MANCHURIAN CAMPAIGN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12853, 29 April 1905, Page 5

MANCHURIAN CAMPAIGN.

A CAVALRY FIGIiT. RUSSIANS CLAIM A SUCCESS. (Received April 29, 12.14 a.m.) London, April 28. General Linevitch reports that a body of Russian cavalry had a three hours' engagement with the enemy near Tsinsiatun on Sundaj last and compelled the Japanese to retire. THE WOUNDED AT HARBIN. LACK OF DOCTORS AND NURSES. London. April 27. The Daily Telegraph's Tokio correspondent reports that there are 50,000 Russian wounded and 15,000 sick soldiers at Harbin, and that to attend to them there are only 60 Burgeons and 140 nurses. The Russian medical authorities have had to hire Chinese doctors. The medical arrangements in all respects are utterly inadequate, and in conseuence there is much suffering that ought to have been avoided. THE ANGLO-JAPANESE ALLIANCE. JAPANESE AMBASSADOR'S REMARKS. THE DISMEMBERMENT OF CHINA. London, April 27. Baron Kaneko, the Japanese Special Commissioner to the United States, speaking at the banquet to Mr. Whitelaw Reid, who succeeds Mr. Choato as Ambassador iv. London, said the Anglo-Japanese alliance will preserve the world's peace and prevent the dismemberment of China. It will also enable France and Germany to maintain their footholds in the Far East, and permit Russia to remain unmolested within her proper bounds, viz., the borders of Siberia. The speech was received with cheers. A RUSSIAN LOAN. INTEREST 5 PER CENT. (JKoocivcd April 29, 1.13 a.m.) London, April 28. Russia has negotiated a loan of £10,000,000 at D pei cent, with the bankers of Berlin. NEW JAPANESE BATTLESHIP. "DOVES OF PEACE." London, March 24. The new Japanese battleship Kashima, built by Messrs. Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co., was launched on the Tyne yesterdav. _ She is ono of two battleships ordered in England before the war, and she will not be delivered until the campaign is over. When completed the Tsushima will be one of the most powerful battleships afloat. The ship was launched by Mme. Arakawa, wife of the Japanese Consul-General in London, amidst the plaudits of 100,000 people. As soon as she took the water a. hundred white pigeons were liberated from a balloon, and they flow over he vessel scattering white confetti over the hull from their wings picturesque emblem of peace. After the lunch, Sir Andrew Noble, chairman of the Armstrong Company, submitted the toast of " The Japanese Empire." Viscount Hayashi, Japanese Minister in London, replied. lie said he only regretted that, the powerful warship just launched could not be employed in the war. "But everything," he proceeded, "has an end, and the war must end sooner or latei. After that the vessel will be needed, not for lighting, but t» maintain peace in the Far East, and to prevent a recurrence ol the sadbusiness of killing one another,'-