RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXVII, Issue 8490, 25 May 1904, Page 1

RUSSO -JAPANESE WAR

[By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] (Per Press Association.) Received May 24, at 10.21 p.m. . London, May SA. The Russians are disinclined to fight unless they possess great superiority. The Russian' artillery' and mounted troops re-occupied Niu-chwang on the 22nd, and are entrenching south of the town. St. Petersburg telegrams declare that a second Japanese cruiser, of the Shikishima type, was damaged offi Port Arthur on the 16th, and sank four miles from the entrance of the harbor. The crew were saved.