MANCHURIAN CAMPAIGN

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 215, 15 September 1904, Page 3

MANCHURIAN CAMPAIGN

EXCESSES BY TROOPS AT LIAOYANG, A MISSIONARY'S GOOD WORK. 1 ■ LONDON, September 13. Russians plundered Chinese and European shops at Liao-yang and destroyed foodstuffs. Much lujuor was drunk and many excesses committed. Chinese troops after the evacuation continued the pillage.. Th« Japanese who were without food completed tho looting of provisions. KUROKI'S FAILURE. RUSSIAN COUP AT FENG-HWANG-CHENG. LONDON, September 13. Detailed accounts show that General Kuroki's failure to get round the Russian left and cut the railway north of Liao-yang was due to General Kuropatkin's foresight in sending a greatly superior force across the Taj-tse. The Daily Mail's Tion-tsin correspondent reports thai General Linevitch, with 50,000 men, in northeastern Korea, cut General Kuroki's communications at cheng.

WHY LIAO-YANG FELL. THE OLD STORY OF DISHEARTENED TROOPS. (Received September 14, 11 p.m.) LONDON, September 14. M. Nordeau, the correspondent of the Paris Journal, cabling from Tien-tsin without the intervention of the censor, attributes the Russian defeat at Liao-yang to the lack of enthusiasm among the troops, who were in a weakened and dejected condition. He says the army needs to be doubled in numbers, and all re- , serves replaced by regular troops, end concludes that it will lie impossible for them to resume the offensive for some time. UNCONFIRMED REPORTS. NO WORD FROM LINEVITCH OR SASSUXITCH. (Received September 14, 11 p.m.) LONDON, September 14. - The reports regarding General Linevitch's expedition and the disaster to General SaasulitcJi's column an not confirmed.

RUSSIAN REINFORCEMENTS. KTJKOPATKIN'S PROBABLE MOVEMENTS. {.Received September 14, 11 p.m.) LONDON, September 14. The Russian General Staff stale tUat tea corps have reinforced Gen:snal Kuropatkin since the battle of rjafi-yamg. The army now exceeds 300,00Q .with 300 guns. It is believed in St. Petersburg .tt#.<iij thjj . 3 Japanese i attack Muk *fe% ' will ijgff&.fh. '."&&'*!& '°J P-S2P n*n .ss■? i.re?j,.": st . re ;V rß Pn'TSjß-llng,

..,. WHAT iMtfJflircAN DO'. BEATING -THE-RUSSIAN AT RE- ■■■'■■■ .-■■ BJFORCING. .. : (Received September 15, 0.8 a.m.) LONDON, September 11. PieidkMarshal Oyama, Japanese Commander-in-Ctnef,'states, however, that as many corps as Russia mobilises can be duplicated by Jupan * with better troops, and much more ' expeditiously:

A FIND AT PORT ARTHUR. SECRET "'" AMMUNITION DEPOT UNEARTHED. LONDON, September 13. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Cologne Gazette reports that a eecret depot established at I'ort Arthur before the Chino-Japa-nese war was recently unearthed. It contained between 60,000 and 100,000 shells, sevcnal hundred old Krupp guns, and large quantities of powder, rifles, and cartridges.

VARIOUS ITEMS. LONDON, September 13. Russian newspaper correspondents at Tien-ling report that fie Japanese have withdrawn a distance of ten versts from the Russian rearguards to prepare for further movements. Relations between the Russian authorities and the Chinese Governor at Mukden have been broken.