liring a shot. The troops

then waded ashore. A COSTLY MISTAKE. LONDON, May (i. General Kuroki reports that during the Russian retreat two thousand Russians mistook a detachment of two hundred lor Japanese, and attacked them with fury, killing ten men and wounding seventy other*. VARIOUS ITEMS. LONDON. May 0. The Grand Duke Horis (injured in the J'etropavlovsk disaster; has left Port Arthur. It is announced that a Russian loan of forty millions sterling is being floated in l'aris. Continental correspondents attribute Germany's complacency in regard to Russia partly to ulterior ambitions in the Far East. A captured Russian oflicer declared that only six battalions of infantry and two battalions of artillery retired in order. The others fled in utter confusion. A TRANSPORT THAT WAS NOT SUNK. (Received May 8, 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, May 7. It <fa-s recently reported that the Russians had sunk two small Japanese transports, the Makamura Maru and the Haginoura Maru. The discovery has now been made that the Haginoura Maru is the same vessel as the Nakamura Maru. PORT ARTHUR'S PROVISIONS. LONDON, May 7. The Russians claim that Port Arthur has sufficient provisions to enable the garrison to hold out for a year. REPORTED OI'TRAGE BY THE JAPANESE. ALLEGED FIRING ON A RED CROSS TRAIN. LONDON, May 7. General Pflug, chief of staff to General Kuropatkin, telegraphs that a party of one hundred Japanese stationed eastward of the railway, fired volleys into a train running from Port Arthur southward of Pulantion. The train contained ninny passengers, and there were two hundred sick in the ambulance carriages, which were flying the Red Cross flag. Two sick persons were wounded in the legs. Eventually the train reached Pulantion. THE "BO'I*TLING-UP" OF PORT ARTHUR. BELIEVED TO BE COMPLETE. (Received May 8, 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, May 7. Advices received in St. Petersburg from the East state that it is believed Port Arthur is "bottled" up as far as large warships are concerned. It is added that one vessel passes the entrance with great difficulty, • Mr L. C. Friscom, American Minister at Tokio, telegraphs that the investment of Port Arthur hns be- | gun, and that the railway is practically closed. MORE ABOUT THE JAPANESE LANDING. LONDON, May 7. > Later dvices show that a portion •>f Gu' *1 Oko's army whs convoyed U> tne Liao-tung. Ten thousand men were landed at Pitsti-wo, and others at Kineoau Bay. The narrow neck of land was occupied, piers being hastily erected at I'itsu-wo to facilitate the landings. It is recognised in St. Petersburg that General Oko's landing renders it difficult for General Kuropatkin to concentrate any formidable force against General Kuroki.