THE WAR IN MANCHURIA

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7750, 28 February 1905, Page 3

THE WAR IN MANCHURIA

Extensive Fighting. Rnssians Sustain Heavy Losses. (Received Feb. 27, 8.50 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 27. General Kuropntkin reports that the Japanese occupied Tsinchcshan on Saturday. The percentage of Russians killed was very high. Twelve wounded officers .and 1500 men in San Lungu hospital were burned to death. The Russians abandoned Chiensuniuupaatzu. and the flshlins was continued on Sunday along the front and west of Tiding Pass, a few miles southwest of Tsinchcshan. The J-apanese extreme cast h.\s taken the outlying Russian positions, and thrcutens the main defences. A hundred wounded reached Mukden in a heavy snowstorm ami bitter wind. The country favours the Russians, being mountainous and lightly wooded. The fierceness of the attack makes the Russians think that General Nogi is engaged. The Telegraph's Siyintung correspondent states that a battle raffed on Friday from Aidepu, sixtfen miles southeast of Muktien, extending alang the whole front. Forty'thousand Japanese reached Fakuu'cn through the mountains, i:i'.ny dressed in Chinese overcoats being mistaken for Chimchuscs. A GERMAN COLLIER CAPTURED. (Received Feb. 27, 8.45 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 27. The Japanese have captured the German collier Romulus, bound to Vladivostok. - lUKDEH IK DARGER. HL'GE ENVELOPING MOVEMENT. LONDON, Feb. 27. The manager of the Russian Hank at Mukden has been ordered to piepare to close. A private Mukden telegram states that the Japanese have begun a huge enveloping movement likely to be disastrous to Kuropatkin's plans. Russia has chartered ten more Hamburg-American liners as colliers j for the HaStic Fleet, and has purchased two converted auxiliary cruis- I era.