THE CAMPAIGN IN MANCHURIA

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 136, 6 December 1904, Page 5

THE CAMPAIGN IN MANCHURIA

ATTEMPT TO DESTROY ENTANGLEMENTS. ATTACK ON A VILLAGE. REPORTED JAPANESE REPULSE. (Received December 6, 7.55 a.m.) LONDON, sth December. General Sakharoff reports that an attempt fo destroy the Russian wire entanglements at Luishinpu was repulsed. Two Japanese companies attacked the village of Putnazy on the nighfc of Friday, 2nd December, and were repulsed, leaving many killed and wounded. JAPANESE SURPRISED BY COSSACKS. LONDON, sth December. The correspondent of the St. Petersburg journal Russ at Mukden reports that a force of Cossacks on Friday night surprised a Japanese bivouac, south of Lidiantown, killing many of the enemy, and capturing eight guns. A TRYING EXPERIENCE. WOUNDED SOLDIERS' TRIALS. (Received December 6, 7.55 a.m.) LONDON, sth Decembav Reuter's St. Petersburg correspondent reports that a patrol on the 28Qi November found two soldiers, who were wounded during the night of 16th October. They were left behind in the entrenchments. One, the least wounded, managed to procure food for both. For 45 days they lay by the bodies of the slain, and when sufficiently recovered they crawled towards the Russian lines. WAR CORRESPONDENT'S IMPRESSIONS. THE BATTLE OF LIAOYANG. A NEGATIVE VICTORY. BRISBANE, sth December. The steamer Miowera brings news that ,Mri Archibald, representing Collier's

Weekly, and two other war correspondents had arrived at Honolulu. Mr. Archibald, on being interviewed, said he was with the Russians up to the Battle of Liaoyang, which, he declared, was a negative victory for the Japanese, who had 75,000 more men than the Russians. General Kuropatkin had only 40,000 men in that fight. The despised Siberian levies almost won the battle, and would have done so but for one regiment breaking. This regiment was afterwards paraded, and the Colonel and Lieut.-Colonel dismissed from the army. General Kuropatkin, said^Mr. Archibald, had intended falling back beyond Mukden, but the Japanese were so exhausted that he decided not to. The artillery duel at Liaoyang was the greatest the world ever saw. The Russian cavalry is the finest in the world, but had no chance of operating owing to the depth of the mud and the high corn. Latterly, large reinforcements of European cavalry had arrived, and would soon be able to operate. Russian bravery was real ; the Japanese was fanaticism. Mr. Archibald does not believe that the Japanese will ever take Port Arthur. Lieutenant M'Nully, of the United States Navy, who has just come out of Port Arthur, is of the same opinion. POURING TROOPS INTO MANCHURIA. (Received December 6, 9.8 a.m.) BRISBANE, This Day. Mr. Archibald declares that the Japanese have no cavalry worthy of the name. He believes that the Russians will fight until they win, and will continue to pour troops into Manchuria until they overwhelm the Japanese. The stories of Russian cruelty are, says Mr. Archibald, all a farce. COAL FOR THE BALTIC FLEET LONDON, sth December. Government officials nave stopped the loading of a German collier at Cardiff because the vessel delivered a previous cargo to the Baltic Fleet. The Government regards the vessel as a fleet storeship. INTERCEPTED COAL TRANSPORTS (Received December 6, 9.43 a\*n.) LONDON, sth December. The Russinn Admiralty learns that Admiral Uriu has been commissioned to intercept coal transports. JAPANESE FINANCES. LONDON, sth December. Baron A. Sone, Japanese Minister of Finance, assured the House of Representatives that the energy of the military and the strength of the nation were undiminished. The War Budget amounted to seventy-seven millions sterling, and it would only be necessary to hnri-nw fifty-five millions in 1905. Economies in the ordinary Budget permitted the diversion of twelve millions to the war.