THE WAR

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1414, 27 March 1905, Page 2

THE WAR

GENERAL NEWS'.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright

London, March 24. The Grand Duke Sergius Mikalovitch declares that only two siege guns were lost at Mukden.

Admiral DiebogatofE’s squadron is m Port Said. Numerous German colliers ari at Jibuti!.

The Russians are concentrating between OhaDgchung and Kirin, and are also erecting formidable defences on the railway east and south of Toitsiabar.

Women and children are leaving Harbin. Some business houses there are closing.

St. Petersburg, March 24. Peasants in Kutno district declined to furnish horses for mobilisation purposes. A crowd which was unfamiliar with Russian methods disobeyed, orders to move, and fled when the soldiers were aiming at them. All the wounded were hit in the back. They are not allowed to.return to their homes, and wore conveyed in carts to Kutnow, six hours’ journey, without dootore.

RUSSIA’S WEALTH.

PLENTY OF MONEY TO CONTINUE WAR.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Received 4,28 p.m.,' March 25. London, March 25. M. Kokovetsoff states that the Russian bullion reserve in St. Petersburg is £88,000,000, besides £12.000,000 deposited in London and Paris, and £32,000,000 belonging to the Treasury, chiefly in Paris and Berlin,

Kokovetsoff repudiates the suggestion that the State fiuances prevented o continuance of the war.

LINEVITCH APPEALS FOR 200,000 MEN.

RUSSIAN BASE THREATENED, MOVEMENT ON VLADIVOSTOK.

By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright Received 4-20 p.m., March 26. „ London, March 25. . Russian telegrams from the front declare that unless 200,000 men are immediately sent to reinforce General Lineviteh retreat to Sungari, and possibly to Siberia, is inevitable.

The defence of Harbin is precarious. The Russian front will be parallel with the railway, and the least break will isolate the base.

A vast Japanese turning movement is developing through Mongolia, for the purpose, firstly, of an attack on" the railway near Kodune or Tsitshar. According to Russian correspondents the Japanese are assured of a numerical superiority in cavalry. They are reorniting Ohunchuscs,

■ The Mongolia and Kirin branches of the Russo-Chinese Bank, owing to Chinese attacks on the guards, have been transferred to Harbin. >

A large Japanese column in Korea is advancing on Vladivostok. The object is the isolating of Vladivostok. General Rennenkamf will post threefonrths of his foroe in operations southeast of Fushan.

RUSSIAN REPORTS. SUCCESSFUL SKIRMISHES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Received 12,50 a.m., March 26. London, March 26. The Japanese are altering the gauge of the railway northward -with amazing rapidity. The Russians officially admit that ; the 14th and lath infantry divisions decamped at Mukden.

General Linevitoh reports successful cavalry skirmishes on the 23rd at Nanshintsi and Shuinengansu stations.

Advices at St. Petersburg state that the rival armies are 40 miles apart, the Japanese stopping to refill their ranks. Russian mobilisation has been abandoned. The losses will be filled from the depot battalions.