THE FAR EAST.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12480, 26 January 1904, Page 5

THE FAR EAST.

RUSSIAN FLEET READY FOR

ACTION.

RIOTING AT VLADIVOSTOK.

JAPANESE HOUSES WRECKED

SHOCKING OUTRAGES.

JAPANESE TROOPS LANDED AT

CHEMULPHO.

RUSSIA'S PACIFIC INTENTIONS

NOT CREDITED.

By Telegraph.—Press Association.— Copyright.

(Received January £5, 10.M p.m.)

London, January 25. Most of the Russian fleet is stationed outside Port Arthur ready for action.

The Daily Mail's Tokio correspondent says Japanese reports allege that the Tsar reminded the Japanese Minister at St. Petersburg at the New Year reception that Russia was a strong Power.

(Ueceivecl January 25, 10.58 p.m.)

London, January 25.

Vladivostok letters have' reached Tokio stating that Russian marines landed on January 9 and wrecked 21 Japanese houses, ravished the women, and wounded old women and children. The rioting lasted 20 hours. Officers accompanied the rioters, and the civil authorities did not attempt to restrain, them. The Japanese press urges the -withdrawal of all Japanese from Siberia.

(Received January 25, 11.SO m.")

London, January 25.

It is reported that the Japanese have occupied Mosampho, but the report is not confirmed.

The St. Petersburg correspondent of the New York Herald states that it is officially posted at St. Petersburg that Japan has landed troops and guns at Chemulpho. The Japanese Minister suggests that Russia and Japan are both entitled to land troops to preserve peace.

Defective sanitation and bad food is causing great mortality among the troops in the Far East.

M. Bezabrazoff, who is- said to enjoy the Tsar's special confidence, has been sent to Port Arthur to assist in the negotiations. This is regarded as a pacific sign.

The Times Tokio correspondent saya the rumours of Russia's pacific intentions are not credited, and Japan is absolutely determined to fight for a thoroughly satisfactory settlement.

LONDON, January 2-1.

Baron. Hayashi, Japanese Minister in London, states that the situation remains unaltered. There has been no exchange of views between Japan and Russia since Japan presented her Note on December 30, embodying the irreducible minimum of her demands.

The Times says if Le Temps' remarkable statement that Count Lainsdorff lias resumed the direction of affairs in the East, and has made a " clea slate" as regards everything since Admiral Alexeier's appointment, be confirmed, it will afford decided proof that the Tsar means that his peaceful policy must be obeyed.

Paris, January 24. The newspaper Republique Francaise states that after the Japanese victory over China the Russian Admiral proposed to Admiral De Beaumont, commanding the French squadron, that they should attack and destroy the Japanese fleet, which, after the hard work it had already done, was unlikely to offer serious resistance. Admiral De Beaumont, however, declined.