THE WAR IN MANCHURIA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 786, 31 March 1905, Page 3

THE WAR IN MANCHURIA.

- Heavy Desertions. GREAT JAPANESE GALLANTRY. SUCCESSFUL LOAN. LONDON. March 29. The Daily Express' St. Petersburg correspondent says that General LVnevitch is losing a thousand men' per day by surrenders or desertions, besides four hundred daily through • skirmishes. ; Tho Japanese newspapers publish ' > - itotatls of the fighting at Litwunpay ■ i ... on March 7, when two regiments were annihilated, excepting one hun- - 'dred.who successfully withstood the Russian turning movement. There was a tremendous rush for the prospectuses of the Japanese loan. The London Issue was quoted at a premium of 1} per cent., and the premium was considerably higher in New York. FIGHT TO THE BITTER END. 20,000 PRISONERS FROM MUIvDEN. JAPANESE CASUALTIES 57,000. £100,000,000 INDEMNITY STIPULATjjj>. LONDON, March 29. The Russian First Army reports that the Japanese have not moved for a week. General Batianoff told an interviewer that the war would be fought to the bitter end, in accordance with the will of the Czar. The Liao River is now free of ice, and Japanese transports and merchantmen have entered it for Niu- '■ cfrwang. Prisoners from Mukden, to tlic .<♦ number of 20,000, have arrived in Japan. The revised estimates of the Japanese casualties at Mukdeu and Ticiing are 57,000. The Chronicle asserts that Japan will stipulate an indemnity of £IOO,000,000 sterling. THE BALTIC FLEET. IN MID-OCEAN. ! LONDON, March 29. The news that the whole of tho JJaltic Fleet left Madagascar on vaEarch 26 is confirmed. There arc .various indications that the fleet prill probably next be heard of in the neighbourhood of the Chagos Islands, a group of small islands in mid-Indian Ocean, about half way between Madagascar ami Sumatra, [wjiere coal stores were went. f A MODERN FLYING DUTCHMAN, j

■ (Received March 30, 9.43 p.m.) LONDON, March 30. Thirty warships and fourteen colliers were sighted on the 19th, 250 " miles North-east of Madagascar, steering easterly.

PEACE PROPOSALS. DENIED BY RUSSIA. 'A HUGE CAULDRON. HRAVY LOAN APPLICATIONS. MAN,Y TIMES OVER-SUBSCRIBED (Receivpd March 30, 10.3 p.m.) LONDON, March" 30. It is officially announced that Russia proposed no conditions of peace. . Russian Jour per cents., again fell several pomts, owing" to the increasing pessimism concerning the war » and the delay of conceding real reforms. French correspondents declare that the whole of Russia is in a state of effervescence: Over two hundred thousand British applications have -been received for the Japanese loan, and it is believed it is subscribed ten-fold-. The share is many limes oversubscribed. One application was for three millions sterling, and several (or a million.