RUSSIA AND JAPAN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 233, 6 October 1904, Page 3

RUSSIA AND JAPAN.

WHAT IS DOING AT I'OHT ARTHUR. LONDON, Oct. 4. Stoesscl (Commandant of Arthur) agreed to an armistice of s*yeral hours on Saturday to removeSW: dead. TokioSliscredits the Itussian stories of .lapanew reverses at l'ort Arthur. The report that the cruiser llaynn had escaped from l'ort Arthur is denied. THE HIGH 1111,1, lirci,l„ DEADLY WORK WITH PYKOXhy«r nosins. (Received Oct. 6, 1.30 a.m.) General Stoessel's Ai-my Order gives Colonel Irnian's report of the fight at High Hill, the loftiest of the Italian fortifications. This states that the Japanese after the ghastly carnage, captured the outer earthwork at the fort of the hill. Colonel Irnan sent out Lieutenant Ragorsky'si squadron of mounted troops, armed with deadly pyroxhyne, and at one o'clock in the morning' they rode up ar.d exterminated all the occupants of the works, besides damaging) the machine guns. Pogorsky led the chaige personally, and hurled several boniibs loaded with eighteen pounds of pyroxhyne. Information received from other sources states that no quarter was given or asked. Russian casualties numbered two thousand.

KTmOPAt*CIN ELEVATED POSSIBLE MEANING OF JAPANESE INACTIVITY. LONDON, Oct. 4. , French advices state that the Czar has telegraphed making General Ku- > ropatkin Gener&lissiuio. The Russians fear that the Japanese apparent inactivity means that Gener a ls Oku a n d Nodzu are success-< fully masking the transfer of General Kuroki's ainiy eastward with u v ' en ' of operating along the r a 'lwn.v lehiad. Mukdeij a'id turning the Russian .positions at Tic-h-ling. Everything indicates a steady Japuhe.'e advance. (Received Oct. 5, 9.40 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 5. G«n,eral Kurofci is now within fifteen miles of Mukden. RUSSIA'S BALTIC FLEET. THEIR APPARENT ITINERARY TO THE EAST. (Received October 6, 1.30 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 5. Savoral Hamburg-American stea are conveying coal to Aden and Singapore, for tho fleet. ' i A REPORT DENIED. THE BURNING OF JAPANESE JUNKS, (Received Oct. 6, 1.39 a.m.) SYDNEY, Oct. 5. The Japanese Consul has receivet a cable denying the report that th. Russians bufiied seventeen junks, with Japanese ammunition. AYha happened was that* a small force t ot, Russian cavalry was discovered ..burning native Junks on the Hun ;Ho. They wero compelled to desist by Japanese "fiie from both bank.' ,of the river.