BURNING THE DEAD.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8178, 20 March 1905, Page 2

BURNING THE DEAD.

CREMATION FIRES ALL OVER THE

BATTLEFIELD.

(Received March 20, 7.10 a.m.) LONDON, March 19.

Cremation fires are burning all over the battlefields, and two thousand dead bodies have been found within a few yards df Likampu. RUSSIAN DIVISION DISPERSED. LONDON, March 19. A Japanese official report of Thursday states that a detachment dispersed eight Russian squadrons with artillery on the right bank of the river Liaoho. The detachment occupied a height and cannonaded the retreating 'Russians/ consisting of one infantry division of ten squadrons.