JAPANESE OFFICIAL REPORT.

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

JAPANESE OFFICIAL REPORT.

"DRIVING THE RI'KKSFAXS BEFORE US."

UiTP'.ve 1 M lie:: 17, !' ">7 pin. I London, March 17,

An official telegram, dated Tokio. March 1::. says: "We are everywhere driving the Russians before its. Kai-yucn. on the confines of the Manchuria)] desert, is inferior In Tiding for defence. The can lure of Tiding relieves thousands of junks that have been long detained on the Upper Lino, ;vu! sets free vast accumulations of supplies.'

THE RAILWAY <TT.

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TH fclJ APA N ESE 11 El' ILSE.

London, March 10

The Hi. Petersburg correspondent of the Times says that one and ahalf divisions (about 20,000) of Japanese attacked the Russian positions south of Tiding on Wednesday, and that the Fourth Siberian Army Corps, under General Linevitch, repulsed them.

THE COSSACKS AT MUKDEN.

MURDER AND LOOTING.

(Received March 17, 9.24 p.m.)

London, March 17.

When General Kuropatkin ordered the retreat from Mukden, the Cossacks indulged in the wildest excesses. They looted the city, murdered several Europeans, and set fire to many buildings. Order was not restored until the Japanese entered the city.

THE SIBERIAN RAILWAY.

24 TRAINS A DAY.

London, March IG.

Twenty-four military trains a day are being run on the Siberian railway, and Prince Khilkoff, the Director of Communications, hopes to increase the number.

When the war started there were supposes to be 10 trains running each way daily on the Siberian railway, but only six each way wore being run. I'reoli sidings were being constructed, and it was expected that 11 trains ea>Ji wav would be got through. The military lor 'while used all the trains, but ir was "found that the effect was to deprive the inhabit en route of the iieoes-sitios of iife. The statement that ?A military trains are being run daily means that 12 are being run each way, and that, the people of Siberia and in the -Baikal region arc to be loft to starve.

(Received March 17, '.'.37 p.m.)

London, March 17.

SHED.

(Reccivoil March IT, 0.37 p.m.)

Berlin, March 17.

MISSING TROOPS.

(Rci-circil March 1", '■'■-'•> V-™)

London. March IT

THE MIKADO'S THANKS.

JAPAN'S MILITARY PRESTIGE.

The Mikado has sent a message to Field-Marshal Oyama, thanking his army for its signal victory, which has enhanced Japan's military prestige at home and abroad. He is deeply gratified that his soldiers should have displayed such great courage and endurance. He looks, he adds, for even greater exertions in the future.

GERMANY AND THE WAR.

GERMAN BLOOD NOT TO BE

Count von Bulow, speaking in the Reichstag, said he was not aware that Admiral Roshdestvenski had exercised illegal compulsion upon German transports in the waters of Madagascar. Germany, he added, had no intention of interfering with Russia's affairs, or of shedding German blood to no purpose.

It is believed in St. Petersburg that part of General Lincvitclv's force that did not reach Tiding is still somewhere to the eastward, and is being pursued.