RUSSO – JAPANESE WAR

Bruce Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 45, 10 June 1903, Page 3

RUSSO - JAPANESE WAR

French advices from St. Petersburg announce that a Grand Council of the General Staff resolved upon important offensive tactics in the Far East. It is uncertain whether the Czar's order to detach 45,000 of General Kuropatkin's army to relieve Port Arthur has yet been transmitted. The Daily Express states that there are indications that General Kuropatkiri merely made feints. The Daily News says that the order is attributed to General Kuropatkin's enemies at St. Petersburg. . Many bijgh pflieiajs are trying to per-/

suade the Czar to change his mind. The Japanese destroyer flotilla, while I watching Port Arthur, saw *a gunboat oftheGilyak type blow up and sink when engaged with others in clearing away the mines in the roadstead. Admiral Togo believes that a torpedo I caused the explosion. ! Advices from Tokio state that large bodies of Russians are advancing south towards Haiping. The Russians opposed to General Kuroki • at Feng-hwarig-cheng are also increasing. This is interpreted; at Tokio to mean that strenuous efforts will be made to relieve Port Arthur. ..-.•;. ■ . Unofficial reports- from Chefoo state that the . Russian fleet; at Port. Arthur sortied last night, and that heavy firing was heard for several .hours. General -Kuropatkih reports a five hours' fight eighteen miles" west -of Feng-hwarig-chehg; The Japanese, he say's, were prevented • crossing the valley. • r General Kuropatkin and his staff are between Hai-cheng arid Ta-shi-chao. The Russians have evacuated Sin-ming-ting, and are joining the troops on the road to Mukden. . . The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Echo de Paris suggests that the story that the Czar has ordered General j Kuropatkin to detach a portion of his army and. relieve Port Arthur has been invented by the Minister of War to . deceive the public. The folly of such . an attempt is generally admitted.