MANCHURIAN CAMPAIGN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12660, 14 September 1904, Page 5

MANCHURIAN CAMPAIGN.

GENERAL KUROKI'S AMY. NORTH-EAST OF YENTAI. London, September 12. Telegraphing on Thursday last Mr. Bennet Burleigh said that General Kuroki'B army had been drawn in and was then encamped five miles to the north-east of Yentai. JAPANESE ADVANCING './.. SLOWLY. • London, September 12.' • The Russians : continue to - retire towards Tieling, and the Japanese are advancing slowly. The main forces of the Japanese are reported to foe at Yentai. ', ; THE RUSSIAN REPORT. (Received September 18, 10 p.m.) ! V ■ :;jv ; -. London, September 13, General Sakharoff reports that there are few Japanese new to the north of Yentai and the railway to the Yentai mines, but there are Vast camps of them to the sotttlwafccl JAPANESE- STATIONARY, AWAITING SUPPLIES AND BE* INirOROEMENTS. ; (Itttcolveti September 13, 19 p.m.) London, September 13. Router's correspondent at Liaoyang says that the victory of . the Japanese there, though brilliant, was barren. • The Japanese, he says, are likely to remab practically stationary far some time awaiting arrival of reinforcements, supplies of food, and ammunition.

RUSSIANS MOVING SOtfM. CAVALRY NEAR .YENTAI. (Received September 13, 10.15 p.m.) London, September 13. Field-Marshal Oyama reports that a large force of Russian cavalry is at Pingtaitse, 24 miles to the east of Yentai. - ' THE RUSSIAN REARGUARD, GENERAL AND 3000 MEN CAPTURED. (Received September 13, 10.15 p.m.) London, September 13. The Morning Post reports that official despatches received in London state that General Sassulitch, commanding the rearguard, has been severely wounded in a battle to the south of the Hun River, and that he was captured with 3000 of his menGENERAL KUROKI CHECKED. (Received September 13, 10.15 p.m.) London, September 13. Other commanders, the despatches say, checked the advance of General Kuroki and cut his communications on Friday. They % were repulsed only after the arrival of reinforcements. The Japanese were without drink and food, -excepting ■ dry rice, the whole day. ' : > THE JAPANESE AND FOREIGNERS, MR. BENNET BURLEIGH'S * COMPLAINT. London, September 12. Mr. Bennet Burleigh, the war correspondent, has arrived at Tientsin. He left the Japanese army because the restrictions placed upon correspondents were too rigorous. Military attaches and correspondents, he says, are not permitted to see fighting nearer than six miles. Ho is emphatic in his charge that the Japanese general staff dislikes and distrusts all foreigners*

RUSSIA'S WAR PROSPECTS.

PRAYERS FOR VICTORY. : St. Petersburg, September 12. The Holy Synod has issued instructions that special prayers shall be offered in all the churches for the victory of the Christ-loving Russian army over a cruel enemy full of guile."''