RUSSO-JAPANESE CAMPAIGN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 152, 1 July 1904, Page 3

RUSSO-JAPANESE CAMPAIGN.

i. ■ /In Shln-klng. &6jj>RESS OF OPERATIONS. 'Jf LONDON, JuM 29. n doubtful whether Ta-loig ib llfone sixty miles east <d L*aoWto the Tai-tsc Valley. u 4ul " Mr pass between Dayen ai Hai|fg. The Times' military' xpert taks it is the latter, Kuroki, having t>ken rough tho barrier of bills. now la to assail Htti-cheng aao, J«o- ---?' I 'j , Official reports indicate thil inree "Corps of Japanese occupy a n pt of V one hundred and fifty to onailindred and eighty miles, tiie leftisßore Hoi-ping, the right extendi! ■ in ' the vicinity of dieng-obeng. I i The rainy season nas fcteg ■ >■ , J Southern Manchuria, meaninftwvo months of great natural dittktiss, x specially for the Japanese. I >. The impression la that (feiWl S Kuropatkm is resolved to fig la Mg battle near Ta-shi-cbiao, leive to is massing five or six divinn. I He is. also pushing forward tnfjl thousand men in the direct/iJ oi Kat-ptag to protect the left tbe Toku-shan army, which ia Jfn•ciog Mu-cbang. I ,The Russians' right at Mo-tienfKs turned by the Japanese advanc< along a mountain track unknown'to the Rnssiana. A message published in the Nqoe 1 Vremya (a leading Russian papr) States that General Kuroki's aqty is nioetasß miles from KuropatfcSs, <uid that a battle at Bta-mu-chaiiis Imminent, but that General K.JPpatkin does not consider the influent has arrived for a decisive batte (or all his forces. He prefers to frtire northwards on bis entreno- . meets. Wopkoff, a non-commasetioned otcer, has teen decorated for penetraI- ■ to the Japanese camp at Siua- ■ yv-cheog In the disguise of a Ohi»- , IMB. Later be was seized by a jjL psw patrol, but be shot seveijl Li bis revolver and escaped fe I? ; jifffftfrllClCj h j; ■: Bturiim correspondent* describia r tbs southwards of . NJf lto Japanese pounded the covt |i_ tut-positions into subjection and. si ■ ieaced the higher guns. They inflict ■ «d severe losses, outflanking l the Ru| ■ atans and forcing them to retreat I north. ■ A telegram from Cfae-foo stata. ■ tUat tto Japanese captured two hun> H dr«d and seventy-five Russians an< ■ Bine funs at Fenge-huling, pursuing ■ (be «Demy nino miles. ■ Arthur. H REPOBTBD CAPTURE Of OUT' Y WORKS. (RecelTOd July 1, 0.43 a.m.) ; i, LONDON, July 30, ; _ . The Times' 'Tokio correspondent ■Utes that it is officially announced tilat the Japanese on Sunday morn- , "Off drove the Russians from some outworks to the extreme east of Port Arthur. All accounts indicate tiiat General r, means to make a resolute , a.t Tu-chin-tze, where the : paragons resemble tfaoes made at Xaa-Aaxu

[Various Items. y' THE PERES VIET. LONDON. June 29. The Roman paper, Giornalo d'ltaHa, asserts that seven hundred and fifty mm were drowned in the Pefesviet disaster, but the news is unconfirmed. MISTAKEN IDENTITY. . LONDON, June 29. i The Standard's Tokio correspond- ' Bit says he has ascertained that '■ merchantmen, not cruisers, were seen in the Straits of Soyo. * WAR ITEMS, [ the war oonimenped, said the | gJfsPeterfl'burg eorrespondefit of the I on May 13th, it was L irmly believed that Russia had nearly 200,000 men east of Lake Bakal, and with the utmost confidence 1 it was declared that this number i could be easily brought up to 400,000 in two months. Everybody is now asking, Where are these 400,r 000 men ? It has been stated so frequently, and from so many different sources, that the garrison at 1 Port Arthur numbers less than 20,-, 600 men, that General Kuropatkin lias well under 100,000 men at ' Xteo-yang and Mukden, Mtfl that ■Vladivostok is garrisoned p only a couple of regiments, thatjgheso figurea have come to be regarded as approximately accurate. 1 then, the whereabouts of less tfipi 120,000 men are known, what \ga be- - come of the odd 80,000 whitfi were in the Far East at the out,beak of war, and where are the thot finds of | reinforcements that have uibulbted- ' |y been entrained since FL.-uary ? k<i Every week—almost every a'—since ■ \ tho war began troop tri s have I | left all the principal miliyy cen- ■,, trea to start on the long i n«y by * fhe Trans-Siberian railway, t they do not seem to have ever'-.ached thdr destination. The ex nation probably is that thousand' f men are stranded at inter™* ■? statinma on the railway, 1 for taad »red to rtok, burg t of cooin -has efore iaera "J? Million eacewas war' »r'. ", r J l persman n * and £ s of num- ? " s jjecta ijeety i j I, and rvout have the wlact turea. ha< !zar'( ir'avwar 0 hin . 1 up th< arinf jf po aider thi jrioui lleng '1 foi •ty o iussil inter "' nd : " inte ; Jp, mV

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