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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1717, 25 January 1905, Page 41 (Supplement)

SOME NOTABLE KtTSSTAN LEADERS. With th© fall of Port Arthur increased interest centres around the movements of the opposing armies in Manchuria.

[General Mistchenko occupied prominent place last week " in the cablegrams, which recounted the successful raid of the cavalry under his command. Covering a front of five miles, Mistchenko's Cossacks swept everything before them, capturing, according to General Kuropatkin's report, a Japanese convoy of five hundred carts, besides burning a quantity of stores at Yingkow, the port of Newchwang. The Cossacks subsequently regained the Russian lines, after sustaining three hundred casualties.]