Still Anchored.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7822, 15 May 1905, Page 2

Still Anchored.

flws urn mmnmn (Beoeived May u, 4 ißo pjfc) # LONDOM. May 18/ A Singapore telegram autw u»« the steamer Colomander saw. on the afternoq(» of tho »th, twenty-two Kusiian*: warships and ten Unasports anchored at Vanfong; also a* tufdnight four warships in the vOag at Padaran.

Another message reports that fqsjr Russian warships are at Hainan,

The Time*' St. Petersburg correspondent report* that France rooongiy, warned Russia that it was sible for her to afford docking facilities to Admiral Uiebogatoff at Saigon,

THE BETIUSAT I'HOM MtyUURK. Tho horrors of the retreat ftxMft Mukden ire suggested by Kounl tta Russian despatches! Mm fattfott, of line by the hundred, owiiur tf johaaa* tion. They received wither Mud nor ammunition. "Throughout W day* of unceasing battle, under UtfTnrc of shrapnel guns, and whirlwinds of whistling bullets, soys the cocnaponde»t to the Huso, "our men have mien scarcely anything, and slept when they could. The gray-coated HtticUa soldiers, have accomplished minute. The enemy also seem amde of steel. They were tired out after two days without food, but Marshal Oyama told his uwn that the end of tha slaughter would arrive. The infaatry on both sides light as if trev dea. pised death." General Uncvi t:h*a ra. treat, by way of Fustian, became m rout. Ills artillery was impedi-d by; mud, caused by an unexpected thaw, ' and while his men were entangled <• the ravines hordes of ChuneKuws rafc> : od them w.ilh rifle fire from the ran- i ges. Tho fiercest fight in the batUg was in the neighbourhood of :Vufc* ' den. According to the Matin. Uea■ral KuropatUn deliberately sought death, exposing himself in the lhkk» est of the flght. Although shells wera - bursting all round him, he was sot touched;

A, graphic picture of the battle around Mukden is sent by ncutAga* correspondent. Much of tin nghu«%T was hand-to-hand. Head soldlcrs«». tered the streets and oonrt-yalw. none having been buried for four days. Twisted rides were everywhere,.* and gruesome encounters happened on every hand, mercifully hidden by the smoke of 100 great guns and tha sweep of a blinding duststorw. Boserve troops dug holes for themselves, in the ground, as wide apart as possible, to escape the shrapnel Are. Lite evacuation of the Hhaho was stupendous. It involved hundreds of miles of telegraphs, railways, military roads, and complete lied Crow*? I towns.

The correspondent of the Bom describes tfao Japanow at a cruel awl obstinate foe. Why he called thane cruel may be itiforred from a •torg told by the Petit Parities.. A Japanese officer with a haverack tall of dynamite cartridges leaped Into the trench, lit the fuse of a bomb, awt slans. Sixty mutilated bodies were threw it into the middle of thettua- - all that remained.