BRAVE NAVAL CADETS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7981, 6 May 1904, Page 2

BRAVE NAVAL CADETS.

GENERAL SACHULUCH

CENSURED.

THE SINEWS OF WAR.

FRENCH BANKERS SUPPORT} RUSSIAN LOAN.

PORT ARTHUR BOTTLED UP.

Per Press Association.— By Elec- . trie Telegraph.— Copyright. Received 5, 10.39 p.m. LONDON, May 5. General Kashtelinsky reported that painful but glorious circumstances surrounded the fight. The ]2th regiment, assisted by machine guns, arrested the Japanese advance guard until noon, when 1 after the routing ot the 22nd regiment the Japanese began to turn the Russian left. The 12th regiment, with the. third battery and quickfirers, were ordered to retire, being covered by the nth regiment. The Japanese advanced so close that the third battery was unable to retirp aud lost its! colonel. A fresh company with quickfirers tried to rescue the battery, but lost half their men ahd horses and returned to their original position, where they received the Japanese attack. ' The 11th regiment held the ground for another two hours with heavy losses, and then forced a passage with their bayonets, saving the colours. It lost it's colonel, forty officers and two thousand men. , . The Russians testified. to the unparalleled bravery of the Japanese naval cadets aboard the J ftrfcships. When these were sinking many ran aloft to fire their revolvers before plunging into the sea. None were saved. .;- ' | Received 5, 10.54 P-J«- ' l * < LONDON, May 5.'. It is reported in St. Petersburg that General Kuropatkin severely censured General Sachuluch for- rio"t retiring earlier. His orders, , Wjere not to take any undue risk; „*.< /Russia demands permission.'. to~^ station forces temporarily outside Shanhaiwei. China, has nbf ire^plied. ' Received 6,' 1 a.m. "' '.*,", I '\'f <■ LONDON, May 5.' A French banking • syndicate} feas taken up the first Russian loan of sixteen millions sterling' with, the optiort of a further sixteen mfUiolik previous to January. It is unlikely that the loan will be issued to the public. - " (T Received 6, 1.3 a.m. v LONDON, May 5.. Bennett Burleigh, telegraphingfrom Tokio on Wednesday afteiv noon, states that on Tuesday afternoon during a dense tog the Japanese sunk nine merchantmen, ' absolutely sealing Port Arthur. The officers who twice made the previous attempts were grafted" permission to conduct the third" enterprise. The casualties arc lint, known.