THE WAR IN MANCHURIA

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7763, 15 March 1905, Page 3

THE WAR IN MANCHURIA

RUSSIA! SOCIETY STUNNED. A 'feeler." Renunciation Hinted At. - LONDON. March 13. Now that Russia is aware of the calamity society is stunned. The newspaper Xovosti says it will be no humiliation to renounce the colonial policy in the Far East. The Liaotung Peninsula and Manchuria are not Russian territory and Naghulicn Island (now a Kussian convict settlement) was formerly Japanese territory. Even the abandonment of Vladivostok for the sake of peace would bo less painful than the former renunciation of the light to maintain' a fleet in the Ulack Sea. Router states that this is the' popular sentiment. DEFEAT DUE TO IGNORANCE. LONDON'. March 13. to Japan insisting on the carriage of military stores. China has suspended the train service to i Simulating. ; The Russians admit that the defeat was due chiefly to ignorance of tut' Japanese positions and numbers. French St. Petersburg advices show that General Kuropatkin thrice narrowly cseaiiod capture. His supplies are all lost, lie considers General Bildering's army and part of General Kaulbars' have fa-en lost. lie proposes to proceed to Harbin. j THE GZAR'S ATTITUDE. j LONDON", March 13. I The Czar is represented as being determined to prosecute the war with increased vigour. in A SAFE CORNER. KIS.SIA Ml ST OHTAIN A VIC- j TOR.Y. j PIRSLING THE FUGITIVES. j . i LONDON, March 13. ' Advices from Mauritius state that Admiral Kozhdestvonsky is stii'. at Xossibc, and remains there till the' .end of April. The crews are drill-' ing nh;ht and day, and firing practiie is frequent. It would he dishonourable for Kussia to discuss peace until she had obtained a victory. Eield-Mttrshal Oyaiua :cporls that all the Jajranesc forces inllicleJ heavy damage on the enemy, who weiM completely ' ex|ielleii from districts 25 i n.iles from Mukden. They were still I be'ng pursued on Sunday. j CONSUL'S CABLE. j (Received March 14, 10.-lt p.m.) SYDNEY, March It. Jhe Japanese Consul's cabjc says : —A' report was received on the afternoon of the 13th that one Russian <>fflcj:r who surrendered at Port Arthur and came to Hsinminluti from Shanghai, breaking his parole, was captured by our garrison. A report received on the 13th inst. states that although the enemy's losses m the direction of Hingking are .vet unascertained, there have fiecn over eight hundred Russian corpses already found nlichl. According to 'he statements of the Kussian prisoners, their 71st Division is almost annihilated. Although the Russians burnt the stores and houses at Maihuntan and other places, large quantities of fodder, ammunition, and other war material fell into the hands of the Japanese.