RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXVII, Issue 8490, 25 May 1904, Page 2

RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR

[Bx Electric Telegraph.—CorraioHT.] (Per Press Association.) Received May 25, at 7.32 a.m London, 'May 24. It is announced at St. Petersburg that as it was found impossible to save the Bogatyr the Russians removed the guns and blew up the ship Received May 25, at 7.42 a.m. London, May 24. Cossacks have appeared om General Ivnroki's lines of communication at Kaoliman, but this was foreseen and provided for. Received May 25, at 8.30 a.m. London, May 23. Admiral Alexeicff is enrolling many of the Saghalien convicts who volunteered for the war, the Czar promising to remit one year's imprisonment for every two months service, besides offering special rewards for gallantry in the field. The Japanese have sent a force from Yensan to suppress the Russian raiders in northern Korea. The Russians have collected 100 locomotives and 800 cars at Liao-yang, in readiness' to remove the stores to Harbin, if necessary. A Liao-yang telegram states Jihat no exertion seems to tire'the Japanese cavalry's Australian horses. The rains are melting the snows, and have suspended the Japanese advance, thus enabling the Russians to strengthen their j positions at Liao-yang and Mukden.