CAPTURE OF TIELING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12818, 18 March 1905, Page 5

CAPTURE OF TIELING.

SEVERE RUSSIAN REVERSE. GUNS AND • STORES ABANDONED. THE RETREAT RESUMED. JAPANESE !H HOT PURSUIT. By Telegraph-Press Association—Copyright.

London, March 16. Keutek's correspondent at Tokio reports that the Japanese occupied Tiding at midnight yesterday.

The Russians at Tiding were suffering greatly from lack of food and sleep.

The Japanese attacked from the. westward in great strength, and also pressed the enemy from all sides. When darkness had set in, the Russians hastily evacuated their positions, and the Japanese went after them in hot pursuit. (T'eceiffd March 17, i'.'.'l p.m.) London, March 17. Other accounts say the Russians suffered a severe reverse at Tiding, and that they fled, abandoning the remainder of their stores and guns. (Received March 17, 0.13 p.m.) London", March 17. The Russians abandoned Tiding without serious resistance, after burning the station and other buildings. They are retreating towards Kai-yuen, a place 25 miles away.

It is reported at St. Petersburg that" the Japanese are already north of the Russian troops.

The Times' correspondent at St. Petersburg says that General Kuropatkin himself reached Kai-yticn on Wednesday. The corps of Generals Sassulitch and Zurabieff are acting as a rearguard, and General Mistchcnko is protecting the right. It is not expected, he. says, that the Russian army ill make a stand until its reaches the Far North.

It is believed in St. Petersburg that a large part of the retreating troops will proceed via Ivirin, to Vladivostok, and that the rest will proceed to Harbin, to protect the railway.