RUSSIA AND JAPAN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 287, 8 December 1904, Page 2

RUSSIA AND JAPAN.

YESTERDAY'S CABLE NEWS SUMMARISED, HOT WORK ALL ROUND. LONDON, Dee. 0. Chu-'Nchnses blew up the line between Hur.Uin and Mukden, a train narrowly escaping derailment. The damage has been repaired. A large Hod Cross depot ut Mukden bus been burned. Mukden reports that General Hennenkampf -inllietcd a loss of 1000 on ll>e Ju liitieiu who were attempting to outflank him. Several ires'h attacks by the Hussions on Metre Hill were repulsed. The Russians lost !iOOO men while trying to recapture Metre Hill. Tokio repoi-ts that at Port Arthur on tlie 4th two or three .ships were lired in the harbour and burned for half an hour. Shells from Metre IMII b«wlly damaged the warship Peresviet. THE BELEAGUERED I'ORT. SOME DETAILS OF LATE OPERATIONS,

(Received Dec. 7, midnight.) LONDON, Dec. 7. Tho Japanese Legation announces that between the Hid and sth inst. the naval guns bombarded the harbour and hit several ships, the l'obioda and the Retvisan. being repoatedly struck. On tho afternoon of the sth the enemy's powder magazine at South Pofushan exploded, causing a groat conflagration. For over two hours on the same day the heavy guns worked effectively on Russian ships, including the Polbavp,, which raised a thick smoke lastinc; an hour. The siege of Sunshusan and the forts to the east is conUnjujng day and night. On the 4th tho Japanese captured two quickiiring jjims in a caponiere of the Erlungshan fort. On the 6th the heavy guns renewed the bombardment of the ships with a satisfactory result, and these ore still continuing their work.