THE WAR.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7847, 26 May 1904, Page 5

THE WAR.

RUSSIA AND JAPAN,

The Floating Mines.

A Protest From Other

Nations

200,000 Japs.

(Per Press Association— Copyright)

LONDON, May'2sTlic Times' correspondent at Feng-vvang-ehenrr, writing on the 13th, says :— " The army remains here twenty days pending developments. Part of the army has landed at Pitsuwo."

The Daily Telegraph's St. Petersburg correspondent states that military experts estimate that there are two hundred thousand Japanese west of the Yalu, and Generals Kurolri and Oko's forces are daily being The leading newspapers of Britain and America are emphatic in denouncing tho reckless sowing of the ocean with floating mines, which they characterise as savage and in disregard of neutral rights. Mr Walrond, Commoner, speakingat Hemyock, urged the necessity of prompt action to stop the indiscriminate use of mines.

American naval attaches at various capitals are instructed to report upon the danger to neutral shipping from the mines floating on tjfc Manchurian coast, and the information .will be sibmitted to a Naval Boartf whose report will be presented to President Roosevelt, and representations, if necessary, will he made to the belligerents. The ice on Lake Baikal is breaking up. * • .

The Orel incident is attributea to malefactors.

General Kuroki reports that a section of infantry encountered ,200 Cossacks eight miles north-oast' of Kwantien, and that the Cossacks fled north-east, leaving twenty j dead.