RUSSIA AND JAPAN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 185, 10 August 1904, Page 2

RUSSIA AND JAPAN.

YESTERDAY'S NEWS SCJfr MAHIBED. ti . LONDON, Augusts. Owing to reports that the sUamer i Too (a Herman vessel, carrying a»h for Yokohama, and which was sunk bj tho Russians) was chartered and »ul)-cihait«red by British nod- Jajtamee firms, German newspapefl counsel the Uerman Government to act warily. The Standurd makes strong coiniixnis on the Knight Commander caw and foreshadows that besides * demand for compensation, possibly /instructions will be given to British warships to prevent filibustering and secure due respect for the British flag, and proper regard to neutral rights. Newspapers compare the Knight Commander case to that of a prisoner summarily executed, and then tried and found guilty. This case was against all principles) of International , law. Russia has declined to put In writing the character, of volunteer vessels which pass the Daidauelles, and .the lortehos addressed to the Russian Ambassador a letter embodying bis \erbal promises, -»-»•«• Russia, has informed Switzerland, that the recall of Colonel An-' deond, Swiss military attache w.th the Russian troops, is due to bis convt-Htttionar criticisms 0 t Russian artillery methods. «»«an A Russian refugee slates that- tha r at , iont ' d «««a suT sei were feints to cover an lurj 0 " MoUnU ' tt '" "*»« wm^SS

LAST MIGHT'S NEWS. '*. (lteceived August 0, 10.45 p.m ) LOWiOJV, August 9. Experts wcogutos- that Japan-. ort Arthur is more urgent than Sv« nolth 0l ?n? me °u U,e •«**««•«» '£ north, inasmuch as even if GeneS. Present, General Kuroli <» not coo! poled U> consider the m*m «Z. early arrival of such «rea?lLS meats as tie Baltic to General Stoeseel Although the besiegers oi Bm*t» ' Uiur received a check then* are IndS. utious that, Qanerai StoesnfwDtoM. are exaggerated, , Wolf's mil. Mwy. droppsTlSS rifles and hurled rocks on the Jape* nese, with deadly, eflept, ■ Bus»Un mines cleverly concealed elsewhere annihilated two squadrons' bf Cavalry, Tho Japanese analty cloned;' tnoijgh the ground was strewn wit*' dead, and stormed Wolf's Hill; '^ Since then they have mounted" 60 guns and entrenched the valleWnW Port Arthur, toe Russian guns'i ceasX. leesly harassing' the dfggtfs. Japanese troops h&viiaVided at Loulssa Bay. •" ""•^>- A bluejacket, disguised as a ChW nese beggar, was ttccuteefl- ' tofw tveek in traversing tfie Jafanm lines, bringing General Stoessel'a and navai dispatches to Prince Xlex. ieff at Mukden, . ~T, Later uows has announced thatthi cruisers Bayon,, Askoldi' Pallada aM# Novik, and some gunboats steamed out to bombard some' of tile enemy's positions an the 38th. attacked by tho Japanese batrtwhlp Ctoinyen, the cruisers Oheyoda, l Mi suHushima, Natushiina, and 'W others and 80 torpedo-boats. An AgihWnch shell from the Bayan burst in the iuukushdma's stem, dlsabjlntf her, wheivupon all the Japanese SbM' steered for the open sea. A Russian mmo damaged the Chayoda, and the" latter, sinking by the head, ' was steered to Talienwan Bay. A Una battery damaged a Japanese |rtJ In view of the Japanese taking, on «» a7th, a general offensive ■ attttuS ; against land positions'the Baian? Pallada, AskoJd, SoW two coast ships, the gunboat Gilji? and twelve torpeuo*oats "under IWAdmlral Leshinsky were ordeS; ed, at General Stoessst's zamat. U* support the rigjvt flank. ' r Piwedcd by a mine dredger. Uwb "toawd lj towards bombarded the SredSJr? * tnO (Heeeivod August 0, n.ai n.u 1 LONDON, August 9.' Biter's Che-foo CorrosppnoW, d»ly Hardin dirocUon cTPbrt Arthur since half-past ten '"