THE WAR.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8163, 28 February 1905, Page 2

THE WAR.

THE MANCHURIAN CAMPAIGN.

MORE HEAVY FIGHTING.

[press association.] (Received" February 2? 8.59 p.m.) LONDON, February 27. General Kuropatkin reports tnat the Japanese occupied Tsincheshan on Saturday, xi* percentage of Russians killed was very high. Twelve wounded officers and 300 men in San Lungu hospital were burned to deatn.

# A hundred wounded reached Mukden m a heavy snowstorm and bitter wind. Ihe country favors the Russians^ beinc mountainous and lightly wooded. The fierceness of the attack makes the Russians think that General Nogi was fingaged. The Telegraph's Siyintung correspondent states that a battle raged on Friday from Aulepu, sixteen miles south-east of Mukden, extending along the whole front. l'orty thousand Japanese reached Fakumra 1 through the mountains, many dressed "WS. 00 ™ 00 * 1 ' bdng mißtaken hr