THE EASTERN WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7829, 23 May 1905, Page 2

THE EASTERN WAR.

RUSSIAN STORESWST. v A Defence Coancii ImtirtWi ; To taut idtquu Form

LONDON, Me* M. Large Japanese forces art deploying ion the Russian flanks.

Owing to the prematura meMay of thejico on the riw Bungari, many Russian carte, filled with were lost, and tlie drivers drowned.

ST. PETERSBUBG.Haytt. Admiral Birilos who retire* Adniralrtahdeatverdlry,staittfran Bt. Petersburg for Vladivostok od toe iSth. The Car lit* instituted a permanent Ktete Defence Council, noder Um presidency of Grand Duke Nieaol«*,to ensure the adequate development «f the fighting foroet of tit* Empire. Dissipation in HvM&. LOFDON, May A It w reported it St, P«tor*qq;«fc«» a strong Japanese movement h««btw> eommenced against Oenersl Um> vitch's right wing, weitof tin n|taj»V ITbe newspapers Rum ootnttlrttai that dissipation and amusement at* in MB swing in Harbin, money flowing Ufa* water.

Tbe Times' Paris oureepoaleat learns f torn a Russian source net idmiral Bohtdestveneky ordered the osi* lien and three ammunition 4iBJ to I rendezvous at the island of "tVi^-ti.

in the channel north of Jjumo. 1 The American fit* at MuQa k wholly inadequate, exoept to Mkb a> demonstration.

Contradictory reports from . otlWl! sources indicate that,the watal •*!• tic, fleet passed through U» Boett Channel, and that all are offlfelftas] waiting the - return of the murfHam cruisers sent to colled tfea omyoJi of colUera.