RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1104, 27 September 1904, Page 2

RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR

THE ASSAULT ON PORT ARTHDB

HEAVY JAPANESE LOSSES

HANI) -TO - HAND FIGHTING INSIDE A POET

REPORTED CAPTURE OP DALING PASS

GERMAN CRUISER SHADOWS BRITISH BATTLESHIP

LATTER CLEARS FOR ACTION

Pr«u Aiiaoistion.—Gopjllcnl

I,OMM, September 20 AFTER tho Smolensk and St Petersburg coaled they sailed for Liban, and tho orders for the British cruiser Furious to leave Port Said at two hours' notice wero cancelled.

sary to attain decisive success quickly. General Gripenberg has been instructed to follow the general directions of the Commander-in-Chief. The Times believes that Prince AlexiefT means by this that General Gripenberg had a good record in connection with the Polish insurrection and operations in Turkestan.

THE RECENT ASSAULT ON PORT ARTHUR

LASTS FIFTY HOURS

FALLING BACK ON MUKDEN

Press Association—Copyright

SERIOUS JAPANESE LOSSES

London, Sept, 26

Press Association.—Copyright. London, Sept. 20 The Japanese desperate assault on Port Arthur lasted fifty hours.

Tho Daily Mail's St Petersburg correspondent states that General Lineyitch's corps and tho Orenburg .Cossacks have reached Mukden.

Positions were captured that will seriously menace the Russian toimre of tho big forts in the north, northeast, and north-west.

THE ADVANCE GUARD Press Association—Copyright. London, Sept, 2G. The Russian advance guard is sev<

The Chinese report that the Japanese lost MOO, but tho Russians claim (hat the Japanese losses were (1000.

eral versts south of Hun River,

DKSPEKATK HAND TO HAND FIGHTING

COAL FOR RUSSIAN SHIPS

Press Association—Copyright London, Sept 26

MOST OF A GARRISON KILLED Press Association Copyright London, September 2fi. On tho night of tho 20th the Japanese captured tho fort west of lishan after frantic efforts and exposure to the heavy fire of machine guns. Desperate hand to hand-to-hand lighting took place inside tho fort. Most of the garrison wero killed.

The Collins Company, Dartmouth, had a coal contract with Russia, but Lord Lansdowne, in reply to Collins' enquiries, informed him that it was inexpedient to coal tho Russian fleet, as it would be an infringement of the Foreign Enlistmont Act of 1870. Admiral Rosh. destvensky then secured all the coal he wanted for the Baltic fleet, delivery to be made outside the port of Kiel from a Dietricksen coal merchant, who is consul at Kiel,

THE EXPECTED SORTIE

BRITISH BATTLESHIP SIIAI OWED

JAPS ON THE WATCH

Press Association,—Copyright LONDON, September 2(5 Tho Japanese fleet is cruising off the cast and west entrance of Port Arthur, expecting the Russians to sortie, Admiral Urius, with cruisers and destroyers, is stationed botween Shanghai and Chifu to prevent an entry into neutral potts,

CLEARS FOB ACTION Press Association.—Copyright Lohdox, Sept 20 The Daily Express reports that a cruiser, which afterwards proved to be German, chased iiParQnelpartthe British battleship Ocean, towing a defltroyer. Tho Ocean slipped the destroyer and cleared for action, and the German cruiser, on disappearing, sig« nailed •' Find I am mistaken."

BOMBARDMENI' OF THE PORT

A HAIL OF SHELLS

The captain of the Ocean believes that he was shadowed to see if he was assisting the Japanese,

Press Association.—Copyright LONDON, Sopt 2li.

Tho Japaneso for 3(1 hours fiercely bombardnil Port Arthur, the shells falling from quarters previously silent, proving that many of the heavy guns are now in position. At noon on the 20th the Japanese right and centre advanced on both sides of the railway, using the pucker trenches as it sparse but natural cover trom six small but annoying foils between Shushiyan and Erlinigshan. Somo of the forts were captured. When the tiro from Fort Kuropatkin, which protected the water supply, was weakened, tho Japanese stormed it. and two other important positions,

THE QUESTION OF CONTR . BAND Press Association.-Copyright Londox, Septomber 20 Renter's St Petersburg agency reports that while admitting the principle of conditional contraband in regaul to foodstuffs, Russia refuses to apply it to coal. The Prize Courts and naval commanders have allowed a liberal interpretation of other articles besides provisions.

THE TUNNELLING OPERATIONS WORK ABANDONED

Press Association,—Copy right London, September 2G The bosiegers have abandoned tho tunnelling of Port Arthur owing to rock impediments. London, Sep. 2(i Admiral Togo's cordon has stopped the egress of Russian junks.

CAPTURE OF DALING PASS

Press Association—Copyright. London, Sept. 26

Colonel Undid reports that the Japanese on Thursday occupied Daling Pass after a slight engagement. Some reports stato that Kuroki has seized the bills north-east of Mokden in order to cut off the Russian retreat to 'fielding.

THE CZAR ON THE JAPANESE Press Association—Copyright London, September 2G The Czar, in a letter appointing Goneral Gripenberg to the command of (ho second Maiiclmrian army, states that the intense energy, stub. bornness, and high warlike qualities of the Japanese havo rendered a considerably increasad force neces-