THE WAR IN THE FAR EAST.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LIV, Issue 2855, 11 March 1904, Page 3

THE WAR IN THE FAR EAST.

Business at Tokio is proceeding as quietly as usual.

Twentytwo sailors belonging to the Varyag, after being carefully nursed at Chemul' pho, have been transferred to an hoepital in Japan. The French Minister, on behalf of the Cz*r, warmly thanked th 6 Japanese for their kind treatment of the men throughout.

Japanese steamers in the Sea of Japan and the Yellow Sea go utescorted; The Osaka liners have resumed runniDg betweeu Kobe and Chemulpho.

The "Standard" 6tatea that a etory Iβ current at St. Petersburg that a doz?n Japanese, disguised as Tartars, were arreeted at the Volga Bridge of the Siberian railway, with dynamite in their possession. ThrdP .lipaDese, disguised as nu- p, mined the railway bridge over the Vo'ga at L}/. run, 'J h} current cariied the intaes ilowu the river, where they exploded. The Japanese were captured. Sentence has beeu dafe red. pendiog an enquiry as to whether railway men were accomplices. The kcidenb has led to placing the Bamara, Zlotrnst and Siberian Raiways under martial law, and a sentry has been plaoed at every third telegraph pole. (She Aekold, whloh was reported to be \a

ft sinking condition after ih atttil. on P.-i Arthur on Febi uuy 29, has betn (1 uted. The attempt 11 adp to dock ard tepair the Russian battleship Czuewi'di, u.j ned during the attack on Pjtt Arthur, ha? been abandoned.

Russia has given urgent orders for an American apparatus for iho rapid l:adi-g of coal at sea for ihe Baltic iquadron. The Russians are entrenched on tho hilh> around Antung, in a position which is patal lei to the river, and is similar to the B)tr pos'.tion at Tugela river, which Sir Redvers Buller failed to carry. They intend to as , Bume the defensive on the Y»Ju.

Japanese troops are Unding night and day at Weinan, and proceeding to l'ingyarg AfterJihe Russians had evacuated it. the Japanese occupied Haiyungtai, tneof the Elliott Islands, but found only stores of coal and signalling flags. Theßussiaaß are advanciog frmi the vi cinity of Poesiet Bay, Russian Mar.chniU, towards Bonohin;

The Japanese squadron ha 9 reappeared ou'side Vladivostok.

The whereabouts of the Ru?sian Vl.divos* tok squadron is a mystery. Some reports represent it as trying to intercept transports whilst others dic'are it is coopcaing ir landing troeps at Tum-n, »vhijh tie Hussions are fortifying. Advices received iv Moscow state that it 13 f<j>red Lhit lh? squadron's return to Vladivostok is imperilled. The Russian forces on the Yalu are badly provided for, and are not expected to make a long stand there. The best informed Russians at So. Petersburg are afraid the Chinese will rise. The pro pect of this is viewed more seriously than the intervention of a Europoin Power, since it is felt that France would not inter , vone if China alone struck in.

ANCHOR,