War Items.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7900, 28 July 1904, Page 5

War Items.

General Kuropatkin has issued an order establishing .ah army newspaper exclusively for the use of the non-commissioned ranks. The newspaper will appear weekly at the headquarters of the Manchurian, army, and will be. edited by M. Yantchevetsky, formerly a member of the staff of the Novoe Vremya. In Eussian naval a n d military circles the fall of Port Art*tir is (wrote the Odessa correspondent of the London Express on June 8) now considered to be only a matter of a couple of weeks. ,It is generally ro-" { cognised that the actual assault on the.^ fortress will:in the; main \)Q aja artillery attack, and a terrific one at that. The war, it is stated, has already cost Russia over £25,000,000 sterling, and the daily cost is rising rapidly.' Port Arthur, and what it contains in ships, guns, munitions, stores, fortifications, and the rest is stated by officers here to be worth at least another £25,000,000. In the battle of Kinchau General :No:bi'"s son was lulled. The grief expressed at this loss can only be paralleled, says the special correspondent of the Daily Chronicle at Tokio, by that manifested in England when Lord Roberts' son wap slain on the -Tugela. -The St. Petersburg, correspondent oi the Matin says that .the Tsar has received from General Kuropatkin a message containing one, wordl, " Sdielano," which signifies "It is dolie." It is not known to wli-at event the general's laconic message refers.

The following promotions for services in the war were announced at Tokio on June 6th :—Vice-Admiral Togo to be Admiral; Vice.-Admiral Yamamoto (Minister for the Navy) to be Admiral ; Lieut.-General Ko dama (Sub-Chief of General Staff), Lieut.Ceneral Baron No'gi, Lieut.General Hasegawa (commandingguard division), .Lieut.-General Nishi (commanding second division), and Lieut.-General Baron Okazawa, to be generals.—Central News. ,