RUSSIA AND JAPAN.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7792, 17 March 1904, Page 7

RUSSIA AND JAPAN.

(Per Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, March 15. " The Daily Mail's Niuchwang correspondent reports that General Ivuropattajln has telegraphed to Lieut.-General Stossel that he must hold Port Arthur with its present garrison.

The Daily Express' Berlin correspondent, states .that a Russian Note announces that Admiral Makaroff has completed -the laying of mines all round the Liaotung Peninsula, and seawards for three mile's.

Neutral ships must hoist their national flags at a distance of five miles from land and signal their _estinaticn to the Russians, whose pilots will co'iivej* them to port.

Japan lias withdrawn the permits 'of the war correspondents now at ringya._g and Anju, and ordered them to return to Seoul.

A striking feature of the Japanese loan was • the proportion of small subscriptions. Those below jtwo hundred yen 'amounted to fifty millions. Thirty-three millions were ten'd.recl tor above price of issue.

Tile Standard's St. Petersburg correspondent says that General Kuropatkin intends to start deliberately with an army of a quarter of a million on the Yalu. Another hundred and fifty thousand will guard the railways and concentrate at Antung.

PARIS, Macch 15

The newspaper Le Temps says that friendly Anglo-French relations are viewed favourably at St. Petersburg as likely to prove advantageou to Russian interests in the hour of reckoning with Japan after tho war.