RUSSIA AND JAPAN.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7939, 21 October 1904, Page 5

RUSSIA AND JAPAN.

(By, Electric Telegraph—Copyrigfit)

(Per Presß Association. LONDON, Oct. 20,

The Temps St. Petersburg correspondent states that information from unquestionable sources shows that the Japanese, in the night attack when they captured the guns as cabled on the 14th, "tricked the Russians into, mistaking them for comrades.

The Japanese wore fur caps and overcoats.

The correspondent adds that the general check sustained by. General Kuropatkin in his offensive movement was due to a badly executed movement by Stackelberg's army against a narrow pass, weakness of attack, failure to use considerable forces, and the incoherence of the orders.

The scene at Mukden on_ the 17th suggested the approaching evacuation of the town.

The Japanese sent through Colonel Hay, United States' Minister, a protest against the Russians attempting surprises disguised in Chinese garments, on the ground that it is contrary to international law and a source of calamity to innocent Chinese.

SYDNEY, October 20.

The captain of the steamer Prinz Sigismund, which has arrived here, saw no sign of the Russian warships between Singapore and New Guinea.