THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 5557, 7 April 1905, Page 5

THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR

CABLE NEWS.

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LINEVITOH ENTRENCHED. AWAITING THE JAPANESE. OYAMA’S FORCES (MARCHING NORTHWARDS. (Received April 6, 11 p.m.) LONDON, April G. General Linevitch has sent fifty thousand troops to hold Kirin, and with a quarter of a million is now entrenched at Swantsanpoi, near Dunliaoho, halfway between Mukden and Kuangchcngtsu. The army under General Linevitch is astride tho railway in tho form of a crescent, with horns pointing northward. The Russians are converting the country into a desert to impede tho Japanese advance. Tile correspondent of tho newspaper “Russ” reports that tho Japanese are marching on Tsitsihar, on tho transSiberian' railway, two hundred miles north-west of Harping. LONDON, April 5. The Japanese troops, after expelling the R-ussians, occupied Tsulushi, Sumieugcheng, and Santakon, villages in tho vicinity of Ghangtu, and dispersed a detachment of Russian cavalry, numbering five hundred. Count Scheptzizky, an Austrian attache with tho Russian troops, has been missing since the battle of Mukden. It is feared that ho was killed and buried as a Russian. THE RUSSIAN NAVY. LONDON, April 5. Admiral Rozhdestvensky scathingly criticises the proposals made by Captain Clado for attacking tho Japanese fleet. The Admiral characterises the proposals as chimerical. NEW SHIPS-TO BE BUILT. (Received April 7, 0.20 a.m.) LONDON, April 6. The Russian Admiralty has decided to spend twenty-five millions sterling on shipbuilding.