THE WAR IN MANCHURIA

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7815, 6 May 1905, Page 3

THE WAR IN MANCHURIA

' RozMestvensky at Kamranii. HIS BXPIiLSIOH A FARCE. RESOLUTE ACTIOS NECESSARY, (Ueceived May 5. 9.10 p.m.) LONDON, May 5. A Singapore agent reports that (our Russian battleships, two cruisers, four colliers, and one hospital ship passed through the Malacca Straits on Thursday aiternoon, bound south.

Leading Japanese newspapers declare that Admiral Rozhdcstvensky's expulsion from Kamranh Bay was a farte, since now his ships use the whole Indo-China coas-t as u naval | base. The time will come when | Japan will act resolutely. The Japanese declare that they still hold Tunghusiang. General Linovitch reports that Cossacks defeated a Japanese squadron, killing twenty and capturing twelve. The Argentine Government admits having received tempting offers from Russia and Japan, but it replied that the Government was willing to sell if delivery , was accepted after peace is signed. It <is reported at Amoy that a typhoon scattered soma ol Admiral Rozhdcstvensky's smaller .vessels.

" RAISING THE WIHD." (Received May 5, 9.17 p.m.) LONDON, May 5. It is reported in St. Petersburg that the Government proposes to sell to a French-Belgian company three of the most prosperous State railways for eighty million sterling.

PLOT MISCARRIES. TO SMUGGLE THE ASKOLD. (Received May 9.17 p.m.) LONDON, May 5. A bribed Chinese official undertook to provide spare parts of the Asikold machinery, and a German captain agreed to take tho cruiser out of Shanghai for £50,000. The plot was discovered, and the fort guns are now turned on the Wosung entrance to tho harbour.

| CONTRADICTORY ACTIONS. THE GRAVE OF A GREAT REPUTATION. STARTLING REVELATIONS. LONDON, May 4. French seamen arc guarding the Russian warship l>iana, interned at I Saigon. ! The s'ieamers Eva, Dag-mar, and Bourbon, loaded with (lour, r-ce, I vegetables, and cattle arc constantly J plying from Saigon to the Baltic ! Fleet.

St. PETERSBURG. May 4. There were startling' revelations at the Commission investigating the surrender of Port Arthur. Evidence was given that General Stoesse! and his wife owned forty cows, feeding them on bread, while tlio garrison was short of rations. Tho milk was sold at 2s per bottle, and one «(Hcct testified that he paid Stoessel 70s for a turkey.