RUSSIA AND JAPAN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 256, 2 November 1904, Page 2

RUSSIA AND JAPAN.

STRUGGLE FOR POSSESSION AT PORT ARTHUR. ANOTHER HEAVY ASSAULT. LONDON, Oct. 81. There was ilerco fighting! at Port Arthur on the 80th. Heavy forces of Japanese tried to secure u commanding position near tine main fort, bMt ttie result is unknown. GARRISON CAVING IN. . , STOESSEL HOLDING MEN TOGETHER lIV FORCE. , (Received N„v. 2. 1.21 u.m.) LONDON, Nov. 1. Tte besieger.*' shells have dlsmuuntcd a gun on Electric Hill, and another on Marble Hill. The garrison have lost all hope of relief, and many of the men and som c . of the officers wish to surrender. General Stoessel has posted a proclamation thut he will light while there are enough men to man on« gun. 'Hie besiegers stormed and captured Erlungshan Fort, with nominal loss, afterwa'.-ds repelling a sortie irom tlie main works. A SUBMARINE MINE. DAMAGES A JAPANESE MEB. CHANT STEAMER.

LONDON, Oct; 81. A mime exploded at Woj4, injuring the Japanese merchant steamer OWyoda Maru, lolling ten of the crew und injuring many others. ALONG THE SHA-HO LINE. JAPANESE PREPARING FOB OFFENSIVE MOVEMENT. (Received Nov. 1, 10.50 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 1. The Russian und Japanese trenchm exU'nd along the whole line of tha Sna-ho, and are only 500 metre* apart, while in some places thuy approach as dose as 50. General Kuropatkin announces , » significant movement of the Jap«» nese from west to east, strongly reinforced from the south and from Fengr-hwang-cheng. They arc conp«K trating for offensive purposes. The Japanese have already crossed the Sha-ho in the south-east. ' '••'

RUSSIANS OUTNUMBERED. " !i " GREATEST WATTLE OF THE' WAR IMPENDING." \ LONDON, Nov. I. Japanese state that the greatest battle of the war is impending. The Russians report that a diifi. sion and a half''from Port Arthur have reinforced Field-Marshal Oyanla. and that the Russians are now 'outnumbered. ' ' The Third Manduirian Army It organising under General Gubovlli-' ky.

THE SINEWS OF WAR. ,!,'■' JAPANESE ESTIMATES FOR ' THE COMING YEAR. LONDON, Nov. i. The Japanese war estimates'.for 19Ui) amount to sixty-seven million sterling, sixty millions of which will be raised by loans, thobulk internally.