Russia Enlisting Convicts.
Rewards for Service
Suppressing Russian Raiders
Russians Preparing for a ; Retreat-
The Japanese Cavalry.
Sturdy Australian Horses
Japanese Advance Impeded by Itahi.
Received May 25, at-8.34 a.m
. LONDON, May 22. Admiral _ Aloxieff is enrolling D any Saghalien convicts who have volunteered to go to the war, the Czar promising to remit one year's imprisonment for every two months' service besides giving special refrx r gallall*ry in the iield Hie Japanese have sent a force irom Gensan to suppress the RusS1 an raiders in northern Korea. Ihe Russians have collected one hundred locomotives and 800 cars at Liaoyang in readiness to remove their stores to Harbin if necessary.
A Liaoyang telegram states that no exertion seems to tire the Japanese cavalry's Australian horses. Rains are melting the snow, and in consequence have suspended the Japanese advance, thus enabling the Russians to strengthen their''positions from Liaoyang to Mukden.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7846, 25 May 1904, Page 5
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