THE EASTERN WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 252, 28 October 1904, Page 3

THE EASTERN WAR.

HARROWING ACCOUNTS FROM MUKDEN. • TRIALS OF THE WOUNDED. LONDON, Oct. 20. Correspondents describe on end--0 loss lino of Russian wounded ciuwling along the roads lea.ling to Mukden. A thousand Chinese distressed families aro refuging in Mukden, living in the streets. A TRAITOR'S DEATH. ■ JAPANESE OFFICERS EXECUTE A COMRADE. LONDON, Oct. 2f.. It is reported in Tokio that his comrades found an Admiral guilty of accepting a bribe • I £ 12,000 for information leading to the loss of, the Hitashi Maru and damage to the Sado Maru. The death sentence was communicated to him by <m intimate friend. Th:n the Admiral was compelled to remove his uniform, and was beaten to death by his comrades. FLOATING MINE AGAIV. BRITISH STEAMER STRUCK AND DAMAGED. LONDON, Oit. 26. A floating mine oft Shantung struck Use British steamer Tasking, and the explosion tore away ten feet of her side. She was caved from sinJdng by her coHisiun bulkIteads. THE RUSSIAN COMMAND, KUROPATKIN APPOINTED TO THE HEAD. LONDON, iir.t. 26. An Imperial ukase appoints General Kuropatkin Commander-in-Chief, Pri»ce Alexieff retaining the Viceroyship. TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY. ' CREATING NUCLEUS OF A NEW FLEET. (Received Oct. 27, 11.4 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 27. The Daily Telegraph's St. Petersburg correspondent reports that the Czar has sanctioned General Khilkoff s plan to dm '1 icate tiie transSiberian railway, at a cost of eleven million sterling, and has approved of the Admiralty's scheme to create the nucleus of a new fleet at a cost of foity million sterling.