THE WAR.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8039, 16 March 1905, Page 2

THE WAR.

The Retreat to Tiding

100,000 Russian Prisoners.

The Horrors of War

The Side and Wounded Suffer

Dreadfully.

(By, Electrio Telegraph— CopyrigKt),

(Per Prew Association), LONDON, March 15. - General Lineviich, after holding the Japanese) »t bay at -Manchuntuon.-and Tieta for nine days, reiraated to Tieling and Fushan. General Bilderiog, using the Mandarin road, and Goneral Kaulbars, using the railway, also reached Tieling. Rea'guard aoiions continue. The Japanese captured stores of charcoal exceeding their own supplies. Correspondents and sttacheß confirm General Ofcu's statement that the Russians deliberately shelled stretcher bearers dnnng'the fighting at Hanbo. The Daily Mail's Tokio correspondent says that a portion of the Japanese is at Fanchitun, seven miles from Tieling, and another portion at Shuangchiawatzu, five miles from Tieling. The total ■ Russian prisoners are 100.000.

x Harbm and Tieling are simply vast hospitals.

Many of the wounded had to remain uncovered in trucks in a half frozen condition.

Chloroform and antiseptics were lacking. The mortality is frightful. Most of the foreign attaches accompanying General Kuropatkin fell into Japanese hands at Mukden.

The Daily Telegraph's Tokio correspondent states that General Bilderling is reported to have been killed.

It is reported that the recall of Eozhdestvensky is serai-officially denied at St. Petersburg.