RUSSO-JAPANES CAMPAIGN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 156, 6 July 1904, Page 2

RUSSO-JAPANES CAMPAIGN.

In Shln-kingi^m •JAPANESE (HUP DKA VoHH There are indications that paiiese have abandoned the via Tai-ling, preferring' to their forces on their light. 'l^fl (ieneral K./oki, with t\fO NhH sions, including the Imperial CunlH is twenty miles eastward of f|§SH yang. He has occupied connnantiuH The Japanese dominate the RvH siuns at Simu-cheng. A DISASTEH THREATENED. V LONDON, July 4, I The Times states that the Husmanaß are threatened with a washout onl tha railway line, a of uftfl paralleled magnitude, inasmuch ifl if the mountain tracks urei practl-H cable, as is usual as this time offlj the year, tlio Japanese liiai' sur~J| round them by holding General Kot L ler fast at Llao-yung and ' pinning 1 the Kussians between Hai-chtng oatf I Uui-ping by detached groups. | OPERATIONS DETERRED BY I RAIN. r LONDON, Ji<T \ Rain put a stop to General Kuropatkin has Hai-cheng. Rcutor's Liuo-yang states that the report Uiat tj,. ««•>" sions have occupied Tal-ling p aM is premature. Neither side tively occupied it owing to rendering the transport of gut M ■yg.A possible. The two armies <we-bivott*' 1 acked on each side of the pai a> , ■ I The Russians have tvUundont,,}' strong lines of entleuchmeuto liills commanding the entrance t0 t y Mo-tien-ling Pass. The JaP%aaeon tho 30th fully occupied the opposed. Three days' downpour h*sj tOB . verted the whole country into ft j^,_1 i ESTIMATES OF JAPANfc aB FORCES. r a (Received July 5, 10.37 pL-v LONDON, JiHJ"%v* Russians report that the Japanew at Kai-plng have retired to a 11a* eight miles and a half north-east ol Sang-yue-cheng. There Is a division of Japanese at Sang-yue-chcng, and *•< 'bout 50,000 Japanese at Siu-yen. STORIES OF INHUMAN CONDUCT (Received July 5, 10.38 p.m.) LONDON, July 6. The Japanese occupy their original, positions in tho Tai-jdngi' Pass. It is officially reported at Toldo that six scouts were killed at Ohang-tsu-ohon on the 15th In A hand-to-hand fight, and 15 Russian*. The latter bay not ted the eyes and mouths of the corpses, cut chests, and picked their pockets. The report adds that details have been rocoived of a similar incident occurring north-cast of Samg-yue-chengou the 27th.