RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXIX, Issue 8657, 6 December 1904, Page 2

RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR

[By Electrio Telegraph.—CopraionT. (Per Press Association.) Received December 6, at 7.55 a.m. London, December 5. From 203 (Metre Hill the Russians retired to Antszshan and the Ilszshan forts, fearing a direct fire. The Russians are diligently clearing tho entrance to Port Arthur, and are expected to make a sortie. General Sakharoff reports that atj tempts to destToy the- (Russian -wire entanglemenits at Liushinpu were repulsed. Two companies of Japanese attacked tho

village of Putaazy on the night of the 2nd. Tho attack was repulsed, the Japanj ese leaving many killed and wounded. Reuters St. Petersburg correspondent reports that a patrol on the 28th. found two soldiiers wounded on the night of October 16th left behind in the- entrench- | mente. The one least wounded had procured food for both for 45 days. They lay by the bodies of the slain and, when sufficiently recovered, crawled towards the Russian lines. Received December 6, at 9.8 a.m. Brisbane, December 6. i Mr Archibald, war correspondent for i Collier's Weekly, declares that the Japanese have no cavalry worthy the name. Ho believes that the Russians will fight until they win. They continue to pour troops into Manchuria, and will overwhelm the Japanese. The stories of Russian cruelty are all a. farce.

Received September 6, at 9.43 a.m. London, September 6. The blockade-runners at Port Arthur, receive five-fold the nominal value of the goods. [The fiat went forth from Russia <says the Sydney News) that, cost what it may, munitions of war must be got into Port Arthur. From time to time vessels have succeeded in running the blockade, and it would appear that, attracted by the handsome profits to be earned in this dangerous enterprise, vessels are readily available. Even Sydney, it appears, has despatched a blockade-runner. A representative of the Evening News has seen an agreement dated last February, prepared and witnessed by a Sydney solicitor, which arranged for the charter at Sydney of a vessel to run the blockade with munitions of war. What is more, the venture is reported to have been successful. It is .stated that a Chinese syndicate promoted the scheme, and used for the charter a man of little wealth. The other party to the agreement is an exnaval British officer.] Cudahy and Company, of Omaha, Nebraska, "sent ten train-loads of beef from j Tacoma to an unknown destination, for the j Russians. The Russian Admiralty learns that Admiral' Uriu has been commissioned to in- J tercept the coal transports.