RUSSIA'S REVIVAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 238, 12 October 1904, Page 2

RUSSIA'S REVIVAL.

DISLODGING JAPANESE! FROM ' THE VEN-TAI. ■. A GENERAL ADVANCE. LONDON, Oct. 10. The Russians are advancing a t all points. Russian ollicial reports state , that the Japanese ai-e falling buck ,on Liao-jang. A private censured message has reached St. Petersburg stating that the Russians occupied Yen-tai-putse, manoeuvring the Japanese out without severe lighting. WHO IS TO he BELIEVED ? DOCTOR'S GLOOMY ACCOUNT OF RUSSIA'S ARMY. (Received Oct. 11, 9.56 p.m ) LONDON, Oct. 11, A doctor who has returned from the front has assured the St. Petersburg correspondent of the New York Herald that the morale of the Russian troops was very low after the battle of Liao-yang. Virulent epidemics of typhus and typhoid were raging at Harbin, causing appalling numbers of fatalities. The doctor considers the troops are go discouraged and demoralised that the campaign is virtually over. CRISIS IN MANCHURIA. | KUROPATKIN'S MOVE CAUSING NERVOUSNESS, (Received Oct. 11, 10.4 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 11. The Dally Express states that Ocneral Nodzu is enticing General Kuropatkln south to enable Field-. Marshal Oyama to complete a turning movement. ' Ollicial opinion in St. Petersburg*' is very nervous, it is considered that Kuropalkin is staking everything on a single throw. THE MIKADO'S APPEAL. ACCOMPLISHMENT OF A PURPOSE FAR DISTANT. (Received Oct. 11, 10.9 p.m ) LONDON, Oct. 11, Tho Mikado has appealed to .hit people to lie patient and steeafaat. since the final accomplishment -of a , 3 i purpose is yef very far distant. VARIOUS ITEMS. LONDON, Oct, 10. Tlie report recently cabled that Russians are wearing Chinese garmenits is interpreted to mean that their winter clothing has not yet arrived. , Russia and China continue to take one hundred and fifty thousand tons of Welsh coal per month. They i . have taken two and a half million Umb during the war. < . The Japanese stopped the BritfiH steamer Victoria, near WeMial-wei ■ ; explaining- Uuvt ihey were watch* ■" ing three British ships suspected of attempting- to convey tinned hieat* "'■ and vegetables to Port Arthur. The owners of the steamer Calchaa decline to (n future carry United States malls to Japan, owing to the Russians alleging that f'.iney found among tho Caichas' mail mat-' . ter some intended to give the Japanese information. A COLONIAL'S EXPERIENCES.

BRISBANE, Oct. JO. Mr John Char.tress, of Now Zealand, retifrned by the steamer Changolia from a visit to Japan. Interviewed, he said that business generally is exceedingly dull and likely to bo worse. Japanese cool-

ies are becoming very Insolent, to foreigners, as the result of JWnese victories, l>ut there is no swelled head among the better classes. If Japan was successful in the \iar all foreigners would h a ve to quit; ttey would be unable to live with the Islanders. Even no.W the Japanese Government will not employ foreigners. Not a single one is to be found in the service. All tfio larger businesses are managed and worked solely by Japanese. The general opinion Is that the war will last a long time unless the Russians give in. The J ops will never think of calling " onough !" but will fight until completely exhausted, both financially and as regains men. Tho Japanese soldicjs we poorly paid, and there was never such a cheap army put in the field before. Soma of the Russian shells fired from Port Arthur were opened and found to be half filled with sand. Tho discovery Induced the Ju|«nm> to draw closer to the town. It is expected in Jnpnn that Port Arthur will bo captured early i n , November.

Mr Ch n rtress was abourd the Tainan when the Russians overhauled her. He declares the reason she was not simk was because tho Hussion boats were overcrowded with prisoners and provisions were not plentiful: Regarding the great, gold discovery In Japan, thero was an impression that it was greatly exaggerated.