THE WAR IN MANCHURIA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7730, 4 February 1905, Page 2

THE WAR IN MANCHURIA.

Praise for Japanese Hospitals. YERY LOW MORTALITY LONDON, Feb. 2. | Japanese medical and surgical stn- J tisties indicate nn astonishingly low I l'ato ojf mortality in (li'in'l'it 1 Oku's army. Between May and December 24,0-1 '1 cases wore treated for disease, of which 18,578 recovered, 40 died, and 5(509 were sent to J upon. Tho figures arc unoquaJlod in the history of warfare-. J hiring the same period 210 of (1 moral Oku's oliicers ami 4918 men were Killed, and 743 officers and 20,fiii7 men wounded. Sixteen per cent, of the wounded died.. POSITION OF RUSSIAN ARMY. The Japanese seizure of important outpost positions on (ieneral Kuropalkin's right renders it necessary to niter llie ent're disposition of the Hussion ailny. The .1 apaoe.se, t through Chinese merchants, are circulating accounts of the events which occurred in St. Pejtorabuig cn tho 22od'. Tho KuSbiau forces are much discouraged < KUROPATKIN'S COMMISSARIAT. (Received Feb. 3, 10.4 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 3. Anxiety is{ felt in St. Petersburg respecting the provisioning of Kuropatkin's .army after April or May, when the wholo of Manchuria's resources will be exhausted. Field Marshal Oyama reports that the Japanese casualties during the recent fighting amounted to seven thousand. Prisoners state that four Russian regiments of infantry were nearly annihilated, many companies being reduced to twenty or thirty.