RUSSIA AND JAPAN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 267, 15 November 1904, Page 2

RUSSIA AND JAPAN.

PEACE Q.TJT OF THE QUESTION AT PRESENT, NEITHER SIDE READY. LONDON, Nov. 13. Count ' Cussini (Russian Ambassador at Washington) reiterated that Russia is emphatically opposed to mediation. Baron Suyematsu, Japan's special envoy to the Courts of Europe, says it is premature to speak of peace. The mc re lives sacrificed and money spent the greater would be Japan's demands. IN MANCHURIA. PREPARATIONS FOR THE WINTER. (Received Nov. 14, 10*9 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 14, The Japanese are constructing important fortifications along their whole front, securing a solid base for their attack. Russian opinion at Mukden Is now against a winter campaign, the trans-Siberian railway being unable to victual over three hundred thousand men, apart from the question of transporting fuel and horses. Moreover, wood and forage are scarce, and the local resources are insufficient for (he winter. .Japanese vessels, carrying provisions and troops, are ascending the Liao River with a view of getting the greatest numbers of reinforcements and quantities of stores to Liao-yang before the river freezes. Transports with troops, arms, and ammunitions are daily arriving at Ying-kow. It is officially reported that 200 Russian infantry and 300 cavalry appeared near Trosaiton, but were repulsed, losing 00 men. The Japanese casualties were six. FINANCIAL MATTERS. RECEPTION OF JAPAN'S SECOND FOREIGN LOAN. LONDON, Nov. 14. Baron Soue has informed the Japanese Diet that the delay In the capture of Port Arthur and the departure of the Baltic Fleet had compelled Japan to accept less advantageous terms for the present foreign loan than for the first. VARIOUS ITEMS. A thousand reservists, after plundering liquor shops in Moscow, were penned in the Razan railway station. Thoy attomptod to escape, when the troops fired, killing and wounding eight. General Sakharoff (General Kuropatkin's Chiof of Staff) reports that Japanese attacks on the village of Wuchau were repulsed on • Friday night. GERMANY'S LITTLE WAR. RELIGIOUS FANATICISM ONCE MORE RESPONSIBLE. TRAITORS EXECUTED. CAPETOWN. Nov. 13. The Germans, under martial law, executed two illegitimate sons of a British farmer living at Koes on a charge of treasonable relations with the rebel leader Morenga. The father is to be tried for the same offence. At Keetmanshoep, Major Leutwein reports, the rising is largely due to n prophet from the Cape belonging to the Ethiopian Church, BOERS SEEKING FIGHT. GOING TO HELP AGAINST REBELS. (Received Nov, 14, 10.45 p.m.) CAPETOWN, Nov. 14. One hundred and thirty Boors have entrained, at Johannesburg, and are proceeding to Damaraland, by way of Capetbwn. They are going to assist in tho conflict against the nativo rebels.