NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 85, 3 May 1904, Page 3

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

' , SAN 1 FRANCISCO, April 14. A London mail despatch from Seoul, April 9th, says that the Russians are offering practically no resistance to tjie Japanese advance. Japanese commissary arrangements ill the northern army are marked by the same thoroughness which distinguished this brancjv of the army everywhere. Thousands of carts stacked with provisions parsed through Ping Yjapg ljast week .bound for the north. The Japanese army is completely equipped with every scientific requisite, ,and ;tiip photographic corps alt^cneg tg. the fir str army is itself a notable feature. 1 ? The health of the corps Ip good, and they are confident that t^y will be victorious. ~ "from St. Petersburg dated April 11th confirms the : repbirts that the Russian military plans will not mature before late in^iti"* isumnaerv: They are. of ifar^eA^r magnitude than was geaerally supposed, and take into account ail possible contingencies. oj>p&yi\. Kuropatkin, it is asserted, remfexnbera the experience of Russia during the War with Turkey, thV^ea and guns <p!ac^^#hjs • dispbaai:sjiail cover ihk ejrt^ein^ Jtmit required t6 settle the^ca^pM^." The Russian plans arc pj^ictfed^on: - Napoleon's' dicI^^'^S^ fights pie side of I^s^»eayiestw i -battalions. "" The ,ilffia^,l«'desigjjea |o rgach a total <jf 500,000 men, ""The 17th and the army corj>s' are how drafting 1 , Ja^a;: are <tcy.-;r, ; 'ree^^'-Vhaa.' c^mi^^^m^ T^f / moi^lisuWbri ■$L iotik other ajttny corps, or ffl»9^|epto v^h^^Vfilga; wiijp-be anflounced at JUie ; J ; middle -Jofj next mpfrfclfe* They sCaft? : eas^aVd'r a jnoiirt|ti later. ::v - ■:: }^-^^ / 'i4--: : '' P. 'jStearrAtfnural Rddjestrensky^ wili hoisj Ms flag as commander of 'the for^^ble; Baltic squadron early ifl iil^^^anfi-^itheii ■:> sail immediately /tor ; Aitlmi^ with six\ battiiesKips; S|x Criuisers, and"^^ two traiispot'ts. }^ K Qeneral Kuropatkin .is?- - of th^: QUtppsts along t% Yalu river ; ! ; ■ :J ",'■ General Revenkaspoff's Cossack' divi^ionl numbering 10,000, has arrived ,on the Upper Yala. The fourth army corps reached Harbin* H> days ago. Vladivostok is held by 13,000 rifleman. £3<>me officers and 15 Cossacks, fleft south of the Yalu river to reconnoitre after thetjaussians retired succeeded in locating the Japanese position without discovery and swam their horses a in&le and a half before recrossing 1 the river. Very cheerful reports from St. Petersburg are being published in Parta, whence is reported that the first, second, third,, and fourth! ax-

in MancHuria, and the fifth army ward has designed positions for these with the 10th and 17th army corps, THese with the Oossacks actually in- the Far East, and the Caucasian payalry now being mobilised, will bring the total number of men in the array at the seat of war to 40,000 by the end of May. .