FIGHTING NEAR LIAOYANG.

Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue 148, 23 June 1904, Page 5

FIGHTING NEAR LIAOYANG.

RUSSIAN COLUMN FORCED TO RE. TREAT. LONDON, 22nd Juno. Native repot Is have been received at Niuchwang stating that the Japanese captured Liaoyaiig, in Mauchuria, after two days; lighting. Tho reports »o for lack confirmation. KUROKI AND OKO COMBINE. (Received Juno 23, 8.21 a.m.) LONDON, 22nd June. Advices received at St. Petersburg and New York state- that General Kuropatkin, tho Russian Cominander-in-Cluef, personally directed tho movement from Liaoyang southward* Generals Kuroki and Oko junctioned, and presented a solid front to the column between JTaichcug and Liaoyang. driving tho. column to Liaoyang, perhaps beyond. THE JAPANESE FORCES. LONDON, 22nd June. Part of General Nogi's fourth army, nnd also pint of General Nodzu's third, aro operat-ing against General StackclWg. The fifth nnd eleventh divisions are engaged near Teksze, though they nominally belong to the ftmrth army. 'L'h us there are four divisions on tho Liaotung I'oiunsula — part in the north and part in the south of General Staekelberg'H force— irrespective of tho lirst, third and fourth divisions — tho victors of tho battles of Kinchau and NuiiHhan — who aio now besieging Port Arthur.

to accept intervention would not be so absolute as Riu-sia's. At the same time, tht 1 vital interests which Japan is defending, snid Baron Suymatsu, inuwt bo Hnfegunrded. RUSSIA'S WAR FUND. PRESSURE ON THE PEOPLE. (Received Juno 23, 8.35 a.m.) t LON UON, 22nd June. Russian officials iti the villages are putting pressure on tho people to contribute io-cnllcd voluntary subscriptions to tho war fund. The amount llio communes are exuded to contribute ha« been fixed beforehand. Tho millionaires' at Moscow are contributing niggardly. M. Mozoroff, oue of tin; richewt men, said 'be manufacturers prefmrd paying mnny thousand roubles daily in wnge* to keep the Socialist workers busy, to assisting to continues o frivolous and useless war, which wu» destined to inllict cndlesn miseries.