IN MANCHURIA.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8101, 3 October 1904, Page 2

IN MANCHURIA.

FORTIFYING THE POSITIONS.

SHARP SKIRMISHING

[press association^ LONDON, September 1. Advices from Alukden state that the Japanese have fortified positions north and west of the Yentai mines. Field-Marshal Oyama's forces facing the Russians number 144.000 bayonets, 6380 cavalry and '638 field guns. The Japanese were represented as being anxious to act on the defensive. The advices record sharp skirmishing at various points, with unimportant casualties. The Standard's correspondent at General Kuroki's headquarters says the Russians are reconnoitring, being puzzled at the Japanese inactivity, and unable to realise that the Japanese, confident in their superiority, can afford to wait till they have completed their arrangements. The Telegraph says that double the Rus- I sian estimate of Oyama's forces is much I likelier to be correct. j

JAPANESE POURING ACROSS THE TAITSE.

A CHECK TO THE CAVALRY

(Received October 3, 1.2 a.m.) LONDON, October 2. General Sakharoff reports that the Japanese are pouring across the Taitse at Brinsiku. A number of Chunchuscs are assisting the Japanese on the Liao river side. ■ Cavalry on Thursday checked the Japanese advance in the Yentai district, and on Friday burned 17 junks transporting i ammunition on the Hunho. I (Received October 2, 8.5 oa.m.) LONDON, October 2. Two bands of Chunchuses, each of 1500 men, are making particularly daring attacks on the Russian railway communications. CfIUNCHUSES DESTROY RAILWAYS. (Received October 3, 1.2 a.m.) LONDON, October 2. 4 band of Chunchuses blew up the railway 160 miles south of Harbin, killing a Kentinel. The traffic and telegraph wires were interrupted lot several hours.