RUSSO-JAPANESE CAMPAIGN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 154, 4 July 1904, Page 2

RUSSO-JAPANESE CAMPAIGN.

Attacking Port Arthufl L'XSI'CCFSSFUL JAPANESE aH SAULTS. ' ■ LONDON, July 1. ■ liussiun despatches admit titttl there ivuk heavy lighting around! l'ori Arthur on Sunduy last, «na 1 that the Rubs-miiis wore forced to retire on their muin position, with the loss of buvun oilicers and two hundred liu'ii killed. The Japanese losses were greater, as tliey travelled over a mined field. It it reported that desperate fight* ing has twken place ten miles north of I'ort Arthur. 'rii« .J u|jiiJK'se have occupied Wolf Mountain. I't'HTilLClt PARTICULARS. (Received July !1, 9.88 a.m.), LONDON, July U. Major-General Uilnisky report* r . tiiut Russian riflemen holding- two lieights near Sao-ping-tu, fourteen mil™ east of I'ort Arthur, on Sunday repelled three attacks from dotiauhmunts of Jai>unese landed for the purpose of removing thorn ; but the Russians sustained heavy losses ami riifugwl on the heights of Lung-wvuig-tunij. A J division unsuccessfully attacked the defenders. The Japanese in tho afternoon appeared osii the central Port Arthur road in great strength, and attacked Kurnahan. The heights wer# lx?id »>y Chasseurs, two battalions o(. whom retired as the position waff tinned in t»he roiir, causing hOAvy losses.; *

Russian destroyers bombonled Um Lung-wan(g l -tung coast, which «u occupied by Japanese. Fifty J«p«nese wend killed while traversing tfc« mine field a 9 previously c&iblled.

NEWS FROM WITHIN THE PORT, f. LONDON, July 3. / A Chinaman who lea Port AjrUiur oai 'I hursday night dec Lares th«(|M« only four cruisers and tiattledape in the harbour, and none OUt*kte, Major-Geueral tl-ilnisky »(«(«»y*ib a large column of Japamese ;(rdm Dalny is marching 041 kau, itund perlmps ShoiH||-Wiuto.ta(ku and llwangvhun. Tho J apone^f- —ww-/ also now mounting batteriea on til* summit of the mountains, ■ A Naval Battle. « REPORTS OF AN EXPLOSION, (Receivod July 3, 0.33 a.m.J LONDON, July.% A German steamer was yeetwdiy within fifteen miles of two' JapuLeM battleships, threo cruisers, and eral torpedo toats engaged in inig forty miles northwards of Oha> too. She did not see tho Rn~uships, but their firing wa£ * \ terrilic explosion was also hewl.

In Shln-klitg, RUSSIANS RETREAT "ALL ALONG THE LINE."(Received July 4, 0.13 a.m.) LONDON, July 9, Reuter's correspondent with Gtooral ICuroki's headquarters t-w reports that the Russians bav« j«, treated all along' the lino before Um northern advance, and the country. Ib almost clear to the north-wart. General Ituropatkin f«arn hj« will be surrounded if ho makes a at Liao-yang. , Torrential rains are (ailing'., ndj the roads south of tho llai-chawf'tutd Hooded to a 'depth of Ave feet, S»v«w al Russians wero drowned In the flood waters.

GENERAL KUROPATKJN'S REPORT. (Received July 4, 0,28 a.m.) LONDON, July 8. . General Kuropatkin telegraph® that Genoral Kurokl'a advance on lliu-chcttff und 'JVshi-chiao bus Ihhu suspended. Tlio J apam«e south of llni-cheng havo placed strong infantry advanced posta over 200 kilometres (about 125 miles) along* the passes loading through tho hilts. The Japanese advance on Fang* luvtmg-chcng has ceasod. HumUiß cavalry operatiug at Sei-gu-cheng kavo been repulsed, and at* retreating north. Chasing the Raldcra. EXPLANATION OF NAVAL ACTT~ VITY.. . (Received July 4, 0.38 am i LONDON, July's: ■ Tokio roports state that Adtnital Kamimura forced tho Vladivostok squadron through the T6u SHf™., Straits, and at/tacked it with torpedoes on Friday night. Heavy trite has been heard off tho Ikt-3hi»uk and Goto Shinia Islands. Japanese authorities buggvet Umt the explanation of tho recent movements of the Vladivostok and pork, Arthur squadron Is that they went to re/uge in a neutral Chinese port, such as Kiao-chau or Uhe-too.

RUSSIAN ADMIRAL'S REPORT (Received July 4, 0.55 a.m.)i <■ LONDON, -July 3,' Admiral Prince Alexlefl has '"itlod tho I'ort Arthur fcxjuadron conununder's report, ob follows*;— On Juno 24th, at eight o'clock, the Novik, Diana, Askold, Hcvturtopol, I'oltava, Cesarevitch, I'allada, Peis, esviet, Retvi/jin, Pobleda, and Buw n anchored in the roadstead;: Afc vo o'clock, preceded by nine. 'destroyers, they atfcamed to thoowoi sea. The Japanese squadron. consisting of live battleships, sixteen cruisers, and thirty torpedo boats Was sighted' when twenty mile* i>utT preparing l to place a "division fef cruisers and torpodo boats butwtai (ho shore and the Russians taorte that the torpedq boats' attack rntvhy break the formation prior to, gugoinent tho following moral' Considering that the Japanese * was greatly superior he retuir Ji V, the roadstead again, wfce» most warshijra repulse lv * , r y* do boat attacks. Nytwjf' VJE'*' tho fact that it was nor attacks were contlftuwjt when twelve VYWV J nioffting, were dischwgwt A» orped 2 et pnno'so torjw, k,aßt two Jfn» Russiaft ahiT Js . "TL •h.g'a.""^ r .plous Items. l'iW. h advices state that Getter ,^ ulr .(>utliin has only 70,000 ra«nwt| .* disposal. British calculation!] * id that ho has half a million, part from tho railway guaixis. Neuter's CheJoo correspondent The Vladivostok squadron has <tts upp(*ur«l in the rain.

wis there me 180,000 Japanese! t'hc lii'iil. None of the FourUi Ai (-'oi lis lias yet Ihvii latukyl. NO FOOLERY. There in no toolery about i hou Usui—it causes intolerable ago .Sufferers from rheumatism. g 0 lumbago, and sciatica are profou ly moved to get rid nf their tort us soon ns possible, 'to fool s people with quack medicines is r t'U cruelty. The world to-day Ko «' but one true medicine grapple with theso maladies. 1 Ulietimo ! liheumo revels in r ing rheumatism. Kheunio .vtri' the root of the ailment and fet quickly. It kills the pain, i*ei all swelling, expels the excess ucid, and eilects a complete cui about 88 hours. Chemists and 2s (Id and 4s fld por bottle, thorne, Prosser and Co., wh •gt•nts. ,

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