RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR

Bruce Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 46, 14 June 1903, Page 3

RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR

..One thousand Fort Arthur refugees have reached Chef 00. . Various reports are current as to fighting eight miles from Port Arthur. The Daily Mail 1 reports that 10,000 Russians are . entrenched twelve miles south of Kai-chau. ' ' , £% : ? 'i All skilled Chinese were detained to work in the machine shops at i'ort Arthur. „ Many manged to escape. ■ . A desultory fire has r been proceeding tor days: in orderfto secure positions in the vicinity of Tort ArttiurY^bVt -there have beea no general engagements. 'Both combatants exclude correspondents from the scene of fighting. General Xuropatkin reports that a; Kuesiau detachment holding Sama-chi has been driven to Fin chu-ling, Pass. . One hundred and two Jttussiaus were i killed and wounded. t . Viceroy Alexieff admits that on tire, night of May 29 a destroyer belonging to the Port Arthur fleet, operating in Kinchow I3ay, struck the rocks and sank. The crew were saved.-. . ■■:: Details of the fighting at Sama-chi show ihat two battalions and one squadron of Cossacks and one battery eu- / countered two Japanese regiments with artillery, There 40,000 ChUnchuses under arms. During the recent battle at Nan-ahan General Osaka s troops, when wading along the shore, encountered" some Russians who were also waist deep. When the Russians retreated the water was literally crimson. The .Russians also used balloons at Nan-shan. Fearing Socialist outbreaks, the mobilisation of troops in Central and South Russia does not apply to the manufacturing districts. . The Times's Russian correspondent states. that the Autocracy are so jealous of their prerogatives that M. Plehye» Minister of the Interior, ia a secret circular, restricts to local boundaries the Zeuistovs (district an" 1" provincial . assemblies) freedom of action in the matter of the organisation of relief for the sick and, wounded. , . ,- <} , ; : ; ; General Kurdki, co-operating with the Taku-shan army, occupied Siu-yen on Wednesday, driving ..the Russians towards the Totu-chen arid Kai-ping. The American Ambassador is practically boycotted in St. Petersburg, and has been ousted from his hquse,~becauso; the owner declined to have?: a tenant; hostile to Russia. ' <•-■ ■<-.- ' ; The Russians at Siu-y-en, north of Taku-shan, consisted of 4000 cavalry and six guns. They .were outflanked north and east, and driven to Shi-niu-cheng. Three Japanese were killed and two officers and 28 men slightly wounded. General Kourapatkin reports Japan* ese to the south of -Siu-yen, consisting of • a brigade of infantry, two mountain batteries, and five squadrons of cavalry. Others being on the east end of Feng-hwang-cheng road threatening the Kussian line of retreat, the Russians are withdrawing. Advices from Mukden state that the Russians are retiring slowly from the Sama-chi and Siu-yen. districts before superior forces of Japanese. A detachment sent along the Mo-tien-ling road on Monday defeated 70 Russians at Lin-cha-tia, to the northwards of Feng-hwang ; and enco<lntere<l at Chang-kin-shai on Tuesday six companies of infantry and 300 cavalry. A two hours' engagement ensued. Tha Russians were driven to Tung-yuan-f u, nearer to Mo-tien-ling. Their casualties were 80. The Japanese had four killed and 16 wounded. •■■. _; : > The Japanese agents at Washington, '„ British Columbia, are " purchasing* 10,000 tons of flour for delivery, at Port Arthur in six weeks. The Daily Mail states that the Czar is at th^Taarskaesjalo. Panics, wj^rre on the nigHt of \ the Tbh^wji machines in A boxes* wferft discovered in the dining room and audience chamber. Both were in w_qrkuig order.