FRENCH FEAR*.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8115, 10 November 1904, Page 2

FRENCH FEAR*.

(Received November 9, 8.31 a.m.) LONDON, November 8.

The commander of the Russian gunboat Rechilelni, who was interned at Shanghai, escaped to Wosung, and it is believed he is now voyaging in a German steamer to Russia.

Ii is now admitted that a mine at Dalney sank the Japanese cruiser Yashima, though it was denied in June last. Thefdisturban^es amongst the Reservists in Russia are due to failure to pay for nere9sa*y provisions. Thirty inoustlu) men are bivouacked in the open fields at Ncvorudomsk. and are in a deplorable condition owing to want of food and clothes. There has been much bloodshed in various plaices. (Received Ncvember 9. 9.58 p.m.) LONDON, November 9.

General Sakharoff reports that at daybreak on the 7ih the Japanese attacked hi iv from Chantan and Tokhonan, in the east, occupying the villages bf Outiate, Ketditse, and Paonsentoun. Russian cavalry and artillery, however, dislodged the Japanese, regaining the original line of defence.

(Received November 10, 0.57 a.m.) PARIS, November 9.

In the Chamber of Deputies M. de la Fosse declared that Japan had long hesitated whether she would attack Russia or the French in the East. It would be ininossiule for France to retain Indo-China in face of the Japanese ambitions. M. Doumerge denied that Japan contemplates an attack on France.