VARIOUS NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8097, 28 September 1904, Page 2

VARIOUS NEWS.

(Received September 28, 7.46 a.m.) LONDON, September 27. Private advices show that during Admiral Withoeft's sortie from Port Arthur last month the Japanese took great pains not to hit the hospital ship Mongolia, and signalled her where to steer so as to avoid torpedoes. Military desertions are so frequent in Russia thai the police are hardly able to cope with them. .

(Received September 28, 8.28 a.m.) LONDON, September 27. Documents found at Liaoyang included general orders, showing that the commander of the Second Ural Cossacks was cashiered for abandoning important positions at the mere rumon of the Japanese approach. Others were cashiered for lack of discipline. Alexieff on July 18 rebuked non-com-missioned officers for assaults on native women. -

(Received September 28, 8.22 a.m.) LONDON, September 27; When the Japanese captured Yentai mines it was found tnat the machinery had been wrecked. They hope to re-open ateam traffic to Liaoyang during November.