THE WAR IN MANCHURIA

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 794, 10 April 1905, Page 2

THE WAR IN MANCHURIA

JAPAHESE iDTUCIi MOTHER RUSSIA! fijfclf, LONDON.kpril 7. General Linovltch report! that a Japanese column approadk Vladivoitok was repulsed atKKilju, In north-eastern Korea. f The Times' St. Petvrsukg correspondent reports that offlcw information has been received tint, 470,000 Japanese troops ure advancing | n crescent formation. Gjteral Oka has command of the left/ General* Nogi ond Kodzu tho ccntn», and Oeuerals Kuroki and* tCamamur* the right. It is feared that <jb>nural Llnevitch will bo compelled lo withdraw under the penalty of finding' hit position turned. ;■ Tho Russians were dcfen|<xl at Chin* chiufun and retreated : 'i4o Suroienchong, and along the Fe|ghwa road. (These points arc on the railway north of Kuiyuen.) A fifth issue of Japanese exchequer bonds to the extent of a hundred million yen will bo tnade early In May on the same terms an the fotirU issue. Japan has granted ten million jen to the relatives of soldiers and Bailors kilkd in the war. LONDON. April 7. The Daily Mail states ta»t Admiral Dieoogatoff (■ taking three weeks'provisions before starting! south. The Mukden defeat has disheartened his sailors; WILLTBEI lE4t? HOSTILE FLEETS IN PROXIMITY, IN MALACCAS WATERS. (Received April 0, 5p.m.) LONDON, April 8. General Diobogalofl : bailed a • steamer which report* jnt Penanf that 27 warships, presanubly Japanese, were sighted 79 Jftge* west of Penang. 1, Lloyd's agency report* IMi u» Russian fleet passed BJngag>re o> Saturday afternoon, apdaroally heading for the Darian Strait* The British steamer Tara, which" has reached Stngapon/renort* that . 47 Russian ships wefe sighted WO miles north of Singapore. Two other steamers arrived at Penang, ■■ and report sighting a large Russian fleet in tho Straits of Malacca, to- , eluding 25 transport*, steering to- | wards Singapore. ' 1 Another steamer reports sighting J , twelvo cruisors, presumably Japanese, some distance ahead of Uw , Russians, supposed to be scouting. Great excitement prevails in Penang and Singapore. • The British battleship Ocean, (be cruiser Sutley, and another cruiser at i Hongkong have been ordered to Singapore immediately. 1 118 HOPE. i ___ i 70,000 RESERVISTS FOR THE FRONT. , TO INTIMIDATE JAPAN. . (Received April 9, 6.12 p.m.) St. PETERSBURG, Aprl 8. i Seventy thousand -reservists in 1 Southern Russia have been ordered j to Harbin. Feverish preparathma arc being made to send forward a * 1 large force to reinforce 1 General Lfnevitch, in the hope thai Japan, when r Field-Marshal Oynma's forces meet a . large army, will hesitate to advance exaggerated terms of toaco. I