Japan's New Cruisers.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7768, 16 February 1904, Page 5

Japan's New Cruisers.

Searching for Russian Warships

60,000 Japanese Troops.

Landed at Corean Ports.

■Geniiait and Norwegian Vessels.

Captured by Japan

Received Fcb/ie, at S.oo aim. ■■' .- LONDONvFeb.'lo. ■She crusers Kasuga ami N'isshin, which -Japan purchased from t^ho Argentine ■ Government, and which .were'inanned:by: British officers and sailors, bgvo. shipped their figihtin"- ---: crews," aggregating, twelve hundred They ; will rendezvous in the Dutch*' Archipelego, and are now searching for the, cruisers o i the Russiaa! volunteer fleet. ■ ■ •'.-•

Tol:no reports state that 60,000 troops, have been landed, at various Korean, ports. •

Military critics expect it will be some, weeks, before ... serious . land• fighting takes place along the Yalu owing to the difficulty • oi-conceii-' trating a sufficient Japanese force. The Japanese have occupied Uiingheiwcn, a•' Russian coab'n? station near Masamphc. The Japanese have captii'-c-.l a' German steamer named Yolcohan/a. Her cargo included 'dynamite,' intended for Port.' ArUi.u-.' . TheJapanese have also captuv/'J six Norwegian; vessels chartered hy a Russian naval coa] contractor.'