THE WAR.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 12, 31 January 1905, Page 1

THE WAR.

Lon»on, January 26.

The Japanese captured off Hokkaido the Australian collier Burma, conveying 4000 tons of coal for Vladivostok.

January 27. Reuter’s correspondent at General Kuroki’s headquarters states that heavy firing was heard to the westward all Thursday, and apparently cbe largest engagement since October was in progress.

The Russians have crossed the Hunho on General Oku’s left. The Japanese had advanced against them, and were now attacking. St. Petersburg has issued a statement that Admiral Rozhdestvensky nad defeated several Japanese warships.

The latest advices from Madagascar confirm the Times statement that Admiral Rozhdestvensky sailed only five days ago. Another advice eays that the fleet is hanging about Madagascar waters. It is intensely cold at Shaho.

Japan is constructing at Yokosuka a 19,000-ton battleship to Jo 18| knots. This will be the largest and most powerfully armed warship in the world. They are building also two armoured cruisers at Kure.

The Fifth Japanese Army is organised. General Kawamura will be in command.

General Kuropatkin reports iiaving occupied Kheigutaya after lierce fight, taking a hundred prisoners. The Russians lost fifty killed. He has also occupied Sandepu.

Unofficial telegrams stated that each side sustained a thousand casualties. The Japanese made a futile counter attack on Sandepn, the Russian cavalry attacking their left flank and rear.

General Kuropatkin claims to have occupied a defile on his left flank.

Reuter states that fog and oold stopped the battle.

The Berlin Lokalanzeiger’s Mukden corresspondent says that a general engagement continued, and that the losset are heavy on both sides, and particularly severe in the centre. Other advices state that the Russians have ocepied two villages.